Posting of in situ pictures

[pepperj]

I went last weekend, and found a worn '39 quarter. The ground was hard and I was "pitching" the dirt out of the hole... no plugs here, the ground is like concrete! Hammer the digger in, pull back, and shear off a hunk of red dirt.

This pic was altered in no way. The quarter was shiny, like new and just sitting in the ejected dirt. More than half of the silver coins I dug come out looking like new.

I know what you gentlemen are getting at about fraud, people are a strange lot, you just never know what the other person is thinking. I have met a ton of great people on TNet, and a couple of heart breaking frauds. It is such a let down to find out your hero is a zero!

PS: Thanks for the thought provoking post PJ.

It's not the fraud photos that I really am trying to expose Tom it's the real ones that folks try to stage for the better photo. The best photo is when the find is first exposed, even an edge or like the one you just posted up, laying there still in the soils waiting to be exposed after all the years of being buried. I really love the photo of the dirt imprints the find has made, its one of those reliving the moments when I look at my own photo collection. I guess as I age, the memories start to wane.
Here is one of my fav. pics. of a hanging pendent, the imprint shows the two owls still.

 

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[CASPER-2]

I don't carry camera with me as much as I should - this hunt I did

 

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just plucked from under the root of 300+ old tree

 

[CASPER-2]

here is one I fanned up
https://www.flickr.com/photos/casper-2/6326098383/in/dateposted/
editor changed what I wrote for pic - he knew nothing about water hunting
it could have been scooped up - it sounded good - It was in waist deep water - water was clear - target was loud
and I thought it would be an easy fan - it was - lucky I had underwater camera with me

 

[CASPER-2]

another water pic (river hunt)- fanned target and saw 2 quarters wedged in rocks - called to friend on shore to grab camera for me
one is silver other clad - thought was cool

 

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couple of other water ones - these 2 rings found on ocean floor at resort Tiger woods got married at in Barbados