Metal Detecting a Lakeshore park YIELDS 6 coins

[metalman2024]

Metal detecting a park not too far from 19th century buildings did not yield 19th century coins unfortunately. All within 3" to 4" of the top of the turf. I seem to dig only the ones that register on my pin-pointer.

I suppose there were two targets that made my GMT detector hum but did not register on my pin-pointer I should have dug them out but did not. They might've been the 19th century coins I was after.

But not a bad bunch of 5 Canadian modern coins and one Chinese coin I think.

 

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[robertk]

All within 3" to 4" of the top of the turf. I seem to dig only the ones that register on my pin-pointer.

You should dig the other signals too. Just because they're too deep for the pinpointer to see them, they will still not be so deep that you can't dig them easily. You never know what you might be missing unless you dig it up...

 

[Tony in SC]

You will miss good stuff if you don't dig! My wife is a ring finder. On her detector pull tabs' nickels and rings read 20/22. At a swimming area I watched her dig 24 pull tabs, number 25 was a $2ooo platinum diamond ring.

 

[pepperj]

The pinpointer is only good for a certain depth.
The detector can easily detect 2x that depth for a coin.

Your just digging modern clad. The park I believe your in certainly has good history.

I recovered silvers 6-10" from the said park.
Now for the query:
Why didn't you dig the deeper targets?

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Nice finds !

Not all the time but most of the time the older targets are deeper.
Decaying grass and leaves turns into a little bit of topsoil every year.
Now multiply this very thin layer of topsoil by 100 or 200 years.
It can add up to several inches or more of dirt over the older targets your after.

Good Hunting !