My buddy and I hit the period to modern era spot this morning. The site that he dug a half dime and I dug the Fireman emblem. Still haven't found the exact one to date it as of yet.
Either this spot was high graded back in the 70's -90's or along the same time span some fill came in and or dirt was moved as it has been very frugal with its silver giving. We know it saw activity back in Civil war year's as we are digging the occasional piece of period lead, a Eagle button and the half dime. It has lots of iron and a bed of modern trash along with coke and brick. In addition, the older coins like wheat cents, the few silver pieces and lead are all deep. Most all in the 6-9" depth range. Iron, old and new era trash and a fair number of modern coins all make a masking nightmare for the A T Pro. But, it is a very good un-masker.
This morning, I worked my way to a slight rise near a back corner of the site and for some reason got away from a lot of the shallow modern trash. It wasn't to long after getting into the area that I dug my first wheat cent, quickly followed by another and then the big 3 ringer. These targets slowed me down even more and a few minutes later got a nice high tone whiff that repeated the same from every direction. That sweet tone turned out to be a 1906 Barber dime from 7". A few minutes later I recovered a cut round disc that may be a flat button. A couple feet away from that I got another sweet deep hit reading in the silver dime range and dug a 1936d Mercury time. Over the next hour or so I recovered another 4 wheat cents, but that was it for any more silver. 2 of the wheat cents were 1918 and 1920 and the other 4 were 2 in the 40's and 2 in the 50's. So far, that is 7 silver coins from the spot, but they are coming be-grudgingly. But, we like a challenge, don't we? HH jim tn
Either this spot was high graded back in the 70's -90's or along the same time span some fill came in and or dirt was moved as it has been very frugal with its silver giving. We know it saw activity back in Civil war year's as we are digging the occasional piece of period lead, a Eagle button and the half dime. It has lots of iron and a bed of modern trash along with coke and brick. In addition, the older coins like wheat cents, the few silver pieces and lead are all deep. Most all in the 6-9" depth range. Iron, old and new era trash and a fair number of modern coins all make a masking nightmare for the A T Pro. But, it is a very good un-masker.
This morning, I worked my way to a slight rise near a back corner of the site and for some reason got away from a lot of the shallow modern trash. It wasn't to long after getting into the area that I dug my first wheat cent, quickly followed by another and then the big 3 ringer. These targets slowed me down even more and a few minutes later got a nice high tone whiff that repeated the same from every direction. That sweet tone turned out to be a 1906 Barber dime from 7". A few minutes later I recovered a cut round disc that may be a flat button. A couple feet away from that I got another sweet deep hit reading in the silver dime range and dug a 1936d Mercury time. Over the next hour or so I recovered another 4 wheat cents, but that was it for any more silver. 2 of the wheat cents were 1918 and 1920 and the other 4 were 2 in the 40's and 2 in the 50's. So far, that is 7 silver coins from the spot, but they are coming be-grudgingly. But, we like a challenge, don't we? HH jim tn
