vpone
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- central pa
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- Equinox 800, 11" & 15" coils
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Hello All,
Vp here, I headed out to one of my favorite sites, the old Colonial Road. I saw Mrs. land owner on the way in and stopped and talked a bit. They had just plowed the fields I normally detect and I wanted to make sure it was ok to be on the land. She said they also just fertilized so it wouldn't be a good idea but i was more than welcome to detect the land that wasn't plowed yet, she pointed out a few fields. I thanked her and went on my way.
Now I hunted for about an hour finding very little when all of the sudden out in the very middle of the field, hundreds of yards from anything, I got a nice dime sound on my SE. I of course dug it and much to my surprise out popped a mercury dime, i thought OK this is cool, weird but cool ... here i am in the middle of a colonial site and i got a mercury dime
? No problem i will take it !
I focused on this area and about 5 minutes later got a perfect 00 29 sound, I dug it and out came a 1935 washington quarter! ... now grinning ear to ear i continued to detect ... a little later another dime sound that was kinda 'iffy came along, i dug the dirt out and the sound got much better, i'm thinking ok maybe another dime ? boy was i wrong ... i found the silver disc in the hole with my probe, grabbed it quick and as soon as i did, thought much too thin for a dime ... i got super excited 'cause i knew EXACTLY what i had ... a 1/2 REALE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY VERY FIRST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so after yelling and jumping a bit
I calmed myself down and continued on - i started digging anything that even gave a whisper of being a coin ... i dug a few piece of can slaw and then about 10 minutes later got a weird tone, jumping back and forth all over the place ... i dug it and as soon as i got some dirt out of the hole, the signal turned to a 00 29 - a quarter, i frantically searched the hole and pulled a standing liberty quarter !!!!!!!! i re-checked the dirt pile and pulled a jefferson nickel (not shown)
the SLQ is again another first !!!!!!
pumped up now, the dirt started flying i dug EVERYTHING - coin sound or not .... i dug it !
after about 35 minutes with nothign else to show, i was about ready to pack it in and start the long walk back to the car (this site is HUGE) suddenly i got an on/off signal that was deep, it read 00 29 and then when i went back over it, nothing ... again very strange
i dug and dug - got frustrated at one point and and threw all the dirt back in the hole and then decided better of it and redug it all back out, long story short - i pulled this 1920-D walking liberty half dollar from about 10+ inches !!!!
my 3rd FIRST of the day !!!!!!!!!!!
whew - i was P U M P E D, it's three hours later and i am STILL PUMPED UP HERE !!!! i tried Paco about a hudnred times at work and never did get him
now the moral of the story here is that not everything has a rhyme or reason to it, i was out in the middle of this field, not a single thing around except corn stalks, no iron signals, no pottery ... soooo why all the coins there ? the reale was obviously from the colonial road but all the other ones very weird !
also i found the kids gun on the way back to the car, the other item in the picture is a large piece of lead (very heavy) that i found the other day in a field close to this one, after talking with Paco, we feel it might have been carried by a colonial person and used to make his lead musketballs - i really can't think of a reason Mr. Farmer would have had it out in the field ... any experts care to comment on this item ?
Thanks for looking (and sorry for the long story !)
vp
Vp here, I headed out to one of my favorite sites, the old Colonial Road. I saw Mrs. land owner on the way in and stopped and talked a bit. They had just plowed the fields I normally detect and I wanted to make sure it was ok to be on the land. She said they also just fertilized so it wouldn't be a good idea but i was more than welcome to detect the land that wasn't plowed yet, she pointed out a few fields. I thanked her and went on my way.
Now I hunted for about an hour finding very little when all of the sudden out in the very middle of the field, hundreds of yards from anything, I got a nice dime sound on my SE. I of course dug it and much to my surprise out popped a mercury dime, i thought OK this is cool, weird but cool ... here i am in the middle of a colonial site and i got a mercury dime
? No problem i will take it !I focused on this area and about 5 minutes later got a perfect 00 29 sound, I dug it and out came a 1935 washington quarter! ... now grinning ear to ear i continued to detect ... a little later another dime sound that was kinda 'iffy came along, i dug the dirt out and the sound got much better, i'm thinking ok maybe another dime ? boy was i wrong ... i found the silver disc in the hole with my probe, grabbed it quick and as soon as i did, thought much too thin for a dime ... i got super excited 'cause i knew EXACTLY what i had ... a 1/2 REALE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY VERY FIRST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so after yelling and jumping a bit
I calmed myself down and continued on - i started digging anything that even gave a whisper of being a coin ... i dug a few piece of can slaw and then about 10 minutes later got a weird tone, jumping back and forth all over the place ... i dug it and as soon as i got some dirt out of the hole, the signal turned to a 00 29 - a quarter, i frantically searched the hole and pulled a standing liberty quarter !!!!!!!! i re-checked the dirt pile and pulled a jefferson nickel (not shown)the SLQ is again another first !!!!!!
pumped up now, the dirt started flying i dug EVERYTHING - coin sound or not .... i dug it !
after about 35 minutes with nothign else to show, i was about ready to pack it in and start the long walk back to the car (this site is HUGE) suddenly i got an on/off signal that was deep, it read 00 29 and then when i went back over it, nothing ... again very strange
i dug and dug - got frustrated at one point and and threw all the dirt back in the hole and then decided better of it and redug it all back out, long story short - i pulled this 1920-D walking liberty half dollar from about 10+ inches !!!!
my 3rd FIRST of the day !!!!!!!!!!!
whew - i was P U M P E D, it's three hours later and i am STILL PUMPED UP HERE !!!! i tried Paco about a hudnred times at work and never did get him
now the moral of the story here is that not everything has a rhyme or reason to it, i was out in the middle of this field, not a single thing around except corn stalks, no iron signals, no pottery ... soooo why all the coins there ? the reale was obviously from the colonial road but all the other ones
very weird !also i found the kids gun on the way back to the car, the other item in the picture is a large piece of lead (very heavy) that i found the other day in a field close to this one, after talking with Paco, we feel it might have been carried by a colonial person and used to make his lead musketballs - i really can't think of a reason Mr. Farmer would have had it out in the field ... any experts care to comment on this item ?
Thanks for looking (and sorry for the long story !)
vp
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Still looking for my first ![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
. Congrats Kevin. You had a great day.
What a day of diggin!!!
