Cold hunt produces my best coin find of the year

midas

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Got out on Saturday at a park for a 4 hour hunt before the arctic blast hits on Sunday. Temps were in the 30's, wind chill in the 20's. It's always amazing to me how people for centuries can walk over these coins without any knowledge of what they are stepping over.
Along with the usual clad, first real find of the day was an 1846 large cent at about 8 inches, next was a 1939 merc, a 1945 silver nickel, a 1941 s merc, 1943 merc, a no date buffalo nickel, a few wheats. By now my feet were getting cold, but one more deep signal should do it.
Walking back to the van, here it was. Dug 4 inches, Sunray probe said still deeper amidst iron. A few more inches, still deeper. My digger was up to the top of the handle. About 11 inches. Sunray probe said sweet silver tone. That's the great thing about the Sunray, it's an extension of your detector. Pulled this beauty from the bottom. A coin that evidently had been lost about 166 years ago.
 

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:shocked05:Defiantly worth a couple of shivers! :frozen: :yes:
Never found one of those yet. :envious:
Sweet find!
Congrats! :grin:
 
Great coin Midas :perfect10: which machine found this beauty though , the e-trac or the V3i ?? and what did the vdi numbers read??
 
WOW! :omg:

There are no sufficient words to describe that gorgeous coin! :smitten:

Congrats on the incredible find, Midas! :notworthy:
 
what a great find the closet i have found to that was a 1853 quarter in my grandmothers yard over thirty years ago congrats on a great find you will be hard pressed to find a BETTER ONE DENNIS
 
wow! thats a coin we would all love to find. sure dont see many of those in that kind of shape. congrats!! i would hurt myself doing the dance if i ever found something like that lol.
 
And to think that you found it on the way back to the van.....not the 1st time that has happened. What a great looking coin...:congrats:

Surely it was worth fighting the cold to be able to have that in your collection.
 

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