my first and last finds...Silver!!!

lairmo

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Jan 1, 2009
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When i was a little kid i got out of church one day to see a man swinging this big, clunky, noisy thing on the brick sidewalk...he let me help dig one of his "targets"....IT WAS A QUARTER!!!!...I never dreamed that you could find money with a machine(at least not one coin at a time anyway)That is when i got the FEVER!!!!...so when i turned 13(a few years of hounding my parents later) i received a whites coinmaster(BIG< BLUE<NO IDEA HOW TO USE IT!!!!) i gave up after digging up every aluminum satellite firework i had shot off from 1974 to 1980!!!...i put it in the closet...My mom and dad built a new house in the meantime and my brother and me played Hot Wheels in the piles of black dirt that was hauled in for fill....I decided one day that i was going to find all the Hot wheels that i had lost when i was younger...detector...dirt pile...what?...Silver coin?...MOM!!!!!!!!!!....I later got accused of sticking the 1898 O barber dime in the dirt and "finding" it.....Then my dad told me the dirt had come from south of town and "some ole farmer" had probably dropped it plowing his fields.....That's when i got the FEVER for the second time!!!!!.....I still have the dime... DSC00369.JPG DSC00370.JPG
And now i have my own home....1980's-90's ranch home on an old place...13 acres, 18th-20th century cemetary,(according to the markers i have found so far)...DON'T WORRY....I only dig six inches not six feet..LOL...Anyways...i see that i am rambling so i will cut this short...I have lived here 6 1/2 years...hunted my yard at least 3 to 4 times a year... and Sunday , I DUG MY FIRST SILVER DOLLAR!!!!!!! DSC00383.JPG DSC00384.JPG and this other stuff....DSC00373.JPGand what is this?..DSC00379.JPG Happy Hunting To ALL!!!!!!!!!
 

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jsu said:
Nice finds. I really like that peace dollar. Where are you at in sw missouri. I used to live in Neosho. Here is a link on the use of v in the word trvst. Scroll 3/4 of the way down. http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/coins/portraits.shtml#q8

Thanks jsu (and everyone)...I'm 8 miles to the east of Neosho...it's been between -5 and 15 degrees last few days...supposed to shoot up to 49 today so I'm off to swing!!!!......
 

Great Story & Nice Finds
 

You must be in the oldest mining town in the southwest, or near it. I have found alot of cool stuff around Neosho. You should check out the hill behind morse park. If you go to the tennis courts there is a early 1900`s house foundation on top of the hill over looking the creek. There is alot of iron trash, but I have found a few barbers and IH's there. Anyway good luck and HH. Jeff
 

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