My son found a silver dime!

brianc053

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Hi everyone. My son had a half-day of (virtual) school today so after lunch I talked him into joining me on a hunt. I gave him the choice of locations and he picked a very challenging 1750ā€™s farm that Iā€™ve talked about before. Itā€™s challenging because of all the ā€œjunkā€ metal in the ground; itā€™s the kind of place wheee if you swing the detector once it beeps 4 times.

I also gave him the detector and let him swing it, and he did great. When we do this he locates the target and I dig with the shovel and pinpoint the target, then we look at it together. In the first 10 minutes he found a great old button. I think itā€™s an early 1800ā€™s button, itā€™s 23mm and says ā€œLondon Giltā€ with some decoration on the back. (Shank is broken sadly).

Toward the very end of the search he found a 1962 Roosevelt Dime - his first silver, and our first at this location! Itā€™s in amazing condition; the only blemish is in Rooseveltā€™s hair. The back is pristine.

Right next to the dime we also found a rose-head, hand-wrought square nail. Is it weird that Iā€™m just as excited about the nail?

Thanks for looking!
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Wildcat1750

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Well done on the Silver Roosevelt and several quality finds! :thumbsup:
 

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Congratulations on your sonā€™s first silver

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SD51

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Love it when someone finds their first Silver! His smile says it all!
 

ArfieBoy

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That is one happy young man there! Congratulations to him on his first silver. Nice finds. Thanks for sharing his joy with us.
 

JeffInMass

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That is a great story and Congrats to you for hunting with your son and to him for his first silver (mine was a 61-D Rosie!).
 

CCDAMEEK

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Great hobby for Father-Son outings! Christmas is coming Dad! Now that he has found Treasure, no better time than to grace him with his own hunting tools......
Congratulations to you both!
 

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