I swear they were not there in December….

[Ronstar]

Last December a childhood friend let me detect his parents home. They both have passed and Kieth lives there still, I’ve known him since childhood and we graduated high school together.
Weather here now is where getting out is easier and ground conditions are optimal for cutting plugs. I called him up and asked if I could resweep the lawn areas and see if anything might pop up. This area last time gave up a Rosie, two silver quarters, a dateless Buffalo, a 1911 V nickel, and well over 40 wheats from early 1910s to late ‘50s.
I got there, dug in, and started my assault. Started getting penny signals and eventually dug 9 more wheats, one 1929, six 40s, and a ‘52. One signal kept locking in on a dime number but confidence meter was a no show, dug it anyway. Up came a smooshed little silver ring, at least I was pretty sure it was silver. A few minutes later I got a good nickel number and went in 4-5” and pulled up a 1910 V nickel! Pulled the 1911 about 2-3’ away last time, why didnt I hear this then? The ring was tricky because of the square nail patch it was in, but this nickel was a lock on!!!
I’m becoming more and more convinced the frost heave theory is valid. This area was partially flooded by rains followed by two near 0-F temps, I think some of these rose up just enough to be solid hits.
The ring is a 1940s Campfire Girls ring marked Sterling on the inside.

 

[Elmy]

Last December a childhood friend let me detect his parents home. They both have passed and Kieth lives there still, I’ve known him since childhood and we graduated high school together.
Weather here now is where getting out is easier and ground conditions are optimal for cutting plugs. I called him up and asked if I could resweep the lawn areas and see if anything might pop up. This area last time gave up a Rosie, two silver quarters, a dateless Buffalo, a 1911 V nickel, and well over 40 wheats from early 1910s to late ‘50s.
I got there, dug in, and started my assault. Started getting penny signals and eventually dug 9 more wheats, one 1929, six 40s, and a ‘52. One signal kept locking in on a dime number but confidence meter was a no show, dug it anyway. Up came a smooshed little silver ring, at least I was pretty sure it was silver. A few minutes later I got a good nickel number and went in 4-5” and pulled up a 1910 V nickel! Pulled the 1911 about 2-3’ away last time, why didnt I hear this then? The ring was tricky because of the square nail patch it was in, but this nickel was a lock on!!!
I’m becoming more and more convinced the frost heave theory is valid. This area was partially flooded by rains followed by two near 0-F temps, I think some of these rose up just enough to be solid hits.
The ring is a 1940s Campfire Girls ring marked Sterling on the inside.

always swing right to left and left to right over the same ground...then take a step forward. If your coil crosses a coin first, you will hear the coin.
If it crosses trash first , you will hear the trash. That is how a coin near any trash is missed.
GREAT HUNT !

 

[Confetrit]

Well Done Ronstar.

 

[Ronstar]

You shared that wisdom awhile back and this is what I do now. I’m starting to agree the frost heave theory really does play into secondary finds in the same hunted out patches.

 

[Elmy]

You shared that wisdom awhile back and this is what I do now. I’m starting to agree the frost heave theory really does play into secondary finds in the same hunted out patches.

absolutely.....an old wooden deck on a house will raise an inch or more in the winter....check the corner posts...especially if not cemented in.

 

[jim tn]

Its always fun to recover something out of a "hunted out" spot. I like those V nickels, good hunt, WTG!

Where ground freezes, no reason to think frost heave doesn't occur. And, good targets among trash can sound good from one direction and not another. Also, its almost amazing how small of a ground spot a a 5" deep dime takes up when swinging a coil. Easy to miss numerous times. And as a spot yields less and less good targets we began to dig more iffy signals and iffy frequently can be good. HH jim tn

 

[JimmyCT]

The V nickel is in great condition! Very interesting read on the ring. I definitely believe in the frost heave theory.

 

[fwcrawford]

I experienced about the same thing as you did the other day when I found that 1916 dime and large cent…. I have been over this yard quite a few times, yet they were still there…frost their could very have something to do with this.
Nice finds you made there!!!

 

[laplander]

Great idea to go back. Miss it by an inch miss it by a mile LOL We as detectorist see lots of "mysteries" It's in your pouch is all that matters!
HH Jeff

 

[fwcrawford]

The V nickel is in great condition! Very interesting read on the ring. I definitely believe in the frost heave theory.

