One More Try

[Delaware Bill]

Haven't posted in a while, but some things need to be shared. A member of the Detecting Club which I belong, had received permission to hunt a farm field that soon will be developed. This field has surrendered some real nice finds including a 1857 Gold Dollar Coin, except for me. I hunted it twice with two Wheat Cents and a Brass Thimble as my best finds. But something kept nagging at me to give it another go round. So this past Sunday, I was driving near there so I figured one more try. About 40 minutes into the hunt I got a good signal, it was showing 60-62 on way on the meter and 67-70 sweeping another way, depth showed as 7 inches. Here I thought was an Indian and dug down a full 7 inches. (Use a M6 with 10" Excelerator Coil, DX-1 Probe) Checking the hole, it looked like another 1/2 Reale, which is not a bad find. But when I took a closer look, turns out it is a 1857 Half Dime. Made my day. Thanks for looking.

 

[BarberBill]

Nice find. Shows that persistence and patience pays off.
HH
BB

 

[UtahRich]

n/t

 

[dave5710]

Wow!! Very nice, I never found one of those and if I do, I bet it won't be half that pretty.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Super find my friend and read somewhere that you could hunt a football field for years and never cover it all...

 

[NamVetLesTreasureSeeker]

WTG, Bill! You and your M-6 really CLICK! HH, Les

 

[ohio fred]

n/t

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

If you found that nice coin in the field should be more there for you to find.
I'd go back in there as much as possible and detect it before they cover it with asphalt.
When they cart the top dirt away I'd try to find where it's used or spread.
Beauty of a coin. Congrats !!