First curb strip silver of the year...

[REVIER]

How did I miss this thing year after year?
In a curb strip that I hit over and over using 4 detectors and many coils, the F70 recently and others years ago when I lived here before, plus a friend with an E Trac has been over this exact spot many times too and who knows how many others, I found this dime and this time it was easy.
Not super deep but deep enough to be severely masked in this rough soil.
Not even close to a solid stable signal which is why everyone missed it, but it acted like others coins I recently began noticing and digging before I opened a hole.
I have been over this thing from many angles so that wasn't the difference, what happened is recently something clicked between me, my F70 and the big DD coil.
I observed some behavior I hadn't noticed before and in the last week I have dug for me a record amount if older coins in different sites and the season is just beginning.
Wonder what this year will shape up to be if this great stuff is happening this early?

 

[Venner]

I've had the same experience in the very mineralized soil in my own yard, which I've probably gone over a couple dozen times in the last 30 years. I got a new Minelab X-Terra with a DD coil a couple of summers ago and was shocked to uncover a dozen wheat pennies, three silver dimes, and indian head, and a bunch of other miscellaneous things. Different detector, different design, different detecting conditions, etc. It's amazing the things you can pass over year after year even when you think an area is "hunted out."