Fairgrounds continue to give up awesome coins!

[CZconnoisseur]

I've been without internet since we moved in here and just figured out how to use my phone to post low enough resolution pics to this site!

Have been making sporadic trips to the fairgrounds but each trip never fails to turn up something interesting! Dug a fantastic Standing Liberty quarter dated 1925...this is my first slq of the year and was only about 4 inches down. Not ten feet away I dug a nice 1926 d merc, and also close by was a beat-up 1934 d merc. I remember both of the quarter signals were 80-85 and the audio wasn't perfect on either one, usually silver quarters are 85-87 if the ground is clean. The 1937 quarter had a 3 inch nail resting less than an inch away which undoubtedly made the audio a tad scratchy but still a "dig me" signal nonetheless.

All five silver coins came from a fifty foot square area north of the rollercoaster site
This area is not quite as trashy but contains plenty of buried concrete chunks of various sizes.

Starting on Thursday this site is going to become a disc golf course, only one of two inside Memphis city limits. A bobcat will be brought in to scrape several inches off the surface for placement of the teepads
The 1926 d merc was located under the future site of hole#15 teepad, only 3" deep.

The new course will be a welcome addition to the city, and future metal detecting will be preserved for anyone and everyone looking for old coins and relics. Just watch out for flying discs...day and night!

 

[Cladiator (OR)]

Way to go CZ! A very productive area. I bet your anxious about getting in there after the Bobcat does some scraping. Thanks for the pics and congratulations on the finds!

 

[Ism]

Very nice haul CZ. I have never gone to my local fairgrounds. I don't have a clue where to start.
There is a park near me that was a fairgrounds in the pre 1900's but then the fairgrounds were moved.
I have found a few oldies at the park but there is no rhyme or reason where the coins were found.

 

[Sleepyjim]

Hey CZ, still using the 4k prog or the bottlecap?

Also this future scrap job, if possible try to detect the dirt piles, talk to the crews at the end of their shift...Bring beer maybe (for them)LOL

Used to do that is Georgia when doing shoppiing malls and housing areas in the woods....

and of course give a shot to the new exposed area below the scraps...

GL!

Jim

 

[CZconnoisseur]

Have been using Coop's program with minor tweaks only...

4 kHz
Sens = 85
Disc = 20 (twenty)
Reactivity = 2, sometimes 3
Silencer = 2
Iron volume = 0
Audio response = 5
Overload = 1
Notch = 93-99

While running Disc at 20, I leave notch alone except for the upper regions for iron targets. Hardly ever get any signals that ID below 30, and the machine runs super quiet like this. Can hit a dime at 8-9" solidly while in reactivity 2, in r3 7" is about it for a solid, repeatable "dig me" tone. Running audio response at 5 enhances those 6" plus targets, a few toasty Wheats have come from the depths while running this program.