Dear White's,

My name is Bruce and I live in North Carolina. I purchased my first metal detector in approximately 1971, it was a Whites Coinmaster. I used it for many years, but had a break-in in 1988 and lost it. Long story short, what with raising kids there just wasn’t money to purchase another for a few years. My wife and I did foster care and there were always more kids than money.

At a pawn shop at the beach, in 2005, my wife found an old Coinmaster 2900/Trooper and purchased it for me. There again with all the kids there wasn’t much time to try it out. After losing a 28 year job to overseas trade, I went back to school full time. Two days a week I have a couple of hours between classes and started taking my detector with me to fill the time between.

I was detecting a park site and finding some clad coinage, when an older woman came down the walking trail. We struck up a conversation because of the detector and I asked her if she knew what was in the park before it was a park. She replied that it had been a CCC camp. I did my research and found it indeed had been a Civilian Conservation Corp Camp back in the 1930’s. I started working that park religiously. Everyone kept telling me about all the detector users they had seen there and I just kept thinking that no place is ever worked out.

I had dug no less than thirty pounds of odd things and trash in just a few weeks, but had found only a few wheat cents along with some clad stuff. Then one morning a couple of weeks ago I had been there only a few minutes but had already dug three pieces of aluminum trash. The next signal sounded the same, but I dug anyway. I saw a glint of strange silver and thought it was just corroded aluminum. I picked it up and rubbed it between my fingers and saw a Mercury dime, my first silver from that park. I was elated and put the plug back and stepped on it. Then ran the head back over the plug and got another signal. I flipped the plug back up and dug some more and found 2 Standing Liberty quarter dollars and another Mercury dime. By now I was shaking all over. I thought I was done and put the plug down again, just in case I ran the head back over again and still got a signal. Again I started digging and found another Standing Liberty and two more Mercury dimes. I just about flipped seven coins from one signal and all silver. These were the first Standing Liberties I had ever found in about 37 years of detecting.

One day I will have a new Whites Detector but don’t let anyone tell you that your older models don’t work just as well as they ever did!!!! Even an “older” White’s picks up things that newer ones leave behind!!

Thanks for a lot of fun over the years.

Bruce J.