OK everyone,
Lets show off our most favorite finds of all time. Its doesn't have to be the most valuable piece you have ever found, just the piece you enjoy looking at the most or enjoy showing to all of your buddies when they come over. Everyone has to have that one piece that you just couldn't wait to get home and show it off after you rescued it.
So lets get posting and give us the whole story. Year, type of area you found it, depth you found it, what type of machine you were swinging, and add any pictures of it if you have one.
So here's my favorite find so far.
A 1902 Morgan Dollar
and here's my story..
I was swinging my new F4 at a local grade school that is right next to the Rock Island State Trail. I has finding lots of clad and decided to work my way a little closer to the fence that separated the school property and the State Trail. Being new to metal detecting it didn't take me long to figure out that hunting 6 inches from the chain link fence just didn't quite work.
I decided to head back the way I came from and when I got about 10 yds away from the fence my F4 started barking out a solid 98 at 2 inches. Thinking it was just another crushed soda can I almost passed on it and didn't dig it. But I figured I was there and it was only 2 inches deep so it wasn't going take much to check it out.
I pulled out my digging tool and peeled back the sod. My reaction was disbelief!
A few years before, the school had allot of new construction done on it and there was a lot of dirt moved around in the area so I'm not really sure if it was dropped 100 some years ago or if little John lost his show and tell piece that he snuck out of his dads coin collection. All I know is I found it and it is my favorite piece to date.
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Lets show off our most favorite finds of all time. Its doesn't have to be the most valuable piece you have ever found, just the piece you enjoy looking at the most or enjoy showing to all of your buddies when they come over. Everyone has to have that one piece that you just couldn't wait to get home and show it off after you rescued it.
So lets get posting and give us the whole story. Year, type of area you found it, depth you found it, what type of machine you were swinging, and add any pictures of it if you have one.
So here's my favorite find so far.
A 1902 Morgan Dollar
and here's my story..
I was swinging my new F4 at a local grade school that is right next to the Rock Island State Trail. I has finding lots of clad and decided to work my way a little closer to the fence that separated the school property and the State Trail. Being new to metal detecting it didn't take me long to figure out that hunting 6 inches from the chain link fence just didn't quite work.
I decided to head back the way I came from and when I got about 10 yds away from the fence my F4 started barking out a solid 98 at 2 inches. Thinking it was just another crushed soda can I almost passed on it and didn't dig it. But I figured I was there and it was only 2 inches deep so it wasn't going take much to check it out.I pulled out my digging tool and peeled back the sod. My reaction was disbelief!
A few years before, the school had allot of new construction done on it and there was a lot of dirt moved around in the area so I'm not really sure if it was dropped 100 some years ago or if little John lost his show and tell piece that he snuck out of his dads coin collection. All I know is I found it and it is my favorite piece to date.
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