Irony

[mwaynebennett]

I have now spent about a year using my BH metal detectors looking for my first silver coin or wheat penny to no avail. Today I was looking at my pocket change and there was a 1952 wheat penny I had gotten in change at some store.

Go figure.

Mark

 

[dave5710]

Did you go back to where you found the half? How about that old highway you found? Mark, I have 9 wheats this year, (trust me that is not a big number) but 7 of those have come from places that I have hunted at least a few times each year for several years. One came up with two other cents, one from the 70's and one from the 80's. I don't think it was in the ground more than a year. Do you max out your discrimination, to get the deep stuff? Are you hunting real trashy places, where the good stuff is masked? I wish I could do something to help Mark. The coins are there, you just need to get your coil over them. Speaking of coils are they the same size and if not, do they interchange? If so, you might try the largest coil on the more powerful machine, if it isn't on it already. Good luck, Mark maybe it will come this weekend.

 

[mwaynebennett]

Hey Dave:

The coils on the Pioneer 505 and the Elite 2200 are the same size. I have no other coils. The Pacific NW was one of the last parts of the lower 48 to be settled and developed, therefore there are many "new" communities and I happen to live in one that really didn't come into any kind of meaningful existence until the late 1950s. My house is the oldest in my neighborhood and it was built in 1974, so I find many newer coins but not many older ones. Where the first elementary school is now was originally homes and that school was built in the 1960s, so the play field seems to be a promising place. I did find an Indian head nickel there a few months ago and a small gold and ruby ring. I went there this evening to MD but there was some athletic activity going on, so I searched the front of the school and miracle of miracles, I found a 1957 Canadian dime made of........................ get this.................
[size=x-large]SILVER[/size]

Can you freekin believe it? My first silver coin and it is from another country.

I find that by searching near old trees, it is less likely that there is any substantial fill dirt masking buried treasure. I found the dime near a 100+ year old Douglas fir tree.

It has been to darn cold and rainy around here this spring that I have not gotten out much. As soon as we get our single day of summer (it will fall on a Sunday this year) I'll take off the rain coat and go check-out the places I have been eyeballing all the other 364 days of the year.

Thanks for the encouragement.

Mark

 

[dave5710]

100 Atta-boys!!!

 

[Dano505]

Way to go Mark!!! Your doing better than me on the gold and the buffalo, I have yet to find either,so just keep on a swing-in.
Your area may not be older but I'll bet there's not as many other detectors there.
Seems like every place I find there's already been a bunch that have seined it out.
But I'm finding out that they don't get everything!
Will post my finds from tonights hunt 5-13 tommorrow


Dano.