{"id":651,"date":"2012-05-16T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T22:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsurfer.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2012-05-17T15:48:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T19:48:44","slug":"only-a-detectorist-could-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzlemaze.org\/df\/blog\/archives\/651","title":{"rendered":"Only a Detectorist Could Love It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Got out today for the first time, I think, since last Thursday or Friday.\u00a0 I had a nice silver streak going, but today it was snapped at 11.\u00a0 Oh well, all things must pass.\u00a0 Hopefully the ensuing slump will do the same, and rather quickly.\u00a0 I’ve only had one stretch of 2 days without silver since April of last year.\u00a0 That’s good, as these things go (or so I think, anyway).<\/p>\n

I did, however, pull a copper (a large cent, dated anywhere from 1817 to 1857), which is quite abused, as you can see (well, “quite abused” is kind; its garbage, as you can see).\u00a0 This is the sort of thing they say on the forums: “only a detectorist could love it”.<\/p>\n

Well, I’m a detectorist, and I hate it.\u00a0 Who could love it?.\u00a0 I’d much rather pull the proverbial 64 rosie with a hole in it, or a clad quarter, which is worth 6 times as much (never let an economist write MD blogs, or especially never let a cynic, who supposedly knows the cost of everything, and the value of nothing. But, is there a difference between the two?).<\/p>\n

The coin does have a value, tho, and that is what we call “validating the zone”.\u00a0 (It also has a value in allowing me to blog tonite; who would blog a clad quarter?). Says the zone has old coins.\u00a0 Problem is that I covered the zone pretty good (or “well”, as my wife would say, and she’s always right), and this was the only old coin.\u00a0 Maybe there are more, we’ll see, but I’m not too optimistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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