"That place has been hunted out." 🧐

[MikeyStwoTimes]

And still coughing up a few finds! Another lunch hunt. 1841 Matron cent. The dates on these things are impossible! .63 dropped musket ball and half spectacle buckle recovered from a now-dry creek bottom. Fun!

 

[still looking 52]

1841! We just took a big ride in our time machine, that's 182 years ago.
Abraham Lincoln was 32 years old when that coin was minted, maybe he's the one who's lost it.

 

[Odanscoils]

Nice for being hunted out. Sweet oll coin.

 

[MikeyStwoTimes]

1841! We just took a big ride in our time machine, that's 182 years ago.
Abraham Lincoln was 32 years old when that coin was minted, maybe he's the one who's lost it.

That's what I love about this hobby! The history!

 

[MuddyMo]

Well done, congrats

 

[Ronstar]

Ive noticed some of the older and deeper coins often change their VDI value by 1-2 numbers, never hurts to dig those close numbers!

 

[Odanscoils]

Ive noticed some of the older and deeper coins often change their VDI value by 1-2 numbers, never hurts to dig those close numbers!

I dig anything solid

 

[coinspader]

I don't think anywhere you have found coins previously is ever really hunted out. I hunt in an older park most of the time and in this park a couple years ago they setup a version of the Vietnam war memorial, to do this they had to get a bull dozer in there to create a little hill for the war memorial to sit on, well after the exhibit was gone they pushed all the dirt back where it was, me and my hunting buddy had previously hit this 400 square foot area for years with practically every detector you can think of and it wasn't giving up anymore targets and we very seldom went over it anymore. Well after the guy with the bull dozer was done putting the dirt back I took a Multi Kruzer and detected the area, I found 16 more silver coins and about 50 to 60 wheat pennies in a spot we thought was all used up. So I think there are a lot of masked coins that we can't easily see we our detectors, this situation really brought that fact home to me, I even found a braided hair half cent there after the dirt had been moved. Sorry for the long story, I just found it interesting : ) Nice finds MikeyStwoTimes by the way !

 

[Odanscoils]

I don't think anywhere you have found coins previously is ever really hunted out. I hunt in an older park most of the time and in this park a couple years ago they setup a version of the Vietnam war memorial, to do this they had to get a bull dozer in there to create a little hill for the war memorial to sit on, well after the exhibit was gone they pushed all the dirt back where it was, me and my hunting buddy had previously hit this 400 square foot area for years with practically every detector you can think of and it wasn't giving up anymore targets and we very seldom went over it anymore. Well after the guy with the bull dozer was done putting the dirt back I took a Multi Kruzer and detected the area, I found 16 more silver coins and about 50 to 60 wheat pennies in a spot we thought was all used up. So I think there are a lot of masked coins that we can't easily see we our detectors, this situation really brought that fact home to me, I even found a braided hair half cent there after the dirt had been moved. Sorry for the long story, I just found it interesting : ) Nice finds MikeyStwoTimes by the way !

I'm thinking it has a bit to do with going deeper.
That dozer scraped the ground up and got the coins closer to the surface.

 

[MikeyStwoTimes]

Ive noticed some of the older and deeper coins often change their VDI value by 1-2 numbers, never hurts to dig those close numbers!

Very true! I'm running the Nox 900 and the VDIs can vary quite a bit. If the VDI varies by more than 20, I can anticipate it being likely something undesirable. But if it's a repeatable, defined-enough signal, I'm digging it. I've only been doing this for 11 months, so I'm not willing to pass on a signal. I dug a silver spoon that sounded (and for a moment, looked) just like can slaw! But I'm glad I dug it!