Hello All
My E-trac was out of commission for several months. It had lost all target response just past the two year mark, and as I had believed it had a two year warranty, I left off on detecting as I had cleaned out most of the the good sites that I could think of around here. But eventually I contacted Minelab and they were nice enough to tell me that the warranty was three years, so I sent it off and it came back good as new. I decided to try a local hiking trail that had given me an 1875 seated dime a couple of years ago, but very few other targets. First I found a peace symbol pendant that came in on a pulltab but maybe just possibly gold signal. Then I hit a very chirrpy, warbly 12-46 that I figured would be a clad quarter, maybe a merc. It seemed to move around a bit when i was digging it, and I was thinking maybe it was a large trash object throwing the pinpointer off. But when I finally got it out of the ground, I thought I had a large cent, but It was thinner and lighter than an LC, so I thought it was trash, but then that homely bust of the King emerged and I immediately rubbed all the dirt off with my fingers in direct contravention of all metal detecting etiquette and principle. Unfortunately it has a scratch between Carolus and III from being dug. Whattayagonnado. I think maybe if I put it in a bowl of the same dirt it was in and leave it out in the weather for a while it will corrode the scratch and make it look like the old scratch on the reverse. Anyway, it's two more reales than I had when I started the day.
My E-trac was out of commission for several months. It had lost all target response just past the two year mark, and as I had believed it had a two year warranty, I left off on detecting as I had cleaned out most of the the good sites that I could think of around here. But eventually I contacted Minelab and they were nice enough to tell me that the warranty was three years, so I sent it off and it came back good as new. I decided to try a local hiking trail that had given me an 1875 seated dime a couple of years ago, but very few other targets. First I found a peace symbol pendant that came in on a pulltab but maybe just possibly gold signal. Then I hit a very chirrpy, warbly 12-46 that I figured would be a clad quarter, maybe a merc. It seemed to move around a bit when i was digging it, and I was thinking maybe it was a large trash object throwing the pinpointer off. But when I finally got it out of the ground, I thought I had a large cent, but It was thinner and lighter than an LC, so I thought it was trash, but then that homely bust of the King emerged and I immediately rubbed all the dirt off with my fingers in direct contravention of all metal detecting etiquette and principle. Unfortunately it has a scratch between Carolus and III from being dug. Whattayagonnado. I think maybe if I put it in a bowl of the same dirt it was in and leave it out in the weather for a while it will corrode the scratch and make it look like the old scratch on the reverse. Anyway, it's two more reales than I had when I started the day.
