Some times it's better to be lucky

[robertj298]

My first old coin find was long before I even knew about metal detectors. In 1970 I was 16 yrs. old and spending a couple of weeks at my aunt and uncle's who lived out in the country. One day while mowing their grass I looked down and saw this tiny coin. It turned out to be an 1857 half dime. Now I've worn glasses since I was 5 years old and up until the day he died my uncle always kidded me about how someone as blind as a bat could see a little coin like that laying in the grass. I've often wondered how it got on top of the ground like that and we often wondered if maybe it was dropped by a bird or just worked its way out because in was on the side of a slight hill. My uncles place at one time was the site of a blacksmiths site but 16 years later I searched it with a detector and never found anything older than wheats and mercs.

 

[utahshovelhead]

Ill take luck any day. However, you know what works is usually not the easy way. My first coin find at 6 years old was a silver dollar, black and crusty, found on the beach of the Great Salt lake the first time my Dad ever took me there. Unfortunatly, I did not think it was anything and threw it back into the water...my sister picked it up and said "hey look what I found, its a dollar"! She still has it, to my great dismay.

 

[Agseeker]

Last Friday I was hunting a couple of vacant lots where the houses had been torn down years ago and managed to find four wheat pennies (40's & 50's) and a 1941 quarter. As it started getting dark I decided it was time to leave since I was in what many people would consider to be an unsavory part of town. As I walked back to my car I decided to hunt along what was left of an old sidewalk. I set my detector coil on the ground and made one swing, got a 12-47 reading, and dug up a 1964 quarter. What are the odds of that? I just set the detector coil down right on top of the coin. Sometimes it is better to be lucky....