Eric in RI
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Got out of work at 4:30 today and picked up my roommate Jay and we headed over to the farm. This farm was owned by a silversmith family back in the late 1700's to the early 1900's. All era's of coins have been found here as well as a few pounds of scrap silver. We originally wanted to hit an old school site that has yielded seateds, but there was a ballgame going on so plan B was to pound the farm again since we were very close by.
We arrived with only an hour of daylight left. Jay headed in the woods and I stayed on the field. The grass hasn't been cut in several weeks so trying to get any real depth would be a challenge with the 5x8 coil on. I cranked up the sensitivity to max, used a bit of iron discrimination up to 22 (machine falses a lot in this field) due to hot rocks, emi, bits of iron everywhere, you name it. I don't normally use any iron discrimination, but I was pressed for time. I slowly worked my coil over the flat spots in the field. I was following some tire tracks made at the top of the field and had a halfway decent hit. The numbers were jumpy a bit, but the tone sounded real good (almost like a coin tone). I dug a 4" plug, stuck the pro pointer in the hole and pulled out what looked like a tack. I wiped away the dirt and silver started showing thru. Sure enough there was a sterling stamp on this whatsit, cool! This is one tiny piece of silver as you can tell in the photos. Weighs virtually nothing, but the AT Pro with 5x8 picked it up no problem at all at 4". It was starting to get dark and I worked my way to the truck, the grass was relatively higher near the house so I decided to put the 8x11 coil on. After 10 minutes of swearing at the connector positions on the AT Pro, I was back in business. By that time it was pitch black and Jay made his appearance from the woods. He had 2 wheats in his pocket and an aluminum marijuana pipe he found on the surface. We worked close to the house as there was a spot light on that made digging and seeing that much easier for us. I mentioned to Jay that there is another King George copper hiding out close to where I found mine last year. A few minutes goes by and Jay said he had a real nice coin hit at 6". He dug a plug and called over to me saying he had a copper. Unfortunately its caked with dirt on both sides, but we think its a Large cent from 18something. Awesome! Its currently soaking as we speak, but I will have Jay let me photograph it when its done soaking. I worked over near where he found the Large cent and managed the 37 wheat. All in all, not a bad evening hunt. HH!
We arrived with only an hour of daylight left. Jay headed in the woods and I stayed on the field. The grass hasn't been cut in several weeks so trying to get any real depth would be a challenge with the 5x8 coil on. I cranked up the sensitivity to max, used a bit of iron discrimination up to 22 (machine falses a lot in this field) due to hot rocks, emi, bits of iron everywhere, you name it. I don't normally use any iron discrimination, but I was pressed for time. I slowly worked my coil over the flat spots in the field. I was following some tire tracks made at the top of the field and had a halfway decent hit. The numbers were jumpy a bit, but the tone sounded real good (almost like a coin tone). I dug a 4" plug, stuck the pro pointer in the hole and pulled out what looked like a tack. I wiped away the dirt and silver started showing thru. Sure enough there was a sterling stamp on this whatsit, cool! This is one tiny piece of silver as you can tell in the photos. Weighs virtually nothing, but the AT Pro with 5x8 picked it up no problem at all at 4". It was starting to get dark and I worked my way to the truck, the grass was relatively higher near the house so I decided to put the 8x11 coil on. After 10 minutes of swearing at the connector positions on the AT Pro, I was back in business. By that time it was pitch black and Jay made his appearance from the woods. He had 2 wheats in his pocket and an aluminum marijuana pipe he found on the surface. We worked close to the house as there was a spot light on that made digging and seeing that much easier for us. I mentioned to Jay that there is another King George copper hiding out close to where I found mine last year. A few minutes goes by and Jay said he had a real nice coin hit at 6". He dug a plug and called over to me saying he had a copper. Unfortunately its caked with dirt on both sides, but we think its a Large cent from 18something. Awesome! Its currently soaking as we speak, but I will have Jay let me photograph it when its done soaking. I worked over near where he found the Large cent and managed the 37 wheat. All in all, not a bad evening hunt. HH!
