pescadore
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Got off work yesterday and when I got home my wife was with our grandaughter at the University close to our house. I met her there and we walked around campus for a while. She asked me if I was going Metal Detecting today and I said that i thought I would go for a little while. I loaded up the MXT and went to a local football field that I have hunted numerous times and even taken a friend there a couple of times for clad hunts. This particular field only dates back to the 1970's and I have probably pulled $20 worth of clad out of the place. I have never found an old coin there. I noticed I was getting a low battery alert on the MXT and knew that I was going to have to go back to the car or go home. It was a long walk back to the car so I decided to just hunt till the battery died. I dug several clad coins and then got a quarter signal and when I pinpointed it showed to be 4 inches deep. I thought to myself "yes, better than 25 pennies." When I turned the plug over I saw the coin and it looked like a electrical punchout at first. I thought " oh, great" and reached down to turn it over. When I flipped it over I had to sit down because I had just found my very first Seated quarter. The face of the quarter was in fairly good shape and I could read Liberty on the shield. I took a photo and text it to some friends I hunt with occasionally. Once I could feel my legs again, I got up and dug a couple more coins but was so excited, I had to go home. My City was not established until the 1870's. Why this coin was in the location it was I will never understand but I sure was glad that my coil passed over it !!
