mrdestructo
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When I first started Metal detecting, I used a White's classic ID. I lived in a mid 1800's farmhouse and started detecting around it. After a few wheaties, some old buttons, and a few late 1800's to early 1900's IHs, I came to the edge of a field. Now on the IDs, they only have 8 little blocks to ID the target. So with that in mind, I came across something that at first read penny/dime and quickly went to foil and then nail. And from a different angle it read nail and foil. I said to myself, its junk but what the heck I'll dig it. Only about 3 inches down I pulled a piece of foil out. As I did an 1862 indian head and a nail fell out. I guess being on the edge of a field it got churned up with the foil and nail. But what are the chances of an IH being wrapped in foil with a nail?? I don't know but being one of my first finds like that it has inspired me to dig everything and with that mentality I have found some other sweet finds.
Sunday I went back and hit the spot across the street from the old high school . The school has never given me anything and the only guys I know who ever got anything that was years ago . I could see that this side of the street was probity used to cross the street by the local teens over the years . And reading my history the school date's from the 1920's and was predated by another school and the corner directly across from the school was a meeting place of the G,A,R ( now a public Library ). So you know I could get anything from that area . I turned my explorer on and coin city wheat's every where a token good for one tune then two mercs together I went over a signal only a foot from a new fire hydrant . And anyone who has a minelab explorer will know how that thing screams when you get close to big iron . And the signal was funny not like the mercs I just got . So I walked on next came a 43 quarter 3 IH's and about 30 plus wheat's and two more merc's I'm thinking wow five slivers a good day I went back to that funny signal one more time . Well I turned my coil on its side and I could get a brake in the signal a gap from the the signal to the hydrant . So what the heck I'll dig after a foot of sand and swing the coil over the hole at last I get a real good signal . I reach down and low and behold a barber half 1900 and a re swing another signal another barber half 1909 . I ended that day with digging 78 coins and two pocket watches and a Buffalo no date . I worked my way down to a church where the road had been worked on and there was a bunch of people hanging around and I was getting some odd looks so I went back from where I came . A week later Ross went down there a up close in the church yard he plucked a 1909 barber too .And Ross and I went back a few weeks ago and I got a chrome plated State Census Taker badge I'll have to post it its almost too large to be worn .