Found a Seated Dime, How to clean it?

[samuel_schumaker]

Well my streak of one silver every hunt for 3 hunts ended yesterday, after detecting for about a half hour on my lunch break and about an hour after work at the same park i only came away with a 40 wheat cent and some clad. My dad came along and hung out with me for awhile and he thought it was pretty cool that i had found those older dimes. Im thinking about trying to find him a used explorer for his bday so he can detect with me when the creeks are too high to arrowhead hunt. We were talking with an old neighbor who was walking his dog thru the park lastnight while i was detecting and he said that a few years ago 5 guys stayed in a camper for a week and hunted the entire time thru the whole park area. He never talked to them to see what they had found, i knew the area had been hunted but didnt know quite that much. I think the area where i found the shalllow seated dime is where some dirt was moved to make a wider parking area so it probly explains why it was so shallow. The barber dime i found that was really deep tho i believe is probly where it was lost and was just not picked up by other detectorists because it was kind of a chopped iffy signal. O well, i will still be hunting it, thinking about moving to the other side of the swimming pool and trying some different areas, theres also a 8 acre or so lake right below the park and swimming pool that has been around since the early 1900's with camping and picnic areas scattered around it. I Have plenty of area to cover. I also might try the old horse track/ fairgrounds outside of town some this weekend if the weather is decent. HH all. Sam

 

[dewcon4414]

Anytime there is dirt moved you get highs and lows. Finding those spots where the new dirt is shallow or still old dirt can pay off and is often pased over by some hunters who dig a few deep pieces of clad. No one gets it all 5 or a 100 hunters. Some times if one of the guys is hunting an area the others wont go back over it. Big mistake if something old was found. Angle of the coil, sweep speed, junk close to good targets, EMI..... and so on all affect you walking over a target. With seated items....... id hunt it repeatedly and think out of the box. Old bushes and places you cant get into in the summer you can in the winter, tree lines, and wooded areas all produce. See if you can get some pictures of the park maybe from the local historical society also check on line for old atlas they some times show buildings.

Dew