Bob in SoMd
New member
I found out again today why I need to dig ALL signals - even the obvious memorial penny. This was a quick one hour hunt as the sun was setting.
Went back to the same grassy patch that yielded the Stone Mountain half last week. About 15 feet from there, got a good 70 signal at 6 inches and popped out the 1939 Honduras 1 Centavo. It's pretty small (top of the first pic) and thicker than a US coin. Made of bronze. Then, bagged a couple of wheaties.
Then a few minutes later, I got a solid 77 at 3 inches. Of course I'm thinking it's a memorial or maybe a clad dime. WRONG. Dug the plug and first out was a wheatie that had the telltale greenish side that looked like it had been against another coin. A good sign, I thought. Gotta rescan the hole. Solid tone! Another wheatie. Rescan...tone! Pull out a very encrusted dime and a second one right after! Loosen some more dirt and get a good 42 VDI in the dirt pile - WAR Nickel! All told - 8 coins. 2 Mercs (1945, 1935), one War Nickel (1945-P), and 5 wheats (1944, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1947) along with a very rusty penny sized disk that might be a steel cent. I'm soaking it but don't think I'll be able to save it.
A while later, dug another penny signal and pulled a 1971 mem cent AND another 1945-P War Nickel from the same hole.
Total finds - only 4 modern clad!
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Pocket spill!
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4 silver day!
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I only covered about 20 yards so I need to go back.
Good luck to all this weekend.
Bob
Went back to the same grassy patch that yielded the Stone Mountain half last week. About 15 feet from there, got a good 70 signal at 6 inches and popped out the 1939 Honduras 1 Centavo. It's pretty small (top of the first pic) and thicker than a US coin. Made of bronze. Then, bagged a couple of wheaties.
Then a few minutes later, I got a solid 77 at 3 inches. Of course I'm thinking it's a memorial or maybe a clad dime. WRONG. Dug the plug and first out was a wheatie that had the telltale greenish side that looked like it had been against another coin. A good sign, I thought. Gotta rescan the hole. Solid tone! Another wheatie. Rescan...tone! Pull out a very encrusted dime and a second one right after! Loosen some more dirt and get a good 42 VDI in the dirt pile - WAR Nickel! All told - 8 coins. 2 Mercs (1945, 1935), one War Nickel (1945-P), and 5 wheats (1944, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1947) along with a very rusty penny sized disk that might be a steel cent. I'm soaking it but don't think I'll be able to save it.
A while later, dug another penny signal and pulled a 1971 mem cent AND another 1945-P War Nickel from the same hole.
Total finds - only 4 modern clad!
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Pocket spill!
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4 silver day!
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I only covered about 20 yards so I need to go back.
Good luck to all this weekend.
Bob
