Fairgrounds still producing

[Coinseeker 78]

It may not seem like much to many of you but it is a great find for me. The AT PRO has proved to be wonderful at unmaking coins in trash. My hunting buddy and I have been detecting an old Fairgrounds for the last three years. We have found many coins from Large cents to seated and barber coins to mention a few. I have hunted with my Minelab SE and recently my AT PRO. My buddy uses his Minelab SE. We have cleaned out the easy stuff and now have to resort to hunting the masked coins that we and others in the past have missed. This is more exciting and satisfying then just digging a strong unmasked coin. We usually still find a couple good coins each trip. Yesterday was an example of the success that can be had in trash. I found a coin that gave me a very iffy signal at 6 inches. I was getting an intermittent coin reading among the iron over this one spot and felt I was getting more then a nail reading. So I dug. First came out a square nail and then another one. I ran my pinpointer around the hole and got another signal. I dug about another inch down and out popped an 1867 shield 2 cent piece. The coin is very fine with a beautiful patina and not any loss of detail. in fact the fine lines in the shield stripes are crystal clear. I held my breath as I got my glass out but discovered it was not a double strike. This coin had to have been dropped shortly after it was minted. I was using Pro zero setting and the ground balance settled at 90. I notice the AT PRO seems to lock on to higher ground balance numbers then my Fisher F70. I was using my 5X8 coil and have dug coins at 8 inches with it especially when I decrease my balance about 5 to ten numbers on the ground balance scale. This detector is a wonderful tool and provided me with a lot of good finds in coins and artifacts. Photo's are forthcoming.

 

[Coinseeker 78]

It may not seem like much to many of you but it is a great find for me. The AT PRO has proved to be wonderful at unmaking coins in trash. My hunting buddy and I have been detecting an old Fairgrounds for the last three years. We have found many coins from Large cents to seated and barber coins to mention a few. I have hunted with my Minelab SE and recently my AT PRO. My buddy uses his Minelab SE. We have cleaned out the easy stuff and now have to resort to hunting the masked coins that we and others in the past have missed. This is more exciting and satisfying then just digging a strong unmasked coin. We usually still find a couple good coins each trip. Yesterday was an example of the success that can be had in trash. I found a coin that gave me a very iffy signal at 6 inches. I was getting an intermittent coin reading among the iron over this one spot and felt I was getting more then a nail reading. So I dug. First came out a square nail and then another one. I ran my pinpointer around the hole and got another signal. I dug about another inch down and out popped an 1867 shield 2 cent piece. The coin is very fine with a beautiful patina and not any loss of detail. in fact the fine lines in the shield stripes are crystal clear. I held my breath as I got my glass out but discovered it was not a double strike. This coin had to have been dropped shortly after it was minted. I was using Pro zero setting and the ground balance settled at 90. I notice the AT PRO seems to lock on to higher ground balance numbers then my Fisher F70. I was using my 5X8 coil and have dug coins at 8 inches with it especially when I decrease my balance about 5 to ten numbers on the ground balance scale. This detector is a wonderful tool and provided me with a lot of good finds in coins and artifacts. Photo's are forthcoming.

The patina is great but the pictures do not do it justice.

 

[CaballoDeOro]

That is a beautiful coin. Congratulations!

 

[B.RATNY]

That is in exceptional condition. Excellent find.
HH Butch NY

 

[mudpuppy]

That IS a beauty! Hey CoinSeeker, I got an AtPro from Bart to go along with my F70 too! Only had it for less than two weeks, but they seem to be getting along famously! Question, when your AtPro battery light is blinking, didja ever stuff those "dead" batterys into your F70? I did yesterday, and had full power when I put them in the F70, its gotta be because the F70 is such a miser when it comes to juice! These two will be a great tag team I think!
Mud

 

[SmallCent]

That is a gorgeous dug coin. Still hoping to cross a 2-center off my list. I will live vicariously through you for the time being. Stellar find!

 

[Coinseeker 78]

Great idea on those battery's Mud I need to watch my expenses being retired. I am going back to the old fairgrounds probably tomorrow and using my F70 with the 5 inch coil. It shuld unmask better then the AT PRO with the 5X8 coil. At least I will find out and hopefully have something else to show. Good detecting friend.

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

Did the same thing took batts out of my Pro when only had one bar left and put them in my F75 and had 3 bars so they still have lots of juice. I have run batts down to no bars in the Pro but the signal got weaker/softer sounding first towards the end of their life, then the machine acted up getting all noisy and jumpy like a bad coil so I noticed I had no batt left. Put in fresh new ones and she was as good as new so apparently when you get down to one bar on the batt meter in the Pro better keep an eye on it, it does make a difference.

 

[William-NM]

Wow! That's a gorgeous coin!!

 

[Johnny Cache]

That is one of the nicest 2cent coins I have ever seen, congrats!