Organised dig by Fox Leicestershire group UK on 23rd July 2020. After being out digging since 9am that morning I decided to call it a day and head back to the car to make my way home. Feeling very happy with myself at finding a medieval cut half coin that I couldn't date, I got a very faint reading of an 8 on the VDI. Deciding this would be my last hole of the day I dug out the clod. On placing my pin pointer in the hole I had no indication of metal. I then placed my Equinox 800 over the hole to get a booming signal of 20 on the VDI. Very cautiously I excavated the hole by hand and at 8 inches I was greeted by silver. On extracting the silver I found it to be a Queen Elizabeth 1st 1568 Medieval Hammered coin. Of course I just had to do the Hammered dance as so many of us do on finding a Hammered coin in the UK. Happy to be detecting with the Equinox 800.
Ronald Owen – United Kingdom
