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Tenderfoot
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From the age of 6 (1970) I was extremely interested in US coins, I hunted rolls to fill my Lincoln penny books.. At about 8 I found a Franklin half half sticking out of the packed dirt in a horse stable I then started to dream of a metal detector. We were poor and one after the other Christmas passed without any detector... At 13 I got info before Xmas that a local church was going to help with presents and was almost promised a detector... guess what.. nothing for Xmas at all.. Oh well.. my coin collection was raided by my parents, all silver removed and sold without my knowledge... sob story eh??
Well I moved from the US to Sweden and worked hard to make something of myself despite a life of "you'll never amount to anything" type comments.. I did, I'm not rich, but one day about 3 years ago decided to buy my own frickin' metal detector.. I was then planning on moving to Thailand and had a hard time choosing, but with my background of disappointments I splurged and got what I thought the best of the best a CTX 3030.. After going thru the stupid process of getting government permission to use it in Sweden that is... I got a few spots on the map of my town, none of the ones I really wanted but headed to the beach and found enough coins to pay for the batteries in my pin-pointer and flashlights..
Found a little gold charm and a 1700's Swedish coin (in a place I wasn't supposed to search haha) nothing of big value, but I'm very happy to own my very own detector!
I have now moved to Thailand and live about 3 hours from the beach, go now and then and again, get enough to cover batteries... 2-3 times a year and the somewhat steep learning curve of the CTX isn't gonna give me much of a chance to strike it rich.. but as I said, living the dream of actually holding a detector!
A couple misc other things.. bought a Whites "coin getter" at a flea market for pocket change.. I imagine it's something I could have gotten when I was little.. that's also a great feeling.
My Thai wife's brother rents plots near his (and our) home where the pull out several grams a month in small nuggets.. I tried in vain to find anything with the CTX.. it's just the wrong machine.. sucks.. Well now my plan is to travel to Australia and buy a SDC2300 for this purpose. Now poor again so feels a bit crazy to buy this really over priced machine (brand) might have to sell my CTX.. but I'm attached..
I would like to be active here, but I'm pretty scatterbrained and not sure I can deal with it.. and not sure there is enough relevancy due to my location... but I'll Do my best! (encouragement helps
)
Well I moved from the US to Sweden and worked hard to make something of myself despite a life of "you'll never amount to anything" type comments.. I did, I'm not rich, but one day about 3 years ago decided to buy my own frickin' metal detector.. I was then planning on moving to Thailand and had a hard time choosing, but with my background of disappointments I splurged and got what I thought the best of the best a CTX 3030.. After going thru the stupid process of getting government permission to use it in Sweden that is... I got a few spots on the map of my town, none of the ones I really wanted but headed to the beach and found enough coins to pay for the batteries in my pin-pointer and flashlights..
Found a little gold charm and a 1700's Swedish coin (in a place I wasn't supposed to search haha) nothing of big value, but I'm very happy to own my very own detector! I have now moved to Thailand and live about 3 hours from the beach, go now and then and again, get enough to cover batteries... 2-3 times a year and the somewhat steep learning curve of the CTX isn't gonna give me much of a chance to strike it rich.. but as I said, living the dream of actually holding a detector!
A couple misc other things.. bought a Whites "coin getter" at a flea market for pocket change.. I imagine it's something I could have gotten when I was little.. that's also a great feeling.
My Thai wife's brother rents plots near his (and our) home where the pull out several grams a month in small nuggets.. I tried in vain to find anything with the CTX.. it's just the wrong machine.. sucks.. Well now my plan is to travel to Australia and buy a SDC2300 for this purpose. Now poor again so feels a bit crazy to buy this really over priced machine (brand) might have to sell my CTX.. but I'm attached..
I would like to be active here, but I'm pretty scatterbrained and not sure I can deal with it.. and not sure there is enough relevancy due to my location... but I'll Do my best! (encouragement helps
)
