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First trip out w/MXT

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Howdy all. I bought an MXT abt. a month ago & have just played around w/it on my own place & pasture to get used to it (finding very little). Last Sun. I went to an older area in town where an old home is being remodeled. I worked a small 10x30' dirt area between the frnt. sidewalk and street for roughly two hrs. & found these coins. Realizing that there's no real monetary value here ("S" mint on qtr.) I was still pretty excited to find a silver coin and a "V" nickle on the first trip out w/the MXT...
 
You need to keep an eye on that spot and keep hitting it. Congrats on the finds <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">.
HH,
Brian
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This is what I like to see as this give a person more intrest in detecting. I like to look at these older coins and try to visualize when they were lost by the condition of them and put myself in that time frame, then what the person could have been doing when they were lost.
It may not be worth much money to most, but these are priceless to me as there is something about a coin or rings that has been in the ground waiting all them years for you to come along and find it, probably been there before you or or parents were born just waiting for you to find it.
I have been looking for over 32 years for a seated quarter, but still dont have one, but have a lot of seated dimes, but no quarter.
Great find and I hope you can get back and find some more old coins.
Rick
 
Were you just using the stock coil on the MXT? Have you detected before? If so, what have you used? What's your opinion about the MXT?
Keep working with it to master it and I think you'll find it to be one of the better models on the market today. How deep were the Seated & 'V' coins? Again, congratulations on the nice finds!
<EM><STRONG>Monte</EM></STRONG>
PS: What part of Idaho are you in? I get over to and through there several times a year.
 
Thanks guys, Yes, I was using the stock 9.5 coil, I also have the 4x6 coil but haven't really used it yet. Yesterday, I bought Whites DD-1400 coil so I'll have it when & if needed/wanted.
I've not detected before so I have nothing to compare the MXT with but it seems to do a nice job & is simple/easy to use. I live near Boise & actually work in Boise. "Gerry" from Gerrys detectors in Boise was w/me on this particular outing to help get me pointed in the right direction on using the MXT. (I think he started having second thoughts abt. taking me to that spot abt. the time I found the qtr....ha) The coins ranged from 1/2" to prob. abt. 4-5" deep. The silver qtr. & the V nickle were in the 4-5" area.
Yes, Rick, that's the interesting part to me as well in finding the stuff is that it's just been laying there all these years quietly froze in time while the rest of the world goes on. A kind of odd thing is that out of the 10-11 clad dimes I found, 7 of them were all together in a small area of abt. 10x20" or so, all abt. 2-3" down. I'd dig one & another would be right close by. I did go back the next afternoon for abt. an hour & only found a very large, very thick & heavy flat washer abt. 6" down that looks like it was maybe a retaining washer from a wheel from a very old wagon/buggy or the like??
Weather etc. permitting, I'm hoping to get out this weekend to an old farmhouse & 63 acres of ground where I was raised as a kid & look around. It was originally started abt. 1910 or so & could be a good area to play on.
Sorry abt. the length of this.
Later... DW
 
Well, I didn't want to say so... But I did almost turn cartwheels! lol
I've been reading the various posts and looking at the neat stuff on here that different people have been finding but never did think for a minute that I'd have that kind of luck myself. I have to admit that it was pretty neat. I just looked at it for a minute down in the hole trying to figure what it was, knowing that it "surely wasn't" a silver coin, figuring it was another S/S washer till I got the dirt off of it. I thought, Dam! that was just too easy!
Abt. 10-20 minutes later is when the V nickle showed up. I was by then, pretty excited. It was all starting to sink in!
 
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Wish I could have days like that! DW you just got to wash the hands before taking the pictures though! Someone might think you enjoy playing in the dirt! But on the serious side, "Good job!"
 
Right on, Ron. Good tip, I'll try and remember that. (I now keep a pr. of gloves in my truck to play in the dirt with.)
HH-DW
 
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