<p><strong>The budget priced Titan 1000 was my first and only detector purchased from Kellyco back in 2007.</strong> I’ve found an amazing collection of coins and artifacts with the machine. Like many, I’ve always thought I’d upgrade, but haven’t pulled the trigger because I’ve learned the machine, do my research and the rewards keeping popping out of the ground.</p> <p>Just 45 minutes north of New York City a sprawling country estate was taken over by the local town for unpaid taxes. The property had a pool, tennis court, horse stable and a pond. Clearly good signs of wealth. The town had plans to turn the site into a park with playgrounds and soccer fields, removing all but the stable. Before the park construction, it was left abandoned and dilapidated.</p> <p>One summer day I detected the grounds with my old Titan 1000 that I always leave in the trunk of my car for spur of the moment adventures. After an hour of nothing special, I decided to work the immediate backyard just off a large patio. I hit a silver tone and dug up a 1923 Merc about 4 inches down. Proclaiming victory, I packed up and left.</p> <p>Then the story got better.</p> <p>Who lived here? Whose pocket did the dime fall out of?</p> <p>Typically I research a site before swinging, but this was in reverse. I discovered the property was rented in 1927 by George and Ira Gershwin, the famous Broadway musical geniuses responsible for Strike Up the Band, Porgy and Bess, American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue among much more. Detecting both delivers history to us and transports us back in time: Imagine a humid summer evening, an artsy Broadway crowd singing tunes as the Gershwin boys entertained. Perhaps a lttle Prohibition liquor was flowing and a thin dime falls out of a pocket into the lawn for almost 90 years only to give up its story to me. That’s rhapsody.</p> <p>Happy hunting,<br> Tim G.</p>