Professor of Engineering
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Hello everyone,
After speaking to many Tnet and club members they have convinced me to post a few of my hunts. So I will post todays and some of my future hunts. Still feel a bit funny about posting, but the last post wasn’t painful and the Tnet support was overwhelming.
Today, I was in RI and driving down a old farm filled area and seen a farmer in his field just sitting there in a tractor; he was obviously turning over the farm field soil. So I walked over and asked if I could detect his fields, he said “you are not going to find anything; I have let people detect these fields for years.” He then said, “Go ahead and have fun”. I began working in the right hand corner of a large square field, and gridded about 100’ x 100’ area trying to not bother the farmer. As I made pass after pass, moving very slowly and working the coil to barely touch the freshly turned soil. After a few passes, I realized this place has much to offer in terms of coins and relics. The first coin of the day was a 1925 SLQ about two inches down! The next a 1779 Spanish ½ reale (9”), then a 1921 wheat cent (6”) and finally an unknown to me foreign coin (6”) that has a 2 in the front with a date of 1890 and what looks like a German seal on the back (the 2 is not in the correct place for a German 2 Pfenning). I briefly tried to locate the origin of the coin, as of this writing have had no luck. The coin has seen better days, but if I can take a few close-up photos, I may post; someone here will know its origin. The rest of the relics and jewelry were found while completing the gridding pattern, with the marble being a surface find. I hope to hit the field sometime again before it gets to cold.
The two photos are of the cleaned (soft toothbrush) Reale and complete hunt.
Thanks for reading and GL & HH
Regards,
Doc
After speaking to many Tnet and club members they have convinced me to post a few of my hunts. So I will post todays and some of my future hunts. Still feel a bit funny about posting, but the last post wasn’t painful and the Tnet support was overwhelming.
Today, I was in RI and driving down a old farm filled area and seen a farmer in his field just sitting there in a tractor; he was obviously turning over the farm field soil. So I walked over and asked if I could detect his fields, he said “you are not going to find anything; I have let people detect these fields for years.” He then said, “Go ahead and have fun”. I began working in the right hand corner of a large square field, and gridded about 100’ x 100’ area trying to not bother the farmer. As I made pass after pass, moving very slowly and working the coil to barely touch the freshly turned soil. After a few passes, I realized this place has much to offer in terms of coins and relics. The first coin of the day was a 1925 SLQ about two inches down! The next a 1779 Spanish ½ reale (9”), then a 1921 wheat cent (6”) and finally an unknown to me foreign coin (6”) that has a 2 in the front with a date of 1890 and what looks like a German seal on the back (the 2 is not in the correct place for a German 2 Pfenning). I briefly tried to locate the origin of the coin, as of this writing have had no luck. The coin has seen better days, but if I can take a few close-up photos, I may post; someone here will know its origin. The rest of the relics and jewelry were found while completing the gridding pattern, with the marble being a surface find. I hope to hit the field sometime again before it gets to cold.
The two photos are of the cleaned (soft toothbrush) Reale and complete hunt.
Thanks for reading and GL & HH
Regards,
Doc
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