A few goodies found a new home for Christmas

[CZconnoisseur]

Made a trip into one of the older parts of the city today to a new-to-me corner-lot rental house. I only hunted the curb strips and front yard today and have saved hunting the backyard for another time!!! Rain came and went, which stopped me from filming the hunt in its entirety - seems like the more interesting finds occurred during the rain!!!

This neighborhood is right at 100 years old and I can't imagine the possibilities of some of those houses considering how well Gerald and I did at a much newer location just three days ago! No silver today but there was excitement nonetheless with the jewelry (all turned out to be junk!) finds and occasional Wheats.

The front yard was trashy with pulltabs hovering around the 4-5" range. I knew there had to be deeper coins present, and after a while I lowered reactivity to 2 and slowed down; pulling a couple 6" Wheats dated 1919 and 1919 D from one small area. Nickels hit very well in this program, as do bullets and buttons. It's basically Andy's High Trash program with lower Disc and Silencer settings. The "57-70" notch setting works perfectly for 12 khz, however some nickels like to hit in the high 60s and low 70s and still can't figure out why. Just one of Deus' nuances I guess...

Favorite find of the day is the Anheuser-Busch watch fob which rang up as "81" - not sure of the vintage but it looks to be gold-filled. This is my favorite watch fob find to date and finds like these are more common in the older areas!!! Plenty of houses to hunt so more to come I'm sure!

Video is a bit chopped, but didn't want to risk ruining the camera in the rain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ay0bcqeHOY

Have a safe and Merry Christmas everyone!

 

[squirrel1]

Great Video CZ. I can only imagine, if you keep detecting using the deus, what your good finds pile will look like!!!

 

[BerntOut]

Cool vid. When in California, I live in an old neighborhood with homes similar vintage to those you hunted. Get permission from a neighbor which usually leads to permission to others. I get the same kind of targets your digging including pieces of metal siding,,...stands to reason me thinks! Sometimes silver coins sometimes not! Love hearing the Deus squeak and grunt then watch you dig. Good job.

What are you using to shoot the vids?

MERRY CHRISTMAS may there be detecting goodies in your Stocking in the morning!

 

[tabman]

The location looked good. You just never know until you put a coil over the ground to see what's there. I think it has something to do with the history of who lived there. The nearly trash free newer location that we detected last week didn't look promising at all, but turned out to be loaded up with silver coins.

I think kids lose the most. I always look for places they would hang out and play before there was a internet and video games. We used to play on large corner lots or looked for some sort of hill to play on. Keep the videos coming!

tabman

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah, the corner lots! Thats where we would gather at night, since there was generally several street lights there to give enough light to play... and also we used to cut across those lots right across the grass going around the corner on the paper routes...and the Good Humor Man stopped etc...the corner lots got heavy kid traffic...locate a nearby old school, and work those corners in the surrounding neighborhood periphery...Nice Work CZ! Really enjoying your adventures here!
Mud.

 

[CZconnoisseur]

I know those curb strips have to be loaded with all kinds of masked coins - there's simply too much traffic there over the last 100 years for there NOT to be. The sidewalk was repoured in 2012 and I'm sure some things may have been discovered and others buried deeper, but who knows? Waiting on the next development from XP - I have a feeling it will be beyond awesome for areas like this!!!