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I cant walk on water

and BTW, I did do a little tectin in the Spring and Summer too. <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=";)"> (just no pics)
PS I didn't put many coins in the pic. It was a relic photo. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
Brian,
That is a great find and may be the best I have seen by anyone. I hunted for years and all we could do back then was dig and get dirty. There were no discriminators and none of us had any idea how the detectors worked at any serious technical level. I have found thousands of coins but only one gold coin, 2 1/2 dollar, in all these years. The best have been two 1916D Mercury dimes both found in Nebraska, one in Page and the other in Platsmouth.
I donated a very large collection of coins to the First Baptist Church in Bellevue Nebraska and then sold a lot of silver when the Hunt brother were paying 100 to 1 for silver. I think they went broke on that one but a lot of us cashed in. I sold the best of the 1916D dimes for $300 plus 16 uncirculated silver dollars in Omaha Nebraska. That was a big mistake on my part but back then was a pretty good deal. My family took a vacation on the money and I got to say to my wife that a detector pays for itself after all. Ha ha
There were 102 parks in Omaha and I got in on the ground floor finding thousands of coins in the early seventies. We would keep a shoe box in the car and fill our pockets with coins and go to the car to unload in the box. It was a bad day if you did find at least 30 to 40 keepers. I found so many Mercury dimes and Indian heads that I could put them in coin rolls. I have often wondered what it would be like to go back with and Explorer and may well do that.
I am sure we found more coins and jewelry, mostly rings, then not only because there were more in the old parks to find but because we dug everything.
However, you are making a great point and that is you don't have to know how a washing machine works to use it effectively. I can walk on water but it is just one very quick step.
Great find and I know you are very proud of it.
HH, Cody
 
The relics really look interesting as do the coins. I am getting more into relic hunting and will get a photo up of a site I am hunting. My son has my digital camera but have found some great mini and round balls, buttons, reals, and other CW finds. He found a 1/4 cut from a reals that was used for change. We have access to a site on private property that I mentioned before that is really starting to pay off. My son and I will go out on Monday as an area was turned last week that has not been turned for about 100 years. We have found some good relics in that area and will be the first to detect the turned fild. The old road from Fort Smith Arkansas to Fort Gibson Oklahoma crosses the property where we will be hunting.
Great finds,
HH, Cody
 
during the carter admin cody and many did also gold and silver were highest ever why not cash in <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
I also sold and traded thousands in silver in those yrs and I too have been at it since the late 60's <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)"> and have done my fair share of trail and error and the net is a great learning tool to share do's and dont's <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
Also tho this has become a lazy world we live in if ya know what I mean and some just always sit doing air tests saying they cant get no depth <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">... if ya know what I mean
I cant walk on water but look for the easiest way for me to the other side without gettin to wet <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D"> thats gonna work the best <img src="/metal/html/wink.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=";)"> HH
No hard feelings I hope just must be one of them dayz <img src="/metal/html/biggrin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":D">
 
I have no hard feeling at all about anyone on the forums. You really nailed it about lazy. I hate to say much about it but if you don't dig it I have no doubt a lot of good stuff is left in the ground. You know back then it was pop bottle caps that was the problem as pulltabs were not yet invented. I bet I have dug a 50 thousand pop bottle caps but just thought of them as the price of a seated or barber coin. I use to think well that coin cost me 100 pop bottle caps.
The first detector was a CM4 by Whites and I turned it on and walked over to an old park bench and in less than a few seconds had found my first coin which was an Indian head. I was hooked for life. That coin was not more that 2" under the soil but I found seated dimes at 6 to 7 inches in the same area. That was interesting back then as you could find very old coin only a few inches deep and then hit one at 8". When I first figured out those smooth rounded very slight tones were coins I had to go back over all the areas I had searched thinking if the sound did not knock your ears off it was nothing.
HH, Cody
 
I'm not sure you would want to go to a lot of the parks in Omaha, that you went to, not too safe, in some of them. Like Miller park, or down in the one in Carter Lake. They were probably good ones when you were there though. Still might be if you wanted to carry a gun will detecting.
 
I could go to any park and hunt all day and never have to worry. I found hundreds of coins at Hanscom, not sure of the spelling, park. That was where the 2 1/2 dollar gold piece was found. I hunted Miller park many times with no problem but even back then that was one you that made me a little cautious. It took years of hunting just about every do to clean out the park at Platsmouth just outside of Bellevue. You could not hunt in the winter but it was great hunting in the spring, summer and fall. I was in such a hurry to get out in the spring that there would still be snow up around the trees so I would hunt in the areas where the snow had melted.
The only people to talk to about metal detecting would be the few guys you ran into or that you got started in the hobby. I was a Whites dealer in those early days so ended up with a few guys to hunt with by selling them a detector. I was the guy that got the first few users together to found the metal detecting club there in Bellevue. Whites would encourage you to found clubs if you were a dealer which was a great idea to spread the hobby.
HH, Cody
 
First of all super find...Many get into technical aspects and many use the K.I.S.S. formula and am sure are many somewhere in between..I like myself to keep things simple but that is ones own decision and am sure many excell using any of the above principles. Again do it your way and above all have fun as an Explorer will produce using any of the above...
 
Cody, its may be party your fault that I got into metal detecting then. Back in the 70's a friend of mine, Dave Weaver from south Omaha had a Whites detector that he wanted me to try in my yard, and I did. I didn't get one then but it put the bug in my mind, and later I just had to have one. I found a few coins in the yard with it, I'd like to go though it now with my Explorer, probably find a whole lot more, as the old Whites from those days, weren't all that good. But I wouldn't move back to Omaha now, its just tooooo cold.
 
I have two email address and somehow the wrong one gets listed. I think it has to do with how we register with the forums and which one I am using when I go to the forum.
Use this email, caldelect@hotmail.com
Sorry for the problem.
HH, Cody
 
Dave Weaver, you say, That name sounds Familiar.!!
I think I know that guy. <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
Tom
 
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