E-trac at local park :ausflag:

[gregliss]

Hammered a local park with the e-trac, about 15 hours detecting all up.

Lots of Aussie oldies.

All coins at 6" to 9", Deep on, fast on, trash high, auto +3 (sat around 23-25)

Half Pennies: 5x1943, 1916, 1945, 1920, 1942, 1936(UK)
Pennies: 1924, 2x1950, 1942, 1923, 1936, 1922, 1952, 1948, 1943, 2x1934, 1964.
Three Pence: 2x1925, 2x1944, 1943, 1942, 1919, 2x1936, 1922.
Six Pence: 1921, 2x1943.
Shilling: 1925
Florin: 1947, 1954.

Cheers,
Greg

 

[Hard Nosed Dave]

for you to go over that site again.........with the next best detector that ever comes out that can surpass the E-tracs ability in finding coins(I'm sure we'll see one come out soon).............or maybe your convinced you've "sanitized" that site of all it's coins? You might have , but you can never be that sure really , can you?

I've got a site like that, BUT I've gone back with a detector, set up slightly different with wet or with the driest of soil conditions or a different size coil and I always end up finding stuff that was "hidden" from any other detector with different settings that I would have tried earlier hunts with the variable ground conditions(with certain wetter or dryer soil types).

Could still be a layer below that one or possible some that were masked even in the layer you found all of these coins in you know. I think that's what spurs most of us on to go back.........never being 100% sure.

HH

David Di

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

That was a great hunt Greg! It's rare to see that many pe-decimals come out of one site in such a short space of time.
Well done.
Mick Evans.

 

[gregliss]

Tonight I opened the pattern right up and went over part of it for the fourth time, pulled out a 1900 UK penny and a 1942 Six pence.

I'm looking forward to a bit of rain so the soil can get a bit of moisture in it, until then it's really starting to thin out.

Has been a great training ground for the E-trac.

 

[Ex-Sox]

Great hunt! I dont know anything about your coins but that many early daters has to be good anywhere!!

 

[moseng]

Nice! Makes me want to go back to the places I've been and hunt them again! Thanks for posting your E-Trac config. This will help some from your area I'm sure. I think Auto sense works pretty well as is evident by the depths you found these coins at.

 

[sharpshooter]

[size=medium]Good Job, Greg.

You averaged better than 2 old coins per hour. Pretty darn good for an old park.[/size]

 

[gregliss]

Back out this morning for 2 hrs and got a 1919 Six Pence, 1942 & 43 Three Pence and a 1951 Penny.

Tried all-metal to catch the coins that may have been masked by a blanked target. All metal was a bit too much for me....too many high pitch tones on iron. Changed to AndyS's pattern with a slow swing (one swing in 6'ish seconds) and got the above.

 

[gregliss]

[size=medium]Good Job, Greg.

You averaged better than 2 old coins per hour. Pretty darn good for an old park.[/size]

I've been very lucky to find this park and it's going to be hard to beat it. The more popular part of the park has been hammered and I have only pulled out one old coin from there. The part of the park I'm in is no longer popular these days but was early/mid 1900's and just looks like scrub now, I've got nearly 50 oldies out of a 80mx50m area. So I was very happy to find this unworked site only a short drive from home......it's worked now though LOL

Cheers

 

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paul

 

[gregliss]

Add 1913 Penny and 1931 Half Penny.

Got some rain last night.......should mix things up a bit.

 

[vikingvic]

Nice finds... still too much snow here... looks like another month or so...

 

[gregliss]

Got out again tonight for a couple hours, same place.

Finally cracked the 1800's

1891 & 1908 UK Half Pennies,
2 x 1945 Aussie Pennies, and
1938 Aussie Three Pence.

 

[lazyaussie]

wow that's a nice pile of oldies ya got there mate & you"v got a great silver per copper ratio i usually run at 4 Penny's to 1 silver.
lazyaussie

 

[gregliss]

Got out for an hour to the same park and got the following:

-1944 and 2x1951 Six Pence,
-1949 Three Pence,
-1951 Half Penny.

But my fav is a 1889 UK Three Pence. (now my oldest coin)

Sorry about the crap pics...I need to buy a scanner.

Cheers

 

[johnnywilliamson]

Great hunting there, Greg! Keep up the good work. If you're not using the "Macro" setting on your camera, doing so could definitely help your photo results. Keep the finds/posts coming. Johnny

 

[gregliss]

Found a couple more silvers, 1953 Florin and 1944 Three Pence.

Cheers

 

[gregliss]

Found a few more:

1896 UK Halfpenny,
1946 Shilling,
1962 Six Pence.