Now that the holiday’s are over and the new year is officially in, we can get back to business as usual while the ground is frozen and it’s cold outside - RESEARCH!
One of our favorite websites is a must for every coin collector - www.CoinFacts.com - The Internet Encyclopedia of U.S. Coins. Easy to navigate and packed with information, this website gives us something to do even on the coldest of days. More importantly - this website gives us something to hope for! Practically every U.S. coin you’ve ever heard of. and even more that you haven’t. are carefully organized and cataloged with photos on this website. Their “Board of Experts” keep things interesting with a “Coin of the Week” which is archived for great reading and research.
One of our favorite is the 1776 Continental Dollar that says “Mind Your Business” on the back. CoinFacts.com reports “1776 was a momentous year for the thirteen American Colonies. On July 4 of that year, delegates to the Continental Congress signed a Declaration of Independence, sending notice to England and the rest of the world that the Colonies would submit no longer to outside governance and interference. In recognition of the solidarity of the Colonies and their assumption of the right as a sovereign entity to coin their own monies, plans were made to issue a Silver Dollar. Patterns, using designs provided by Benjamin Franklin, were struck in Pewter, Brass, and Silver.”
If Ben Franklin thought it was a good idea for us to mind our own business, who are we to argue? Either way, we’re sure all you coin shooters and collectors out there will find this website a great resource until Spring lets us all get out there and hunt again!
It seems many fans of metal detecting are also fans of exploring - they go hand-in-hand, don’t they? One of the best tools for exploring is a map, and the best map tool on the internet is Google Maps. I have been using Google Maps for years to help find my way around town, and recently, gMaps released Google Maps Street View. Street view is exactly what it sounds like….it’s a ton of actual photos taken from the street, all stitched together to make it appear that you’re actually on the street looking around. It’s pretty difficult to give a full explanation, so I’m going to let one of the Google guys (Ryan) do it for me:
Understand now? I live in Orlando, FL, which has this feature, so I’ve spent hours searching the map for my car - to no avail. Street view has brought on a bit of controversy since its inception, mostly with privacy issues. There are now billions a lot of websites devoted to finding unusual photos and situations in street view.
We hope you enjoy your weekend! Here’s a few links to keep you busy until we get back. They’re not exactly metal detector related, but you’ll like them:
Here are a few links that you might enjoy over the weekend. If you have seen an interesting story, or something interesting happens to you over the weekend, we’d love to hear about it!
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