My best find in my own backyard

[lamarkeiko]

As the title says, this is the best find for me in the 5 years I've owned my Equinox 800. To help everyone understand why this is my best, let me explain a little.
We live on a rural 4 acre property that we purchased 20 years ago. The property as we purchased was an undeveloped piece of land with no facilites at all in Southern Oregon. No sign of ever having been developed. Just reminants of an old wire fence. I've got 469 hours of detecting on my Equinox, and in that time I have only found one silver coin, a 1952 dime. Have found lots of coins, several 925 rings and half dozen gold pieces.
I just purchased a new 10"X5" Coltek coil for my Equinox so I buried a few coins in a spot in my backyard to compare my 11" coil to the new Coltek coil.. Once I finished my comparison, I swung the coil a little ways from my test area and got a high signal near 30, but not too strong. I thought I should try digging to see what it was. The ground here in the summer time is like a rock, so I took my small hand pick and had to go down about 4 inches till I got the signal out of the ground. Using my pinpointer, this is what I found. I always thought that silver coins in the ground would be very tarnished, but the photo is just how it looked once the dirt was

washed off. The coin was near where the old fence reminants were, and I believe this coin was lost by someone who was building the fence a hundred years ago. Of course I did more detecting in the area in my backyard, and have found old bullets and shell casings, but no more coins.

 

[miserman]

Nice find and right in your own backyard. You have an advantage living on the west coast in that you are near the San Francisco mint. I'm sure there are a lot more "S" mintmark in your part of the country. Most silver coins that are dug here in the midwest come out of the ground untarnished like yours. I run mine under a faucet and do not rub them in any way. The results are about the same as your coin.

 

[JimmyCT]

Beautiful Barber!! I love my 10x5 coiltek as it has helped me make many great finds.

 

[MuddyMo]

OLD SILVER, congrats!

 

[fwcrawford]

That is a great find…, congrats!!!

 

[Odanscoils]

Beautiful find.
Could have even been lost by a hunter.
I've fallen asleep next to a tree Many times.
And Everytime I lost something.
Start looking around tree's.
And anyplace where a hunter may have taken an un expected nap.
I harvested my best buck ever sleeping.
250lb+. Yeah we get em big here in the farm belt of Ohio.
Snoring away.
He snapped a twig. Woke me up.
Scope was useless at 40'.
Sighted down the barrel.
Ran down over the 50' bank overlooking the river.
Barely got a hundred ft.
Took a Jeep to recover him.
Moral of the story.
Detect anywhere a hunter may have taken a break and lost an heirloom. Lost my Favorite large Case folder that day. All brass ...

 

[Ohio pull tabs]

Nice find! Maybe there's more

 

[pmh]

Gotta love those random finds! That old fencing had to be put up by somebody, or maybe a hunter passed through the area. Who knows, but it was there from somebody/some reason.

 

[lamarkeiko]

I plan on doing a lot more detecting on my property. I have a neighbor who lives just up the road from me who is a big time gold miner. He told
me he was always interested in my property because he believed it was part of an ancient river bed. There are a lot of rocks and very large bolders near the surface which could be signs of that. There is a creek running a few hundred feet from our property that produced a lot of gold in the early 1900's. I have not done it yet, But I plan on trying my Equinox in a gold mode sometime to see if anything could show up. Any suggestions on how to go about doing that would be appreciated.

 

[MP29]

As the title says, this is the best find for me in the 5 years I've owned my Equinox 800. To help everyone understand why this is my best, let me explain a little.
We live on a rural 4 acre property that we purchased 20 years ago. The property as we purchased was an undeveloped piece of land with no facilites at all in Southern Oregon. No sign of ever having been developed. Just reminants of an old wire fence. I've got 469 hours of detecting on my Equinox, and in that time I have only found one silver coin, a 1952 dime. Have found lots of coins, several 925 rings and half dozen gold pieces.
I just purchased a new 10"X5" Coltek coil for my Equinox so I buried a few coins in a spot in my backyard to compare my 11" coil to the new Coltek coil.. Once I finished my comparison, I swung the coil a little ways from my test area and got a high signal near 30, but not too strong. I thought I should try digging to see what it was. The ground here in the summer time is like a rock, so I took my small hand pick and had to go down about 4 inches till I got the signal out of the ground. Using my pinpointer, this is what I found. I always thought that silver coins in the ground would be very tarnished, but the photo is just how it looked once the dirt wasView attachment 62336View attachment 62337View attachment 62337 washed off. The coin was near where the old fence reminants were, and I believe this coin was lost by someone who was building the fence a hundred years ago. Of course I did more detecting in the area in my backyard, and have found old bullets and shell casings, but no more coins.

Nice silver, congratulations.

 

[hawgdawg]

I always heard the phrase ,, " the grass is always greener on the other side " ,, is not always the truth ,,,: