Recently, I made the best find of my life, with my Minelab Explorer SE Pro. First though, some background. I live in Oklahoma, USA, in the central part of the state. For those of you unfamiliar with the history of Oklahoma, this part of the United States was “Indian Territory” in the 19th century, home to several different Native American tribes (some native, some “relocated” here onto reservations). From 1866 until 1889, parts of central Oklahoma – including my town -- were known as the “unassigned lands.” These lands, previously occupied by the Creek (Muskogee) and Seminole Indians, were ceded to the United States Government by the tribes after the Civil War (per an 1866 treaty), as a consequence of these tribes’ decision to back the Confederacy during the war. Since these lands were not subsequently settled by any other tribes, the area remained known as the “unassigned lands” until 1889. Then, on April 22, 1889, the “unassigned lands” were first opened to “white” settlement. Settlers swarmed into the area to claim previously-sectioned parcels of land as their own. Over the next couple of years, larger and larger portions of the future state were opened to settlement, and Oklahoma eventually achieved statehood in 1907. I give this brief history to lay the groundwork for my find. While 19th Century coins would not be considered “out of the ordinary” for many parts of the country, any pre-1900 coin is a big deal here – especially one of Seated Liberty variety – as “Seated” coins were minted only until 1891 – a mere two years after the central Oklahoma “Land Run.” The area I was hunting an old park, which dates to the founding of the town. This parcel of land was set aside as a city park from the time of the originally-drawn city plat, and was “opened” in 1891 -- the same year the town was incorporated. I have worked through this park many times, but recently a hunting partner and I discovered a small area within the park – covered by several inches of fill dirt in later years thus burying coins even deeper than usual -- that was producing a number of deeply-buried, late 19th and early 20th century coins. So, I headed for this spot on the drizzly, dreary morning of Thursday Jan. 26th, 2012. We had just received an inch of rain the prior night and the ground was saturated; though I knew the iron in the ground would be active and “falsy” due to the wet conditions, I nonetheless hoped to run high sensitivity on my Minelab Explorer SE Pro, in an attempt to take advantage of the deeper detection offered by the wet ground, and hopefully find a couple of deeply-buried, turn-of-the century coins.