What find got you hooked?

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

I had been a lurker on Tnet for 4 months learning my new detector, hitting the mulch and tot lots, reading about all of the cool finds. Maybe going out once a week for an hour or 2. One day decided to hike a bit into the woods where I knew there was an old chimney. About 10 minutes at this site and out popped this coin, looking cleaner and brighter than the dozens of clad coins I had found up to that point. Holding that small piece of buried pristine history definitely was what got me hooked. My first silver coin.

Anyone else have a coin or find that set the hook really deep?

 

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[TheGreatNorth]

That's a nice one! Love the thread topic! My first week of detecting, I hit my neighbors driveway of a 1920's era home, and right by the steps I had a 95 solid screamer on my ATGold. Dug 5" and got a 1939 Walker half. I was beyond hooked! Took me another 2 months to find another silver coin! Hard to shake the bug after that first one!

 

[1637]

1898 v nic,25 years ago.
brad

 

[Phishfindr]

What find? I think of it as what beep?! So many, and every one a new possibility....but my 1929 Merc is in a tie with my 1941 quarter and the early 1800's button currently. Love them all. To be continued...

 

[against the wind]

I think I was born with the addiction to search for treasure. Picking up a metal detector only confirmed that addiction.

 

[OBN]

I hunted the drysand only for a year or so, then my buddy he was in the water..he would come over and show me his finds..so one day he showed me a beautiful diamond ring.. that was it, I got a water machine the next season and the rest is history..
Still have the video..

 

[dirtdigginfool]

Believe it or not...a POCKET find! Tossed my pocket change onto the dresser and heard something "different"... upon closer inspection, one coin stuck out like a banana in a grape patch.. a 1940's Mercury dime. I studied it all night, and one of my searches brought me here, to Tnet, where I discovered more dimes like this, and people were finding them in the ground!! Imagine that...Yep, hooked right there and soon I had a shiny AT Pro, and the rest is history. Great thread..Ddf

 

[Aureus]

I think I was born with the addiction to search for treasure. Picking up a metal detector only confirmed that addiction.

Amen to that! ''They tried to make me go to rehab but I said, No, no, no...'' lol
When I was a kid (about 6-7 years old), found a 120 year old large copper coin on the ground as the construction workers dug some grounds to lay pipes. Still have it somewhere.

 

[Kurios1]

I think I was born with the addiction to search for treasure. Picking up a metal detector only confirmed that addiction.

Same here. As soon as I was old enough to roam the small town I grew up in during the 60's I was always searching through abandoned houses, my granddad's farm with all it's outbuildings, creeks, fields, anywhere I could "explore". I collected stamps for a time as a kid. Taught me a bit about history collecting them. It's in my blood.

 

[Kurios1]

That sweet little gem would have hooked me too! Nice.

 

[jsandin]

I found what I think is a deformed bronze rivet at the south rim of the Grand Canyon, and posted it on TreasureNet before I ever had a metal detector. Browsing TreasureNet got me hooked, so I guess the answer is "deformed bronze rivet".

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...onze-object-found-south-rim-grand-canyon.html

 

[wildcarrot]

This 22k 11.2 g gold ring is what really got me hooked. Just started detecting in 2012 and posted the ring on Tnet when I was a new member.

I've found many nice things since but never another 22k. I found it on the berm @ high tide on a crowded beach. When I saw it in the scoop I didn't think it was real.

Couldn't read the marks so I asked a kid to look at the markings and tell me the number. "It says 916 what's that mean?"

Addicted ever since.

 

[paleomaxx]

One of the horses stepped on a nail in the field last summer and only barely made it through surgery. We were all worried there might be more out there so I dug a metal detector out of the closet where it had sat since a Christmas nearly 10 years before and started sweeping for more. I found a bunch of nails on the surface, but there was a weird spot in the field with pieces of shells and brick fragments. Now obviously that's a huge red flag now, but at the time it meant nothing to me.

There I dug out a brass flat button (just said "Extra Rich London" on the back) and with the clear and modern sounding writing figured it was off some horse tack and tucked it in my pocket with the nails. Less than a minute later out pops the eagle on the cannon (the one on the bottom). Now that one seemed interesting so I googled literally "eagle sitting on a cannon" and fortunately I came across this site. Turns out it's an 1820's federal artillery button and after that I never stopped detecting!

 

[Nitric]

What got me hooked? It was the fun of going with my Grandfather (RIP) , Dad, and Younger brother (RIP) it was something we all did together.

The first mercury dime was probably the rush that made me stick with it so long. And just the excitement of not knowing what is going to be in the ground next.

 

[nickatnight]

LA Railway Token

The find that led me to the most interesting research so far is this Los Angeles Railway trolley token. I wasn't really aware LA used to have a trolley car system, which ended in 1963. Found with my XP Deus in my backyard, 6-8" down near a utility pole. Sorry the pic I have on my phone isn't clear. Really love the mission bell cutout, and i love that it lead me to interesting research.

 

[Silver Saver]

I was hooked before I even started swinging! I'm guessing a lot of us were. Metal detecting is something I had wanted to do for about the last 3 years but just never got around to taking the leap until this season. I'd say the finding of TNET gave me a good push to get it rolling. Absolutely so glad I did!! Woot!

 

[4x4x4]

....Going through the old automobiles at my dad and grand dad's auto wrecking yards ..... MAN ! the stuff I'd find !
My first detector was the orange Radio Shack "growler"...... I used the heck out of that thing for 20 years and found buried sheet metal , covering vertical mine shafts . A kids detector , it collapsed easily into a pack . Think I'll look into another .

 

[bravobob]

For me it was just a clad quarter. When i got my first detector , a Bounty Hunter Prospector (still have it) , I put batteries it it , went in my yard, turned it on and in two minutes my first hit was a quarter. Lived here 27 years,don't remember loosing it.
I still crack a grin when i think about it.

 

[trapperart]

The thrill of the hunt and being lucky enough to live where I do, hooked me

 

[d2]

Mini' balls from a battle here in Arkansas is what got me hooked in 1966 at the age of 8. Taken by a teacher that knew there were troubles at home with my parents going through a divorce. I dug the first signal and there were 5 or more drops to the hole. I've been crazy about treasure hunting (they are all treasures) ever since and a fanatic about history since then also. Thank you Jack White for taking a kid metal detecting and setting me on the path I've been on for a long time now. The greatest teacher I ever had...d2