First Coins Ever!!!!!

[jakechiro]

It was a nice day up here in northern virginia so I decided to go to a couple of lots that were recently cleared. I only got to get out there for about thirty minutes. There is alot of trash metal in the ground so it was hard to get a good signal in two consecutive swipes of the coil (help needed with that). I finally started digging on a penny sized object and popped out two wheaties. One was 1940 and the other was a 1939 (any advice on cleaning them?). Needless to say now I am hooked!! If you guys have any advice on how to hunt this place, please put your ten cents in (no pun intended). Thanks for looking!

Jake
springfield, va

 

[DavHut]

...I suggest gridding. I use some plastic stakes with some cord between them at 12 foot distance. Just spread them out so you have a 2-sided segment of a square, like you were plotting out an area where you were goning to pour concrete. Then, work to clear that area of targets. this owrks pretty well in cleared lots and you dont miss much.

You'll likely spend as much time clearing trash as you do anything else. Things can be hidden by trash and thus missed, so you gotta keep at it. Dont get discouraged - cleared lots can be frustrating for the best of us. Consider these lots an exercise, whereby you work to develop your personal "Trash Tolerance Mindset".