Many months ago my girlfriend and I invited another couple from our detecting club to one of our permissions where we had previously recovered a few early colonial coins and relics. There our friend Ken dug a 1652 Massachusetts Pinetree Shilling. Fast forward to September.... our friends invite us to their permission in return. We had visited the site the week before and I dug a Fugio cent. On this day, as I skirted one edge of the field with my Equinox 800 I detected a signal similar to many of the pull-tabs I had found that day. I dug a plug and searched with my pinpointer. I removed a rock from the plug and was great by a dull silvery-grey disk. Excitedly I called everyone over as I believed I had an old coin, I hoped early US or maybe Spanish silver. As my friends gathered round the excitement built but I had yet to identify my find. My friend Ken broke the news to me and I couldn’t believe it. I had just uncovered a 1652 Massachusetts Pinetree Threepence only a few inches below the surface!! Filled with excitement we all resumed our search of the field, not 3 minutes later our friend Carol finds an amazing 1652 ”Spiny” Oak Tree Shilling not 100 feet away! It pays to share sites with friends!!
Paul Davis - Massachusetts, USA