I’ll send a little cold weather up your way to move some more coins around for you…

 

[JimmyCT]

I’ll send a little cold weather up your way to move some more coins around fur you…

 

[Ronstar]

Kieth managed to find some old Sanborn Insurance Fire Maps for his area. He knew the house was moved northward from its original position but wasnt sure when. It is shown on the 1904 map to the south and the 1909 map has it in its current position. Need to buckle down and crawl that around that area from 1904. I still haven’t found that elusive walking liberty quarter yet…….

 

[jim tn]

Talking about iffy targets and hunted out spots, I'll reference here just what we all have been talking about.

I've mentioned this spot my two hunting buddies and I have been hunting since last Nov, an old, large, site that is being renovated, ie, moved ground, tearing down a building and rebuilding one in a different spot and tearing down trees, and so on. There is a parking area that the site manager asked us to park on so our vehicles would be out of the way for the coming and going of his heavy equipment. Yes, he gave us permission to hunt the site as long as we stayed out of the workers way. He is now the proud owner of a jug of good ole Tennessee sipping whiskey and will get another jug before its all over.

Anyway, the area out from where we park right off began yielding coins, older and newer, along with a couple of Eagle buttons and a half dozen or so Civil war bullets, a couple of silver jewelry items and I got a 1849 Large Cent. Consequently, its been hunted hard and sees coils across some areas of it as we walk across it heading off to another area of the site. Last Sat out of an area we've all been over numerous times I got a faint quarter reading and from 9" pulled my 2rd Large Cent from the spot, an 1848. About 10 minutes later I got kind of a mixed, scratchy signal and from 5" deep gazed upon a 1790 Half Reale.

Fast forward to Mon and from the same area I recovered another Large Cent that's pretty toasted, but might be a 1855. Not to far away I got a faint signal and recovered a 1840o Half Dime.

My intent is not to high jack Ron's post, but to illustrate regardless of how hard a good site has been hunted, one is never hunted out. I use a Minelab Equinox 600 and the other two guys mostly use a Ctx 3030 and one is now currently learning a Deus 2. HH jim tn

 

[Ronstar]

Jim, no high jack hurt here. I sometimes think a Chinese $20 kid detector can find stuff a $1700 big boy toy missed. You are absolutely spot on with never hunted out, once a target is removed it opens another up.

 

[Mark kus]

Nice finds yeah those V nickels are usually not in very good shape when I find them that ones nice!
Mark

 

[GeorgeinSC]

I worked a park a few years back and found one silver quarter. The old national guard armory that was no longer in use gave up a bunch of wheat pennies along with a quantity of clad.

A year later i went back and started working the propery again. The park gave up four silver dimes and the abandoned armory gave up 8 silver dimes and one silver quarter.

All it takes to miss a coin is one inch / direction of work can also make a difference if there is trash in the ground.

 

[fwcrawford]

Jim, no high jack hurt here. I sometimes think a Chinese $20 kid detector can find stuff a $1700 big boy toy missed. You are absolutely spot on with never hunted out, once a target is removed it opens another up.

Funny you mention that…. Some years ago my buddy and I pounded an old park and found lots of wheats, quite a few silver coins, old nickels and IH cents.
We had spent quite a bit of time here to the point it was getting hard to find much of anything, I was using the Sovereign and my buddy was using the DFX.
One day we were there and a little kid came in with his dad and we had seen and talked to them once before there.
He told us his son had found a silver quarter the weekend before and he was using an ACE 250!!!
We looked at each other and scratched our heads!!!
No one gets it all as they say…

 

[jim tn]

Funny you mention that…. Some years ago my buddy and I pounded an old park and found lots of wheats, quite a few silver coins, old nickels and IH cents.
We had spent quite a bit of time here to the point it was getting hard to find much of anything, I was using the Sovereign and my buddy was using the DFX.
One day we were there and a little kid came in with his dad and we had seen and talked to them once before there.
He told us his son had found a silver quarter the weekend before and he was using an ACE 250!!!
We looked at each other and scratched our heads!!!
No one gets it all as they say…

Funny thing is, I put the time in and consider myself a better then average hunter. Yet, having said that, I look forward to hunting after myself. First the easy pickings get gone, then the iffy signals come into play, then those one way squeakers. Iffy and squeakers is quite often where the more choice targets are. HH jim tn