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I still can't believe it....
Yesterday I got out for a short time to the local park to hopefully pick up several nice coins before it got windy and colder.....I wasn't prepared for what the detecting gods were going to let me have, however....
I used the "Relic Program" with the Deus, which doesn't use Full Tones like other programs. Rather, it's set up with highly negative ground balancing and 4 or 8 kHz to get through the mineralized soil we deal with here. I've learned to listen to the quality of the tone rather than what the screen is trying to tell me, and with 8" plus targets the screen is always blank anyway - this is a pure "tone-hunting" program for the deepest of targets...I have the tone break set to "51-98" in 4Khz, so if it's deep foil *sometimes* I can tell by the tone or audio quality and skip that one...not infallible, of course but it works fairly well...
The very first signal on that outing sounded good in one direction, but then scanning 90 degrees the signal got clipped and wasn't nearly as smooth or clear. Decided to dig it anyway - and got down to the 9" level to see a silver rim! Picked it out of the hole, and saw the date. I remember thinking to myself - "I need an "S" on this coin!", so I very carefully moved the dirt off of where the mintmark should be - lo and behold there was an "S" there! There may have been some hootin' an hollerin' as well - I knew it was a rare date but not the third-rarest in the Barber dime series!
The Carrot was still indicating in the hole, and also from the 9" level came a very rusty square nail that was 2" from the coin - this no doubt affected the signal in one direction!
The rest of the hunt was slow-going, but I did manage to eventually get a Mercury dime and two Wheats from 7-8" deep not too far away - just missed the dime trifecta again, but I'm still in shock and every now and then look at the coin, like the mintmark is going to jump off the back and run away!
This year has been overly generous with the older silver coming out of the ground, I've never dug so many quality examples from several local public parks EVER! Who knows what the next signal will be
Yesterday I got out for a short time to the local park to hopefully pick up several nice coins before it got windy and colder.....I wasn't prepared for what the detecting gods were going to let me have, however....
I used the "Relic Program" with the Deus, which doesn't use Full Tones like other programs. Rather, it's set up with highly negative ground balancing and 4 or 8 kHz to get through the mineralized soil we deal with here. I've learned to listen to the quality of the tone rather than what the screen is trying to tell me, and with 8" plus targets the screen is always blank anyway - this is a pure "tone-hunting" program for the deepest of targets...I have the tone break set to "51-98" in 4Khz, so if it's deep foil *sometimes* I can tell by the tone or audio quality and skip that one...not infallible, of course but it works fairly well...
The very first signal on that outing sounded good in one direction, but then scanning 90 degrees the signal got clipped and wasn't nearly as smooth or clear. Decided to dig it anyway - and got down to the 9" level to see a silver rim! Picked it out of the hole, and saw the date. I remember thinking to myself - "I need an "S" on this coin!", so I very carefully moved the dirt off of where the mintmark should be - lo and behold there was an "S" there! There may have been some hootin' an hollerin' as well - I knew it was a rare date but not the third-rarest in the Barber dime series!
The Carrot was still indicating in the hole, and also from the 9" level came a very rusty square nail that was 2" from the coin - this no doubt affected the signal in one direction!
The rest of the hunt was slow-going, but I did manage to eventually get a Mercury dime and two Wheats from 7-8" deep not too far away - just missed the dime trifecta again, but I'm still in shock and every now and then look at the coin, like the mintmark is going to jump off the back and run away!
This year has been overly generous with the older silver coming out of the ground, I've never dug so many quality examples from several local public parks EVER! Who knows what the next signal will be
