reading, listening, studying, absorbing the Minelab GT helped me find my oldest coin to date = 1822

[JimmyCT]

First, I want to thank many of you on this site for all the help you have given me.



This morning,(5-27-11) I went to an old homestead many times before....but it wasn't with a sovereign GT with the iron mask feature!

So here I am swinging along where the home use to be.(approx built in the 1790's) So much garbage and so many loud metal signals ( old cans, pipes, old car parts, etc etc etc) my head was ready to blow off lol. I kept on saying to myself,( not only today but many times over the last few years) "There has to be something here at this is an old home. They had to of dropped something....." so after covering the lot where the house use to sit, I walked across the old driveway. (Settings: Audio is set to max, iron mask on, auto sensitivity, disc and notch off, light threshold)

my first path towards the woods, I heard a signal. So I slowed down even more and made small sweeps over the signal location. 180 on the meter and that high pitched frequency I was hearing both ways (East to West) and (West ot East) I then turned 90 and it broke up on me and nulled. I threw it into all metal pinpoint. Sure enough there was several signals and it wasn't loud and over bearing but a nice sweet metal sound. So back down to the ground to dig. Down about 6-7 inches out came a big old rusty nail. Then I re-scanned the hole. YEP that sweet coin signal was still down in the hole but about 2-3 inches to the South of the nail. So I dig down and scoop out the dirt to roughly to the 6-7" mark. Then I check the dirt pile. Sure enough its in the pile! So I took a scoop of dirt into my hands and sure enough, I see a large 1822 cent staring at me! I just stayed down in the kneeled / crouch position to catch my breath. What a sight to behold! My oldest coin I have ever found!

This detector has showed me something that no other detector has - A coin lying near a nail. Just like all you were trying to pound in my brain lol

Thank you Minelab for making a wonderful detector that can "see" next to iron.

 

[Neil in West Jersey]

Sure enough it is a sweet find! It looks like it is in good shape too!

 

[dbsmokey]

Coins that old don't even exist in Oregon. Good job!

 

[GunnarMN]

WOOO,HOOO thats a great find in great condition you can still read liberty on the crown, holy LORD, It looks old amazing , you know today i found a brass nut next to a nails and as soon as i cleared the nail it came thru even louder just like you said , just think how many other coins are masked in all that trash , congradualations for not getting discouraged with the trash thats how you win

 

[fwcrawford]

n/t

 

[bootyhoundpa]

nice find.... i hunt a place very simular to what you described,,,,,200 years of evevery thing including the kitchen sink....i found a very beat large cent there years ago but could never seem to find any more even though i knew they had to be there.........even with the gt i was not finding them until one day when conditions were right and i found the right settings...... i dont always find old coins at this spot but when i do i always find more than one......it seems like you have to find the perfect setting to get the very deep ones....ive dug them a foot deep already ,but that is not the norm....im sure there are more there and you will find them in due time...... congrats again on a nice large cent.....

 

[JimmyCT]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.

I would of kept on but after three hours I was soaked from sweating, the skeeters were unbearable and I was extremely thirsty from the heat. Yes, the trash at this site is unreal. I realize back in the day they didn't have a garbage truck to come by and pick up the trash lol But also a lot of modern day garbage too. I noticed, right as I was leaving ( I was in the woods, across the driveway, in the front of the house) As I looked at the front of the house, there are "tree poles" They had all their branches cut off and perfectly in line with each other. I am thinking maybe this was cleared out at one point and was the clothes line or something. So that will be my next area to hit.

I am now trying to figure out where the old privy was. Was there a rule back in the day where the privy could be built? Much of the land is massively covered with shrubs, bushes, weeds, ground cover and metal garbage etc.

I saw some gentlemen on the property today with a land development map of some sort - not good

Time to get back there and slap all the skeeters with my shovel,bring some water and start dirt fishing.

 

[Maxwedge]

That' is a great coin. The people on this forum are great. I did the same thing you did when I started with my GT. Rick (ND) and many others here helped me. My oldest coin was a 1779 Swedish coin found at a 1950" s house right in the middle of Universal City, Texas. I figure the ground fill was brought off a farm, and the coin was in there. I didn't have a camera at the time, and the coin wasn't worth too much money, but I actually sold it for a nice price to somebody that liked unusual coins here. Keep on looking. Your good luck will continue, due to the awesome
gt. HH-Mark

 

[w6pea]

You have some good finds there. Thanks for posting the pictures.

 

[Critterhunter]

Nice coin! Don't know if I have a large cent that old. Rub some olive oil on it to protect it.

Like I've argued in the past! This machine will see coins in iron. Dig those one way coin signals! Even my Explorers didn't do as well at finding coins in iron. Iron Mask on the Sovereign as far as I'm concerned really does have special abilities to see coins and ignore iron. If you dialed that much iron rejection into any other machine it would have a much harder time still seeing the coin, yet the Sovereign does. I doubt Minelab would static preset the iron rejection on a machine unless they then provided a way to see good targets in it. Otherwise it wouldn't make much sense..

The out houses were often placed down wind from the house in the direction the wind usually would blow. Here in Ohio the wind mostly comes from the west or north west, so the bathroom would be in the south east direction. Some will take a metal rod and probe the soil. When you find a soft spot that's the out house most likely. Those are worth digging up for old bottles and such.

 

[JimmyCT]

Will do on the olive oil - thanks for the tip! Thanks for the tip on the outhouse coordinates as well. Yes, I am now a believer that this machine can see coins next to iron. Minelab made a great machine.

Nice coin! Don't know if I have a large cent that old. Rub some olive oil on it to protect it.

Like I've argued in the past! This machine will see coins in iron. Dig those one way coin signals! Even my Explorers didn't do as well at finding coins in iron. Iron Mask on the Sovereign as far as I'm concerned really does have special abilities to see coins and ignore iron. If you dialed that much iron rejection into any other machine it would have a much harder time still seeing the coin, yet the Sovereign does. I doubt Minelab would static preset the iron rejection on a machine unless they then provided a way to see good targets in it. Otherwise it wouldn't make much sense..

The out houses were often placed down wind from the house in the direction the wind usually would blow. Here in Ohio the wind mostly comes from the west or north west, so the bathroom would be in the south east direction. Some will take a metal rod and probe the soil. When you find a soft spot that's the out house most likely. Those are worth digging up for old bottles and such.