JimmyCT
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This afternoon I went to a spot that I have hunted for many, many years. I have run over this target in the past (even with the Equinox with a recovery of 6, iron bias 2, 50 tones, sensitivity at 20. With this setting it told me it was iron every which way. the tones bled out and fizzled away) What I feel made the difference tonight was slowing the recovery speed to 4, running sensitivity at 23 and Iron bias - 0. Tonight I hear all the iron grunts like R2D2. What a disaster of a signal but slowing down in this mess I hear this blip of a high tone. I start "massaging" the signal with a very tight wiggle and a nice high tone started to emerge and a relative steady 30-33 TID. I pinpointed and dug and dug and dug. I truly thought it was gonna be a deep nail but out pops out what I think is a token.
I place it in my bag and continue hunting. I get home and run water over it to get the dirt off of it. Still perplexed as to what it could be. Out comes the 200X magnifer.
I send a picture over to Fcrawford and he says, "I think I see FUGIO" I then see a date of 1787. I then performed a internet search and what I saw pop up made my mouth drop. How can a FUGIO cent/ Franklin cent from 1787 be at this location?????????????? I guess its real?! I am still in shock IF this is a real coin.
I believe I have finally made it into the 1700's club ?
So for all those wondering what my settings are -
Park1, Ground balanced but I do not use tracking, 50 tones ( I wouldn't use anything else but 50), "all-metal" mode where I hear everything, iron volume set at 1, non-ferrous volume 25, iron bias - 0, Recovery 4 and scan slow. "massage" those iron signals. If they continue to fall apart, move on. However if you can keep a pretty consistent high tone, get your digger out. You may very well get fooled by a few nails but to me that's part of the hunt. Do I like it? Heck no. But since I have been doing this, I have found more silver, more IH and Wheat cents and now my very first 1787 FUGIO cent.
Its a little crusty but I know I would be if I was 232 years old
Thanks for looking. The best advice summed up: Slow down your recovery speed and scan slow. I feel you will be well rewarded from the coins that are heavily masked by iron.
I place it in my bag and continue hunting. I get home and run water over it to get the dirt off of it. Still perplexed as to what it could be. Out comes the 200X magnifer.
I send a picture over to Fcrawford and he says, "I think I see FUGIO" I then see a date of 1787. I then performed a internet search and what I saw pop up made my mouth drop. How can a FUGIO cent/ Franklin cent from 1787 be at this location?????????????? I guess its real?! I am still in shock IF this is a real coin.
I believe I have finally made it into the 1700's club ?
So for all those wondering what my settings are -
Park1, Ground balanced but I do not use tracking, 50 tones ( I wouldn't use anything else but 50), "all-metal" mode where I hear everything, iron volume set at 1, non-ferrous volume 25, iron bias - 0, Recovery 4 and scan slow. "massage" those iron signals. If they continue to fall apart, move on. However if you can keep a pretty consistent high tone, get your digger out. You may very well get fooled by a few nails but to me that's part of the hunt. Do I like it? Heck no. But since I have been doing this, I have found more silver, more IH and Wheat cents and now my very first 1787 FUGIO cent.
Its a little crusty but I know I would be if I was 232 years old
Thanks for looking. The best advice summed up: Slow down your recovery speed and scan slow. I feel you will be well rewarded from the coins that are heavily masked by iron.
