New to Detecting with a GREAT first day.
BullRun
Posts: 37
About a week or so ago, I decided to plunge in and take up the great sport of metal detecting. So I did a little bit of research and decided that for a first timer, the Garrett Ace 250 would be a good choice. UPS delivered it on Thursday and I took it out on Friday, after reviewing the DVD and reading the instruction book, for two & 1/2 hours at a small local (@ 4 acres in the middle of the city) park/playground hoping to find some loose change around the merry-go-round, swings, monkey bars, etc. I know this park has been swept in the past, because I have seen people there detecting within the past few years.
Well, I am hooked, thats for sure. Not only is the Ace 250 easy to use, with good features ( the pinpoint button is wonderful), but I found SILVER. About two hours into it, after finding 8 pennys and 2 nickels, I found a 1924-S Mercury dime (appears to be in Fine condition) by a stump in the back corner of the park, under about 2.5 inches of soil. I could not believe that silver would even be possible. It just goes to show that you never know what you will find and that things get missed after all of these years.
I know some of you might be thinking that this was a plant to be found at one time in the past, but I am pretty sure this was not a plant, since there are no detecting groups in the area and the park has been around since at least 1925 when all of the trees there were planted.
If every one has a first day like this, it would keep this hobby growing. Not really a huge find, but enough of one to keep this newby excited and hopeful for a long time.
Well, I am hooked, thats for sure. Not only is the Ace 250 easy to use, with good features ( the pinpoint button is wonderful), but I found SILVER. About two hours into it, after finding 8 pennys and 2 nickels, I found a 1924-S Mercury dime (appears to be in Fine condition) by a stump in the back corner of the park, under about 2.5 inches of soil. I could not believe that silver would even be possible. It just goes to show that you never know what you will find and that things get missed after all of these years.
I know some of you might be thinking that this was a plant to be found at one time in the past, but I am pretty sure this was not a plant, since there are no detecting groups in the area and the park has been around since at least 1925 when all of the trees there were planted.
If every one has a first day like this, it would keep this hobby growing. Not really a huge find, but enough of one to keep this newby excited and hopeful for a long time.
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I figured it would take at least a year before I would see any silver in coin form. I thought I would find a cheap silver necklace/ring, before a silver coin.
Jerry
<< <i>but enough of one to keep this newby excited and hopeful for a long time. >>
That's enough to keep not so newbies going also.
Nice first day!!
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Invested $216.76
Return on Investment $0.68
Found but keeping $.15
Keep it up!
BTW-
With an obsolete-design piece of silver... a Merc? And a pre-1934 Merc, to boot?
GREAT, indeed!
Something tells me we'll be hearing more good news from you in the near future!
Say, I like that proof George III avatar. Looks like one of the pieces owned by Spinaker2000 or rhound1977 over on the World Coin forum (aka "The Darkside").
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that was one of Terry's (Spinaker's) coins. Unless it's yours?
Check out my old PR64 CAM Irish gilt proof penny, the biggest monster coin I have ever owned:
I have hung out in the darkside forums for years, but only recently started to post.
The icon I am using is not mine. I am not sure who it belongs to. I just have a thing for older European coins with an emphesis on G.B. and France.
BTW, I have gotten the detector out only three times since my first time with more time devoted to it this weekend if the rain stays away. Nothing spectacular found like my first day out with the 1924 Merc. So far, I am up to $2.83 in clad coins (one of them was a 1940 nickel), a spike off a dog collar, 2- 30-06 shells, a .22 shell (in a neighborhood playground