It can pay to get off the beaten path.:detecting:

[knarfj]

I found a crazy number of individual modern coin spills in a small and fairly isolated section of one of our parks. It took me 2.5 hours to gather the 148 coins pictured before heavy rains put a dampener on things. None were more than an inch deep and many were just out of site under a year or two of forest leaves.

With so many coins I almost got to the point of notching out the zinc penny

 

[396nova]

Very good for 2.5 hrs. It pays to check out the entire park, things are lost everywhere. Very nice coin count, and you did not have to dig deep holes, sweet.

 

[Fantax]

Nice haul for the time spent - I sometimes input parameters into my F70 with the oval coil to swoop and pick things on the top - although I also get good hits on things 4-5" deep with those parameters. I have about had it with zinc pennies - even after a couple years they are pitted, eroded or eaten up to the point that won't even tumble clean. As the hunt goes on, I normally keep going when I get a response in the zinc range. I would be glad to have pennies cease production to eliminate this trash for future hunts! I still dig pull tabs in hopes of getting gold rings - but that happens about once every 500 pull tabs or even less frequently. That is what keeps us all dirt fishing!

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah those jumbo tight spills can be tough to unravel! I sort of high coil it and try to work my way through them from the outside in, but more than one target under the coil at the same time makes for a challenge locking on and stabbing, I just keep raising the coil until only one target at a time chimes in, or else I just stab away with the screwdriver and hit those coins random, just depends on how big and how tight it is. The more of them you find, the better you get at it, and its nice to get a count like that in a small area. Good thing you got some dimes out of that one. Nice work
Mud

 

[no-cents]

The last time I ran into spot like that I just shut the detector off, sat down and cleaned out all the coins using just the propointer. I keep saying I'm going to ignore the zinc pennies but just can't do it. Around here Indian head cents hit with the same ID and sound just like them so I have to dig them all.

 

[knarfj]

Yes it was quite the experience. Finding them amongst the leaves brought back memories of when I was a kid.

Every year my Dad's employer would put on an annual picnic and one of the things they would do to entertain the youngest of us was to break open a couple of bales of straw and toss in a couple of hands full of pennies and then let us have at it, finding them. It was a real melee!

After all, at that time 5 of those pennies would buy you a big ole "Look" candy bar or five pieces of Bubblegum.