Mathurin
Jr. Member
Hi everyone, just a quick story to show you have to pay attention to details before jumping to conclusions !
I was hunting a nice site occupied since the end of the 17th century and the site had already produced some GEO II and III coppers, old shoe buckles, musket balls etc..
I was lurking around in the fields around the main site when I got a clear signal on my ATPro (ringing at 85) :
this is what I saw when I turned the dirt over :
was pretty excited at this point, but was rapidly turned down when seeing a perfectly flat metal disc on one side and with a scratch on the other side.
I tought at this point it was a modern metal disc from who knows what machinery-thing...
Put it in my pouch and continue to hunt.
The day after I organised my things and put some photos in my local md forum :
and this one with the metal disc :
luckily Iron Patch and some other more experienced members of the forum spot the metal disc and persuaded me to have a closer look on it !
after a cloer look, it does looked like a weird form for a scratch....
and BAM ! there was it, my first old silver coin and my oldest coin found !! A William III 1695-1701 Schilling !
So a big thank you for Iron Patch and the others who helped me make this hunt my best one to date.
I might never have id it without you !
I was hunting a nice site occupied since the end of the 17th century and the site had already produced some GEO II and III coppers, old shoe buckles, musket balls etc..
I was lurking around in the fields around the main site when I got a clear signal on my ATPro (ringing at 85) :
this is what I saw when I turned the dirt over :
was pretty excited at this point, but was rapidly turned down when seeing a perfectly flat metal disc on one side and with a scratch on the other side.
I tought at this point it was a modern metal disc from who knows what machinery-thing...
Put it in my pouch and continue to hunt.
The day after I organised my things and put some photos in my local md forum :
and this one with the metal disc :
luckily Iron Patch and some other more experienced members of the forum spot the metal disc and persuaded me to have a closer look on it !
after a cloer look, it does looked like a weird form for a scratch....
and BAM ! there was it, my first old silver coin and my oldest coin found !! A William III 1695-1701 Schilling !
So a big thank you for Iron Patch and the others who helped me make this hunt my best one to date.
I might never have id it without you !
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