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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3133060, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff">Blue Cole was active on the PCGS/Collectors Universe coin forums in the early 2000s.&nbsp; There is a Metal Detecting Forum there, and he and I must have discussed detecting and coinshooting* at some point, though I do not recall the specific conversations.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><span style="color: #4d4dff">(* <i>Coinshooting </i>is the subdiscipline of metal detecting that involves hunting specifically for <i>coins</i>, as opposed to relic hunting or beachcombing or other types of detecting.)</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff">In October of 2002, my wife and daughter and I went to visit my wife&#039;s best friend, who lived north of Atlanta.&nbsp; While we were there, the girls went out on a hardcore shopping spree and craft store-plundering expedition.&nbsp; </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff">Now, I don&#039;t mind a craft store occasionally, but after about fifteen minutes in one, I&#039;ve reached the limit of my endurance and attention span. And to spend the day in <i>several</i> of them, in the presence of two craft-crazy ladies who&#039;d been friends since kindergarten ... well, it&#039;s obvious I&#039;d have been the odd man out, and bored out of my skull before lunchtime.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff">So rather than spend the entire day mall-hopping with three females, I opted to stay behind.&nbsp; </span></font></font><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 255)">Since the girls had taken my wife&#039;s friend&#039;s car, I had ours at my disposal.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff">At some point before the Atlanta visit, Blue Cole must have invited me to come down to Sharpsburg to meet him.&nbsp; With the whole day free and my wife and our hostess fully occupied, it seemed the ideal opportunity to take Blue up on his offer and head on down there for a day trip, hopefully to do a little detecting.&nbsp; (I had of course brought my detector and dig tools along.)</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff">And so I set out from the north side of Atlanta and headed towards Sharpsburg, in a roughly southwesterly direction.&nbsp; The drive down took me about an hour.&nbsp; </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #4d4dff">I was more impulsive then, and thought nothing of driving an hour one way, just to visit a complete stranger* in the off chance that I might get invited to some virgin coinshooting sites.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 255)"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 255)">(* OK, maybe not a <i>complete</i> stranger, since Blue Cole and I had spoken a few times online.)</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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