coinman123
Silver Member
Have you ever been iffy on digging or about to give up and then you get a great find? I know it's happened to me. Tell us a story of when it happened to you (if it happened to you). Here are times it happened to me.
I was in the woods of a school from the 1950s that I mainly detect because it used to be a backyard of a of a old house. The house is still there but the houses property was cut when they devolved the the school. I can still find 1800s items there because they never added any dirt. I found a really old iron cap gun, A old heavy clothes iron that is pre 1920s according to my research, a coin spill with a 1904 dime, a 1919 nickel, and a AU 1915D penny (Because it is AU that probably means it was dropped in the early 1920s), Dropped bullets which are probably from before the school, and much more from before the school. Well anyway the object I almost did not dig was probably dropped during the early days of that school. I was out detecting at that school and I was not getting any good signal when I got a zincoln signal (which I now discovered could be Indian cents so I now dig them) which I did not want to dig but I did. At 2-3 inches I see a nickel I look on the back and see a buffalo when I get home I look for a date, it's a 1929, good thing I dug it. Another thing I dug is probably before the time of the school. Anyway, I got this silver sounding signal and I started digging. A foot later I'm about to give up and I decide to take one last scoop, when I take that scoop a iron gun emerges from the hole. I do research, I can't find any markings but the style seems to be from the 1890s through 1920s. I would have never gotten any of these finds if I did not take a chance on digging. The point is to have perseverance and take a chance, you never know what you will find.
Good luck,
I was in the woods of a school from the 1950s that I mainly detect because it used to be a backyard of a of a old house. The house is still there but the houses property was cut when they devolved the the school. I can still find 1800s items there because they never added any dirt. I found a really old iron cap gun, A old heavy clothes iron that is pre 1920s according to my research, a coin spill with a 1904 dime, a 1919 nickel, and a AU 1915D penny (Because it is AU that probably means it was dropped in the early 1920s), Dropped bullets which are probably from before the school, and much more from before the school. Well anyway the object I almost did not dig was probably dropped during the early days of that school. I was out detecting at that school and I was not getting any good signal when I got a zincoln signal (which I now discovered could be Indian cents so I now dig them) which I did not want to dig but I did. At 2-3 inches I see a nickel I look on the back and see a buffalo when I get home I look for a date, it's a 1929, good thing I dug it. Another thing I dug is probably before the time of the school. Anyway, I got this silver sounding signal and I started digging. A foot later I'm about to give up and I decide to take one last scoop, when I take that scoop a iron gun emerges from the hole. I do research, I can't find any markings but the style seems to be from the 1890s through 1920s. I would have never gotten any of these finds if I did not take a chance on digging. The point is to have perseverance and take a chance, you never know what you will find.
Good luck,
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