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Researched then finally made the trip into the woods among the huge pine trees.

JimmyCT

JimmyCT

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Trying to stay close to home due to gas prices and a broken right foot, I decided to re-look at many areas around me. I was using overlay maps and noticed an old dirt road some distance in the woods from a park. Yes, with my broken right foot and determination, I packed up and headed to my destination. It took a bit to get to the location in the woods due to me walking on my heel, but I made it!! Utilizing my trusty Equinox 800, I start scanning along this old dirt road / path. Not many signals but there was iron present. as I was heading towards an area where this dirt road / path joins to another one, I heard a broken high tone. I slowed my coil speed down to a crawl and performed tiny little sweeps right over the suspect target. This extracted more target information from the iron. TID rose to 26-27. The tone was a nice soft and smooth high tone. I could tell it was at a good depth based on the audio provided. I dug down the depth of my blade then checked the hole with my pin pointer. The pin pointer indicated it was still in the hole. Dug a bit deeper in the soft, sandy soil and checked the dirt pile with my pin pointer... I was thinking a merc dime but I was dead wrong!!
I just found an 1847 Seated Dime!! 😮😮
My oldest dime to date! I think for a moment in time I forgot all about my broken foot 😂😂😂 I hunted a while longer and found a 1911 wheatie. After that I knew it was time to get home and get off my foot🤣.
 

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JimmyCT said:
Trying to stay close to home due to gas prices and a broken right foot, I decided to re-look at many areas around me. I was using overlay maps and noticed an old dirt road some distance in the woods from a park. Yes, with my broken right foot and determination, I packed up and headed to my destination. It took a bit to get to the location in the woods due to me walking on my heel, but I made it!! Utilizing my trusty Equinox 800, I start scanning along this old dirt road / path. Not many signals but there was iron present. as I was heading towards an area where this dirt road / path joins to another one, I heard a broken high tone. I slowed my coil speed down to a crawl and performed tiny little sweeps right over the suspect target. This extracted more target information from the iron. TID rose to 26-27. The tone was a nice soft and smooth high tone. I could tell it was at a good depth based on the audio provided. I dug down the depth of my blade then checked the hole with my pin pointer. The pin pointer indicated it was still in the hole. Dug a bit deeper in the soft, sandy soil and checked the dirt pile with my pin pointer... I was thinking a merc dime but I was dead wrong!!
I just found an 1847 Seated Dime!! 😮😮
My oldest dime to date! I think for a moment in time I forgot all about my broken foot 😂😂😂 I hunted a while longer and found a 1911 wheatie. After that I knew it was time to get home and get off my foot🤣.
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WOW.....Very nice ! congrats!
somewhere down along the road is a great place to search !
Again....WOW !
 
Elmy said:
WOW.....Very nice ! congrats!
somewhere down along the road is a great place to search !
Again....WOW !
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Thank you
 
fwcrawford said:
Very nice find Jim, but you should have stayed home and rested your foot…🤭
That is an incredible find under those circumstances…that coin has been waiting for you all these years!
Congrats on your oldest dime to date!!!👍👍
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Thank you Felix!! Thanks for the advice buddy…but I am going nuts watching some people dig silver half dollars 🤬 I needed a fix 😂
 
JimmyCT said:
Trying to stay close to home due to gas prices and a broken right foot, I decided to re-look at many areas around me. I was using overlay maps and noticed an old dirt road some distance in the woods from a park. Yes, with my broken right foot and determination, I packed up and headed to my destination. It took a bit to get to the location in the woods due to me walking on my heel, but I made it!! Utilizing my trusty Equinox 800, I start scanning along this old dirt road / path. Not many signals but there was iron present. as I was heading towards an area where this dirt road / path joins to another one, I heard a broken high tone. I slowed my coil speed down to a crawl and performed tiny little sweeps right over the suspect target. This extracted more target information from the iron. TID rose to 26-27. The tone was a nice soft and smooth high tone. I could tell it was at a good depth based on the audio provided. I dug down the depth of my blade then checked the hole with my pin pointer. The pin pointer indicated it was still in the hole. Dug a bit deeper in the soft, sandy soil and checked the dirt pile with my pin pointer... I was thinking a merc dime but I was dead wrong!!
I just found an 1847 Seated Dime!! 😮😮
My oldest dime to date! I think for a moment in time I forgot all about my broken foot 😂😂😂 I hunted a while longer and found a 1911 wheatie. After that I knew it was time to get home and get off my foot🤣.
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Nice story.
Awesome find.
Congratulations.
Hopefully that foot gets better soon.
 
JimmyCT said:
Trying to stay close to home due to gas prices and a broken right foot, I decided to re-look at many areas around me. I was using overlay maps and noticed an old dirt road some distance in the woods from a park. Yes, with my broken right foot and determination, I packed up and headed to my destination. It took a bit to get to the location in the woods due to me walking on my heel, but I made it!! Utilizing my trusty Equinox 800, I start scanning along this old dirt road / path. Not many signals but there was iron present. as I was heading towards an area where this dirt road / path joins to another one, I heard a broken high tone. I slowed my coil speed down to a crawl and performed tiny little sweeps right over the suspect target. This extracted more target information from the iron. TID rose to 26-27. The tone was a nice soft and smooth high tone. I could tell it was at a good depth based on the audio provided. I dug down the depth of my blade then checked the hole with my pin pointer. The pin pointer indicated it was still in the hole. Dug a bit deeper in the soft, sandy soil and checked the dirt pile with my pin pointer... I was thinking a merc dime but I was dead wrong!!
I just found an 1847 Seated Dime!! 😮😮
My oldest dime to date! I think for a moment in time I forgot all about my broken foot 😂😂😂 I hunted a while longer and found a 1911 wheatie. After that I knew it was time to get home and get off my foot🤣.
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Congrats & praying for your foot to be completely healed so hunting can be done before Winter sets in! Ma
 
We used to say a pound of research gets you a ton of knowledge, and in this case the knowledge was discovering someone dropped a coin in a location you researched. Thus you stood where someone else stood a 150 years ago, rather humbling. I recently was gifted a rather large copy of a map that shows where every logging camp for a certain large timber company was at the turn of the last century within 50-75 miles of here. Cant wait to roll that out on the floor and start researching.
I bet you never felt that foot on the way out 😉
 
Ronstar said:
We used to say a pound of research gets you a ton of knowledge, and in this case the knowledge was discovering someone dropped a coin in a location you researched. Thus you stood where someone else stood a 150 years ago, rather humbling. I recently was gifted a rather large copy of a map that shows where every logging camp for a certain large timber company was at the turn of the last century within 50-75 miles of here. Cant wait to roll that out on the floor and start researching.
I bet you never felt that foot on the way out 😉
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Foot was feeling great 😂
That map sounds exciting !! Treasures in the deep woods! I can help with this too 🫢
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Jimmy just your discription of the spot gets me all stirred up , Good thing you you over came your Obstakles, and went ,
 
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