sgoss66
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I got out for 2 1/2 hours this morning after work, running the 5" SunRay X-5 "Stealth" coil on my Explorer. While it was a fairly short hunt, I managed to make several good finds, including a nice pocket spill, and my first ever DIME TRIFECTA!
One of my first targets early on in the hunt sounded like a deep wheatie; it turned out to be a "folded up" 1-mil Oklahoma tax token -- that's FOUR of those in the last two hunts -- ALL FOLDED IN HALF! I find FAR more tax tokens folded, than I do un-folded, and don't know why! Someone I know calls them "token tacos" -- which is a very appropriate visual!
Later, about an hour into the hunt, I hit a good, solid signal that I thought would be a deep-ish penny, probably a wheat. I popped a plug, scanned the hole, and heard a low tone...hmmm. Confused a bit, I scanned the plug, and there was a better, high tone -- more like the tone I heard that caused me to dig. So, I set the plug aside, and stuck the Pro-Pointer in the hole to see what was low-toning; brushing away some dirt from the bottom of the hole, there sat a 1935 Buffalo nickel! Only my third Buff ever. Now, excited to see what "high tone" I had in the plug, I waved the Pro-Pointer over it, and right at the bottom of the plug I got a signal. Carefully scraping away just a bit of dirt with my finger, another Buff fell out of the dirt-- this one a "dateless." As it fell out of the plug, I saw the gleam of a silver dime -- which had been sitting right on top of the Buff! I picked the dime out of the plug -- a 1916-S Barber! While removing it, though, I saw yet ANOTHER silver dime, which was stacked right on top of the Barber! This one turned out to be a 1920 Merc! After re-scanning the hole, and the plug, several times to be sure there was nothing else -- I had in my pouch my best "pocket spill" ever.
Continuing on, I later dug an old-looking "two ring" bullet -- anyone have an ID on this for me? It's flat at the top, hollow at the base, and about .45 cal. or so.
Then, a bit later, another diggable signal turned out to be a 1951-D wheatie, from about 6" deep.
Finally, my last dig would prove to be one that would complete my "dime trifecta." I got a strange, "iron false" type of high tone, but it sounded good at times, as I rotated the target. Eventually, I was able to discern that there were in fact TWO targets, a penny-type high tone, and then a more "falsy" high tone which was a few inches away. I pinpointed the "good" tone, cut a plug, and looked in the hole...and was surprised to find a 1956-D Rosie staring back at me! Curious, I went ahead and dug the "falsy" high tone, which turned out to be a big rusted iron bolt/washer. Without the small coil, I would likely not have been able to separate out these two targets, and would have simply passed it off as an "iron false."
Anyway, here are the pics -- first, all of the finds from today...
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And here are the silvers and Buffs...notice the staining on the obverse of the Barber -- and the staining on the obverse of the "dateless" Buff; this is where the Barber and the Buff were touching; there is similar staining on the back of the Merc, where it sat on the Barber...
[attachment 234393 6-1-12Silver_amp_Buffs.JPG]
Thanks for looking. This was definitely a unique, memorable hunt!
Steve
One of my first targets early on in the hunt sounded like a deep wheatie; it turned out to be a "folded up" 1-mil Oklahoma tax token -- that's FOUR of those in the last two hunts -- ALL FOLDED IN HALF! I find FAR more tax tokens folded, than I do un-folded, and don't know why! Someone I know calls them "token tacos" -- which is a very appropriate visual!
Later, about an hour into the hunt, I hit a good, solid signal that I thought would be a deep-ish penny, probably a wheat. I popped a plug, scanned the hole, and heard a low tone...hmmm. Confused a bit, I scanned the plug, and there was a better, high tone -- more like the tone I heard that caused me to dig. So, I set the plug aside, and stuck the Pro-Pointer in the hole to see what was low-toning; brushing away some dirt from the bottom of the hole, there sat a 1935 Buffalo nickel! Only my third Buff ever. Now, excited to see what "high tone" I had in the plug, I waved the Pro-Pointer over it, and right at the bottom of the plug I got a signal. Carefully scraping away just a bit of dirt with my finger, another Buff fell out of the dirt-- this one a "dateless." As it fell out of the plug, I saw the gleam of a silver dime -- which had been sitting right on top of the Buff! I picked the dime out of the plug -- a 1916-S Barber! While removing it, though, I saw yet ANOTHER silver dime, which was stacked right on top of the Barber! This one turned out to be a 1920 Merc! After re-scanning the hole, and the plug, several times
to be sure there was nothing else -- I had in my pouch my best "pocket spill" ever.Continuing on, I later dug an old-looking "two ring" bullet -- anyone have an ID on this for me? It's flat at the top, hollow at the base, and about .45 cal. or so.
Then, a bit later, another diggable signal turned out to be a 1951-D wheatie, from about 6" deep.
Finally, my last dig would prove to be one that would complete my "dime trifecta." I got a strange, "iron false" type of high tone, but it sounded good at times, as I rotated the target. Eventually, I was able to discern that there were in fact TWO targets, a penny-type high tone, and then a more "falsy" high tone which was a few inches away. I pinpointed the "good" tone, cut a plug, and looked in the hole...and was surprised to find a 1956-D Rosie staring back at me! Curious, I went ahead and dug the "falsy" high tone, which turned out to be a big rusted iron bolt/washer. Without the small coil, I would likely not have been able to separate out these two targets, and would have simply passed it off as an "iron false."
Anyway, here are the pics -- first, all of the finds from today...
[attachment 234394 6-1-12Finds.JPG]
And here are the silvers and Buffs...notice the staining on the obverse of the Barber -- and the staining on the obverse of the "dateless" Buff; this is where the Barber and the Buff were touching; there is similar staining on the back of the Merc, where it sat on the Barber...
[attachment 234393 6-1-12Silver_amp_Buffs.JPG]
Thanks for looking. This was definitely a unique, memorable hunt!
Steve
You are kicking butt with that little coil and congrats on that nice pocket spill. HH.
