bigtim1973
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Well I took out my anfibio 14 to a friends house. His mother is elderly and my friend along with his brothers and sisters take turns spending the night at his mothers house a few days a week. He told me the house is about 100 years old and they moved there in the 1960's.
This was my actual fist initial run with my anfibio. Well I must say I did not dig everything as I was just testing the waters over there to see where most of the action was on the property. It had not been detected before either. I also brought along a little unit and digging tool for him to use as well. He has never detected before but he is learning from me and had fun doing it. I gave him some pointers and he took off and he said he had a good time too.
All of the finds in the picture is what I dug with my anfibio. He found some clad and some odd and end stuff but I did not include his finds in this picture. .
As you can see in the picture there is a lot in the yard. One item looks like an old rear view mirror. An old measuring cup and another little cool find was the front end of a toy truck. It is above the coins on the right. I wish the whole thing was there. I also found some kind of hot wheel toy car of his which he lost in the 1960's and gave it back to him. He laughed and he said he does kind of remember having the toy.
The big white thing says mattel on it. It is probably out of a doll of some sort. It still has the little loop to pull it attached. I never found one of those before!!
The old grubbing hoe is pretty old as well.
I was shocked at how deep the pennies were. They were all in the 8 inch depth on average. One item is a commemorative type coin of the president John Quincy Adams. It has a reeded edge too. I have no idea how old it is either but it has a hole drilled in it like someone had it on a chain at one time.
One item I thought was a foreign coin turned out to be just some kind of slug out of maybe an electrical panel.
I dug several pennies from the 1960's and 2 wheat pennies 1953 D and 1954. But my highlight of the day was the 1937 D Mercury dime. I know that is not much but hey, finding silver on my first day out on a place to detect is a winner in my book.
I will be going back there in a couple of weeks. The ground was not too bad digging considering how dry it is. But I know there is more there.
The yard does have a lot of trash in it. I think I may invest in a smaller coil. I have my eye on a 7" DD coil by Mars I think already. I believe it would come in handy too.
This was my actual fist initial run with my anfibio. Well I must say I did not dig everything as I was just testing the waters over there to see where most of the action was on the property. It had not been detected before either. I also brought along a little unit and digging tool for him to use as well. He has never detected before but he is learning from me and had fun doing it. I gave him some pointers and he took off and he said he had a good time too.
All of the finds in the picture is what I dug with my anfibio. He found some clad and some odd and end stuff but I did not include his finds in this picture. .
As you can see in the picture there is a lot in the yard. One item looks like an old rear view mirror. An old measuring cup and another little cool find was the front end of a toy truck. It is above the coins on the right. I wish the whole thing was there. I also found some kind of hot wheel toy car of his which he lost in the 1960's and gave it back to him. He laughed and he said he does kind of remember having the toy.
The big white thing says mattel on it. It is probably out of a doll of some sort. It still has the little loop to pull it attached. I never found one of those before!!
The old grubbing hoe is pretty old as well.
I was shocked at how deep the pennies were. They were all in the 8 inch depth on average. One item is a commemorative type coin of the president John Quincy Adams. It has a reeded edge too. I have no idea how old it is either but it has a hole drilled in it like someone had it on a chain at one time.
One item I thought was a foreign coin turned out to be just some kind of slug out of maybe an electrical panel.
I dug several pennies from the 1960's and 2 wheat pennies 1953 D and 1954. But my highlight of the day was the 1937 D Mercury dime. I know that is not much but hey, finding silver on my first day out on a place to detect is a winner in my book.
I will be going back there in a couple of weeks. The ground was not too bad digging considering how dry it is. But I know there is more there.
The yard does have a lot of trash in it. I think I may invest in a smaller coil. I have my eye on a 7" DD coil by Mars I think already. I believe it would come in handy too.
