I have been metal detecting for about five years and have read about caches of coins being found but never thought I would find a cache of my very own. But that is exactly what happened to me. I decided to take a half day off of work to get out and do some much needed detecting with my E-TRAC. I planned on heading to an empty lot that had been scraped and produced a few nice finds for some other local detectorists including a nice 1864 Indian head penny. This is pretty old for California, especially considering the town in which it was found was not incorporated until 1885. Well as luck would have it when I arrived at the lot, construction crews were on site working away. Luckily while I was driving to the first spot I saw another potential spot which was another empty lot where a small used car lot have been taken out. Honestly I usually don’t like hunting lots as they are usually pretty trashy with not much to show for it. But since it was so close to the first spot I decided to check it out anyway. I hunted for about a half hour or so with not much to show for it and was thinking of leaving until I found what I thought was a token or silver quarter lying right on top of the ground. I must have wasted the next ten minutes just trying to figure out what it was. I wasn’t able to tell what it was because it was so messed up but just knew that it was old.