Unbelievable finds......

[Jayanthonyr]

Its been months since I've had anything worth posting. Since I found that cache of foreign coins in the beginning of the year I've been skunked since. Finally after about 45 hunts coming up empty, I finally struck it "rich". This hunt happened yesterday but I was able to clean them up this morning and place them in protectors. Soooo now for the story. As I said before I've hunted for months on in with no luck at all. Almost decided to put my detector away for the year that's how bad things have been. Anyway A week or so ago I saw here on the forum someone posted a website that lets you see historical maps and does overlays with a subscription. I signed up for a month and let me tell you, its the best 29.99 I've spent so far on MD'ing. With the help of the maps in my researched I found an old tavern site that runs thru now a park a couple towns over from me on long island. It was off the main road that led out to the Hamptons and Montauk. The site is a park now but one that is a little over grown and doesn't seem like the town takes good care of it. Anyway I started Friday afternoon after work and hunted about 3 1/2 hours. About an hour in I got a solid nickel signal on my CoinMaster GT about 4-5 inches and out popped this about 1893 V-Nickel. In the next hour I got 5 wheat pennies 1910 2 1918's 1923 and 1924. About 10 feet away from where the side of the tavern showed to be on the map I got a really strong signal going back and fourth between 94-98 at 8 inches deep. Now since I've been MD'ing normally those signals for me end up being a large iron or a sode can but the signal stayed positive and after finding the V-Nickel I decided to dig it AND BAMMMM out comes a beautiful 1883 MORGAN DOLLAR. My FIRST ONE EVER. At this point I'm freaking out. I had to tell someone so I called my girlfriend and of course she responded with "call me when you find a diamond ring" lol. Anyway I continued to hunt and about 20 mintues later going nice and slow and staying low another signal 7-8 inches deep. What do I find? An 1879 Morgan Dollar (<---Having a heartattack now)..Again beautiful condition. At this point I've run out of daylight so I call it a night. The next day at the crack of dawn im back there. This time I'm detecting the backside of the tavern site and the eastern side. After an hour of picking out some trash I get another magical signal and BOOM! Another 1883 Morgan. 3 feet away 1884 Morgan. About an hour later on the eastside of the tavern site an 1889 Morgan. I am in complete shock by now and unfortunately I had to attended a family function as I do today Or I would have camped at this site. Been very blessed with these finds and I can't wait to go back. Happy hunting everyone and Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there.

 

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[SusanMN]

Fantastic, once in a lifetime day. Has to be a whole bunch more there.

 

[jewelerguy]

fantastic morgans! I've been at this hobby for 38 years and still haven't found one. something about someone finding 4 just doesn't seem fair

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds Jayanthonyr.

 

[LEROY247]

Congrats on the Morgan's . Whats the name of the map web site?

 

[WilliamH]

That is amazing. Glad to know the GT will pick up silver. I've been at it since Nov. and only found wheat pennies and new stuff. Congrats on some amazing finds. Happy Fathers Day to you to.

 

[mr_larry]

5 Morgans in 2 days?!?!?! That is crazy!!
Now that you have cherry picked the big targets it is time to find the half dollars, quarters and dimes. There should be many more coins there. Great job!!

 

[Jayanthonyr]

Congrats on the Morgan's . Whats the name of the map web site?

Thank you. The site is historicmapworks.com

 

[CRUSADER]

[h=2]Unbelievable V Nickle![/h]

 

[Jayanthonyr]

That is amazing. Glad to know the GT will pick up silver. I've been at it since Nov. and only found wheat pennies and new stuff. Congrats on some amazing finds. Happy Fathers Day to you to.

This is actually the first silver I've found with the GT. I started with the basic coinmaster but upgraded after I foundation cache of foreign silver with it.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Absolutely GREAT finds! I nominated this for Banner.

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Congrats on what must have been an incredible experience. From the sound of things I wouldn't be surprised if more show up. Good luck!

 

[CoilyGirl]

Congrats on your wonderful coins!

 

[kuger]

I sure wish just one of my V nickles came out of the ground looking like that.All of mine are Orange!

 

[Erving]

Nice looking Morgans, and that V nickle is in unbelievable condition. I wish the soil was as kind to coins in the areas I detect. Congrats.

 

[testing123]

Wow. One Morgan is impressive let alone several. But I think the condition of that v nickel is just as impressive. That soil didnt affect it at all.

 

[Jayanthonyr]

Wow. One Morgan is impressive let alone several. But I think the condition of that v nickel is just as impressive. That soil didnt affect it at all.

I was just as surprised as you are considering the site is on the south shore of long island where the soil here is mostly sandy the further down you go.

 

[chkn]

Oh man, those are awesome! What is this website you referred to?

 

[cntrydncr1]

Incredible!! If I were you I would remove references to where your site is located or others will be madly digging up the place!! congrats

 

[Jayanthonyr]

Incredible!! If I were you I would remove references to where your site is located or others will be madly digging up the place!! congrats

Ur probably rite but the thing is, to access this site you need certain clearance that I was able to obtain due to my profession. Which is probably why these coins were still in the ground. I believe my site will be safe.