My Sovereign GT Works.

[GeorgeinSC]

I have been detecting at a City park ( It was a ball field before they converted it to a park) three times in the past few days. I was finding Very Few shallow coins. The shallow ones that I was finding were mostly Zinc's. All the other coins that I was finding were a minimum of 4 inches deep and some were in the 7 to 8 inch depth range.

I was puzzled as to why I was not finding anything that was shallower than about 4 inches.

Yesterday a Gentleman that I have seen loafing in the park a couple of times came up to me and started a conversation. He told me that he was surprised to see how many coins I was digging as there was a guy a couple of weeks ago that detected the entire park.

That's when the light bulb came on and I realized that someone had been there and dug everything that he could find. The Gentleman said "You must have a better detector than what that guy was using."

With some of those deeper coins all I get is a High Pitched whisper but I can get "Ron's Meter" to climb towards 180 and I dig a plug the depth of the blade on my Lesche Digger and then go to work digging even more dirt.

So far I have only found one piece of silver (1942 D Quarter) but I am still looking. Just another one of those hunted out parks that is still giving up its treasures.

Yep My Sovereign GT Works.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

George,great search,parks in my area have been filled in with dirt and as a results the zincs will be very deep.Few year back I searched an old 1849 race track and was finding zincs 9-10 inches deep.Later in the same park stumbled on a sweet spot(unfilled) that produced seated,barbs,and older IHs.Thanks Ron

 

[gear box]

George, you've found out how to find the older,deeper coins in those older and hammered places. That's where I do most of my detecting. If you concentrate on finding those high pitched whispers and threshold changes your old coin finds will pick up. I generally leave the loud "bongs" for someonelse, sure there will be the occasional shallow old coin but I've found out that the loud "bongs" are almost alway's clad. Those two Barber dimes I got a couple weeks ago were both just threshold changes and with a little wiggling you can get the meter to climb. There's no sweeter sound in the Sovereign world than finding and wiggling over one of these elusive targets. Older pennies will give a very similar threshold change but not quite as high pitched, but close. Congrats on the nice quarter and keep listening for that threshold change.
HH Gary

 

[fwcrawford]

I had the same experience a couple of years ago at a small city park that only encompasses one city block and has some sidewalks traversing it, so there is not much area to search.
Still, using the Sovereign, I was able to pull lots of old coins out of this "hunted out site".
That experience proved to me that the Sovereign is very capable of detecting targets that many other detectors cannot for whatever reason.
Many of these coins were next to nails and other iron debris which probably explains why they are still there (at least until I got in there with the Sovereign).
To date, I have found over 100 wheat pennies, several IH cents, old nickels, and about eight silver coins at this park.
I'm sure that the area you are searching has some old coins still waiting to be found by the mighty Sovereign!!!
Just take your time and listen closely for those soft, feathery signals indicating a deep target and don't ignore those signals that only read good
from one direction.. I got plenty of these signals and many of them turned out to be good targets mixed with iron.
Good luck and happy hunting,
Felix