beephead
Elite Member
A hunting buddy called me up late yesterday and wanted to know if I would like to go and detect around a 1920 mansion size home located on 4 acres that's never seen a detector. It took me less than a spit second to say oh hell yeah.
We met up this morning and started our grid search of the large front yard area. We both right off found a couple of Mercury dimes. His was a 1917 and mine was a 1923. We both had a great time. The weather was so nice I ended up stripping down to my t-shirt.
One of my unusual finds was a National Rifleman's Association Marksman Pin. I didn't know that it was founded in New York City back in 1871. I guess back then NY City didn't have a thing against guns.
Another unusual find of mine was a massive sterling silver pocket watch face cover. I was super excited when I got my search coil over the target. I would have bet the farm that it was going to be a silver dollar. After I popped it out the ground and saw bright silver my heart got to pumping really fast. It took a few seconds to realize that it wasn't a silver dollar. Still a nice find though. I'm due some big silver, maybe even a Barber.
We're going back tomorrow to finish up the front yard. I bet we find more silver. There should be some Barber coins at that site.
beephead
We met up this morning and started our grid search of the large front yard area. We both right off found a couple of Mercury dimes. His was a 1917 and mine was a 1923. We both had a great time. The weather was so nice I ended up stripping down to my t-shirt.
One of my unusual finds was a National Rifleman's Association Marksman Pin. I didn't know that it was founded in New York City back in 1871. I guess back then NY City didn't have a thing against guns.
Another unusual find of mine was a massive sterling silver pocket watch face cover. I was super excited when I got my search coil over the target. I would have bet the farm that it was going to be a silver dollar. After I popped it out the ground and saw bright silver my heart got to pumping really fast. It took a few seconds to realize that it wasn't a silver dollar. Still a nice find though. I'm due some big silver, maybe even a Barber.
We're going back tomorrow to finish up the front yard. I bet we find more silver. There should be some Barber coins at that site.
beephead
Those are some great finds, especially that pocket watch back!
