MXT finds my oldest US coin to date !!

[pescadore]

Got off work today and when I got home my wife was with our grandaughter at the University close to our house. I met her there and we walked around campus for a while. She asked me if I was going Metal Detecting today and I said that i thought I would go for a little while. I loaded up the MXT and went to a local football field that I have hunted numerous times and even taken a friend there a couple of times for clad hunts. This particular field only dates back to the 1970's and I have probably pulled $20 worth of clad out of the place. I have never found an old coin there. I noticed I was getting a low battery alert on the MXT and knew that I was going to have to go back to the car or go home. It was a long walk back to the car so I decided to just hunt till the battery died. I dug several clad coins and then got a quarter signal and when I pinpointed it showed to be 4 inches deep. I thought to myself "yes, better than 25 pennies." When I turned the plug over I saw the coin and it looked like a electrical punchout at first. I thought " oh, great" and reached down to turn it over. When I flipped it over I had to sit down because I had just found my very first Seated quarter. The face of the quarter was in fairly good shape and I could read Liberty on the shield. I took a photo and text it to Robo99, REM, and Martin V3i. Once I could feel my legs again, I got up and dug a couple more coins but was so excited, I had to go home. Why this coin was in the location it was I will never understand but I sure was glad that my coil passed over it today !!

 

[ramairnut]

Great job! Just goes to show that the old coins can turn up anywhere.

 

[GroundScanner]

Nice find , they are out there . GS

 

[tigerdale]

Congratulations! Very nice.

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Just never know what'll turn up in a hunt. Congrats nice coin.

 

[Nancy-IL]

BIG congratulations on your seated quarter and oldest coin to date find. And she's a beauty too. That's so exciting to read about your adventure. I was excited just by reading your post. I bet you couldn't take your eyes off of it. Again, congratulations on your fantastic find!

 

[OregonGregg]

Very nice find. Yep I would have been very excited as well, congrats.

 

[Old California]

Wow! She's a beauty and surfaced unexpectedly.

Congrats!
Paul

 

[BarberBill]

Nice find and a good example of what I love about the hobby. You just never know what may turn up.
BB

 

[bula]

That is a nice find, and you never know what you will find. I had hunted a baseball field several times and found clad. While walking out I crossed the new cinder warning track and had a dime signal, I scraped the cinders with my foot & out came a 1896 dime? Had to have been hauled in with the cinders, so you never know.

 

[foreign object]

Congrats you lucky dude!

 

[PSS1963]

That is a nice find, and you never know what you will find. I had hunted a baseball field several times and found clad. While walking out I crossed the new cinder warning track and had a dime signal, I scraped the cinders with my foot & out came a 1896 dime? Had to have been hauled in with the cinders, so you never know.

Ok, what is a "cinder warning track"? I've heard all those words separately, but never in that combination.

-pete

 

[Aarong81]

I've heard all those words separately, but never in that combination.

-pete

HAHA, I have 2 kids, irish twins, and both are 2 years old for this week only. I know the feeling but I've gotten so used to it I don't even shrug afterwards anymore.

 

[bula]

At the baseball field around here they put fine lava cinders around the field next to the fence. Just like other warning tracks but it amounts to small rocks.

 

[PSS1963]

Ok, you shaved one word off the mystery for me . . . but, what is a warning track?

and, do you live in Hawaii? Where is the lava coming from? We sure don't have that around here.

-pete

 

[liondogs]

Ok, you shaved one word off the mystery for me . . . but, what is a warning track?

Pete, a warning track on a baseball field is used to warn the outfielder that he is getting close to the fence wall. The outfielder is tracking the baseball and can't always look to see the fence so the change in surface from grass to dirt or cinder lets him know he is getting close to the wall.

 

[liondogs]

n/t

 

[bula]

A warning track is a five foot space between the fence & the grass in the outfield, it tells the outfielder when he is about to hit the fence. As for Hawaii no I live in southern Utah. We have a lot of old volcanos that have spread lave all over & there are several mounds that are nothing but fine cinders from the lava.

 

[PSS1963]

Ok, you shaved one word off the mystery for me . . . but, what is a warning track?

Pete, a warning track on a baseball field is used to warn the outfielder that he is getting close to the fence wall. The outfielder is tracking the baseball and can't always look to see the fence so the change in surface from grass to dirt or cinder lets him know he is getting close to the wall.

But whey would they do that? . . . its so much more fun to watch him bounce off the wall!

(just playin') Thanks for the clarification.

-pete

 

[PSS1963]

A warning track is a five foot space between the fence & the grass in the outfield, it tells the outfielder when he is about to hit the fence. As for Hawaii no I live in southern Utah. We have a lot of old volcanos that have spread lave all over & there are several mounds that are nothing but fine cinders from the lava.

Oh, ok. Its hard to find even traces of extinct volcanoes around here - everything is so worn down. Sometimes you can find basalt inclusions in the granite but I've never seen actual lava. Its been a long time since we broke off of North Africa!

-pete