tabman
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I almost decided to stay home today, because the temperature was hovering around the mid-thirties and the wind was steadily blowing at 10 to 15 miles per hour and there was a total overcast. I had to keep moving to stay warm.
I started the day off swinging my F75DST with the NEL Sharpshooter search coil attached using my usual settings. I hit some grassy areas between some curbs and sidewalks to see if I could pick up a quick silver coin. It took me awhile but I finally cornered a 1963 Rosie dime.
After working the curbs and sidewalk strips I decided to try my luck at a rental house. The yard was really trashy and I was having a heck of a time getting a good target under my search coil. Low and behold, I finally get a nice reading and I was trying to figure out if it was a silver quarter or a silver half dollar. Nope, it turned out to be a stack of 4 clad quarters, a nickle and 3 copper pennies. It sounded good and gave a good ID!
Tired of digging trash, I decided to go back to the permission where I found the 18K GF ring and some silver coins. I got out my Tesoro Mojave and set the sensitivity to the max and set the discrimination just high enough to discriminate out a nail. I was finding nickels everywhere and ended up finding 13 of them for the day. The deepest coins that I found were some wheat pennies that were just a tad over 7 inches deep. They were just cracking and popping on the audio response, so that is about as deep as the Mojave will go with the 7 inch search coil.
While I was detecting, I saw a guy park his car on the street at the house next door and was walking up his driveway. I yelled "hey there" to get his attention. I went over and introduce myself and asked if it would be OK to detect his yard. He said sure, have at it.
I started my grid search of his yard and I was finding a few modern coins and a wheat penny or two. I got good hit near a small tree and popped what I first thought was a wheat penny, so I dropped it into my coin water bottle. I scanned the hole again and got another good reading. I was hoping it was going to be a silver coin in the hole with the wheat penny. Nope it was a 1890 Indian Head penny and the other coin in the hole with it turned out to be a 1908 Indian Head penny.
About 5 feet from where I found the Indian Head pennies I unearth a old button. It's kinda strange in a mid-fifties subdivision to find coins that old and a old button, but before the subdivision was developed it was a old plantation. I've found old coins like that before in this particular subdivision.
As I was detecting I heard someone hollering, so I pulled off my headphones to investigate. It was a guy standing across the street asking if I had permission to be detecting in their front yard. I said that I had the owner's permission. He said do have permission from the people that live there. At that point I laid my detector down and headed across the street to confront the man face to face.
After I introduced myself and got things straight about me having permission and all. I told him it was really good of him to be watching out for his neighbors. That made him feel good, so I asked him would it be OK for me to detect his yard. He said sure, going ahead. I told him that couldn't get to it today, but I'd come back another day.
Finally, I get back to detecting the yard across street and unearth a 1926 Greece 50 Lepta. You just never know what you're going to find when you're swinging a Mojave. It's such a fun detector to use. I was cold and wore out, so I headed for the house.
tabman
I started the day off swinging my F75DST with the NEL Sharpshooter search coil attached using my usual settings. I hit some grassy areas between some curbs and sidewalks to see if I could pick up a quick silver coin. It took me awhile but I finally cornered a 1963 Rosie dime.
After working the curbs and sidewalk strips I decided to try my luck at a rental house. The yard was really trashy and I was having a heck of a time getting a good target under my search coil. Low and behold, I finally get a nice reading and I was trying to figure out if it was a silver quarter or a silver half dollar. Nope, it turned out to be a stack of 4 clad quarters, a nickle and 3 copper pennies. It sounded good and gave a good ID!
Tired of digging trash, I decided to go back to the permission where I found the 18K GF ring and some silver coins. I got out my Tesoro Mojave and set the sensitivity to the max and set the discrimination just high enough to discriminate out a nail. I was finding nickels everywhere and ended up finding 13 of them for the day. The deepest coins that I found were some wheat pennies that were just a tad over 7 inches deep. They were just cracking and popping on the audio response, so that is about as deep as the Mojave will go with the 7 inch search coil.
While I was detecting, I saw a guy park his car on the street at the house next door and was walking up his driveway. I yelled "hey there" to get his attention. I went over and introduce myself and asked if it would be OK to detect his yard. He said sure, have at it.
I started my grid search of his yard and I was finding a few modern coins and a wheat penny or two. I got good hit near a small tree and popped what I first thought was a wheat penny, so I dropped it into my coin water bottle. I scanned the hole again and got another good reading. I was hoping it was going to be a silver coin in the hole with the wheat penny. Nope it was a 1890 Indian Head penny and the other coin in the hole with it turned out to be a 1908 Indian Head penny.
About 5 feet from where I found the Indian Head pennies I unearth a old button. It's kinda strange in a mid-fifties subdivision to find coins that old and a old button, but before the subdivision was developed it was a old plantation. I've found old coins like that before in this particular subdivision.
As I was detecting I heard someone hollering, so I pulled off my headphones to investigate. It was a guy standing across the street asking if I had permission to be detecting in their front yard. I said that I had the owner's permission. He said do have permission from the people that live there. At that point I laid my detector down and headed across the street to confront the man face to face.
After I introduced myself and got things straight about me having permission and all. I told him it was really good of him to be watching out for his neighbors. That made him feel good, so I asked him would it be OK for me to detect his yard. He said sure, going ahead. I told him that couldn't get to it today, but I'd come back another day.
Finally, I get back to detecting the yard across street and unearth a 1926 Greece 50 Lepta. You just never know what you're going to find when you're swinging a Mojave. It's such a fun detector to use. I was cold and wore out, so I headed for the house.
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