sgoss66
Well-known member
I have done some detecting the last few days -- went out four times for roughly a couple hours each trip. I went two different times to a local park/softball fields, and in about 4 hours found a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and 31 pennies, all modern stuff (though about half the pennies were '82 and earlier copper). Still, that's by far the most number of coins I've found. Yesterday, I spent about an hour and a half at an old abandoned home site, but was surprised in that I didn't find anything worth mentioning (still much more ground to cover there). Today, I went to two old school sites -- one which has long since been torn down, and one that is still standing but has not been used for at least 15-20 years. Again, I was surprised to find very little of value -- one modern penny at the site with the building still intact, but my lone find of any consequence at the other site was really cool -- a small heart-shaped pendant from a girl's necklace, which was engraved "Mary K" and stamped "sterling." It surprisingly ID'd as a zinc penny; I was looking specifically for silver coins, given the age of this school site, but since the zinc penny ID was a solid signal and didn't waver -- so I went ahead and dug it, and I'm glad I did! I am quite surprised that my first silver was a sterling piece of jewelry; I expected it'd be a silver coin, but I'll take it! Still hoping for the first silver coin!
Had a good time, the weather was nice today, so it was good to be out. I continue to learn more about my detector (and also found that some of my confusion mentioned in prior posts seems to have been resolved, or at least can be explained -- I am almost certain after some testing that my machine does not work properly in notch or auto notch mode -- the disc/notch dial will NOT allow you to set up your "notch," though the dial does work in discriminate mode; that convinces me even more that it's time to upgrade to a newer, slightly higher-end model!)
Steve
Had a good time, the weather was nice today, so it was good to be out. I continue to learn more about my detector (and also found that some of my confusion mentioned in prior posts seems to have been resolved, or at least can be explained -- I am almost certain after some testing that my machine does not work properly in notch or auto notch mode -- the disc/notch dial will NOT allow you to set up your "notch," though the dial does work in discriminate mode; that convinces me even more that it's time to upgrade to a newer, slightly higher-end model!)
Steve