Frodov
Bronze Member
(Originally posted just prior to “The Crash”)...
$1000 COIN!!!!! No KIDDING!
Hello everyone! I’m just a little excited right now, as you can probably tell. I had a very productive day today metal detecting. Even though I only got out for about two hours to play, the detecting was good, no... It was GREAT! How many of you out there can say you’ve found a $1000 coin? I can, and not one but TWO in a lifetime now! *sigh* too bad that $ sign on the coin doesn’t denote “Dollars” though. No, unfortunately it denotes “Pesos” ... as in Mexican Pesos. Dang! It’s a really big coin though, and a blast to find and dig up. As I was saying, this coin find makes my second of this particular denomination. What are the odds? I mean a Foreign coin, a BIG one at that, found in two different cities. Lexington, and Versailles for that matter, are both a long way from Mexico after all.
Yeah... that’s a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin shown there with that big Peso coin. I found that today too. One of only two surface finds for the day... and the other was plastic. <grin> Finding the Susan B pretty much right off the bat today as I walked from my truck to the particular soccer field I was going to grid search. Of course I was swinging my detector along the way and got a nice big loud and clear signal as my coil passed over it... Cool! A dollar coin to start the day, I knew it was going to be a good day no matter what. Oh and I wasn’t disappointed to be sure! You’ve seen the Big Honkin’ 1000 Peso coin already, but that would not turn out to the be ONLY big coin found today. At this particular soccer complex (park) I’ve found over two dozen different (and sometimes duplicates) of decision toss “flipper” coins. Those big coins that the referees use for their coin tosses and “decisions” for foul calls and whatever. Anyway, I found another one today. And it’s a match for one I found a couple of years ago too.
Yeah I was walking on air after finding those three coins, but there were other coins to be found too. Sure, the rest were all run of the mill clad coins, but I’m not complaining about that one bit. It’d be nice to find more pennies that weren’t dissolving into the dirt right before your eyes perhaps, but I’ll dig pennies all day long if they’re there. Not many found today though, only fourteen. Odd that. No nickels, only Ten dimes, but there were fourteen quarters dug up to make it a nice round number for the finds bag. Coins where almost exclusively all that went into the finds bag today, well... aside from some can slaw and pull tabs that got dumped into the nearest trash can on my way off the field. Oh there was one lone plastic bottle cap (brownie point) I picked up for my wife, and one little set of wheels dug up that will make a fine addition to the World Famous “Fro’s Used Car Lot” . It’ll need some cleaning first perhaps...Along with everything else found today.
It’s amazing what a little water can do to the appearance of die cast metal and plastic.
Yep, The paint job is a bit scratchy, but it’s a fine set of wheels. <smile> And the coins cleaned up halfway decent as well. At least... well enough to be rolled up to be sold to the bank anyway... <grin>.
Okay, it’s not the biggest pile of clad I’ve dug up while metal detecting, but for two hours and with the addition to the big coins and the new car... I’m happy with it. It more than covers my gas to and from the hunt and I got a couple of big coins to add to my collection. A VERY good day indeed. Too bad I have to work all weekend, the weather is supposed to be wonderful here in my neck of the woods. *sigh* Oh well, I’ll have a week off over Thanksgiving to possibly get out and play a little...hopefully. Hopefully all the rest of you will find some time to get out and indulge a bit as well. As always... Good luck... and...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
P.S. So happy that this site is back up and operating again.
$1000 COIN!!!!! No KIDDING!
Hello everyone! I’m just a little excited right now, as you can probably tell. I had a very productive day today metal detecting. Even though I only got out for about two hours to play, the detecting was good, no... It was GREAT! How many of you out there can say you’ve found a $1000 coin? I can, and not one but TWO in a lifetime now! *sigh* too bad that $ sign on the coin doesn’t denote “Dollars” though. No, unfortunately it denotes “Pesos” ... as in Mexican Pesos. Dang! It’s a really big coin though, and a blast to find and dig up. As I was saying, this coin find makes my second of this particular denomination. What are the odds? I mean a Foreign coin, a BIG one at that, found in two different cities. Lexington, and Versailles for that matter, are both a long way from Mexico after all.
Yeah... that’s a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin shown there with that big Peso coin. I found that today too. One of only two surface finds for the day... and the other was plastic. <grin> Finding the Susan B pretty much right off the bat today as I walked from my truck to the particular soccer field I was going to grid search. Of course I was swinging my detector along the way and got a nice big loud and clear signal as my coil passed over it... Cool! A dollar coin to start the day, I knew it was going to be a good day no matter what. Oh and I wasn’t disappointed to be sure! You’ve seen the Big Honkin’ 1000 Peso coin already, but that would not turn out to the be ONLY big coin found today. At this particular soccer complex (park) I’ve found over two dozen different (and sometimes duplicates) of decision toss “flipper” coins. Those big coins that the referees use for their coin tosses and “decisions” for foul calls and whatever. Anyway, I found another one today. And it’s a match for one I found a couple of years ago too.
Yeah I was walking on air after finding those three coins, but there were other coins to be found too. Sure, the rest were all run of the mill clad coins, but I’m not complaining about that one bit. It’d be nice to find more pennies that weren’t dissolving into the dirt right before your eyes perhaps, but I’ll dig pennies all day long if they’re there. Not many found today though, only fourteen. Odd that. No nickels, only Ten dimes, but there were fourteen quarters dug up to make it a nice round number for the finds bag. Coins where almost exclusively all that went into the finds bag today, well... aside from some can slaw and pull tabs that got dumped into the nearest trash can on my way off the field. Oh there was one lone plastic bottle cap (brownie point) I picked up for my wife, and one little set of wheels dug up that will make a fine addition to the World Famous “Fro’s Used Car Lot” . It’ll need some cleaning first perhaps...Along with everything else found today.
It’s amazing what a little water can do to the appearance of die cast metal and plastic.
Yep, The paint job is a bit scratchy, but it’s a fine set of wheels. <smile> And the coins cleaned up halfway decent as well. At least... well enough to be rolled up to be sold to the bank anyway... <grin>.
Okay, it’s not the biggest pile of clad I’ve dug up while metal detecting, but for two hours and with the addition to the big coins and the new car... I’m happy with it. It more than covers my gas to and from the hunt and I got a couple of big coins to add to my collection. A VERY good day indeed. Too bad I have to work all weekend, the weather is supposed to be wonderful here in my neck of the woods. *sigh* Oh well, I’ll have a week off over Thanksgiving to possibly get out and play a little...hopefully. Hopefully all the rest of you will find some time to get out and indulge a bit as well. As always... Good luck... and...
~HAPPY HUNTING~
Frodov
P.S. So happy that this site is back up and operating again.
Amazon Forum Fav đź‘Ť
Upvote
0
awsome read as always Rob 
? 
