Ohio Digger
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Went to a small section of my 1890's park that I've never hit before. It's not really a picnic or field area. Just some grass at the top of a little hill off the road. Looking at historic aerials I saw the road into the park had been there since the 30's. I think it's one of the oldest sections of the park though so it was probably there long before that. The first signal I got was a wheat about 5" deep. Then I got a jumpy dime signal and turned out to be the '23 Merc around 6". I dug a total of 4 wheats but I can't see a date on any of them yet. For some reason the soil in this section was really hard on them. I started walking down the slope a little and got a weird signal, like 8-23 or something. But it was deep and repeatable from every direction so I decided to dig it. Turned out to be an 1890 IHC at least 9" down. Once I got it out I rescanned the coin and was now getting a solid 12-32 with no variation at all so I'm not sure why it was so different while in the ground. Maybe it was on edge?? I didn't find anything else in the hole. This is only my 2nd IHC, and my 1st with the Etrac.
