A tale of two sites. — GaryD
Don and Eddie invited me to hunt the Elyton (?) projects with them yesterday afternoon. I was eager to try some new settings for trashy sites and was sure that more than a few silver coins would be coming home with me but alas, it was not to be. I did manage 8 wheats and Eddie found a few wheats and a cool medallion of some kind.
After deciding to call it quits I headed for Debardeleben to search for real treasure (old coins). About an hour after getting there I got a good high tone hit mixed with iron but this was different than other mixes as it seemed to confuse the Explorer. The pinpoint sounded good for the depth so I dug a plug and found nothing. I scanned the hole again with the coil and got the same mix of tones but the pinpoint had moved about 3″ towards my feet. After enlarging the initial hole I saw a wheat lying on the bottom and said “Rats! Another wheat!”, (I had dug two others just prior) but before covering the hole I scanned it with the probe and got a silver high tone. I removed more dirt and found a 43′ merc and thought, “hmmm, could there be another!”. I probed the hole again and got another silver high tone. After removing a little more dirt I found a 42′ mercury. As I’m looking at the dime and thinking “wow, this has never happen before”, a guy comes up to me and asked if I was doing any good. With muted excitement I said yes and told him what happened. He asked if he could hold the coin and I handed it to him and then the *%$&^# runs off with it!…………………………………………………nah, but he did do the unspeakable, he rubbed it! Of course I said rather bluntly, ‘don’t do that!! then apologized. He really seemed interested in getting a detector and I told him about the club meetings and web site. So I had two firsts yesterday. First time I’ve found two silvers in one hole and the first and LASTtime I’ll let some plebeian hold my just found silver coin.
Gary
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