zrickkid
10-14-2014, 04:11 PM
Part 1........
So Diggers Don, Al and and I were going over a place I had hunted before with a friend of ours Etrac Tim and we are finding the usual stuff when a gentleman I recognize comes up to us and strikes up a conversation. He was driving and saw us detecting and stopped by with a curious piece of information. As it turns out he saw Tim and I and said that the last time we detected his house one of us left our detector there and it was sitting at his house on the front porch waiting for its owner to reclaim it. THAT OWNER WAS ME!!!!!!!!! :omg:A few months ago I filled out a police report stating that my V3i had been stolen from my car along with my baseball equipment from my car in the driveway of our home. Well the baseball equipment was stolen but the detector was not! We were just yacking away about detecting and our finds and I walked away without putting it in the car! I later went to ask permission at another house and was told a polite no so I went home and the detector went missing......
Part 2.
Fast forward a few months.....So I go to the guys house and get the detector and it still turns on. Great! the batteries are running low so I go and buy some. The guy who found the detector was a great guy and said we could detect his 1873 home any time we want even if he is not home. So I figure what the heck and I go over there with Don and Al, Tim joins us later. We are there for about 30 minutes and no luck in the front so I decide to go into the back yard. My first coin signal of this hunt is an +81-83 at about 4 inches. So I figure clad dime or quarter....so after digging the plug at about 5 inches out comes this dirty little disk. I run out to the front to show Don and I tell him I think I found a 2 center!! the coin is sooooo dirty and worn and is a bit thin but after a very cursory clean up it turns out I was wrong it was not a two-center after all :shocked04: the we realize what it is...
its a draped bust HALF-CENT :shocked05: I believe it is dated 1804. Cant tell what variety but its definitely 1804. So im just floating on air since then. Not only did I get my baby back but a bucket list coin that I probably wouldnt have even put on that list in the first place based on where we live in Illinois and the rarity of one being found. I posting a couple of contrasting pics that I hope shows the details enough to share with you folks here on the forum. Man what a day.
So Diggers Don, Al and and I were going over a place I had hunted before with a friend of ours Etrac Tim and we are finding the usual stuff when a gentleman I recognize comes up to us and strikes up a conversation. He was driving and saw us detecting and stopped by with a curious piece of information. As it turns out he saw Tim and I and said that the last time we detected his house one of us left our detector there and it was sitting at his house on the front porch waiting for its owner to reclaim it. THAT OWNER WAS ME!!!!!!!!! :omg:A few months ago I filled out a police report stating that my V3i had been stolen from my car along with my baseball equipment from my car in the driveway of our home. Well the baseball equipment was stolen but the detector was not! We were just yacking away about detecting and our finds and I walked away without putting it in the car! I later went to ask permission at another house and was told a polite no so I went home and the detector went missing......
Part 2.
Fast forward a few months.....So I go to the guys house and get the detector and it still turns on. Great! the batteries are running low so I go and buy some. The guy who found the detector was a great guy and said we could detect his 1873 home any time we want even if he is not home. So I figure what the heck and I go over there with Don and Al, Tim joins us later. We are there for about 30 minutes and no luck in the front so I decide to go into the back yard. My first coin signal of this hunt is an +81-83 at about 4 inches. So I figure clad dime or quarter....so after digging the plug at about 5 inches out comes this dirty little disk. I run out to the front to show Don and I tell him I think I found a 2 center!! the coin is sooooo dirty and worn and is a bit thin but after a very cursory clean up it turns out I was wrong it was not a two-center after all :shocked04: the we realize what it is...
its a draped bust HALF-CENT :shocked05: I believe it is dated 1804. Cant tell what variety but its definitely 1804. So im just floating on air since then. Not only did I get my baby back but a bucket list coin that I probably wouldnt have even put on that list in the first place based on where we live in Illinois and the rarity of one being found. I posting a couple of contrasting pics that I hope shows the details enough to share with you folks here on the forum. Man what a day.