Western & Eastern Treasures Find of the Year!

[Donnie B]

The Massachusetts Pine Tree Shilling that I found last year with Danny LaMontagne was selected as one of the Finds of the Year by Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine. My coin also made the cover of the magazine. I get my subscription online, but I have a funny feeling that our local Barnes and Nobles bookstores will sell all three copies of the issue this week!

American Detectorist was well represented as Calabash Digger had TWO entries selected as Finds of the Year and both of his finds also made the cover!

 

[calabash digger]

We are in print my friend!!!

 

[Bucknut]

Yeah I see both Donnie B and Mr. Calabash! Great job guys!

 

[aloldstuff]

WTG...it is really nice to get the recognition that such a find deserves. Huge congrats Donnie.

 

[Donnie B]

We are in print my friend!!!

You may be the first person to have TWO Finds of the Year on the cover!

 

[Lodge Scent]

Two well deserved honors! :congrats:

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

Just amazing guys, congrats well earned! Love to see that our AD members rank right at the top. :notworthy:

 

[OxShoeDrew]

You guys are GREAT!!!! :notworthy::congrats:

 

[Full Metal Digger]

Well deserved! I saw that coin on the cover and JUST KNEW it was yours! Just out of curiosity, are people still contacting you to buy it? I wonder what kind of crazy deals they have offered you! LOL. Best wishes and HH, Dave.

 

[Cooper]

Congrats when does the autograph signing start:thumbsup01:

 

[calabash digger]

Thanks guys....

 

[Donnie B]

Well deserved! I saw that coin on the cover and JUST KNEW it was yours! Just out of curiosity, are people still contacting you to buy it? I wonder what kind of crazy deals they have offered you! LOL. Best wishes and HH, Dave.

I was contacted by Stacks and Bowers within a day or two after I found it and posted it here on AD. I am honored that Stacks volunteered their auction service if I ever decide to sell the coin. I haven't received, nor solicited, any offers. The coin is in the lockbox and will stay there, hopefully, for decades. Monetarily, it's not worth enough to change my life so there is no real incentive to sell the coin. If I sold it, the coin would be gone and the money would soon follow. Then, I would be left with nothing but the memory.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Congratulations.

 

[BTV Digger]

Way to go guys! Those finds were definitely noteworthy of our hobby's national spotlight. Congrats!

John

 

[Donnie B]

Thanks everyone! I had never entered a find into Western & Eastern Treasures Find of the Year before. I probably had a couple over the years that might have made it. I'm stoked that this one made it in.

 

[calabash digger]

Thanks everyone and Donnie for posting it. Whats funny is a guy I know found the NC 3 button on the cover too. He took me to that site you were lucky to find a BB lol... I did squeeze out a button from the core where he had pounded just a flat but I was hoping!

 

[Mr. Digger]

Congrats on the well deserved honors, Donnie. My 1806 8 Reales made it as an honorable mention....no comparison to your amazing coin obviously. What a find!

 

[Ill Digger]

Congrats on making it into the Finds of the Year edition of W&E magazine guys! Thats sweet!:thumbsup02: