Archive for February, 2010
- 1-Laurentyvanand Wife 2 shares $30
- 2-Silvereagle 2 shares $30
- 3-Coinpics 2 shares $30
- 4-Kryptonitecomics 1 Share $15
- 5-Savoyspecial 1 Share $15
- 6-Muygraneoso 1 Share $15
- 7-tjc2120 1 Share $15
- 8-Steve27 1 Share $15
- 9-rjsvt 1 Share $15
- 10-BigE 1 Share $15
- 11-Filthybroke 2 Shares $30
- 12-lotsoluck 1 Share $15
- 13-Madmarty 1 Share $15
- 14-Unclejoe 1 Share $15
- 15-Hyperion 2 Shares $30
- 16-Swampboy 2 Shares $30
- 17-Ilafoe and children 33 Shares $500
- 18-Elkevyo 1 Share $15
- 19-Silvereagles92 2 Shares $30
- 20-Realalone 3 Shares $45
- 21-Coinkid855 1 Share $15
- 22-Speety 1 Share $15
- 23-Pakasmom 1 Share $15
- 24-Blackhawk 1 Share $15
- 25-Spoon 2 Shares $30
- 26-Determined 2 Shares $30
- 27-Sbeverly 2 Shares $30
- 28-Hussulo 2 Shares $30
- 29-Zohar 1 Share $15
- 30-Stork 1 Share $15
- 31-Daltonista 2 Shares $30
- 32-Kranky 2 Shares $30
- 33-Lord Marcovan 10 Shares $150
- 34-Pendragon1998 1 Share $15
- 35-Duki 1 Share $15
- 36-Ozzyandy 1 Share $15
- 37-JimK & Wife 2 Shares $30
- 38-Newsman 1 Share $15
- 39-UncleJoe 1 Share $15
- 40-Jkustelski 2 Shares $30
- 41-keepdachange 10 Shares $150
- 42-worldcoinguy 1 Share $15
March 5-Day is dawning on the 8th day in our fund drive to send LordM across the pond. So far the forum members have been enormously generous (42 members and 109 shares pledged so far!), but we still have a long way to go. There’s always a surge early on in this type of thing and then a gradual slow down. We need to maintain that enthusiasm!
By the way, about half of the pledges have actually been sent in and subsequently deposited in a savings account at my local bank. If you have pledged, please remit as soon as is possible for you, simply to facilitate planning.
If you are so inclined we are also taking coin donations for sale on eBay. If you have something you’re no longer attached to, we’ll be happy to take it as a contribution and list it as a share.
I find it enormously gratifying that our most enthusiastic contributor is currently serving in harm’s way in Afghanistan.
DIGGER’S DIARY (1998): I CALL THIS ONE “THE” COIN
As of early 2010, when I dusted this story off and reposted it on the Internet, this remains my oldest coin found so far. That’s only part of the reason it’s my favorite coin find, however.
When I found it in the fall of 1998, Hurricane Earl was blowin’ across the Florida panhandle to hit us from the landward side. I was out at a site in the woods that had been cleared (bush-mowed but not root-raked), and the wind was blowin’ 40-50 MPH gusts, but there wasn’t much rain. I wasn’t getting many signals at all, and the few I did get were old iron nails. I was using a Fisher 1280-X underwater detector, which worked very well as a dry-land relic hunting machine. I was digging just about every signal.
One signal, near a big tree, was “hotter” than the rest, and I had to whack through a web of small roots to get into the soil. From a few inches down, a part of the neck of a very old black glass bottle came up, which was encouraging. Then, a a few more inches down, almost a foot deep overall, there was a little squarish piece of copper. I didn’t recognize it as a coin, at first. I thought it was a seal of some sort.
My examination of the find was cut short when some men strolled into the clearing, asking if it was my van parked out by the road. I told them yes. They asked me to move it so they could clear the big tree that had fallen across the road, right in front of it! Off in my own little treasure-seeking world, I had been completely oblivious to things like dying hurricanes and wind and fallen trees! The hardwired headphones on that Fisher were very snug and shut out a lot of ambient noise. (more…)
