Quarter with 1788 date on it! 😂

[Blackfoot58]

Yesterday I posted my Chuck E. Cheese token and mentioned I’ve found NO coins with my Simplex.
The ice has been broken! Today I found a 2000 P Massachusetts quarter (1788 date is on the reverse😄).
I know this doesn’t seem like much, but I’ve been out there swinging nearly every day since February when I bought my Nokta. What a relief. Several more reasonable signals in the same area. I was swarmed with sweat bees. Will go back later when they are dispersed.

 

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[TreaShore]

1788 quarter dollar. Call the press and rewrite the history books. You turned the world of numismatics on its head today.

 

[Blackfoot58]

1788 quarter dollar. Call the press and rewrite the history books. You turned the world of numismatics on its head today.

I felt bad doing that, BUT I thought it was an eye catcher. I hope folks get it as levity.👍🏼

 

[DownEast_Detecting]

Im really shocked that you have been swinging since February and haven't found a coin. And honestly when i read the chuckie cheese thing, i thought you were saying you havent found an old coin yet, i didnt realize you ment any coin including modern clad coinage. Either way congrats, now the ice has been broken they should start coming out of the ground in droves.

 

[ticndig]

it's not the machine , it's the location. I find VERY few coins in the woods of Central Va.
When I hunted school yards years ago coins were plentiful.

 

[Bucketfreak68]

Yesterday I posted my Chuck E. Cheese token and mentioned I’ve found NO coins with my Simplex.
The ice has been broken! Today I found a 2000 P Massachusetts quarter (1788 date is on the reverse😄).
I know this doesn’t seem like much, but I’ve been out there swinging nearly every day since February when I bought my Nokta. What a relief. Several more reasonable signals in the same area. I was swarmed with sweat bees. Will go back later when they are dispersed.

Damn the sweat bee's!!!
Damn them...
Got a holly bush in front of my house and they seem to be congregating all over it.

 

[Digger RJ]

Yesterday I posted my Chuck E. Cheese token and mentioned I’ve found NO coins with my Simplex.
The ice has been broken! Today I found a 2000 P Massachusetts quarter (1788 date is on the reverse😄).
I know this doesn’t seem like much, but I’ve been out there swinging nearly every day since February when I bought my Nokta. What a relief. Several more reasonable signals in the same area. I was swarmed with sweat bees. Will go back later when they are dispersed.

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Blackfoot58]

Im really shocked that you have been swinging since February and haven't found a coin. And honestly when i read the chuckie cheese thing, i thought you were saying you havent found an old coin yet, i didnt realize you ment any coin including modern clad coinage. Either way congrats, now the ice has been broken they should start coming out of the ground in droves.

I did find a 1977 nickel his year, but with my pinpointer. This is the very first with the Simplex.

 

[Blackfoot58]

it's not the machine , it's the location. I find VERY few coins in the woods of Central Va.
When I hunted school yards years ago coins were plentiful.

Yes, it can only find what is there.

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Yes, it can only find what is there.

I posted a very similar thought on another TN thread. Where you hunt is the key to success. Operator skills is important, and it certainly helps to have the proper equipment. But in the end, it comes down to location.

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo

 

[TreaShore]

I felt bad doing that, BUT I thought it was an eye catcher. I hope folks get it as levity.👍🏼

I feel like everyone on this site understood from the title. If it was a YouTube or other site thing you would be having a range reactions including click bait accusations and some "professors" trying to educate you (even though you state the fact it's an 2000). Always go for the fun option, don't feel bad. It's not like you are beating someone up.

 

[ArfieBoy]

Congratulations on your first coin with the new detector. Get out of the woods and back to the parks and playgrounds!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

I collect all the coins I dig - even the newer clad - put them in Harris Coin Folders.
Any duplicate dates I find I just tumble and take them to Coin Star machine and cash them in.
You can pick up the State & National Park Quarter Albums at any coin shop or on-line.
After digging countless hundreds of State Quarters it still took me 13 years to find all 50 states.
Kind of goofy, I know - but it's still fun.

 

[Old Bookaroo]

I collect all the coins I dig - even the newer clad - put them in Harris Coin Folders.
Any duplicate dates I find I just tumble and take them to Coin Star machine and cash them in.
You can pick up the State & National Park Quarter Albums at any coin shop or on-line.
After digging countless hundreds of State Quarters it still took me 13 years to find all 50 states.
Kind of goofy, I know - but it's still fun.

Back in The Day - mid-1950's - my older sister completely filled one of those blue Whitman albums with Wheaties she found in change, and from going through what our grandparents had put aside. Except for the 1955-S. She never found one of those in change. Or, as I recall (and this was many moons ago) the 1909-S VDB. I was a coin roll hunter as a grade school kid - my best find was an eagle cent. Granted it was in poor condition - but it was definitely an eagle. My dad had boxes of Indian heads and buffalo nickels he'd taken out of circulation. I remember going to the local bank and trading in paper dollars for silver cartwheels. The bank never had a wide selection, but they always had a few on hand.

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo

 

[pepperj]

Slab it, frame it as it's your first coin, congrats 👏

 

[scruggs]

Congrats and hope you find many more!

 

[oldmxrat]

Glad you broke the ice BF, maybe the next one will be silver!
The whole point of this hobby is; You just never know what the next hole will produce!

 

[Centsless Detecting]

Honestly you got me with the title... it is a quarter with a 1788 date so you're not lying technically. Now go get flowing hair half dollar!

 

[cajundetector]

Yesterday I posted my Chuck E. Cheese token and mentioned I’ve found NO coins with my Simplex.
The ice has been broken! Today I found a 2000 P Massachusetts quarter (1788 date is on the reverse😄).
I know this doesn’t seem like much, but I’ve been out there swinging nearly every day since February when I bought my Nokta. What a relief. Several more reasonable signals in the same area. I was swarmed with sweat bees. Will go back later when they are dispersed.

Congrats BF!! To me, that quarter is legal tender that if not for your effort and skill would be likely lost forever and never seen/used by anyone. That’s how I think about my coins. Really an amazing thing that we have the technology to just “pull this stuff out of ground.” Again, congrats.

 

[Slowtaknow]

How about finding those reale looking quarters 😂