Re:..Find Of A Lifetime!!!!!! 1792 Half Disme! Marc in VA, makes ABC News
Forget Indiana Jones: Meet Real Treasure Hunters
By SARAH NETTER
May 1, 2008
Marc Sciance was out in a construction field under a sun-filled sky for four hours when he found part of his son's college fund in the muddy earth.
The father of two got a few hits on his metal detector that day just outside Fredericksburg, Va., and unearthed some Civil War relics — interesting to a newcomer, maybe, but nothing he hadn't seen before.
Then he got a signal that was "very deep."
"I dug it and it turned out to be the first coin ever minted by the United States," Sciance, 44, said.
The coin Sciance unearthed in October 2006 turned out to be a 1792 silver half-disme, worth 5 cents when it was minted as part of the United States' inaugural launch of national coinage. He later sold it at auction through Stack's Rare Coins in New York City for $11,500 — enough to pay for a full year's tuition at Christopher Newport University, where his son is a sophomore.
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/Business/Springtime/story?id=4739935&page=1
Hang on to that baby. Looks like someone has no need to invest in retirement. He worked his way there in one shovel of dirt!!! 
There aren't any words. Just congrats!!!
. HH,
