Jump For Joy

I was coin hunting Wednesday 4/6/2011 with my X-TERRA 705 and I had found 7 pennies, a nickel and a dime and moved around to another section of the lot I was hunting when I got a tid of 38 and 40. I pinpointed it and proceeded to dig my penny. When I got it out of the ground I was surprised to find it wasn't a U.S. penny, but what looked like a bracelet with a coin or medallion attached. I cleaned off the dirt and the date 1758 stuck out like a sore thumb. I was jumping with joy. I cleaned it off with water and took a pic of the item and posted it on a treasure mall and the next day another detectorist had done some research on it and posted it to my thread. It turns out it is a very rare 1758 Isle of Man Penny. It was attached to a pocket watch chain made of copper. I pulled up the link to the penny that the other guy posted and there was my penny on abccoinsand tokens.com. It is a Isle of Man penny, one of only 60,000 struck in 1758 for James Murray, Second Duke of Atholl, the new owner of the island. Obverse: crowned "AD" monogram (Atholl Dux) over the date. Reverse: Triskeles with large caps of armour on knees: "QUOCUNQUE JECERIS STABIT" latin for (whichever way you throw it, it will stand). Reasonable collectable condition for type as these are struck on soft copper flans. Diameter: 29mm. Weight 10.3g.

I was so happy I had found such a coin as the day before I was daydreaming of how nice it would be to find a coin from the early 1800's or 1700's but that will never happen to me because I live in Montana. And WHAM! The next day I found a 1758 penny. I absolutely love my X-TERRA 705 for both coin hunting and gold nugget shooting. I also own a GPX-4000 and this summer I am planning on buying a Minelab E-TRAC. Thanks Minelab for making the best detectors in the world and enabling people like myself to make finds this. Also shown are gold nuggets I have found with my X-TERRA 705.