Another walk through the park. This time, mercury rises in the shade of the ole gum tree!

[bottlebum]

I went back to the park where I had found the walking liberty half, to see if I might get lucky again. Started hunting under a gum tree near the tennis court. Sure enough, my first dug signal turned out to be an 1942 mercury dime. (same year as the half dollar I found the day before) It was actually the second signal. I had passed on the first, thinking it to be a pulltab. (which it was)

From then on, I decided I would try and dig only the signals that I thought might be silver. Searched another hour or so, passing alot of signals that I figured were pulltabs and clads. I ran into a couple of signals that sounded close to the sound I got from the silver dime but they ended up being clad dimes. Clad dimes seem to give more of a scratchy, high tone. Towards the end of the hunt, I started to go for any coin sound and ended up getting a clad quarter and a memorial cent. I know I passed on alot of clads. I am going to go for them after I get a meter for the machine. For me, it's alot easier to separate the pulltabs from the clads and nickels, with the meter.

I've included some pics of this huge park. The pictures show only a small portion of the entire park. The hardest thing is deciding where to start searching. Luckily, my first two choices were good ones.

Thanks for looking and HH, bottlebum

 

[bottlebum]

More pics.

 

[Lizardchaser]

Nice park, nice pics and nice loot!

Hope you find lots more goodies there

Thanks for sharing...

HH Nick

 

[Rick(ND)]

It looks like a very old park where you can find some great old coins and you are off to a good start.
One thing I would dig is all the clad signals too as some of them can be some older silver. If using the 180 meter I would dig all the 176-180 that are nice signals and those that are very weak that are deep can and will give some lower readings. I make it a rule to dig all weak signals that the tones and meter reading are trying to climb but just can make it to the correct ones.
Remember to go slow and real slow at areas you know there could be some deep coins as the signals will be small and weak.

Good luck
Rick

 

[bottlebum]

Thanks to Nick and Rick for the replies

I found a decent deal on a new Digisearch meter on eBay and should have it soon. I know I don't really need it to find things but it sure helps me avoid digging pulltabs. That is, once you learn the numeric signal given off by the different styles of tabs. Deftinatly a time saver, as is the inline probe.

HH, bottlebum

 

[Ron from Michigan]

The old green wheat pennies I'm finding 1909 to late teens are coming in low on the ID meter 173s,which is lower than the IHs that I found in this park.You may want to check a few of these low numbers even when they don't climb with the wiggle some good targets may have been passed..

 

[bottlebum]

The old green wheat pennies I'm finding 1909 to late teens are coming in low on the ID meter 173s,which is lower than the IHs that I found in this park.You may want to check a few of these low numbers even when they don't climb with the wiggle some good targets may have been passed..

I'm operating without a meter right now, that is until I receive the one I just bought today on eBay today. Got a pretty decent deal on a new Digisearch meter with a one year warranty.

I passed on alot of the mid to med-high signals because there were alot of them and I knew from the experiance that I had gotten when I used to have a meter, that there is sometimes not much difference numerically between some coins and pull tabs and can slaw etc.. Because of my hearing, I have a problem noticing some of the subtle differences in tones. The meter helps me alot.

I'll keep your ID #'s for future reference.

Thanks, Bottlebum

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Bottlebum,the meter will help.Another interesting number is 178,which I don't think a hunter with great hearing will notice the tone difference.There are a lot of screw tabs and aluminum targets that produce this number.I don't think a Sovereign is complete without a 180 meter and Sunray probe.

 

[bottlebum]

I agree......

 

[Rick(ND)]

You are seeing this 178 number too as i have seen that is the alum screw cap and some of the older wine bottle caps. I say a 179-180 is the copper penny, clad and silver coins while the 176-177 is the new zinc pennies, the IH and some of the first Wheaties while if i get a 177-178 it has been the screw caps at least 80% of the time and yet the tones are so close without a 180 meter you couldn't tell the difference.

Sounds like you like the GT, I sure do and feel those that knows the Sovereigns will see the difference in the GT over the older ones.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Rick,I have noticed even if there's a 178 blip on the screen and it locks higher to a 179 chances are its a screw cap.I agree with you without the meter a hunter won't separate the tone difference.The GT performance has an edge over the XS,more options,the handle and rod asm are more compact and works as well or better than the after market straight rod asm the battery system is much better.I like the GT thanks for the help.By the way the XS was sold to a guy in Italy and the XS2a I got off of you was bought by a guy in France for his birthday both buyer's wrote back and are happy with their Sovereigns .