Dear White's,

Way back in 1969, I bought my fist metal detector- a White’s Coinmaster IV. I have been using White’s detectors ever since! Needless to say I have made many good finds in almost forty years. I have found coins, Civil War relics, jewelry, and lots more.

I wanted to tell you about one special find, several years ago I was teaching in middle school. One day we got out early because of snow, despite the 3” of snow on the ground, I headed for one of my favorite digging spots. The site of a long gone and forgotten 18th century county courthouse, it had become private land and I had received the owner’s permission to hunt. Previous finds include 18th century Spanish milled dollars, cut two and four bit pieces, several 1700’s pennies(in bad shape), and hundreds of musket balls. That day after only a few passes, my 6000 DI Pro made a distinctive clear “beep” from under the 3” of snow and about 6” of soil, I uncovered a small silver coin. I instinctively rubbed the mud from the coin to see if I could tell what it was (Big mistake!) I found out all right- it was a thirteen start 1797 half-dime in beautiful shape!!

I put the coin in my pocket and searched a little more until my hands were numb. I stashed the coin away until just recently when I had it graded by a numismatic grading company. To my surprise it came back “AU50 Cleaned.” I said “big mistake” earlier because by wiping the coin off in the field, caused a few small scratches to the coins surface, about $2,000 worth of small scratches to be exact! I put the coin up for action, and got a whopping $10,130 even with the tiny scratches!!!

Thank you White's- The superiority of your machines sure paid off in a big way. I bought a new White's MXT to go along with my Two 6000 DI Pros, and had a lot of "change" left over!