Unexpect LARGE surface find in the woods!!!

[treasurefiend]

3/17/11 Metal detecting with DDub and we went out to a new section of woods that we have never detected before and I started the hunt off with an old coin spill!!! Wound up getting 6 old coins and an old token, they in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sw6cZOo_sU​

 

[Golden1]

Yee haw! Rub them silvers!

My thoughts exactly.. Awsome finds and I would give anything to have a day like that.. but.. carry a small bottle of water to clean those coins or wait until you get them home.. geez.

I have water with me but I choose to check the dates at that moment. You can do whatever you want with your coins as you find them and I will continue to do what I like with mine.

BINGO

Very well said

There your coins do as you wish

G1

 

[Indianhead Jones]

She's a beauty, Fiend!

I once found a Walking Liberty half the same way....nice when you don't even have to dig for them!

Larry G.

 

[NHBandit]

You're absolutely right about them being your coins to do as you wish with and you've obviously been detecting for a long time and I'm sure you will continue to do things your own way. I guess my comment was directed more to the new guys here who might not want to take the risk of possibly taking hundreds of dollars of value away from an otherwise valuable coin by intentionally scratching the hell out of it. You can jump out of airplanes without a parachute if you want to as well but I'm still going to recomend against it... As a long time coin collector it made me cringe when I watched your video and since this is a public forum I am also entitled to my opinion.

 

[treasurefiend]

Yes it is an open forum, but when I see people making sideline commentary of what I should or shouldn't of done thats when I am gonna remind them that its my finds. Well with all of the coins coming out of the ground and they will all be labeled "environmentally damaged" anyways so im not worried, the over whelming majority of the coins that are dug up is just scrap silver anyways. You could jump with out a parachute and all but you can also get nailed by a car while crossing the street, does that mean im gonna stay locked up in my house, no. If a coin gets surface scratches I don't care, they all are in my dug collection and im not selling, if it "knocks off hundreds of dollars" I couldn't care less as im not in this hobby to make money either. For me its about the research and the thrill of the hunt and the actual coin is just something to toss on the pile. When I do die my kids can complain about the minor scratches.

 

[treasurefiend]

here's a beauty I dingged up a few years ago hahahahah
but was a week after a surgery

 

[traverdog]

WOW is all that comes out!! Congrats.

 

[Admiral de Salee]

Yee haw! Rub them silvers!

"I was gonna say.." I remember watching that 'documentary' about the Jesse James / Knights of the Golden Circle hunt and when the guy starts rubbing the clay off Morgan dollars with a heavy work glove I damn near jumped to my feet and hollered, "JEE-buss, don't *DO* that..".

But any carping and pickin' the flysht outta the pepper aside, this surface / near-surface spill was just NUTZ. Congratulations!
I'm going to go look up a '94 Barber -O half rat now. Love those Barbers. WTG, DDub!

=========EPILOGUE==========
1) TreasureFiend (not your pardner DDub), sorry.
2) I read your comments. I understand your points of view, I've never sold one either (and like my Old Man used to say, "Do what you want.
You will anyway.."). I guess I'm just paranoid about field damage because I decked my oldest U.S. coin ever (nice 1858 Flying Eagle cent that I decked with my Lesche).
3) So 'Never mind'--which you already did. I-N-V-U that Bobba Half, u bet. Cheers & Happy More Hunting!

 

[Deno]

Nice hunt and video. The Barber half is still on my wish list.

 

[Automedon2]

It's karma, Kermit, for the your generosity in donating the beautiful silver dollar to roadkillscjim's contest (which I won )
If you didn't get my thank you message on your Youtube vid comments, here it is again - THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

 

[ewcoinhunter]

Great find TF! Leave a little something for me would ya! HAHA!

 

[Damon64]

Nice vid!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Yes it is an open forum, but when I see people making sideline commentary of what I should or shouldn't of done thats when I am gonna remind them that its my finds. Well with all of the coins coming out of the ground and they will all be labeled "environmentally damaged" anyways so im not worried, the over whelming majority of the coins that are dug up is just scrap silver anyways. You could jump with out a parachute and all but you can also get nailed by a car while crossing the street, does that mean im gonna stay locked up in my house, no. If a coin gets surface scratches I don't care, they all are in my dug collection and im not selling, if it "knocks off hundreds of dollars" I couldn't care less as im not in this hobby to make money either. For me its about the research and the thrill of the hunt and the actual coin is just something to toss on the pile. When I do die my kids can complain about the minor scratches.

If you think that most coins are not worth treating with care, then you must never have dug anything really good in the way of a coin.

Sure, they'll be happy to have the nest egg--but it would've been a much nicer nest egg otherwise. I have seen some semi-key barber coins in very high grades destroyed by such action. But who cares. It's my Civil War belt plate. I can put a shovel through it if I want.

Bottom line--part of this hobby MUST be about the respect for the things we dig. Nobody is winning ribbons, or making notches in their belt over these trinkets. And even an appearance on the Almighty finds banner or some congratulatory replies online are soon forgotten by all.

What I might recommend is to show some pride--not only in what you find, but how you find it.

If it's about the thrill of the hunt only, and not the actual finds, then I wish you many thrilling--and unsuccessful coin hunts.

Cheers,

Buck

 

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