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What was your first find?...

LambeauLambeau Posts: 481
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...and where did you find it?

Lets hear it! I'm about to recieve my first detector and I couldn't be more excited! I want to hear about your experiences!
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not my first find, (I believe that was a rusty nail) but the first coin I found with a modern detector was rather interesting. I found it even before I dug my first modern Memorial cent.

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    This excludes the finds made in the 1970s and early 1980s when I was a kid, using an old TR unit- unfortunately I did not keep records then. My recordkeeping began in 1992. One of the very first finds I can remember, made with a $15 "toy" detector in the late 70s, was a 1946 dog rabies vaccination tag.

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  • HKnJHKnJ Posts: 415
    I believe it was a clad quarter found in a park in Milwaukee, WI. (35th and Burnham, I forgot the name of that park already).
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  • LambeauLambeau Posts: 481
    THIS will be my first detector. I just bought it and it should come in a few days. Do you think I could find anything cool with it? If so, how deep do you think this thing can detect?
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  • ZotZot Posts: 825 ✭✭✭
    A coin from 1991, found on a beach.
    My very first signal was a ghost signal at 8 inches. I dug in the spot for ages, never found anything. Eventually the signal disappeared too image

    On my first outing on that beach, I got three modern coins in about three hours. I thought I was doing a really lousy job (but was still very excited).
    While this was true, I later found out that this beach was one of the worst beaches I could possibly have started with - lots of trash but very few coins. image
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  • millenniummillennium Posts: 3,305
    My first was a plain ol' Lincoln Memorial cent....just under the surface ....not much, it showed me the thing worked..
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  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,868 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My very first find was a 1965 clad quarter in fall of 1995 at a neighbors house. I had origionally borrowed this detector to see if I could find the other half of a hemitite axe when I was looking for arrowheads. After I found the quarter I was hooked and got my own detector.
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  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭


    << <i> I had origionally borrowed his detector to see if I could find the other half of a hemitite axe when I was looking for arrowheads.. >>



    Oh man! You don't see too many hematite axes whole or broken!
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  • demodiggerdemodigger Posts: 1,012 ✭
    back in 1986 me and my dad walked across the street from our house, to a modern school. we had a cheap Whites detector called the Liberty 2. our very FIRST target ever dug was an 1895 indian cent. i was hooked and have'nt stopped diggin since then.
    that indian can be seen at this link :
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