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Man, after having a couple of "off months", the last month or so I've just been on a roll with little silver coins. This is a 1797 Spanish 1/2 real' the hot little Excel sniffed out at a different cellar hole :hot: I'm either picking good spots or the 9 days of rain wetting the soil helped. Nice details on this one.....
ID Excel "Gittin it DUN!"
HH, Bill
 
You are on a roll. What a sweet find and shows the Excel has good sensitivity to the small stuff.

Now where is it you are hunting? :chase:

Tom
 
I hope to start gettin out more regularly shortly, the underbrush/weeds should start to die down soon and make it much easier, not to mention the "chigger" season here will be over very shortly !

Don
 
That's definately a keeper! Maybe you should go see Ted's bud and get that one in a bezel. Great detail on that coin. You can really see how ugly Chuck the 4th really was! :lol: Great find! :please:
 
Probably a good combination of you picking a good spot and the rain making the ground just right for signals. Congrats on a REALe nice find! HH, Mike
 
oh, wait......the logo CNE$ (Colonial New England $hootout) will be like that because it's all about the $$.......not the fellowship :thebird:
 
Banker. :lol: Are you sure your not Dutch? :poke: They run all the banks in Grand Rapids (and probably Holland if the Asian Mafia hasn't taken over there yet)

That would be the C$NE$ detecting for dollars relic and old coin hunt. :biggrin:

Can I be a minion too?? I can change my handle to TPP (The Penny Professor) :rofl:

Tom
 
They'd rather see this stuff rot in the ground then us dig it up, & me take it to schools to teach kids history.....To them I'm just an untrained "looter"....:puke: don't get me started
 
No doubt about it. Remember when I had my display at the library three or so years ago? The state came down on me hard and tried to scare me. Unbelievable; I was trying to educate, which the state purports to try to do, but caught shlt for it.
 
TedinRI Wrote:
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> No doubt about it. Remember when I had my display
> at the library three or so years ago? The state
> came down on me hard and tried to scare me.
> Unbelievable; I was trying to educate, which the
> state purports to try to do, but caught shlt for
> it.

I'm in the process of working with the director of our local historical society museum. It turns out that the museum GROUNDS have never been searched with a MD and even the dirt cellar of the society needs to be searched!
Working with them, we're also looking at running a "dig" on their grounds this summer and trying to involve the local kids in it. I think they'll like the electronics of using the MD's (we'll have 4 or 5 there), the museum will have an archie there to RUN the dig as they'd like, and I can help with the MD's and some of the educating. Seems like a win/win to me.
Eventually, the society and I will work up a letter introducing me to land owners, when I'm asking permission to search. The museum may get some of the "finds" (it's up to the landowner) and I'll hang onto the coins.
I'll be searching some of the other properties owned by the museum and they'll keep ALL the loot.
Thoughts?
Tagamet
 
I have been hunting around a French and Indian War fort here in Carolina for a few years. I am on private property. They have a small museum at the fort, and I think I have found more stuff than they have in it. One day while hunting, this lady walks up on me out in the middle of this field. She was very polite when she asked me for the musketball I had just dug up. I politely said "No Ma'am" :nono: and pocketed my new find. The Fort has formed a "Preservation Society" and they are trying to buy my friend's land. They just don't want to pay him for it! The taxpayers want no part of funding it. So it all hit the fan back in the late spring. The State Archie from Raleigh sent a personal message to me..."Quit digging!" I politely responded...."Pound Sand!" I will quit digging the day they close the deal on the land.

I have another friend who "LOANED" some things to them for display in their little Museum. He had to get an attorney involved to get his stuff back. Don't get me wrong, these people seem to be very nice and a wealth of information. I just caution you to investigate and see what their true motives and agenda may be. I hope it works out better for you than it has with some of the rest of us.
 
Thanks (sincerely) for the warning. I'll print this out and have it in my pocket when next I meet with the Exec Dir. She had mentioned the MD idea to the board and described them as excited and actually "animated". I took it to mean a positive thing when maybe they were excited and annimated about the possibility of new acquisitons. So far, we've been very clear about the "situation specific" nature of my searches: They keep all of what's on their land and I provide the help finding it. For that, I'll be able to print up cards using their name and possibly work toward a letter of intro on their letterhead.
Time will tell, but forewarned is foearmed.
Thanks,
Tagamet
 
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