Ytcoinshooter
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Absent from here since my last post, I actually did go back on May 7 to the 1730 site where I found the 1904 Roosevelt - Fairbanks tag. Dug some mid conductors but nothing worthy posting except a 1912 dime found with brand F and 5" puck in heavy trash. Minelab, where is my 6" coil!!! Get those needed accessories to us! Arrrgh!
Yesterday was a day I will always remember. Earlier in the week Casey, my stepson contacted me about a NEW permission with a rich history back to 1659. I was eager to get out since I hadn't detected after May 7. Being Extremely tied up with elder care matters and a couple of other things that just had to get done, detecting took a back seat. Every year I start out verbally affirming something I'm out to find on my "list". "Spanish silver, larger than a 1R" was this years self pep talk. Noon Friday was when we arrived and the owner met us and is a really nice guy who offered his hospitality while he showed us his property. After detecting 2 hours when he was leaving for work he asked how I was doing while I was taking a break. All I had by then was trash and a spill of 19 cents, 60's era memorials and 2 wheats. After swapping out my F75 for my Equinox for the remaining 3 hours Casey and I compared notes and he had an Indian head, wheats and a silver dime. The round shot was my next good hit, then I got a steady 26 on the EQX display. I had dug some old beer can lids minus the pull tab that hit the same. I'm glad I took care with this target as I saw the Royal Arms of Philip V after I ran some water over it. Then the Jerusalem cross appeared as I did the same to the other side. Joyful disbelief, belief and a few other thoughts raced as I knew I had a pistareen! These Spain minted 2R's (if memory serves me) were a bit underweight compared to their colonial mint globe and pillar counterparts. Later after I came closer to see Casey's 1852 trime
I got a signal 20 feet from him that came in at about 18. That turned out to be a 20 minute dig as I pulled 5 colonial era coppers and two pieces of iron out of that spot. Worthy of a live dig video but it wasn't captured. Of those five one has silver remains of silver wash and one is just a hair smaller in diameter. I can make out KG 2 on a couple. It started out as a small hole and I ended up with a small excavation to be sure all of em had been found. Never had I ever found more than two coppers of any era or type together in the same hole. There's one other "list" item I'm hoping for this year and with the bias toward low conductors the EQX800 has and an old site to detect anything can happen.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YjsJOoDGQGf36iBE2
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rZE1s8qSDMmgN9dz1
https://photos.app.goo.gl/R1DWROFsYL8bkFw93
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zaWlQNQ3Z4mbuDCV2
https://photos.app.goo.gl/IYhUYEGDZPgTD6Oj2
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4CkPpvtvKnrKBWVh9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/UGMo4GidJy3g85xx1
Silver washed copper picture above. I reasonably think that this could have been an attempt at counterfeiting. I think the old slogan was "to counterfeit is death" seen printed on some colonial era currencies. Counterfeiting was rampant in the 1700's.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/lMRg73zhbX0FVu1P
19 cents in one hole, 2 were wheats, no zinclons.
I've had some good colonial coin days, a couple minors like a picayune a one R and a KG for example but yesterday was just awesome. I dug iron that spoofed as a coin as well as some rusty cans that did the same. I changed the recovery speed to 5 and left the iron bias at 0 until bumping it to 2 just before the copper spill in the last 45 minutes of the hunt. My other settings after a noise cancel and ground balance were park 2, 23 sens, reject to +9. I dig more junk with the EQX, but I feel it sees everything or darn close. If I were to try and dig every pip squeak...I'm liking the EQX and I'm trying to taylor it for my style. In wooded areas, fields, places I can dig freely it's easier to learn. I just dig more crap. Taking a look on this forum before I posted this shows how well people are getting on with this detector and it's no wonder. A little more target resolution, an overload signal and an accurate depth meter would just have put this detector so far over the top. As is it's a valuable tool that I need to experiment with more.
Happy Hunting!
Bruce
Yesterday was a day I will always remember. Earlier in the week Casey, my stepson contacted me about a NEW permission with a rich history back to 1659. I was eager to get out since I hadn't detected after May 7. Being Extremely tied up with elder care matters and a couple of other things that just had to get done, detecting took a back seat. Every year I start out verbally affirming something I'm out to find on my "list". "Spanish silver, larger than a 1R" was this years self pep talk. Noon Friday was when we arrived and the owner met us and is a really nice guy who offered his hospitality while he showed us his property. After detecting 2 hours when he was leaving for work he asked how I was doing while I was taking a break. All I had by then was trash and a spill of 19 cents, 60's era memorials and 2 wheats. After swapping out my F75 for my Equinox for the remaining 3 hours Casey and I compared notes and he had an Indian head, wheats and a silver dime. The round shot was my next good hit, then I got a steady 26 on the EQX display. I had dug some old beer can lids minus the pull tab that hit the same. I'm glad I took care with this target as I saw the Royal Arms of Philip V after I ran some water over it. Then the Jerusalem cross appeared as I did the same to the other side. Joyful disbelief, belief and a few other thoughts raced as I knew I had a pistareen! These Spain minted 2R's (if memory serves me) were a bit underweight compared to their colonial mint globe and pillar counterparts. Later after I came closer to see Casey's 1852 trime
I got a signal 20 feet from him that came in at about 18. That turned out to be a 20 minute dig as I pulled 5 colonial era coppers and two pieces of iron out of that spot. Worthy of a live dig video but it wasn't captured. Of those five one has silver remains of silver wash and one is just a hair smaller in diameter. I can make out KG 2 on a couple. It started out as a small hole and I ended up with a small excavation to be sure all of em had been found. Never had I ever found more than two coppers of any era or type together in the same hole. There's one other "list" item I'm hoping for this year and with the bias toward low conductors the EQX800 has and an old site to detect anything can happen.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YjsJOoDGQGf36iBE2
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rZE1s8qSDMmgN9dz1
https://photos.app.goo.gl/R1DWROFsYL8bkFw93
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zaWlQNQ3Z4mbuDCV2
https://photos.app.goo.gl/IYhUYEGDZPgTD6Oj2
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4CkPpvtvKnrKBWVh9
https://photos.app.goo.gl/UGMo4GidJy3g85xx1
Silver washed copper picture above. I reasonably think that this could have been an attempt at counterfeiting. I think the old slogan was "to counterfeit is death" seen printed on some colonial era currencies. Counterfeiting was rampant in the 1700's.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/lMRg73zhbX0FVu1P
19 cents in one hole, 2 were wheats, no zinclons.
I've had some good colonial coin days, a couple minors like a picayune a one R and a KG for example but yesterday was just awesome. I dug iron that spoofed as a coin as well as some rusty cans that did the same. I changed the recovery speed to 5 and left the iron bias at 0 until bumping it to 2 just before the copper spill in the last 45 minutes of the hunt. My other settings after a noise cancel and ground balance were park 2, 23 sens, reject to +9. I dig more junk with the EQX, but I feel it sees everything or darn close. If I were to try and dig every pip squeak...I'm liking the EQX and I'm trying to taylor it for my style. In wooded areas, fields, places I can dig freely it's easier to learn. I just dig more crap. Taking a look on this forum before I posted this shows how well people are getting on with this detector and it's no wonder. A little more target resolution, an overload signal and an accurate depth meter would just have put this detector so far over the top. As is it's a valuable tool that I need to experiment with more.
Happy Hunting!
Bruce
