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ACE 250 Finds Hidden Cache!

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Neil in West Jersey

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I haven't posted here in a while. It has been tough to find time to detect lately due to my job, and a new family dog. The dog is a great digger with an amazing sense of smell. I plan on training him in pinpoint and recovery techniques.

Today once again confirmed the ACE 250's outstanding ability to out perform other machines!

I managed to sneak out for about an hour on Thursday. Due to time constraints I hit a spot about a mile from my house. There was once a gristmill and a home on the site dating back to the 1700's, but the house burned down in the 1970's and now it is all green acres. I had detected there quite a bit when I got my first detector and again when I got my CXIII a few years back, but the site was never productive at all. I am sure it has been hunted by others over the years. I made sure I concentrated on an area and gridded it out. The going was very slow due to English Ivy and the thorny underbrush. I found the candle holder and what I thought was an old Skoals tin or a shoe polish tin. I left it in my car overnight thinking it was trash. When I looked closer at it I realized it was a ladies compact. I shook it to hear the sound of what I thought was broken glass. I opened it and at first thought I guessed correctly, but then I saw a penny sticking out. I emptied the tin to find 11 Wheaties ranging from 1914 to 1926. I cleaned the 1926 in a peroxide bath. It has some corrosion but looks like it was new when it was put into the tin. I posted the pic of the reverse to illustrate this. I wonder if I passed this signal up in past hunts assuming it was a can or jar lid.

2 LESSONS LEARNED: 1- DIG EVERY SIGNAL...2-DOUBLE CHECK YOUR TRASH FINDS

I returned to the spot today for a few hours. A boy scout troop was on a cleanup mission, so I donated all of the cans I found to their cause. ;-) I got the 1950 quarter within 5 minutes. I wasn't that deep at about 5 inches, but it must have been on edge because it was a broken signal. Two hours later I dug the 1941D cent. I also dug a nice 19th century horse shoe which i also donated to the troop, and a whatizit that I will post in that forum.

My question is where are the older finds?????
 
[quote khouse]What a great find! It looks like that should have given you a high coin beep?[/quote]

I was sure it was either a can or jar lid, so YES, it gave a quarter reading, but I knew by pinpointing it was not a quarter. Metal detectors will only detect the first metal, they cannot detect through the first metal.
 
[quote khouse]It looked like brass?[/quote]

As you know, the display on the ACE 250 does not give VDI numbers, and only has 12 ID segments. Due to this and other factors I do not pay as much attention to details as I do when using my other detectors. 4 inches can be 3.5 inched or 4.5 inches. ID is sketchy on the ACE, not like the 24 notches on the CXIII and GTI series which I could often tell silver from clad,
 
Nice finds. You have to remember the detector has been around since 1932 and virtually everyplace has been hunted at one time or another and just because a place is old or looks old doesn't mean it's loaded with coins. and people didn't have a lot of coins to lose back then.. They were as valuable as our ten, twenty, and fifty dollar bills are now so they were carried in a coin purse and if someone dropped one they took the time to find it. To give you an example, when I was a kid ten cents would pay my way into a movie, fifteen cents more would buy my popcorn, candy, and coke. Figure what all that costs now and you'll see how much a dime was worth then. And farther back in time it was worth a lot more than that. A penny back then would buy what a couple of bucks buys now. Everything is relative.

Bill
 
[quote Uncle Willy]Nice finds. You have to remember the detector has been around since 1932 and virtually everyplace has been hunted at one time or another and just because a place is old or looks old doesn't mean it's loaded with coins. and people didn't have a lot of coins to lose back then.. They were as valuable as our ten, twenty, and fifty dollar bills are now so they were carried in a coin purse and if someone dropped one they took the time to find it. To give you an example, when I was a kid ten cents would pay my way into a movie, fifteen cents more would buy my popcorn, candy, and coke. Figure what all that costs now and you'll see how much a dime was worth then. And farther back in time it was worth a lot more than that. A penny back then would buy what a couple of bucks buys now. Everything is relative.

Bill[/quote]

There is no doubt this site has been hunted over the years. I myself have detected there at least 3 or 4 times over the last 6 or 7 years, with nothing to show until this week. The only things I did differently (besides what I already mentioned in my first post) was to move AWAY from the old foundations and obvious hot spots. This increased my chances of finding what others had missed. My question is not necessarily about finding old coins. In my experience coins are a bonus in hunted out areas. But I almost always walk away with very old lower conductivity targets such as flat buttons and other artifacts. I know they are there. It is just a matter of time. My guess is that I worked about 3% of the land, which leaves months of hunting ahead. If I found Wheaties and other early twentieth century items, then there must be older ones as well.

Here is another artifact found The buckle appears to be colonial. There is plenty of iron...Eventually I will start digging more of those signals. The other item is part of late 19th, early 20th century padlock. It was ID's by a user on another forum:
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[attachment 72275 lock01.jpg][attachment 72277 lock02.jpg][attachment 72278 lock03.jpg]
 
Dang... I thought someone posted finding a lock just like that the other day...
Well, unless I'm dreaming... The "6-lever" sure rings a bell..
Maybe it was you.. :/
MK
 
Awesome just Awesome!!!
 
n/t
 
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