New to forum and to detecting..first day using and found this...

[B_Rod]

I am just now getting into detecting and after reading a lot of reviews I purchased a Fisher F2 metal detector. My brother and I took it out for the first time today to see how it worked. We went to my dads front yard just to mess around and started searching where an old farm house was ( bulldozed and gone 20+ years ago) The first hit I got turned out to be an old can..the second was a piece of foil but the third time was a charm this is what I found...any good???

 

[B_Rod]

Sorry the pic isn't very good but I think its an 1828 large cent.

 

[Robert2300]

Great find for the first time out. That must be really
encouraging to you. Keep up the good work and have fun.

 

[B_Rod]

Thanks! I was very surprised when I pulled it out, not really expecting to find anything we were pretty shocked.

 

[matthias]

WOW! I've been wishing for one of those for years! Nice job. GL and HH. Matt

 

[MarkCZ]

That would be a very good find for a seasoned hunter!
Now this also means that older larger coins being there could mean smaller silver one could be there! and even older nickels.

This place your hunting is a good place to start out on and learn your detector and read up on proper recovery skills when you move out to other places. Public areas are good to hunt, but! proper recovery is different than a shovel in an on plowed farm field.
I only mean to be helpful, but new people to detecting a lot of times get off to a bad start with EASY, QUICK, digs but often wrong recovery practices that gives the hobby a bad rap for everyone. So I hope you'll get off to a good start of doing it RIGHT!

Great find!

Mark

 

[B_Rod]

Thanks for the support..I've been a long time privy digger but its getting harder and harder to get permission to dig those. So I thought it would be easier to get permission to just dig smaller holes and leave no exposed dirt by metal detecting. Which is equally fun, and a lot less work.