found some wheaties 2day

[cheese]

I went to the park today for a few hours. I found a small amount of clad, and 5 wheat cents. They were all in the same area, but no silver. They are 1937 D, 1928, 1944 (2), and 1942.

These are my first old coins found with my detector.

Yesterday I drove down to a beach and found a lot of clad, oldest coins were 1959 penny (first memorial cent) and a 1966 quarter. Just a couple years too new. I'm still trying .

 

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[treasure_lady]

Congrats on finding the wheaties and the clad!

HH

 

[ol ploock]

Good find!. I like finding those wheaties, makes me think that silver is somewhere around

 

[nitro]

Nice finds, I am still trying to find silver coins. All have been clad, along with some nice jewelry.

 

[stoney56]

Keep lookin'. The silver can't be too far away. Found a use for wheat's and marbles-put them in 2 separate mason jars and use them for bookends for THing books on shelf. HH

 

[BRD]

Wheat cents are always nice to find. That indicates some age to the site. Keep looking, the silver is probably there somewhere.
Good luck and keep us posted.
BRD

 

[Coin_Saver]

Keep trying! nice wheats!

 

[sssnake31]

Wheat's are good finds too. Any coinage is a good find. Where there's wheats there's got to be a piece of silver or two or so one would think. Good luck.

 

[dgaughan]

those are some nice finds you have to go back to the spot. the silvers there you'll find it

 

[Leon]

Congrats Cheese,,,
I find wheaties just about everytime I go out...
They have almost never let me down, & I consider them my friend
Good Luck & Happy Hunting~

 

[Carl in CO]

Cheese, it that the Fisher you're using?

 

[cheese]

Yup, it's the Fisher. I'm lovin' it too. I'm trying to get in as many hours with it as I can to learn its language. It is very easy to use.

I think I'll go over the area a little slower next time. I don't really want to go after something really deep at this place though. It's a park. I can flip the sod and dig the hole and be done with no trace, but I don't like the idea of someone walking up and seeing a foot deep hole right there in the park. I guess it depends on how many folks are there. I really really want to find some old stuff.

They're just wheats, and I have older ones in my small coin collection, but the thrill of digging them out of the ground was amazing. If I ever find a really old silver, I might just "come un-glued".

 

[bigrig40]

great finds! silver is right around the corner for you!

bigrig

 

[horseshoe]

great finds!! keep looking!!!

 

[Lowbatts]

Yep, if you're checking all-metal and hear that ton of signals down deep, switch to ID and go real slow. You'll freak when you start pulling coins out at 10" and they're an inch or so away from a nail. It does work best with a slow arc speed on your swing. Don't worry about a foot deep hole, try doing it on the edges of the grounds first to make sure you've got it right and can fill it in appropriately. Then move on. For them deep targets I cut a 8-10 inch round plug about 4" deep. You've got the root matrix of the grass enclosed there and won't damage it by doing so. you can make a fast, effective recovery that way.

Most folks just look at me digging them holes to the core and laugh, asking me if I found their lighter.

I usually reply, "Was it a gold cased Harley commemoritive limited edition made by Zippo?"
"Uhh.... YEAH! Yeah that's it! You , uhhh.. found it?"
"Nope. Just this old dime. Carry on."

They'll usually wait until they get out of arms reach to call you something but hey, make it fun! How's that old site coming?

 

[stoney56]

Cheese, if you cut the plug right and use a ground cloth, you can make the hole disappear real guick w/very little sign of disturbance.

 

[cheese]

Yeah, I can make the hole with little or no signs afterwards, but the thought of someone walking by seeing my hand down in a deep hole just doesn't sit right with me for some reason. Maybe I'll warm up to the idea in time. I'm just finding out my detector isn't picking up as deep as I thought it was supposed to anyway. Maybe deep holes are just in my imagination.

Lowbatts, which old site? If you mean the one where I found that old medal/watch fob with the horsemen on it, I haven't been back. I plan to go again soon, but not sure when.

Should I be searching in all metal mode? Will that help my depth? What are the advantages to this? One reason I don't use all metal much is because the ground is FULL of small rocks that are magnetic (iron ore?) and they make signals in all metal mode. Not as good as a 3" pull-tab, but still lots of signals when those rocks are close to the surface and right under the coil. I can pull anywhere from 4 or 5 to a handful out of one small hole.

 

[Lowbatts]

Yep, all-metal or autotune is a killer with a lot of hot rocks around. If you get to a clean environment, you can find 10" coins even among trash. But that ground mineralization and those hot rocks will really spoil the day.

 

[cheese]

Any way to beat the hot rocks? There is no clean ground around here unless you go to the sandbox at the park. These rocks are everywhere, anywhere in size from a BB to a golf ball. Most falling in pea/bean size range. I don't think there's a spot in the county without them except maybe sandy river and creek banks. They are what's killing my depth?

 

[stoney56]

I don't seem to have too much problem in my area. Have you tried lifting the coil a little bit instead of scrubbing the ground. Although it would lose a little depth that way. Another thought, w/the CZ can you ground bal. a little to the negative? You misght also go to disc. and set it at 2-4. Just a thought.