{"id":11382,"date":"2019-12-09T02:53:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T07:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:09:01","slug":"two-fer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=11382","title":{"rendered":"Find 5: First Hole Silver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p>After what felt like weeks of being stuck indoors, it was a pure delight to get out into the fields again. The first signal I dug up was a crisp, clear tone, and when I saw it, I had to smile: a beautiful George VI sixpence. First Hole Silver! F.H.S.!<\/p>\r\n<p>A little while later, the detector gave me another fantastic signal. My heart was hoping, but my brain was telling me, &#8220;Don&#8217;t get your hopes up.&#8221; What came out of the ground was a &#8216;florin&#8217;\u2014a two-shilling piece from an era not so long ago. It&#8217;s not a truly ancient coin, and it\u2019s not solid silver, but oh, was it shiny and clean! And, most importantly, it was <b>not<\/b> a pull tab! The little victories like that are what keep me going.<\/p>\r\n<p>I know there are detectorists who find more, but two silver coins in a single weekend is a rarity for me, and it made my return to the fields feel truly special. It was a perfect reminder that the stories and treasures are always waiting, just beneath the surface<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<div>\r\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/a2ee87f5-616c-4dcb-b78d-aefdea3b3076.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"290\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/d1cc3433-70ce-4f5f-8a4f-1a0cf6cd7e3d.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"279\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After what felt like weeks of being stuck indoors, it was a pure delight to get out into the fields again. The first signal I dug up was a crisp, clear tone, and when I saw it, I had to smile: a beautiful George VI sixpence. First Hole Silver! F.H.S.! A little while later, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11488,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-detecting","category-writing","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pDxlf-2XA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13426,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions\/13426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}