I haven't been able to get my detector out all weekend until today. I went to my mom's house to drop off a couple of books and to see if she needed anything. Well while we were visiting I decided that I would get my detector out of the truck and walk down by the old barn as I had never done any detecting there before. It was late and I just could not resist doing a little detecting this weekend even if there were only about 15 min. of daylight left. So off to the barn I go expecting to find a couple pieces of old junk like nails, tabs, or scrap iron. I started swinging my detector and it starts beeping like it located a penny. So ok I dig and find a piece of copper wire. Ok, kind of what I expected. I walk around to the back of the barn and start sweeping again this time the detector beeps sometimes like it found a penny and sometimes like it is just a piece of junk. So ok I dig again and find the front part of an old soldering iron like you would heat up in a fire or forge. I walk around to the side of the barn and look at the sky. Rain is coming in and it is getting dark. I lower my detector coil and reach for the shut off and all of a sudden it beeps like it found a quarter. I have never found and old quarter so I am going to dig even if it is almost dark. So I start digging and at about 3 or 4 inches out pops an oval shape. I pick it up and brush away some mud, its shiny, so I stick it in my pocket and take it to the house. I put my detector in the truck and go inside and walk over to the kitchen sink. I take the oval shape out of my pocket and start to wash away the mud then I see that it is some sort of religious medal. I get all the mud off and discover a Catholic Miraculous Medal. I found one earlier in the week and it was very thin like a tab and I thought it was a tab at first but this one is thick and very nice detail. I turn it over and it has some words on it close to the bottom that I can't read so I get out a magnifying glass and see that it says sterling. So it may not have been a silver quarter but it was still silver. Here are the pictures.
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Cruising through the messages and saw your picture of the medal. It struck a chord and after looking through my stash for the year I located the exact same medal which I found in May buried about 4" behind home plate at an old baseball field.
