earthmansurfer
Active member
I decided to go to a park and just have fun with clad for a change. The day started with a huge (4"-5" long) dragonfly in my house that allowed me to hold it, then crawled on my hand and then I took it to the open window and after staring at each other for 20 seconds it flew off. I took that as a good sign.
I got to a local park and immediately dug a 1990 coin. Then 5 minutes later I saw an 83 flash on the screen and solid. There was no red at all and I thought "This must be what it's like digging silver quarters in America." I dug down 4", flipped the plug onto my pillow case and 3" into it was my first Silver 1 D-Mark - 1910 and doesn't hardly looked circulated. A really beautiful coin, 90% silver. I have always wanted to find one. It is 5.5 grams so pretty much the same as an American Quarter (and about the same worth back then.). I really think no one had detected there as it was not badly masked, if at all, by iron. I put a quarter next to it in the pic below. I proceeded to dig 2 machine gun casings and 2 live bullets from WWII and in total 24 more clad coins, most relatively new. I have never hunted for clad so 25 coins was a mind blower for me. I also found what I think is a small silver toe ring. It was mangled and I tried to straighten it for the pic but it will need to be recycled. My deepest coin was 6" or so. I found two coin spills - one 4 coins and the other 2 (maybe that shouldn't be considered a spill).
I was using the 6X10 coil with my normal settings (mostly pretty hot, no discrim), 5Hz filter, 32 recovery delay and just about every coin hit pretty good on the spectragraph running consistency the way I do. There was EMI there but it didn't bother the V3i at all. Quiet hunt outside of the non ferrous trash (which is new for me). I also found a folding knife in very good shape about 3" down, a pharmacy voucher token, a lead boxing medal (I think), 3 buttons and about 20 something pull tabs and a few ring tabs. The pull tabs never really fooled me and I had never dug so many so though to use this as a learning experience. I was testing them using sizing under analysis and have to record the results to aid me in the future. The ring tabs fooled me as coins hit around 50 just like they did. I'll need to learn to differentiate them with the sizing screen.
I hunted for around 3 hours and had a 30 minute talk (in English) with an interesting guy, that like me, walked away from a well paying job and just sort of saw what life would bring him. Was a special day. Hey, even attractive girls started laying out near me at around noon. It's always nice when they come up and start talking (but not today.)
I think next I'm going to see if I can pull more silver as now I know it's there. It is really odd that I only found one old coin and a silver at that (rare in Germany compared to America). I will go there again and run some kind of deep silver program (probably putting the tones below 70 or so at 0) and I'll play with 3 freq and 2.5, raise the recovery delay, etc. There was a fair amount of iron but not as bad as what I'm used to. I don't think I can run the stock coil there. Pinpointing was easy and GB'ing was much easier with the ground having more places to do so. Clearly the pinpoint and GB issues I have had were caused by the incredibly heavy iron at my other spot.
I got to a local park and immediately dug a 1990 coin. Then 5 minutes later I saw an 83 flash on the screen and solid. There was no red at all and I thought "This must be what it's like digging silver quarters in America." I dug down 4", flipped the plug onto my pillow case and 3" into it was my first Silver 1 D-Mark - 1910 and doesn't hardly looked circulated. A really beautiful coin, 90% silver. I have always wanted to find one. It is 5.5 grams so pretty much the same as an American Quarter (and about the same worth back then.). I really think no one had detected there as it was not badly masked, if at all, by iron. I put a quarter next to it in the pic below. I proceeded to dig 2 machine gun casings and 2 live bullets from WWII and in total 24 more clad coins, most relatively new. I have never hunted for clad so 25 coins was a mind blower for me. I also found what I think is a small silver toe ring. It was mangled and I tried to straighten it for the pic but it will need to be recycled. My deepest coin was 6" or so. I found two coin spills - one 4 coins and the other 2 (maybe that shouldn't be considered a spill).
I was using the 6X10 coil with my normal settings (mostly pretty hot, no discrim), 5Hz filter, 32 recovery delay and just about every coin hit pretty good on the spectragraph running consistency the way I do. There was EMI there but it didn't bother the V3i at all. Quiet hunt outside of the non ferrous trash (which is new for me). I also found a folding knife in very good shape about 3" down, a pharmacy voucher token, a lead boxing medal (I think), 3 buttons and about 20 something pull tabs and a few ring tabs. The pull tabs never really fooled me and I had never dug so many so though to use this as a learning experience. I was testing them using sizing under analysis and have to record the results to aid me in the future. The ring tabs fooled me as coins hit around 50 just like they did. I'll need to learn to differentiate them with the sizing screen.
I hunted for around 3 hours and had a 30 minute talk (in English) with an interesting guy, that like me, walked away from a well paying job and just sort of saw what life would bring him. Was a special day. Hey, even attractive girls started laying out near me at around noon. It's always nice when they come up and start talking (but not today.)
I think next I'm going to see if I can pull more silver as now I know it's there. It is really odd that I only found one old coin and a silver at that (rare in Germany compared to America). I will go there again and run some kind of deep silver program (probably putting the tones below 70 or so at 0) and I'll play with 3 freq and 2.5, raise the recovery delay, etc. There was a fair amount of iron but not as bad as what I'm used to. I don't think I can run the stock coil there. Pinpointing was easy and GB'ing was much easier with the ground having more places to do so. Clearly the pinpoint and GB issues I have had were caused by the incredibly heavy iron at my other spot.