Eric in RI
New member
Man oh man, what a great hunt today! I was sitting around the house all day watching detecting vids on Youtube. I was having a lazy day and usually check out some vids to get the blood pumping and motivation going. Well it worked! I arrived at pounded park at 3:30 and today's goal was to find a Centennial coin, or close to it. I started off the hunt slow with several trash signals and deep clad. I came across a signal that was ringing up as a wheat penny. I dug the plug and pulled out a bent iron nail. The original signal was a repeater from both directions so I figured something else was in the hole. Ended up pulling a sweet shield nickel! I've only dug 4 of these in the 12 years that I've been hunting and this one is the best condition. Unfortunately the other side is still caked with dirt so I haven't been able to get a date yet. I did however get it on live dig!
About 45 minutes later I get a bouncy coin signal ranging anywhere from 65 all the way up to the mid 80's. I dug a plug amongst the swamp maple tree roots and was rewarded with the crusty Buffalo nickel. I figured this was going to be a nickel kinda day as I already dug a couple of Jefferson nickels. Usually I have a few weeks where all I find is nickels and pennies and then one good week of silver digs. I found 7 silvers at pounded park last week and figured I was getting back in the groove of nickels and pennies. Well I sure was wrong.
I was working the edge of a path around the pond and got a really bouncy high tone. It was very faint and even with the sensitivity cranked all the way up, it still was iffy at best. The numbers bounced all over the place and I saw 99 come up a few times. I had my doubts that it was a coin, but lately those 99 signals have yielded extremely deep coins for me. I dug a plug thru a bunch of swamp maple roots, stuck my shovel in and scooped out some dirt. I ran the pro pointer in the hole and on the plug and couldn't find the signal. I was getting ready to just fill the plug in and call it a ghost signal. Before I did that I looked at my shovel and saw 2 silver reeded edges and a penny stacked on top of each other in the dirt left on the shovel. I turned on the GoPro and started filming. I was so excited on camera because this has never happened before. It turns out the 3 coins were a V-nickel, 1945 Merc and a 1946 Roosie. What a freaking day! If you get a chance, check out the video of todays hunt. HH!
https://youtu.be/1z5F8RED1Xc
About 45 minutes later I get a bouncy coin signal ranging anywhere from 65 all the way up to the mid 80's. I dug a plug amongst the swamp maple tree roots and was rewarded with the crusty Buffalo nickel. I figured this was going to be a nickel kinda day as I already dug a couple of Jefferson nickels. Usually I have a few weeks where all I find is nickels and pennies and then one good week of silver digs. I found 7 silvers at pounded park last week and figured I was getting back in the groove of nickels and pennies. Well I sure was wrong.
I was working the edge of a path around the pond and got a really bouncy high tone. It was very faint and even with the sensitivity cranked all the way up, it still was iffy at best. The numbers bounced all over the place and I saw 99 come up a few times. I had my doubts that it was a coin, but lately those 99 signals have yielded extremely deep coins for me. I dug a plug thru a bunch of swamp maple roots, stuck my shovel in and scooped out some dirt. I ran the pro pointer in the hole and on the plug and couldn't find the signal. I was getting ready to just fill the plug in and call it a ghost signal. Before I did that I looked at my shovel and saw 2 silver reeded edges and a penny stacked on top of each other in the dirt left on the shovel. I turned on the GoPro and started filming. I was so excited on camera because this has never happened before. It turns out the 3 coins were a V-nickel, 1945 Merc and a 1946 Roosie. What a freaking day! If you get a chance, check out the video of todays hunt. HH!
https://youtu.be/1z5F8RED1Xc
