My Detecting Start

(Yes this is a old picture of me)Way back in 1969 after 5 years of silver coins being out of pocket change I was looking through a Popular Science magazine. There was an ad to find treasue in the ground by using a metal detector. Being a coin collector and trying to finish a collection of Mercury Dimes, I decided to call the company in the ad. By chance they were in Houston and only about 1 mile from my house, so I went to see what they had. I got a catalog and spent days looking it over trying to decide on which one to buy. After trying a few out at the store, I bought one. A Relco Frontiersman ( BFO type) with a small and large coil in the wooden box.

The salesman gave me instructions on how to use it and off I went in search of buried treasures. After a few days of searching and only finding junk, I stopped at the store to see what the problem was. I wasn't setting the detector correctly and after being shown how to set it....off I went again. I started finding wheat cents, Indian head cents Buffalo Nickles, V-nickels and after my first of many silver coins--------I was hooked !!!!!!!!!( These only had a depth of about 3 inches--which was considered deep back then.)

It seemed like every park and school I searched had hundreds of old coins. After some years of finding nice old coins, I found another detecting store in town and upgraded to a better detector, an old Bounty Hunter Red Baron,VLF/TR. I had much better finds and deeper. I could find coins at 5-6 inches deep. My coin collection was growing.