I have detected this one spot for years now. Along with my friends, it's probably been detected over a hundred times collectively. Recently, and for the first time, a section of the spot opened up like it hadn't before. 3 foot high grass was as low as grass of a nicely manicured front lawn. Not long after venturing into this newly claimed territory did I start finding spectacle buckles, trapezoidal buckles, a nipple button and three Woods Hibernia KGIs. Needless to say I was at the brink of breaking into the 17th century. One friend's words kept echoing in my head "The Nox loves the silver". Up until this point, my oldest silver was a 1920 Mercury Dime. I hoped a Nox 800 would change that. So I bought one.
A few days after getting my Nox, I went out to the newly discovered spot and after digging half of a spectacle buckle and some heavy brass, I got an iffy "23" signal, but I dig everything at this spot.
As soon as I popped out the plug I saw a very thin round object the size of a quarter, folded in half. Holding my breath, hoping I had just found a 1 reale, I carefully picked it up and not seeing any detail, put it in my case. After getting home, I rinsed off the coin and it broke in half along the seam it had been folded on. It was at this point that I saw some details, and after further cleaning and getting some hints on the Facebook page "ID Me", I found out it wasn't Spanish, it was in fact French. And I had beaten my old silver record of 1920, skipping the 1800s, 1700s and EVEN the 1600s. The coin was a 1593 Henri IV Douzain. A hammered silver coin.
Since I was five years old, I dreamed of finding "pirate treasure" and 3 days after my 30th birthday, I did it.
Michael– New York, USA
