I decided to go detecting this morning at a park in a town that is 50 miles away from where I live. I had hunted at this park a couple of times before and found 2 Indian Heads and a Shield Nickel, but no silver. I wanted to try it again today, it seems there should be more old coins there.
So I'm detecting in this park, and I keep seeing this kid riding his bike past me, and he seems to be staring at me. He looks to be about 12 years old. He rides through the park a few times, always looking at me. Finally he stops near me.
Kid: Are you from around here?
Me: No, not really.
Kid: Oh, because I'm into metal detecting too, and there's this guy who posts videos on YouTube called Tony Two-Cent and I thought you might be him.
Me: Um... yeah... I'm Tony Two-Cent.
Kid: You are? COOL!
It never occured to me that someone would recognize me from my YouTube videos. For one thing, you rarely see my face in the videos. I'm still not quite sure how he recognized me. WEIRD! He ended up running home to get his Fisher F2 so he could detect with me. Alas, the old coins were hiding from both of us. I couldn't even find a wheat cent. He seemed like a nice kid, and he did a good job of making neat plugs and replacing them correctly. We hunted together for about an hour and then parted company.
At this point I was just going to go home, but I decided to investigate a small town that was on my way home. I discovered a small picnic area between the town's main street and the railroad tracks, so I thought what the heck, I'll give it a shot. I ended up having one of my best silver days ever, 1 Barber Dime and 6 Mercury Dimes.
Here are my finds for the day:
And here are the keepers. I ended up with 13 wheat cents in addition to the silver dimes. No Indian Heads for me today which is unusual.
Here are the silver dimes. Oddly enough, none of them have a mint mark:
I also found this dainty little sterling silver ring. Unfortunately it's bent and I know what will happen if I try to straighten it. *snap*
I also found this small crotal bell:
I wouldn't have known what this is if it weren't for a recent thread in the relics section. You guys up in New England find these shoe taps quite often around cellar holes, but I think this is the first one I've found.
Thanks for looking and happy hunting!
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7 silvers is fantastic day. I almost forget what it's like finding silver except for an occasional Reale or seated at the cellar holes. Those top taps are a neat find gratz on your first
: not that the chance to detect with his video icon is not an incredible memory for the youth but a wheatie or any coin for that matter given to him by the famous Tony Two-Cent would of been over the top and a permanent tangeable part of the history he could recall. 
I think its very cool that you made the kids day Tony an apparently the silver Gods agree , very very nice hunt .
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Can I have your autograph?.... 
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I tell you, that sure threw me for a loop! 
That's great ! Love the story ! Congrats on the finds also. You've been a roll lately, I'm really happy for you !
