Yesterday was an exciting day for me with my 705, in fact, for me, an unbelievable one. I dug two coins I have never found, in 20 years of detecting, a Morgan silver dollar(1886) and a liberty seated half dollar(185
. Driving around I spotted a scraped lot across the street from a park that has been in use for over 110 years. A dry cleaners had been demolished and the asphalt parking lot torn out and removed along with quite a bit of surface soil. What I found was a rather large area that was missing about 8" of the top soil. Not a good thing I thought.
I moved to the area in front where the sidewalk had crossed the lot before it was taken up. There was still an indention where it ran, so was easy to follow. On the west side of the sidewalk, about 12" from it's edge, my 705 gave me a strong 44 on the target ID. Up came the half dollar from about 4" down. Add the missing 8" and I figure that coin must have been down around 12" before the dozers hit the lot. I worked my way down the sidewalk area, digging lots of trash, then around 40 feet from where the half was found, got a solid 46 signal. Expecting another vienna sausage lid, up came the silver dollar. I gotta tell you I wasn't even expecting a silver dollar. Looking back to where I dug the half, I was intrigued to discover the two big silvers lay almost in an exact parallel line to the sidewalk bed. I have a feeling the same person lost both coins. I would love to know what happened.
. Driving around I spotted a scraped lot across the street from a park that has been in use for over 110 years. A dry cleaners had been demolished and the asphalt parking lot torn out and removed along with quite a bit of surface soil. What I found was a rather large area that was missing about 8" of the top soil. Not a good thing I thought.I moved to the area in front where the sidewalk had crossed the lot before it was taken up. There was still an indention where it ran, so was easy to follow. On the west side of the sidewalk, about 12" from it's edge, my 705 gave me a strong 44 on the target ID. Up came the half dollar from about 4" down. Add the missing 8" and I figure that coin must have been down around 12" before the dozers hit the lot. I worked my way down the sidewalk area, digging lots of trash, then around 40 feet from where the half was found, got a solid 46 signal. Expecting another vienna sausage lid, up came the silver dollar. I gotta tell you I wasn't even expecting a silver dollar. Looking back to where I dug the half, I was intrigued to discover the two big silvers lay almost in an exact parallel line to the sidewalk bed. I have a feeling the same person lost both coins. I would love to know what happened.
