Sylth
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- Apr 11, 2008
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- Northern VA
- Detector(s) used
- White's M6 w/ Sunray Probe & a Bounty Hunter Lone Star
Now, this is months after the fact, but I just got my scanner working, and got some very nice scans of the coin in 
I got my first detector for my birthday last Sept; just a cheapy Lone Star with the Radio Shack brand stamped on it. Took right to it, hitting a local park for practice in pin-pointing and digging plugs, and finding change every trip
. Currently attending a local college, so I decide to keep my detector and digging knife in my trunk in case i get the urge to hunt between classes.
Fast forward a bit to a Wednesday in the middle of that October. I'd just gotten out of my Calc class and had 3 hours to waste until my next class. Remembering a park that I passed every trip to school, I decide to head on down there to see what I can find. Park's pretty empty, and the hits were few and far between. First target dug was a soda can. Second was a Memorial. Third was another can. Fourth was another Memorial. Fed up with that stretch, I walk across the playground, and start a row near a trashcan. As I approach it, I get a signal for a coin (the Lone Star doesn't give depth, nor does it discriminate between pennies, dimes, quarters, etc) I begin to dig, and get down to about 8" when I notice the coin in the dirt I just loosened.
Picking it up, I realize that the coin is smaller than a dime, thinner too. Flicking some of the dirt off (
) I see the words "Half Dime" appear (just meant it was old to me at the time). Wiping more of the dirt off ( ) I see the date appear... and nearly go into shock. My first silver coin was an 1853 arrows half dime. In the middle of a 20 year old park... I imagine either some very sorry coin collector happened to lose it while passing through, or somehow it came with dirt used to level the park when it was built. None of that mattered though And months after the fact I can still remember the date, the time, the place, the diggings, everything that happened for several hours before and after the find . This is the coin that hooked me for life!
I got my first detector for my birthday last Sept; just a cheapy Lone Star with the Radio Shack brand stamped on it. Took right to it, hitting a local park for practice in pin-pointing and digging plugs, and finding change every trip
. Currently attending a local college, so I decide to keep my detector and digging knife in my trunk in case i get the urge to hunt between classes. Fast forward a bit to a Wednesday in the middle of that October. I'd just gotten out of my Calc class and had 3 hours to waste until my next class. Remembering a park that I passed every trip to school, I decide to head on down there to see what I can find. Park's pretty empty, and the hits were few and far between. First target dug was a soda can. Second was a Memorial. Third was another can. Fourth was another Memorial. Fed up with that stretch, I walk across the playground, and start a row near a trashcan. As I approach it, I get a signal for a coin (the Lone Star doesn't give depth, nor does it discriminate between pennies, dimes, quarters, etc) I begin to dig, and get down to about 8" when I notice the coin in the dirt I just loosened.
Picking it up, I realize that the coin is smaller than a dime, thinner too. Flicking some of the dirt off (
) I see the words "Half Dime" appear (just meant it was old to me at the time). Wiping more of the dirt off ( ) I see the date appear... and nearly go into shock. My first silver coin was an 1853 arrows half dime. In the middle of a 20 year old park... I imagine either some very sorry coin collector happened to lose it while passing through, or somehow it came with dirt used to level the park when it was built. None of that mattered though And months after the fact I can still remember the date, the time, the place, the diggings, everything that happened for several hours before and after the find . This is the coin that hooked me for life!Attachments
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