Street construction seated and friends. First attempt at water detecting.

[Chris(SoCenWI)]

Howdy All,
It's been quite some time since I found anything worth posting.

I'm up in Minnesota, came across a couple of towns with street construction projects.

The 1876 dime came from a town near Minnnesota's Iron Range. Very weird detecting; few non-ferrous targets, and couldn't lock on with the EX-II when I did get over something. It sounded much like what was discussed recently on another forum on this site- black magnetic sand. I knew floodplaindetector had detected this town and he said he had similar issues.

If this construction site had been elsewhere in MN or WI I would have expected dozens of coins from the era to come out of the ground. I suspect the mineralization. Unless someone detected it previously and nicely filled in all their holes.

The IH and two V-nickels were from another site.

I bought a sand scoop a couple of years back. Today it got wet, along with the NOX 800 for the first time.

I had a heck of a time pinpointing and digging the target. I gave up on several targets after doing a half dozen scoops but the signal remained. I finally had a signal disappear so I looked in the scoop and found a dime.

Much to learn, will post some questions on the beach and water forum.

Chris(SoCenWI)

 

[Odanscoils]

Howdy All,
It's been quite some time since I found anything worth posting.

I'm up in Minnesota, came across a couple of towns with street construction projects.

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The 1876 dime came from a town near Minnnesota's Iron Range. Very weird detecting; few non-ferrous targets, and couldn't lock on with the EX-II when I did get over something. It sounded much like what was discussed recently on another forum on this site- black magnetic sand. I knew floodplaindetector had detected this town and he said he had similar issues.

If this construction site had been elsewhere in MN or WI I would have expected dozens of coins from the era to come out of the ground. I suspect the mineralization. Unless someone detected it previously and nicely filled in all their holes.

The IH and two V-nickels were from another site.

I bought a sand scoop a couple of years back. Today it got wet, along with the NOX 800 for the first time.

I had a heck of a time pinpointing and digging the target. I gave up on several targets after doing a half dozen scoops but the signal remained. I finally had a signal disappear so I looked in the scoop and found a dime.

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Much to learn, will post some questions on the beach and water forum.

Chris(SoCenWI)

Nice diggins. Nice work.

 

[jim tn]

Indians, V's and Seated's are still a great hunt. I've hunted over in that corner of the state a couple of times while passing through going up to Lake Of The Woods and its some very tough hunting. HH jim tn

 

[Mark kus]

Nice finds and taking advantage of the street opportunity
Mark

 

[floodplaindetector]

Nice Old Finds Chris. It is always nice to see a seated liberty pop up as they don't come up often.
Yes, that area you hunted in has always been very tough to get good depth and old coins in. Seems like there was alot of iron in the ground and mineralization going on.

I tried water detecting one time years ago by wading into a lake and was amazed at how tough it was to pinpoint and retrieve the target
underwater so kudos to those hunting in the water as it is not easy at all.

Dave

 

[Mark kus]

Nice Old Finds Chris. It is always nice to see a seated liberty pop up as they don't come up often.
Yes, that area you hunted in has always been very tough to get good depth and old coins in. Seems like there was alot of iron in the ground and mineralization going on.

I tried water detecting one time years ago by wading into a lake and was amazed at how tough it was to pinpoint and retrieve the target
underwater so kudos to those hunting in the water as it is not easy at all.

Dave

water hunting is not easy especially where I detect rocks big rocks are the main reason but thats where the goods are.
Mark

 

[fwcrawford]

Very nice finds!!!
As for water hunting… it is a different ballgame, but can be rewarding in gold finds.
I made some comments to your other post…. Good luck and don’t give up!!

 

[Ronstar]

I have a very clear memory of my only Seated dime, I think I sat there for s few minutes wondering how, why, what, huh…..
Good recoveries for sure!!!

 

[JimmyCT]

Beautiful coins!! Glad you seized the opportunity before the new pavement is installed.

 

[Dale(Ia)]

Nice finds !

Iowa Dale

 

[still looking 52]

Hunting sites is a game all by itself, nice recoveries.

 

[PDH]

Those are fantastic finds. Well done Sir.

 

[Capt Dan]

I really wanna find an old coin. Way to go!

Dan

 

[kaolinwasher]

thats a nice find for Minnesota, I also live in Minnesota,

 

[Wild Willy]

Darn right ! Nice finds.