Darkflight
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Wasn't out too much-rain wind & duties limited me to a couple of short hunts last week & I got 3 hours of digging in this morning before the stuporbowl.
The silver dime was shallow & under a tree on a roadside pullout. But it was an older road & it is now a bypass-and there was a house at the corner near as I can tell. Lots & lots of typical debris & some modern trash but not the typical tab fest I'm used to like the parks.I came back the next day & used my 4" coil-Bam! 1st target out of the car by the tree-Silver quarter!
The 2 pennies were a bit harder to find-in amongst the debris & ringing in as zincs-but they are the deepest green patina I've seen. They are still wet from olive oil but too bad I missed they are not key dates. They are 1917 & 1923S-best condition pennies I've ever dug-I'm not used to non fertalized coins.
Today the area was a blank(ok I did dig a nice older headstamp but no old coins) & super windy. I retreated to a school nearby.
I am happy to even dig a target here I've scrubbed the place so hard. But some suprises came up-very low coin count however so I'm getting there. The necklace/chain are not gold but the flower work is nice & its not corroded. Chain is-oh well! Still nice grabs for a scrubbed field.The broche or whatever is costume but still qualifies as target species-just not gold....
Then in the playground dirt area I found what I thought was a button-Nope-an old token!. Tiny also,rang as a dime @6" or so.I have found a century old headstamp in this spot so I know they put the school on an old established area.
Like I said when I can I run 2nd notch power & Ground Balance spot on. It really gets good results.In tough areas I back off the GB to avoid falsing. But I switch back asap. In my tough test garden I have a 9" nickle-under a layer of gravel put in for drainage that has a lot of hot rocks being from Oregon.
None of the high test machines I've used did as well as the 3300 at the above settings. Anything with a good no motion all metal would hit it in that mode. But the 3300 is the only one to nail it in disc. It tells you its a dime however wich I have found is typical of this machine. Trash tends to ring lower at extreme depth & decent targets higher. It Id's silver very well at depth when I'm lucky enough. All this silver was shallow amongst trash.
Here's a link to the token in much better shape-How it got to Oregon I'd love to know.
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=234717&inventory_id=182914&td_image_id=101257&attribution_id=238936&td_create_uid=9&record_offset=0
Wasn't out too much-rain wind & duties limited me to a couple of short hunts last week & I got 3 hours of digging in this morning before the stuporbowl.
The silver dime was shallow & under a tree on a roadside pullout. But it was an older road & it is now a bypass-and there was a house at the corner near as I can tell. Lots & lots of typical debris & some modern trash but not the typical tab fest I'm used to like the parks.I came back the next day & used my 4" coil-Bam! 1st target out of the car by the tree-Silver quarter!
The 2 pennies were a bit harder to find-in amongst the debris & ringing in as zincs-but they are the deepest green patina I've seen. They are still wet from olive oil but too bad I missed they are not key dates. They are 1917 & 1923S-best condition pennies I've ever dug-I'm not used to non fertalized coins.
Today the area was a blank(ok I did dig a nice older headstamp but no old coins) & super windy. I retreated to a school nearby.
I am happy to even dig a target here I've scrubbed the place so hard. But some suprises came up-very low coin count however so I'm getting there. The necklace/chain are not gold but the flower work is nice & its not corroded. Chain is-oh well! Still nice grabs for a scrubbed field.The broche or whatever is costume but still qualifies as target species-just not gold....
Then in the playground dirt area I found what I thought was a button-Nope-an old token!. Tiny also,rang as a dime @6" or so.I have found a century old headstamp in this spot so I know they put the school on an old established area.
Like I said when I can I run 2nd notch power & Ground Balance spot on. It really gets good results.In tough areas I back off the GB to avoid falsing. But I switch back asap. In my tough test garden I have a 9" nickle-under a layer of gravel put in for drainage that has a lot of hot rocks being from Oregon.
None of the high test machines I've used did as well as the 3300 at the above settings. Anything with a good no motion all metal would hit it in that mode. But the 3300 is the only one to nail it in disc. It tells you its a dime however wich I have found is typical of this machine. Trash tends to ring lower at extreme depth & decent targets higher. It Id's silver very well at depth when I'm lucky enough. All this silver was shallow amongst trash.
Here's a link to the token in much better shape-How it got to Oregon I'd love to know.
http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=234717&inventory_id=182914&td_image_id=101257&attribution_id=238936&td_create_uid=9&record_offset=0
