They tore down an old house this past week, here in the small town where I live. This was one of those places that just has all the "signs" of a few coins hiding in the yard. Old pine trees on each side of the front sidewalk, concrete steps up the incline along the curb and a few shade trees in the backyard. I'd can't tell you how many times I've driven past it and thought about asking permission to hunt that tiny yard. But, like so many others, I just never did. Now that the house is gone, I figured it was just a matter of time before some serious dirtwork took place and my curiosity would never be satisfied. So I called the owner and got the green light to swing the detector. I arrived on the scene with my X-70 loaded up with the 6-inch DD coil. I made a couple passes across the front yard, north of the sidewalk to the house, and found a few newer Lincolns and a clad quarter. I had just started to make a few passes over the south side of the walkway, when I looked up and saw my brother walking toward me. He had stopped by the house for a visit and learned of my whereabouts. I asked him if he brought his detector and he said "no, I can't stay long. I'll just watch you for awhile". I made a few passes with the coil and got a hit. The target produced a TID of 40, with a consistent high tone from opposite sweep directions. However, when I worked the small DD coil around the target, the multi-tone audio broke into a "flute like" sound. I unplugged the headphones and asked him what he thought it might be. He agreed that the tone was not consistent from varying directions and wasn't sure if it would be a coin or not. I contemplated whether or not to dig. And even speculated that it might be a dime on edge or a dime with adjacent trash. I kept sweeping over it, not really sure whether to go to the effort to dig or not. It was then my brother said: "you know, I read the X-Terra forum a lot. And there is a guy on there that always ends his posts with the quote: "You'll never know for sure......unless you dig it!" I laughed and agreed that it probably was good advice. I'd like to say that there was no doubt in my mind when I started digging, that it would be a dime. But there was some doubt! I have to admit, however, that it is tough to not make the effort when your brother is standing over your shoulder, offering such "good advice". Especially when he read it on the X-Terra forum! Anyway, I am happy to report that the target was an 1876 Seated Liberty dime. And it was on edge, about 5 inches deep. Nearly worn smooth. But another seated dime, none the less, making this the twentieth seated dime I've found with the X-Terra.
There is a little more to the story....... I was feeling a bit guilty, digging old silver, when my brother was without his detector. So we made the short trip over to my house and I equipped him with my X-50. We returned to the site and started searching the entire lot. Over the next 30 minutes, I dug a few more Lincolns, a thimble and a Mercury dime. My brother was sweeping the X-50 without results, and had that "I sure wish I'd brought along my X-70" today! So, being the good brother I am, I swapped my X-70 for the X-50 he was using. (There are a lot of similarities between the way I set both detectors. But I will say that I did miss the threshold tone, Prospecting mode for target sizing and multi-tone audio.) Anyway, within a few minutes of taking over on the X-70, Bill came walking toward me with one of "those looks" on his face. I don't know what it was that he found. Without our glasses, neither of us can read dates or lettering on coins or tokens. But it was an old token of some sort, about the size of a half dollar. We had to leave shortly after. And he wasn't going to clean it up until he got home. Hopefully he reads this post and fills us in on just what it was. And if he does read this, I want him to know that, even if it had been a half dollar, I'd have let him keep it.
HH Randy
There is a little more to the story....... I was feeling a bit guilty, digging old silver, when my brother was without his detector. So we made the short trip over to my house and I equipped him with my X-50. We returned to the site and started searching the entire lot. Over the next 30 minutes, I dug a few more Lincolns, a thimble and a Mercury dime. My brother was sweeping the X-50 without results, and had that "I sure wish I'd brought along my X-70" today! So, being the good brother I am, I swapped my X-70 for the X-50 he was using. (There are a lot of similarities between the way I set both detectors. But I will say that I did miss the threshold tone, Prospecting mode for target sizing and multi-tone audio.) Anyway, within a few minutes of taking over on the X-70, Bill came walking toward me with one of "those looks" on his face. I don't know what it was that he found. Without our glasses, neither of us can read dates or lettering on coins or tokens. But it was an old token of some sort, about the size of a half dollar. We had to leave shortly after. And he wasn't going to clean it up until he got home. Hopefully he reads this post and fills us in on just what it was. And if he does read this, I want him to know that, even if it had been a half dollar, I'd have let him keep it.
HH Randy
I really appreciate you letting me use the X70. I think going from the X50 to the X70 is probably OK but going from the X70 to the X50 was a bit of a chore. I didn't remember all of the extras that the 70 offered!! 
Sorry everyone an old private joke and I'll probably never hear the end of it, 
just gets funnier as we both get older.