I was out detecting at Rhode Island homestead site as part of a test of different detector responses and made two bucket list finds in one day with my Minelab E-TRAC. We had been on the site all morning with little to show for our efforts when we got clearance to detect the yard around the house. The yard was loaded with iron, so I had a small coil on and was swinging slowly and checking all iron hit carefully. At around noon, I got a very choppy 12:42 on the E-TRAC at about 5 inches. Since it was deeper than most hit in the yard, I decided to dig it anyway. Out popped a larger copper coin, so I was really excited. Then when I saw the 13 links across the back, I knew immediately it was the first coin minted by the US government. I couldn't remember the name Fugio until I got home and entered the "We are one" in google and found that only 400,000 were minted in New Haven Connecticut in 1787. Even with knowing right away, I was on cloud nine for the rest of the afternoon. Towards 5pm I was going over the yard again and 40 feet away from the Fugio, I got another deeper copper signal. Excited, I dug it up and saw it was another big copper coin. This one I thought was an English copper, so quite happily I call it a day and went home to do research. It turned out to be a much better find than I thought. On the left side of the obverse, I could just barely read "Auctori", and "Con" on the right. Found out that it was another coin from the New Haven mint, only this time a Connecticut Colonial Copper coin, and one only minted from 1785 to 1788. Since the bust is facing left, that probably means it was minted between 1786 and 1788 instead, since the first year was all right facing busts. I couldn't be happier with the E-TRAC's performance that day.
Sheldon – NY, USA.