Neil in West Jersey
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I was out earlier in the week with my friend who uses an ETrac, so we like to compare signals as for depth, signal strength etc. He got a signal he wanted me to check out, so I went over and swept the coil across and got a high large cent type of tone, but it also seemed very large and trashy. I told him that it may be trash, but I have my recovery delay set very high, so there may be two targets. He dug down and found a rear view mirror. A few minutes later he called me back to scan the hole. "Now that is a good signal", I told him. It sounds like a deep, sweet old copper. He encountered a large root and was having trouble recovering the target, so I volunteered to try to get it with my fingers digging under the root. I felt the cold metal on my fingers and when I pulled it loose from under the root I immediately knew it was something VERY good. I dropped it in the hole without removing it at all, not wanting to steal his thunder, but I told him this was a VERY GOOD find. I knew from the weight and thickness that I had never encountered before. He reached in an pulled it out and I knew I was right. It was the thickest copper I had ever seen. It has to be a 1793-1795 Large Cent. I had him place it on the ground so I could see the VDI and it was the highest reading VDI I had ever seen from a copper coin, at 88!!!
We kept detecting and I dug a Mercury Dime and toasted old copper a while later, so my copper streak continues!
Remember, especially when using a higher recovery delay, if you encounter a funny signal that may seem too big or the VDI is weird, it may be two targets. Dig the trash first!!
The photos show our combined finds for the day, and a close up of this fat large cent's edge. He is afraid to clean it so we do not have a positive ID on it yet!
We kept detecting and I dug a Mercury Dime and toasted old copper a while later, so my copper streak continues!
Remember, especially when using a higher recovery delay, if you encounter a funny signal that may seem too big or the VDI is weird, it may be two targets. Dig the trash first!!
The photos show our combined finds for the day, and a close up of this fat large cent's edge. He is afraid to clean it so we do not have a positive ID on it yet!
