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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3277173, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">Ta-dahh!&nbsp; The coin was a <b>1926-S Oregon Trail half dollar</b>.&nbsp; As it happens, it remains to this day the only Oregon Trail I&#039;ve owned.&nbsp; I was utterly astonished and gave a huge shout when I saw what it was.&nbsp; Blue Cole came running from the other part of the field.&nbsp; While it&#039;s not a <i>supremely</i> valuable coin, it&#039;s pretty remarkable as a metal detector find. This is one thing I love about the detecting hobby.&nbsp; If you&#039;re patient enough, and do it long enough, pleasant surprises like this happen.&nbsp; You really never know what will turn up.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">This is only the second commemorative half I&#039;d ever heard of anyone finding with a metal detector.&nbsp; I once heard a secondhand account of someone else digging a well-worn Huguenot half dollar somewhere around Jacksonville, Florida, if memory serves.&nbsp; </span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">I&#039;m sure they turn up once in a while, but if you&#039;d told me I was going to dig an Oregon Trail half, I might not have believed you.&nbsp; Maybe a Stone Mountain half, given the North Georgia locality.&nbsp; I believe we had visited Stone Mountain on that same trip.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="3"><span style="color: #0000ff">(I must again apologize for my images.&nbsp; I had shot some new pictures of this but couldn&#039;t find them, so here&#039;s a darkish old picture of the find.)</span></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Diggers%20Diary/DD-263-1926S-50c-Oregon-Trail.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">Thus endeth this tale, which didn&#039;t fare so well due to life&#039;s interruptions causing my overly drawn-out telling of it.&nbsp; Sorry for the poor timing.&nbsp; I&#039;ll try to do better with the next one.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">~ <b>The End </b>~</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #0000ff">~RWS/&quot;LM&quot;</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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