2 firsts =)

[The_Griffyn]

As many of you know I'm new to detecting. I have only owned my machine for about 2 months. Well I haven't gotten out much in the past month and had to take my son to an appointment at his school today. last week I spotted a park I had never seen along the way about 2 minutes from his appointment location. I figured I'd get about 20 minutes in the park before I had to return so I brought my machine along. Sure glad I did. I managed to score 2 quarters in a single hole, 3 dimes, my first ring (silver 925), and my first foreign coin, a mexican one.

Man does it feel good to have found my first ring finally. I was beginning to think I they were mythical finds.


-TG-

 

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[Golden1]

Super digs
Grats to you

G1

 

[Kanyontreasures]

great first! i have not even found my first silver and i have bean mtd for about 7 months!

 

[cntrydncr1]

congrats on the first ring!!

 

[kenley]

If you look at the Mexican coin,you can see that is is actually two coins. The outer is an older aluminum coin and the center is a newer bronze/copper one. When the Peso was devalued 10% about 15-20 yrs. ago, all coins less than a peso became worthless. The bills were 10% of their posted denomination. A 100 peso bill became a 10, a 10,000 became a 100 etc. (yes they had 10,000)I saw a room at the Lincoln-Juarez bridge stacked 5 feet deep with sacks of bronze 20 peso coins. an aquaintance of mine bought 500 kilos of the viente pesos and I helped him load them into his 3/4 ton pick-up. He took them to a fabricator, I think in Greenville, Tx. that stamped out some kind of metal disk for the munitions industry. They punched 1/4",3/8" and maybe 1/2" inch holes in the coins and accepted payment by keeping the punched out plugs. He then took the coins to Houston and sold them as "ship's washers" for around .22 cents a pop. It worked out well and he went back for more, but they had all been taken back to the mint to be melted into new coins. The coin you have is an older aluminum with a hole punched out and the new coin pressed in. I always wondered how they aligned them. Later newley recycled outer rings were used. Can anyone say "obamanos"

 

[september]

Nice finds!

 

[MaineRelic]

Exciting times !! You will have alot of firsts and they are always fun to find ! I am in my third year of M-ding. if you want the old stuff .I will repeat the Mantra I learned from the excellent bunch of really good metal detectorists on this site !! Research ! Research ! Research ! and then finally search. MaineRelic,

 

[FooserPaul]

Nice finds! I bet it feels good to get that 1st ring outta the way... now the river can start to flow :-)

 

[liftloop]

Nice, a ring and that elusive Buffalo nickel still awaits me.

 

[allen]

good going on that sweet silver and all the clad !

 

[JimDon]

I hit my first ring two months after buying my detector. I get out about once or twice a month for a couple of hours and now 13 months later I have 6 rings....2 gold, 2 Silver and 2 costume. Once you get the first they keep on coming (only if you dig the trash) . 600+ coins later and I have yet to break the 1900 mark or a foreign coin so you are getting those first out of the way quickly. WTG.

 

[The_Griffyn]

Thanks everyone. It was really cool to see that ring in my hand when I pulled the plug. The peso was just an added bonus. I'm considering writing an article about the adventures of being a new hobbyist and have kept every single thing I've found so far. My oldest coin so far is a 1925 wheat. I've also been lucky and bagged a couple dollar coins (the newer types). Sure is an exciting hobby.


-TG

 

[Detectingfreak]

nice job on the silver ring! It is defiantly exciting every time you find a ring!

 

[Mr Tuff]

congrats on the 1st ring!!!!! i seem to get a few of them every year MR TUFF