Okay, I'll bite
My finds aren't as amazing or historic as the ones above :shocked04: :clapping: but they are the ones that are special to me.
#1 is the very first coin I ever found with a metal detector, on my first ever detecting trip years ago. I had a new ACE250. Stupidly and having zero knowledge of detecting, I took the ACE250 to a large piece of rural land (110 acres) in Iowa that I owned at the time. There had never been a dwelling on this land at any time - most of it was native prairie ground. I had to burn off the prairie ground every year (for CRP and for regrowth of the original prairie), which is why I could detect it at all.
However, an old train track did run through it. I had not even tested the detector with a coin, and had never found ANY coin with it, not even a zlincoln.
That day I dug a TON of iron (railroad ties mostly, and hunks of railroad track). At the end of the day I got a strong signal at about 6 inches, and I dug this 1847 seated half dollar.
It's not a rare date and it has some issues (although it does have full liberty) but it was quite the first coin.
At the time I didn't even appreciate it - I remember thinking Wow, if I can find this here in the middle of nowhere, I'm going to find tons of these in parks! lol rofl :hysterical: :cheesysmile: :crying02: How stupid I was.
Chalk one up to dumb luck lol
Sorry for the bad photo; my camera isn't charged so I snapped this earlier with my phone.
#2 is an 1854 seated half dime I found while detecting at an old park in the northeast with a friend several years ago. At the time, I didn't even know what it was - had never seen a half dime lol (now I collect them
) This one isn't perfect by any means but it is very special. In fact that day was my detecting dream come true
I hope to have another such day someday! The second photo are all the silver coins that my friend and I found in total that amazing day.
#3 is a story only, as I no longer have a photo (it died with my last laptop) - or the find itself.
During the only 20 minutes I have ever used my Tesoro Tiger Shark (on a freshwater beach) I found a woman's diamond ring in the wet sand.
It had no inscription, but I put an ad out.
I was surprised, but the woman who lost it was able to describe it down to the last detail and even sent me a wedding photo of the ring. Due to distance I wasn't able to return it personally but I sent it to her.
She called me and she was in tears. It did touch me.
Her husband called me later and said he wanted to give me $500 as a reward (I refused).
#4 is this little baby trime I found in an older Lexington, Kentucky park about a year ago. If any of you have ever seen these in person - they are beyond small... very thin, and and only a couple of centimeters in diameter. I was happy to find such a tiny coin in a park that has left me with several silverless trips both before and since.
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mg: Fantastic top Four Laszlo!