romeo-1
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It started out as a very poor hunt. I just spent 21 hours with baby when wife gave me a break and insisted that I go out and do some detecting. I only had a couple hours so I could not go far so I headed over to the ArrowHead Field to try my luck there. I spent maybe 20 minutes in the plow zone and started to get frustrated so I switched over to a mowed hay field. I had been on this field before but decided I was going to grid the entire field and hope for a stray. I knew there wasn't a site in this area but it has been a farmed field for over 300 years so a decent stray is always possible.
My first target was a 1978 clad dime...not a good start. After another hour of gridding without so much as a single target I found a musketball...a little better. By this time I had been detecting for 2 hours and only managed a musketball. I continued for another 45 minutes only finding scrap pieces of lead but nothing more. It was getting close to supper so it was time to head home. I left the hay field and decided to swing my way back up the plowed ArrowHead Field. I was seeing a lot of flint and quartz but no points. I was halfway back up the field heading to the car when I got a scratchy signal. I turned the dirt and saw what I thought was another dime. When I picked it up I knew it wasn't a dime...it was too thin. I rinsed the soil off in a puddle and saw that whatever it was it was misstruck...but I knew it was French!
When i got home I checked it out with the loupe and verified that it was a colonial French coin dating from the 1600s! The date is cut off due to being misstruck but I can still see 16 below the monarch. I'm not even sure what coin it is but I know that Iron Patch will very quickly ID it for me!
Thanks for looking.
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My first target was a 1978 clad dime...not a good start. After another hour of gridding without so much as a single target I found a musketball...a little better. By this time I had been detecting for 2 hours and only managed a musketball. I continued for another 45 minutes only finding scrap pieces of lead but nothing more. It was getting close to supper so it was time to head home. I left the hay field and decided to swing my way back up the plowed ArrowHead Field. I was seeing a lot of flint and quartz but no points. I was halfway back up the field heading to the car when I got a scratchy signal. I turned the dirt and saw what I thought was another dime. When I picked it up I knew it wasn't a dime...it was too thin. I rinsed the soil off in a puddle and saw that whatever it was it was misstruck...but I knew it was French!
When i got home I checked it out with the loupe and verified that it was a colonial French coin dating from the 1600s! The date is cut off due to being misstruck but I can still see 16 below the monarch. I'm not even sure what coin it is but I know that Iron Patch will very quickly ID it for me!
Thanks for looking.
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