I finally picked up an E-trac. I've been plugging away with it for the past four weekends, and have all of about five hunts under my belt now. I managed to find silver at each hunt, yet I know the day will come when that streak will end soon enough 
What can I say, it can definitely find silver
Most all of the parks in and around the bay area have been well pounded into submission, so I've been cutting my teeth on the iffy, degenerate, neglected signals, not too many four star give me's around here (most of the dimes did not come in as text book 12-45's, and the wheaties were a mixed bag as well). Lot's to learn on this machine (like how to find coins mixed in with iron), but so far for the most part I'm enjoying it, and it's finding stuff.
One spot I've hunted over the past few years has produced a lot of old coins, but it hasn't produced a silver coin in over a year. Each time I hunt it, it barely stays alive by coughing up a teens wheatie or an injun, but it's been stingy with silver in the hole. I hunted it with the ET going for those iffy signals, and I was delighted to get a warbly high coin signal, and dug down 7" to see the glint of silver. I was sure it would be a Barber, but it turned out to be a merc, which was surprising as this has typically been the Barber zone, but still I was pleased to see there's still silver hiding out there. At the same spot I also pulled out a neat bakery token also from about 7" down. Unfortunately it doesn't say what city it's from, and I couldn't find anything online about it. I can't wait to hunt it after some rain, the ground was dry as a bone.
First four hunts:
The Barber was a nice surprise from a super pounded SF park, another deep non-text book signal. Also found a toasted 1884 Indian at the same park, and five wheaties:
Anyone have any ideas on where this bakery token is from?
It's marked:
"Good for 1 loaf of Bread" on the front
"Sailor & Levensaler" on the back
This silver and opal bracelet was a nice surprise, it was half an eyeball find and half a detector find. It was laying in the grass and just as I swung my coil over it, I saw it gleaming in the grass!
I have no idea why I dug this, but it's kind of cool, an old Victorian gold plated pocket knife:
These were my finds from my fifth ET hunt Saturday at a new (to me) old SF park. I was hunting on the side of a hill that had some erosion, and had dug several wheaties and then I got this big copper. It was down a good 8", and a funky signal that just called out to be dug. When I first whipped the dirt off the back, and saw the wreath type design around the back, I thought I had a large cent, but when I whipped the dirt off the front, I was baffled. Turns out it's an 1894 Italian ten cent piece. Also nabbed a couple of silver rosies, but there's got to some more of those 1800's deepies waiting to be dug there!
Seventeen silvers from five hunts, I wish I'd picked one of these up a long time ago :ar15:
Thanks for looking and Happy Hunting,
Brian
What can I say, it can definitely find silver Most all of the parks in and around the bay area have been well pounded into submission, so I've been cutting my teeth on the iffy, degenerate, neglected signals, not too many four star give me's around here (most of the dimes did not come in as text book 12-45's, and the wheaties were a mixed bag as well). Lot's to learn on this machine (like how to find coins mixed in with iron), but so far for the most part I'm enjoying it, and it's finding stuff.
One spot I've hunted over the past few years has produced a lot of old coins, but it hasn't produced a silver coin in over a year. Each time I hunt it, it barely stays alive by coughing up a teens wheatie or an injun, but it's been stingy with silver in the hole. I hunted it with the ET going for those iffy signals, and I was delighted to get a warbly high coin signal, and dug down 7" to see the glint of silver. I was sure it would be a Barber, but it turned out to be a merc, which was surprising as this has typically been the Barber zone, but still I was pleased to see there's still silver hiding out there. At the same spot I also pulled out a neat bakery token also from about 7" down. Unfortunately it doesn't say what city it's from, and I couldn't find anything online about it. I can't wait to hunt it after some rain, the ground was dry as a bone.
First four hunts:
The Barber was a nice surprise from a super pounded SF park, another deep non-text book signal. Also found a toasted 1884 Indian at the same park, and five wheaties:
Anyone have any ideas on where this bakery token is from?
It's marked:
"Good for 1 loaf of Bread" on the front
"Sailor & Levensaler" on the back
This silver and opal bracelet was a nice surprise, it was half an eyeball find and half a detector find. It was laying in the grass and just as I swung my coil over it, I saw it gleaming in the grass!
I have no idea why I dug this, but it's kind of cool, an old Victorian gold plated pocket knife:
These were my finds from my fifth ET hunt Saturday at a new (to me) old SF park. I was hunting on the side of a hill that had some erosion, and had dug several wheaties and then I got this big copper. It was down a good 8", and a funky signal that just called out to be dug. When I first whipped the dirt off the back, and saw the wreath type design around the back, I thought I had a large cent, but when I whipped the dirt off the front, I was baffled. Turns out it's an 1894 Italian ten cent piece. Also nabbed a couple of silver rosies, but there's got to some more of those 1800's deepies waiting to be dug there!
Seventeen silvers from five hunts, I wish I'd picked one of these up a long time ago :ar15:
Thanks for looking and Happy Hunting,
Brian
