Jayanthonyr
Jr. Member
- Mar 12, 2013
- 41
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- Detector(s) used
- Whites Coin master
whites bullseye II
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
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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Nothing like finding that first silver dollar, but finding more is even more rewarding.
Silver coins generally are quite bright and shiny as dug from normal soil conditions, or very black if buried in wet locations. Our American nickle $.05 coins of copper/nickle alloy, generally come out of the ground reddish-brown, to dark brown and even sometimes nearly black. Many years ago I used to crawl under Turn-of-the-Century wooden frame buildings in resort areas, where the board floors had knots and cracks. Countless early copper, silver, and nickle coins were found in the dusty dry soil. The "V" and Buffalo nickles would look as though they came from a coin collection, and nearly as shiny as the day they were lost. Wheat pennies and Indian Head pennies that were also found under these structures, were nearly "non-dug" in appearance, with a dull coppery look. Silver coinage on the other hand, would be very dark gray, and covered with spots of crustiness, looking more like our modern clad coinage of recent years, than earlier real silver. 
