tabman
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- Joined
- Jul 5, 2011
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- Location
- Germantown, Tennessee
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- Detector(s) used
- Presently: CTX 3030, Tesoro Modded Cibola, F75LTD-2, XP Deus, Tesoro Mojave, MXT Pro, Tesoro Eldorado, Whites MXT All Pro, Minelab Equinox, Fisher CZ5 & CZ3D
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I went back to the site where I found Big Ben and some other silver coins to see if I could squeeze out some more silver. I decided to grid search the yard coming at it at another direction to see if I could unmask some good targets. I also used some different settings and forced myself to slow down.
My first good find was a sterling silver bracelet (35.69g). I don't know how I missed it the first time, but I did. Heck I even found the tiny broke link. This was a nice find, but it wasn't a silver coin that I needed to keep my silver coin streak alive.
Finally I got my search coil over a 1943 War Nickel. That was a relief. Now I could concentrate more on my detecting without worrying so much. I moved up by the service walk and got a one way high audio tone that I decided to dig. Lucky me, I popped a 1936 Mercury Dime.
I noticed a man standing in the driveway next door watching me, so I pulled my headphones headed over to introduce myself. He asked me if I was looking for treasure and I told him that I was just looking for old coins. I committed on how beautiful his front yard was and he offered without me even asking if I wanted to detect his yard. I said noway, the grass is way too manicured for me to touch. He said do the back yard then, there's hardy any grass back there because of all the shade from the trees. I said OK.
All that I managed to find in the backyard was a transit token from San Antonio, one wheat penny, a 1943 War Nickel, a 1937 Buffalo Nickel and some clad coins.
I think I'm going to take tomorrow off and rest.
tabman
My first good find was a sterling silver bracelet (35.69g). I don't know how I missed it the first time, but I did. Heck I even found the tiny broke link. This was a nice find, but it wasn't a silver coin that I needed to keep my silver coin streak alive.
Finally I got my search coil over a 1943 War Nickel. That was a relief. Now I could concentrate more on my detecting without worrying so much. I moved up by the service walk and got a one way high audio tone that I decided to dig. Lucky me, I popped a 1936 Mercury Dime.
I noticed a man standing in the driveway next door watching me, so I pulled my headphones headed over to introduce myself. He asked me if I was looking for treasure and I told him that I was just looking for old coins. I committed on how beautiful his front yard was and he offered without me even asking if I wanted to detect his yard. I said noway, the grass is way too manicured for me to touch. He said do the back yard then, there's hardy any grass back there because of all the shade from the trees. I said OK.
All that I managed to find in the backyard was a transit token from San Antonio, one wheat penny, a 1943 War Nickel, a 1937 Buffalo Nickel and some clad coins.
I think I'm going to take tomorrow off and rest.
tabman
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You must be doing something right. It's nice when neighbors offer up permission. All you need to add to your tool chest is a towel for highly manicured lawns. Cut a good plug and place it on the towel when you recover the treasure. Use the towel to make sure all the dirt gets in the hole before you drop the plug in. Just don't do in when the ground is really dry, or else the yard will eventually show a bunch of brown circles where you dug.
