My First Coin Spill

[Canine]

Cold today. Lots of ice on the river and the sand was solid, but had some good results from a previous visit at this boat launch, so I went back today.

As I was going along, I heard several good, repeatable sounds in a 6 inch (15 cm) radius, but the VDI was bouncing around and inconsistent. This caught my attention as I had not had the VDI so bouncy with such good sounds. (I didn't catch on at first, but now that I look back, it is easy to understand.) I scraped off a layer of sand and a quarter popped up. Cool. I swung the coil again, got the same tasty sounds, and a dime pops up. This was when I finally realized what the sounds were. I quickly scraped up 3 quarters, a dime, a nickel, and two pennies- all clad and all lying flat. I hope all coin spills sound off like that. (No pics as it was all clad.) Throughout the day found more coins, sinkers, brass casings, a busted up cell phone, and the usual junk.

Was neat to finally find a coin spill and to learn what it sounds like. A fun day.

 

[mudpuppy]

Congratulations! You get good at the multidenom spills and you will be amazed at how many get walked right over...even old ones, like old silver with a few indians or wheats plus nickels to really throw off the signal.
you can practice in the house by tossing down or stacking up coins to get an idea what you are up against...they are not easy for most to identify as a "good" target, especially the multidenom tight spills and stacks.
Mud

 

[Canine]

Interesting. Perhaps I've been walking over spills or pockets and not realizing it. I do get out with the AT Pro, but not near as much as some folks; maybe I'm getting a better hang of it now that I've used it a while. I'll stack some coins out like you said and see what that does. Am curious now. That coin spill was a fun find! Wouldn't mind finding more of those.

 

[BigCatDaddy]

Coin spills can be challenging at times, especially if there's a couple of nickles involved. Congrats on rescuing all that clad!!

 

[mudpuppy]

They are really challenging like BCD says...you get out into waist deep water just where somebody was doing a handstand and you will hit all sorts of those spills...up on land the same thing, you hit a big spill and hang on! Its a messy signal..especially with nickels...try it out! put a nickle on top of a Q, then try a penny, then try them real close side by side, then add a few more, see? Then do some Q stacks, and a few dimes with a nickel etc...tight spills, slanted or multidenom stacks are a target that sounds like junk, and sometimes the signals just sort of null to the point where you dont know what you have or where it is...sand beach hunting teaches a lot of lessons in these regards, crappy signal that you would never have dug on land is a scoop full of coins sometimes, so when a guy gets back on the dirt, you sort of start to recognize them.
Mud

 

[John-Edmonton]

It doesn't really split up at all. Congrats on a spill. They bring up the totals up nicely. It got up to a couple degrees above zero today. Lots of sun too.

 

[William-NM]

Love those pocket spills! The more you can grab in one knee-bend, the better!