Today's Hunt. GT + 12x10 = Two Keepers.

[Critterhunter]

I've now used the S-12 enough to decide that it's only place will be perhaps as my water coil to replace the 10" Tornado if drag isn't an issue. For land it's 12x10 all the way now, with the 13" Ultimate here and there for a bit faster coverage of large areas such as fields or open beach (not always over the 12x10 for those wide open areas but just when the mood strikes me for something different), and the 7.25" eight inch Tornado for super heavy trash. The 12x10 is outstanding in left/right separation but no doubt a smaller coil will do better length wise when the trash is really bad. Those are going to be my primary land coils.

So today I re-united with my 12x10 for a land hunt where I know some deepies lurk. Hunted for several hours and the deep coin signals just weren't showing up, as we've worked this small section hard all this past year and even more intensly recently gridding from various odd angles. So I decided to start digging any pull tab signals beyond about 6" in depth and travel "back in time" older than when they were invented.

First or second "pull tab" signal, reading around 161 if I remember right, I dig down a good 9" or so and see a small round object. Turns out it was an old flat button stamped "Imperial Standard". Pretty impressive depth *in my soil* for a thin button perhaps a bit smaller than a dime. It hit hard from any angle too.

Also dug another one of those lead garmet weights. It wasn't all that deep but it gave me a 171 VDI #, and as I've said in the past I love to dig that "gap" between the highest pull tab # of 169 (99.9% of the time that is as high as tabs read for me) and the lowest zinc # of 173. I've found a lot of nice relics digging that odd 170, 171, or 172 number.

By the way, a little research appears to show this imperial standard flat button is from the 1820s to 1840s far as I can tell and is British made. The loop is missing on it and the front has no writing or patterns. Would have liked to popped some silver today but these two buttons are nice too...
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[Ron from Michigan]

Critter,nice finds very interesting.Thanks Ron

 

[Maxwedge]

THOSE ARE NICE FINDS, CRITTER. PROBABLY SOME OTHER COOL STUFF THERE. HH-MARK

 

[Critterhunter]

Thanks. For sure more keepers to be had there, as all the "easier" deep or masked coin hits have dried up in this small spot we've been gridding, but I know there are probably some coins at fringe depth that either won't ID properly or even sound off, so I'm thinking of trying pin point mode and only digging the ultra deep hits to try to punch a bit deeper. But before I do that though I'm going to dig any non-iron hits in disc that are 8" or deeper, as I'm sure there are other non-coin keepers to be had. I'm willing to do that, as well as hunt in PP later, because this particular stretch of ground where I dug the button is not all that trashy and the soil is very condusive to having some really deep oldies laying around. Besides, plenty of old coins that read well below copper penny too.