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<\/a><\/p>\nIt is still abused, of course, but does have full liberty and some hair detail.\u00a0 If you can believe it, it is one of the best coppers I have ever dug, and will likely earn a low spot on my best finds list.\u00a0 It is also my 20th copper of year, a personal record.\u00a0 It came in at 11-45 on the E-Trac, and was only 4 inches deep.\u00a0\u00a0 It was right on the edge of the site, near a road.\u00a0 Often you can get coins others have missed near the edge of zones.\u00a0 (This is a private property site which I have permission to detect, but during my time here, two other detectorists have come on the property without permission.\u00a0 I may blog about that someday, and the lack of ethics in the hobby in general.\u00a0 We’ll see).<\/p>\n
Speaking of which: Last Sunday’s hunt, mentioned Monday, was a scam.\u00a0 I wrote a long story Tuesday about it on how I used economics to work it out about an hour in, and then was lucky enough to see three pieces of physical evidence to confirm it.\u00a0 I pulled the story, cause a), it sucked, b) it was was too long, and c) the whole thing really isn’t worth ink or server space.\u00a0 I guess I’ll leave Monday’s stub up, which was put up instead of a story to see if others would work it out as well.\u00a0 I’m happy to report that at least 2 others did.\u00a0 The coolest thing about this, tho, was it was really cool to get a real life puzzle to work out.\u00a0 I guess that was the find of the day for me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I fought my back issue Tuesday and Wednesday to detect a bit.\u00a0 Was skunked on Tue, but it was an old field, an all or nothing site.\u00a0 Wed was closer to a zone that had given up the goods in … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n