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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Krow, post: 3125532, member: 75450&quot;]Hi All!</p><p><br /></p><p>So glad I found this again, I just pulled out the coin collection having acquired a few new Mercs to add to it and remembered this post!</p><p><br /></p><p>3 Years later (More like 25 now in all), I am in still on the hunt for P.H. Link but I have a trip planned to visit the local historical Old Stone Fort close by to the Creek and inquire about the surname and see if I can make any matches in the Graveyard or in their historical book collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see a few posts I can address that I must have missed when first posting, regarding the find itself. My grandmother owned the property that backed up the left side of a good 3 acres distance of the creek, so I was walking the entire length with my Whites detector. I was in and out of the water with the coil and heard the clunk while rounding a creek rock. I lifted the stone up and slid it aside and the coin was just peeking out from below the sediment. It was silty and I wonder if the silt helped to keep the coin fresher perhaps? Like a cold pack storage for 160+ years?</p><p><br /></p><p>The find intrigues me more than anything I have ever uncovered. Just two years ago I found buried deep in the mud on a relatives private land along another creek side close to the Saratoga Battlefield, an American Revolution era horseshoe with nails in tact. As amazing as that find was for me, this coin is still my main objective after all this time. Finding this P.H. Link in a record somewhere and connecting him to the land locally is like a dream. </p><p><br /></p><p>If I uncover an iota of information upon my visit to the Old Stone Fort in a few weeks, I will surely share!</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you to Bruce and the other members for all of your help and support in the past and I look forward to eventually cracking this code!</p><p><br /></p><p>Warm regards,</p><p><br /></p><p>Erik &quot;Krow&quot; Van Dyke[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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