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A nice find followed by a dry spell

J

jgedde

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I'm getting frustrated.... :cry: First my Super 12 called it quits, now a dry spell.

Last week I found a 1887 Indian Head (a rare find on Long Island in the sand we call soil) in solid VG to F condition and a 1919 wheatie. My first IH ever and first 19th century coin. That really increased my appetite for detecting. It was a very questionable signal: one I wouldn't normally dig. I just "had a feeling." When I saw the Indian on the obverse, my heart skipped a beat. surprisingly, it wasn't even all that deep. Looks like it got stuck on a rock on the way down as the obverse was very clean.

This week not even any clad - just two copper pennies: 1962 and 1970. A temporary dry spell I hope... I'm playing with the Hi-pro program and working with a new 950. I normally used the coin program and the 10DD. Maybe I just need to break myself in to those changes - either that or I need to recharge my luck batteries. I'm also digging more questionable signals than I used to after finding the IH and finding "beginner trash" again. Ugh.

Hell, I'm even digging those zinc pennies just so I can go home with something in my pouch...

John
 
John, Can you detect at the beach..like Jones Beach.
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=46

Jerry
 
Alas, no. NY State beaches and parks are off limits to metal detectors - too bad as there's a number of documented coin bearing shipwrecks in the area. There are a number of county and town beaches I could detect though. My real desire is old coins though, and the beach seemingly isn't the place for that. Not that I'm adverse to modern gold jewelry...

John

CROCK of COINS said:
John, Can you detect at the beach..like Jones Beach.
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=46

Jerry
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jgedde said:
Hell, I'm even digging those zinc pennies just so I can go home with something in my pouch...
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I know that feeling. :rolleyes:

Sounds like a nice indian head, though.
 
Reminds me of when I got my first detector in 1979. A Garrett deepseeker. The first week I had it I found a Barber quarter in my back yard. I thought, "Man. This is easy". It was two years before I found another one. Then I found two in two weeks. You just never know what or when. You just have to keep on swinging.

jimmyk in Missouri
 
I know the feeling John, hang in there, things will pick up. Where in NY State do you live. Are you near NW PA?
 
Hi Schrecky, I live on Long Island...
 
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