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Got out for a short F5 hunt....

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Bill Ladd

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I took the F5 to the cellar hole that appears in one of my YouTube video's that the F70 found a fugio cent at. There was a couple area's we had yet to hit...specifically the cart road that leads into the Colonial site. Rains were due soon so I had maybe 2 hours and just worked the dirt roadway with the F5. First off here's a photo of the cellar hole again. Built into the side of a hill.....the chimney was that rock pile in the middle.
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I figured a flat button or 2 would turn up, and I was lucky that 2 of the 4 I dug were decorative.....circa early 1800's with the one on the left pewter.
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Then right next to one of the buttons, on the edge of the cart road out popped this nice little surprise......an 1847 Seated Half Dime.
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Surprisingly this was the only silver coin to surface here thusfar and we have wacked it pretty hard (probably more in the bed of nails in & around the foundation that we will get eventually.....)
Here's the back of the coin.....
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It began to rain right as I was looking over the coin, so it was nice to get out for a couple decent hours with the F5....
HH,
Bill
 
Love that half dime. The buttons are good too. The button I posted last week, I found out is from the mid 1800's.

I have a few cellar holes I need to MD. One is a two mile hike. My mother was born in that two room log house from the early 1800's. All that is left is the stones and half the cabin was the cellar.
The other one was a log cabin moved to Iowa. A farmer wants to show me its location. Shouldn't be much trash. I'm really hurting for some free time to MD.
 
n/t
 
Great job Bill!
The F5 is a great 7.8 freq machine light great on coins for the price you can't go wrong. It hold its own for relic hunting seems to be a great machine for the money more bang for the buck.
 
I don't remember even checking the inches meter and don't want to guess 6" down or something as then someone will begin to spread the rumor the F5 only gets 6" on a silver dime........:)
HH,
Bill
 
we have 3-4 inches of pine needles to go through. If we fine a good area, we rake it almost bare.
 
actually you found it @ 5"..that translates to $100.00 an inch!.total effective depth?...5"!

(h.h!)
j.t.
 
Folks don't understand that the tiny coins like 1/2 Reale's, half dimes, etc. in these wooded sites have experienced 200 years of leaf litter. Pine forests are the worst as you have like 8" of pine straw & that puts all the small stuff out of reach of a VLF detector. Couple that with a ton of square nails near the house & these coins are hard to come by.....This is why the coins we usually find are large cents at cellars. I was lucky I got the half dime along a roadway in a rut. The dirtroad still being used today probably helped alot, & the F5 is a good coinhunter @ 7khz freq. as well.......
HH,
Bill
 
Great finds Bill. I've enjoyed watching your F5 videos (as well as the others) and reading your posts about the F5.

I've been very impressed with everything I've read about the F5, and am really fascinated with the great UI design (kind of makes you wonder why nobodies done it before?) so I pulled the trigger on one.

I'm hoping to get it next week and will be trying it on some older spots up where my parents live (might try some fresh water lake hunting with it too, as their lakes water level is really low this year). Last time I was up there I pulled a 1903S key date Barber dime out with my Sovereign, but the Sovereign is such a slow hunter I'm hoping the F5 will allow me to cover more ground with the same capabilities (it's certainly a lot lighter and more ergonomic then the Sov).

Keep the F5 find posts coming folks :detecting:
 
How many people have bought F5's after watching my video's........
This is the future of advertising & promotions...
Thanks for the kind words,
Bill
 
have that checked- its some kind of rare breen type i think with the 1847 date cutting into the rim.
great find!1111111
dave
 
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