GKMan
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I decided to take my daughter out detecting for a bit today with no expectation other than having a good time and recovering some pocket change along the trail. We met up with my father (who got me into detecting over thirty years ago) and planned on having a nice little family outing. We got a decent signal and Abby recovered it. The target ended up being Abby's first pull tab (you can see the excitement on Abby's face). Hopefully some day she will be able to claim she has recovered thousands like I have ( or so it seems sometimes). We continued down the trail and recovered some more targets including some actual modern pocket change. Abby was excited to see real money popping out of the ground and we continued on our way. Being that this is a trail along a stream means that you are going to find a lot of trash ( mostly aluminum cans) that have washed down over the years and ended up far from the actual stream itself after the spring floods had receded.
Abby was talking to Grandpa and I was swinging quickly along the trail ahead of them so as not to slow them down (including two dogs). No attention was being paid to overlapping or swinging at a reasonable speed. I heard a really nice signal (too nice) in the middle of the trail. This signal did not pass the can test. If you don't know what the can test is, it's picking the coil up six or so inches and listening for a diminished signal or not. Depending on the results you can usually be pretty sure wether it is worthy of recovery.
I decided to recover it nonetheless since I figured it may be the last target of the day. Everyone gathered around and I took a small scoop of dirt and out popped big silver. I knew what it was almost immediately and was already wishing that Abby had been the one to dig it up. Abby picked up the coin and I told her it was a Barber Half Dollar, 1901. We were all excited and remarked on the comment I had made at the beginning of the walk about detecting along the stream having been so good to me over the years. After the excitement wore down and some pictures were taken we detected the area for any of it's friends but only found several more pieces of modern coinage, so unfortunately it wasn't a silver pocket spill but, no one is complaining.
What a great time
Thanks for looking and happy hunting
Gary
[attachment 318206 Abbytab.jpg][attachment 318207 AbbyShovel.jpg][attachment 318208 AbbyCoin.jpg][attachment 318209 BigSilverAbby.jpg][attachment 318210 Obverse.jpg][attachment 318211 Reverse.jpg]
Abby was talking to Grandpa and I was swinging quickly along the trail ahead of them so as not to slow them down (including two dogs). No attention was being paid to overlapping or swinging at a reasonable speed. I heard a really nice signal (too nice) in the middle of the trail. This signal did not pass the can test. If you don't know what the can test is, it's picking the coil up six or so inches and listening for a diminished signal or not. Depending on the results you can usually be pretty sure wether it is worthy of recovery.
I decided to recover it nonetheless since I figured it may be the last target of the day. Everyone gathered around and I took a small scoop of dirt and out popped big silver. I knew what it was almost immediately and was already wishing that Abby had been the one to dig it up. Abby picked up the coin and I told her it was a Barber Half Dollar, 1901. We were all excited and remarked on the comment I had made at the beginning of the walk about detecting along the stream having been so good to me over the years. After the excitement wore down and some pictures were taken we detected the area for any of it's friends but only found several more pieces of modern coinage, so unfortunately it wasn't a silver pocket spill but, no one is complaining.
What a great time
Thanks for looking and happy hunting
Gary
[attachment 318206 Abbytab.jpg][attachment 318207 AbbyShovel.jpg][attachment 318208 AbbyCoin.jpg][attachment 318209 BigSilverAbby.jpg][attachment 318210 Obverse.jpg][attachment 318211 Reverse.jpg]
