hikeinmts
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- Joined
- Dec 13, 2008
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- Location
- South Korea
- Detector(s) used
- Cobra II/Minelab Sovereign
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hello to all THers, from S. Korea. Went out Saturday....great weather. Took a little more than one hour to drive to where I thought might be a good site. A small hike, and there was the coin site.....buried under farmer's throw-away plastic (that the Korean farmers put over areas early in the spring). Dug out from under that, and guessed, by the size of the site, about 5 or 6 nice pre-1900 holed coins.
Began the hunt, and was rewarded with a signal....and a nice aluminum 1940s Japanese occupation coin. Found several more of these. Then, quite quickly into the hunt, found my first larger 2-mun coin, 1670s. Well, that's one. After that, there were quite a few signals, and NO OTHER JAPANESE COINS......only the Korean holed coins. Out of that small site, I found 25 nice 1670's - 1830's coins. Great hunt. Plus, at the beginning of the hunt, noticed many many pieces of broken pottery. Several pounds of that, that I will try to put together, hopefully there will be most/all of a bowl. But, did find one whole cup, about 150 years old....only one tiny nick on the rim. Beautiful cream colored piece.
Almost ready to stop for lunch when, whirrrrrr, whirrrrrrr, the sound of bird wings.....and close. Looked up, and not more than a yard away from me is a little multi-colored bird looking at me.....who was looking at him. I must have been digging in one of his favorite places, because he didn't leave....and did not seem to be the least bit intimidated by me. In fact, when I backed away from where I was digging to get my camera, I figured that he would fly away. No way....he flew down into the pit that I had dug, flitted around, scarfed up a few bugs, and then digested them while sitting on my metal detector. Got it in pictures, and hoping that when I download them, that the little guy comes out plain. He was a beauty. He left, but came back about 2 hours later.....with his gang. He must have said some nice things about me, because they weren't any more afraid of me then he was. And me without any crackers to crumble up and feed them.
Well, I do have pics, but still working on getting them out of the camera, into the laptop, and then on to this site. I will do a further post, to let you see what is on the other side of the world, just as soon as I graduate from "picture taker" to "Attacher."
Began the hunt, and was rewarded with a signal....and a nice aluminum 1940s Japanese occupation coin. Found several more of these. Then, quite quickly into the hunt, found my first larger 2-mun coin, 1670s. Well, that's one. After that, there were quite a few signals, and NO OTHER JAPANESE COINS......only the Korean holed coins. Out of that small site, I found 25 nice 1670's - 1830's coins. Great hunt. Plus, at the beginning of the hunt, noticed many many pieces of broken pottery. Several pounds of that, that I will try to put together, hopefully there will be most/all of a bowl. But, did find one whole cup, about 150 years old....only one tiny nick on the rim. Beautiful cream colored piece.
Almost ready to stop for lunch when, whirrrrrr, whirrrrrrr, the sound of bird wings.....and close. Looked up, and not more than a yard away from me is a little multi-colored bird looking at me.....who was looking at him. I must have been digging in one of his favorite places, because he didn't leave....and did not seem to be the least bit intimidated by me. In fact, when I backed away from where I was digging to get my camera, I figured that he would fly away. No way....he flew down into the pit that I had dug, flitted around, scarfed up a few bugs, and then digested them while sitting on my metal detector. Got it in pictures, and hoping that when I download them, that the little guy comes out plain. He was a beauty. He left, but came back about 2 hours later.....with his gang. He must have said some nice things about me, because they weren't any more afraid of me then he was. And me without any crackers to crumble up and feed them.
Well, I do have pics, but still working on getting them out of the camera, into the laptop, and then on to this site. I will do a further post, to let you see what is on the other side of the world, just as soon as I graduate from "picture taker" to "Attacher."
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Can't wait to see the pics of the finds AND your new friends! 
