twistidd
Bronze Member
- Nov 11, 2007
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- Detector(s) used
- White's Matrix M6 w/ Sun-Ray DX-1, 950 coil and 6x10 DD, Minelab Excalibur II, Garrett Ace 250, Garmin Etrex GPS
Hey guys, I went out detecting early this morning, to a park near me that I have overlooked in the past due to it being heavily hunted (I've seen people detecting there before). I've detected it before once or twice but never took my time, figuring there wasn't much in the depths to find. Well, I decided to try my luck at this park, working the grass really slow and digging ANY signal that even hinted at being something worth digging. I started at the back end of the park, and decided not to dig any target under 4 inches deep (except quarters). I began pulling wheat cents, and some deep clad at the 5-8-inch range. I haven't been able to get my coil over a silver dime at all lately, so I was hopeful that a lot of those penny/dime readings would end up being a silver dime, but not today. However, I did manage the silver Washington at 5 inches, right off the edge of the path.
I got a broken-up, faint signal signifying penny/dime/pulltab at 9 inches, and decided to dig it for the hell of it. Good thing I did, at the bottom of the hole was a very crusty (but with a clear date) 1923 buffalo nickel. I haven't washed it off much yet, so most of the patina is still on it. The scan of the obverse is upside-down, the date is at about 2 o'clock. It was in an area of the park where the grass is sunken low, so over the years, the flooding has done its job with this one. I was super excited to find it regardless!
The wheats for the day are 1916, 1924, 1939, 1941, 1941, 1944 D, and 1945. Clad at $2.43, not as much because I ignored virtually all shallow penny/dime readings today. I also found a really cool copper decoration of some kind at about 8 inches, it's pretty cool, though it didn't scan well.
Hope you guys did well today!
Joe
I got a broken-up, faint signal signifying penny/dime/pulltab at 9 inches, and decided to dig it for the hell of it. Good thing I did, at the bottom of the hole was a very crusty (but with a clear date) 1923 buffalo nickel. I haven't washed it off much yet, so most of the patina is still on it. The scan of the obverse is upside-down, the date is at about 2 o'clock. It was in an area of the park where the grass is sunken low, so over the years, the flooding has done its job with this one. I was super excited to find it regardless!
The wheats for the day are 1916, 1924, 1939, 1941, 1941, 1944 D, and 1945. Clad at $2.43, not as much because I ignored virtually all shallow penny/dime readings today. I also found a really cool copper decoration of some kind at about 8 inches, it's pretty cool, though it didn't scan well.
Hope you guys did well today!
Joe
