WHADIFIND
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One just never, ever knows when this hobby, (or my machine), is going to play a trick on you.
I couldn't get out due to weather for the last couple days and for some reason there was just too much electronic clutter in my house today to do the kind of testing I'd planned. I wanted to take several different nickels "V", Buff, Jefferson, and try different settings to see what impacts I got. Mostly, because I'm a little surprised that nickels aren't found a little more often.
Anyway, like I said, the interference just wouldn't let me test because it was ringing up at 53, the same as nickels! LOL
So, needing a fix, and chomping at the bit, I decided I could try to test my theories on mineralized ground instead. It was messy outside but there was enough semi-dry patches in the field right outside my door. So, I took a couple silver coins over to there in their own lil baggies. (Could I get in trouble for burying dime and quarter bags?
)
In between showers I went out there and was looking for the most mineralized section I could find, which is pretty easy out my door. It averages between 89-93 anyway.
I kept moving about and tuning trying for a particularly hot area but I kept setting the detector down on a target, (lots and lots of nails/iron/etc.) Finally, I thought I had a spot. In a section I've been over and over and over in the past. As I started to pick a spot to dig a hole so I could try my test coins at different depths in this hot ground, the detector rang up a 53. Crap! 
What now?!?! The interference moved out here?? But, no, still there. This was as I was ground balancing so I started swinging, yep, a target, yep, 53, about 7 inches down. I paused a minute and looked up at the front door of my house. Checking whether this was a section I had actually checked before. It was, it was gone over many times. So, now, how.... Well, you know the feeling.
I figured ok, I'll clean this target out and then use the hole for my test as there wasn't much iron there. Pretty clean outside this pull tab. (still not ready to believe 
)
I dig it up and flip over the plug, there, looking up at me is a buffalo nickel! HUH!?!
I still couldn't fathom finding it here! Right out my front door. But, I continued looking for a bit, nothing else. (I actually said, "There! That's more like I expected!" LOL )
Put it in my pocket and went about my tests. Which didn't enlighten me much to anything I didn't already know. But, it was fun and counted as a "fix".
I put the coin in some olive oil because I could see quite a bit of detail and didn't want to try cleaning it too much. I rinsed it and brushed it lightly with soap.
Here is what I found today.
One just NEVER knows when nor where, do they. LOL
Thanks for peeking!
HH!
I couldn't get out due to weather for the last couple days and for some reason there was just too much electronic clutter in my house today to do the kind of testing I'd planned. I wanted to take several different nickels "V", Buff, Jefferson, and try different settings to see what impacts I got. Mostly, because I'm a little surprised that nickels aren't found a little more often.
Anyway, like I said, the interference just wouldn't let me test because it was ringing up at 53, the same as nickels! LOL
So, needing a fix, and chomping at the bit, I decided I could try to test my theories on mineralized ground instead. It was messy outside but there was enough semi-dry patches in the field right outside my door. So, I took a couple silver coins over to there in their own lil baggies. (Could I get in trouble for burying dime and quarter bags?
) In between showers I went out there and was looking for the most mineralized section I could find, which is pretty easy out my door. It averages between 89-93 anyway.
I kept moving about and tuning trying for a particularly hot area but I kept setting the detector down on a target, (lots and lots of nails/iron/etc.) Finally, I thought I had a spot. In a section I've been over and over and over in the past. As I started to pick a spot to dig a hole so I could try my test coins at different depths in this hot ground, the detector rang up a 53. Crap! What now?!?! The interference moved out here?? But, no, still there. This was as I was ground balancing so I started swinging, yep, a target, yep, 53, about 7 inches down. I paused a minute and looked up at the front door of my house. Checking whether this was a section I had actually checked before. It was, it was gone over many times. So, now, how.... Well, you know the feeling.
I figured ok, I'll clean this target out and then use the hole for my test as there wasn't much iron there. Pretty clean outside this pull tab.
(still not ready to believe )I dig it up and flip over the plug, there, looking up at me is a buffalo nickel! HUH!?!
I still couldn't fathom finding it here! Right out my front door. But, I continued looking for a bit, nothing else. (I actually said, "There! That's more like I expected!" LOL )
Put it in my pocket and went about my tests. Which didn't enlighten me much to anything I didn't already know. But, it was fun and counted as a "fix".
I put the coin in some olive oil because I could see quite a bit of detail and didn't want to try cleaning it too much. I rinsed it and brushed it lightly with soap.
Here is what I found today.
One just NEVER knows when nor where, do they. LOL
Thanks for peeking!
HH!
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but it can be worth it !!! 
..............HH
Nice pick, though.
