Last spring a friend and I were detecting a yard where in the 1800's a store once stood. I was using my XLT and he was using his DFX. We had found several silver coins when I got a solid hit registering a quarter on my screen. Thinking I had another silver quarter at 4 in. I cut a neat plug and saw the silver edge of a coin. However. it was not a coin but a military dog tag with a woman's name on it. I thought it had to be a tag for something else but everyone assured me it was a woman's dog tag. I soon found out it belonged to a woman who lived across the road but that she was a nurse and now lived 90 miles away in Louisville, Ky. Several attempts were made to locate her but none were successful so I just stuck it my pocket and carried it all summer in hopes I might someday locate her.

Last October I decided to buy a house just a few miles from the area. I soon realized my realtor's last name was the same as on the dog tag and upon telling her about the tag she informed me the woman on the tag was her sister-in-law and was now living back across the road from where I found it. My TH partner and I paid her a surprise visit a few days later Boy was she surprised. She had lost it about 20 years ago and never expected to see it again. She was so grateful for its return she told us we could detect her yard. We found several silver and IH coins there and then she directed us to an old well out in the middle of an open field and said an old house once stood there. In two trips there we have found 2 IH's, an 1865 2 cent piece and an 1856 Large Cent so far. It just shows " A good deed usually pays off".