Big sterling medallion :shocked:

[MAcle1997]

Got out on Wednesday afternoon for a few hours at a local church yard I've
been working on for the last few weeks. I had high hopes of finding some nice
coins at this church because it sits next to the town square in a village founded
in the early 1800's. It looks like someone may have beat me to it though
because I've found about $10 in clad and memorial cents, about 30 nice wheats
(1913-1957), and two silver dimes (1927, 1946). Wednesday was a perfect
day for metal detecting here. The ground was damp, yet dry enough that I didn't
leave knee prints of any trace of digging.
Near the end of the hunt I got a signal that sounded like a penny at about four
inches, a 4-29 signal on my Explorer II using the Sunray X-5 coil. Had to go a bit
deeper to find this down at seven inches. My larger stock Minelab coil broke last
month so I've been using the X-5 until I can get another larger coil. Its snowing
here today so I may have to wait until next year to continue hunting that church.

Mark
Fredonia, New York

 

[DougF]

Very nice medallion - Congrats. Are you near Olean ? I was up there a few years ago and wondered if that old amusement park (Rock City or something like that) has been searched. I guess every place has been searched now.

 

[amc rulz]

n/t

 

[MAcle1997]

I'm about 50 miles from Olean, but I've never been detecting out that way before.
You're right about unsearched sites though. I found one this summer that was
very overgrown but still provided several silver dimes dating from 1892 to 1923
and a dozen very worn and corroded Liberty and Buffalo nickles. The wheat cents
and indians were there too but almost unrecognizable due to corrosion. I had a
great time fighting through the underbrush just to see what was out there. I think the
reason why that area was unsearched was that my competition either didn't know
the history of the area or didn't want to put out the extra effort needed to search an
overgrown site. Hope you can find a similar site next year. Wear gloves, watch out
for ticks and poison ivy!

Mark

 

[born2hunt]

That's one big hunk of silver and a nice one too. Congrats

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Very cool medallion!