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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2583070, member: 10461"]Since these are detecting finds made in North Carolina and Georgia, for the most part, they're just going to be Mercury dimes and silver Roosies and War nickels and stuff like that. Despite one 2013 trip to England (which will be the very tail end of the albums- I think there are less than 400 finds total), I have not been a globetrotting treasure hunter who finds amazing stuff regularly. There <i>have</i> been a few very special finds, however (one or two nationally or internationally published). But even those are not terribly valuable in the monetary sense- only the historical sense.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Let's try a practice round</b> with the very first coin: <b>DD-001</b> (my "DD" numbers stand for "Digger's Diary").</p><p><br /></p><p>It was found in my front yard in Swannanoa, North Carolina (affectionately called "Swanna<i>nowhere</i>" by some locals).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my memory of the place. It had a tiny front yard, and was on a 1/10-acre lot. There was an old garage outbuilding in the back. I found a 1940 NC license plate and some other interesting old clutter in there. The house had been built in 1930, as worker housing for employees of the Beacon textile mill down the hill. To this day, the neighborhood is still called "Beacon Village", though Beacon is gone now.</p><p><br /></p><p>During WW2 when the Beacon workers went off to fight the Germans and Japanese, they brought in Mexican laborers to work in the mill. The houses were originally duplexes but ours had been converted into a single-family home. It must have at one time housed at least two families. My first wife and I bought the place for around $50K as a starter home in 1992. Seeing the current real estate values online just now surprised me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a 2012 Google street view of the place. The landscaping has changed. There were no rock paths in 1992. In my day, it was much more open. The trees have grown. Marked is the approximate findspot of the first coin I dug with my new detector.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Diggers%20Diary/DD-001-findspot.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My recordkeeping began in 1992 with that coin, after I bought my first modern VLF detector, a Garrett GTA-500. (I'd had detectors as a kid in the 1970s and '80s and even found one or two pieces of silver, but nothing except the memory of those finds remain.) Initially I kept every Wheat cent, even- anything the slightest bit old or interesting- but after several dozen of those piled up (now about a quart jar's worth), Wheaties don't make the "cut" for inclusion in the Digger's Diary "keepers" album- they go in the jar. Unless of course I find a key date one of these days. Best I've found for Wheaties datewise was a 1911-D, I think. I do put the best of each Wheat cent date I've dug into a Whitman folder. But only silver or other more interesting obsolete types usually make it into the DD album. Modern foreign coins go in the Wheatie jar, while older ones do make the DD album. I roll up and spend the modern change found.</p><p><br /></p><p>So... for a practice round...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>What is DD-001</b>, my first detector find to go into the "keeper coins" album?</p><p><br /></p><p>Hint #1: surprisingly, it was NOT a US coin!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Using the clues above, what country is it from? (10 points)</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>What year was it struck? (10 points)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Hint #2: once the country is determined, the date on the coin should be easier to guess, within a four-year span, again with the clues provided above.</p><p><br /></p><p>See how this might play out?</p><p><br /></p><p>Go ahead. Give it a try, and I'll post the answer after I photograph it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Heck, I'll even let our practice round winners keep their points if we start the game for real.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2583070, member: 10461"]Since these are detecting finds made in North Carolina and Georgia, for the most part, they're just going to be Mercury dimes and silver Roosies and War nickels and stuff like that. Despite one 2013 trip to England (which will be the very tail end of the albums- I think there are less than 400 finds total), I have not been a globetrotting treasure hunter who finds amazing stuff regularly. There [I]have[/I] been a few very special finds, however (one or two nationally or internationally published). But even those are not terribly valuable in the monetary sense- only the historical sense. [B]Let's try a practice round[/B] with the very first coin: [B]DD-001[/B] (my "DD" numbers stand for "Digger's Diary"). It was found in my front yard in Swannanoa, North Carolina (affectionately called "Swanna[I]nowhere[/I]" by some locals). Here is my memory of the place. It had a tiny front yard, and was on a 1/10-acre lot. There was an old garage outbuilding in the back. I found a 1940 NC license plate and some other interesting old clutter in there. The house had been built in 1930, as worker housing for employees of the Beacon textile mill down the hill. To this day, the neighborhood is still called "Beacon Village", though Beacon is gone now. During WW2 when the Beacon workers went off to fight the Germans and Japanese, they brought in Mexican laborers to work in the mill. The houses were originally duplexes but ours had been converted into a single-family home. It must have at one time housed at least two families. My first wife and I bought the place for around $50K as a starter home in 1992. Seeing the current real estate values online just now surprised me. Here is a 2012 Google street view of the place. The landscaping has changed. There were no rock paths in 1992. In my day, it was much more open. The trees have grown. Marked is the approximate findspot of the first coin I dug with my new detector. [IMG]http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Diggers%20Diary/DD-001-findspot.png[/IMG] My recordkeeping began in 1992 with that coin, after I bought my first modern VLF detector, a Garrett GTA-500. (I'd had detectors as a kid in the 1970s and '80s and even found one or two pieces of silver, but nothing except the memory of those finds remain.) Initially I kept every Wheat cent, even- anything the slightest bit old or interesting- but after several dozen of those piled up (now about a quart jar's worth), Wheaties don't make the "cut" for inclusion in the Digger's Diary "keepers" album- they go in the jar. Unless of course I find a key date one of these days. Best I've found for Wheaties datewise was a 1911-D, I think. I do put the best of each Wheat cent date I've dug into a Whitman folder. But only silver or other more interesting obsolete types usually make it into the DD album. Modern foreign coins go in the Wheatie jar, while older ones do make the DD album. I roll up and spend the modern change found. So... for a practice round... [B]What is DD-001[/B], my first detector find to go into the "keeper coins" album? Hint #1: surprisingly, it was NOT a US coin! [B]Using the clues above, what country is it from? (10 points) What year was it struck? (10 points)[/B] Hint #2: once the country is determined, the date on the coin should be easier to guess, within a four-year span, again with the clues provided above. See how this might play out? Go ahead. Give it a try, and I'll post the answer after I photograph it. Heck, I'll even let our practice round winners keep their points if we start the game for real.[/QUOTE]
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