Full Metal Digger
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Hey Diggers,
What a hunt I had this morning! I met up with Russ at 6 a.m. at the medieval woods we've been hunting lately. Finds were slow but steady. We pretty much hunt in different directions when we're out in the woods (there's plenty of room for everyone). At some point he called me on the cell phone and said he had found a spill of big coins, and they were all very thin. He said he was already up to 5 coins and I better get over there and help him dig them up! It took me a few minutes to find him and when I got there he was up to 8 coins! The spill seemed to be a circle of about 50 feet. The coins were deep and very faint. For the next 2 hours we zig-zagged around the side of that hill digging every signal no matter how faint or trashy. I ended up finding 4 coins and he found 12 total! All 16 coins turned out to be big silver coins from the 1620s! They were all minted in feudal France in the State of Chateau Regnault (Louise Marguerite of Lorraine).
I am so grateful that Russ called me over to share in such an amazing find!
Here's some pics!
What a hunt I had this morning! I met up with Russ at 6 a.m. at the medieval woods we've been hunting lately. Finds were slow but steady. We pretty much hunt in different directions when we're out in the woods (there's plenty of room for everyone). At some point he called me on the cell phone and said he had found a spill of big coins, and they were all very thin. He said he was already up to 5 coins and I better get over there and help him dig them up! It took me a few minutes to find him and when I got there he was up to 8 coins! The spill seemed to be a circle of about 50 feet. The coins were deep and very faint. For the next 2 hours we zig-zagged around the side of that hill digging every signal no matter how faint or trashy. I ended up finding 4 coins and he found 12 total! All 16 coins turned out to be big silver coins from the 1620s! They were all minted in feudal France in the State of Chateau Regnault (Louise Marguerite of Lorraine).
I am so grateful that Russ called me over to share in such an amazing find!
Here's some pics!
People didn't just lose that kind of money in those days. It must have originally been in some sort of small purse or container, buried for safe keeping etc., then forgotten. At least that my story! :lol:
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