Today's results

[LilloEsquilo]

Hit an older local church dating from the 1800s today, which I'd previously hit with a Sovereign, Musketeer and the Explorer II. Today the T2 went hunting and found some goodies. I found a hot spot out in front of the church, apparently they gathered there, as I started hitting wheaties every few feet. I used sens. 70, disc 10 and 2+ tone mode so I was hearing everything.

The T2 excelled, pulling the goodies from this ground, in which there is still a good amount of iron deep and some junk here and there. One thing I noticed that I figured I'd pass on, the older copper wheats I dug (ranging from 1919 to 1944) read lower on the scale than I'd expected, anywhere from high 70s to low 80s, but generally around a 79, they would bounce a little bit, but generally fall solidly in that range, and sound good enough you would dig them. I had expected them to come in a bit higher. So moral of the story is if you get good sounding hits in the mid 70s to upper 70s, sure some will be junk but dig in the older sites because it could well be goodies.

And I was very impressed with the results the T2 gave me considering that I'd hit that area with the Explorer and passed that stuff by but the T2 sniffed it out.

 

[LilloEsquilo]

I noticed something else at the site I hunted. Wheaties tended to go in the 70s anywhere from 74 to 80, and occasionally spiking higher, but it was rare or not at all that they would drop to 56 or 64. With bottle caps, you'd get a hit in the high 70s, then the 80s, then occasionally a 90 with drops to the 50s and 60s, even though the majority stayed in the 70s. That was one thing I noticed that helped differentiate the bottle caps from the wheat. So it seems if you get one that seems good but spikes all over the place it's most likely a bottle cap where the wheat is relatively stable, although it will spike in the low 80s up to about 80 or 82 from time to time.
Hope this helps someone.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Heck I have a box full of deep dug wheaties from using a CZ as Coins all can produce either them or silver//
I really believe the numbers on wheaties can differ due to the ground early or late version and of course corrosion.
I really don't care if I ever dig another wheatie, just think of the time and energy exerted when I could be scanning for a nice silver coin.
Yep that T-2 is looking better every day....of course do remember a well worn silver dime or perhaps partially masked, cocked in the ground nice silver coin can read low so if you get that gut feeling even with a coin in the 70's do go for it as the two 75's I dug the other evening were Indian Head pennies...
If you are in a real old area these numbers also can produce oddball coins such as two cent pieces etc. or if you like to dig all be my guest...

 

[Dan-Pa.]

@#$%& equals tilted unfortunately one word may have several meanings and certainly no intention to upset the dignity of this forum....

 

[LilloEsquilo]

Actually I'd prefer silver, but judging by what I see in the field around here, that's been pretty well cherry picked. So, I'll take the wheat. Besides the early date coins can have a decent value. Not usually as good as Indians or silver, but I'll take them. I just don't find that much silver around here. We have some good detetorists who have cherry picked that off so you pretty much have to go for the wheat and Indians and nickel coins. Those aren't bad finds in my book, beats zincs any day!

Glad you are finding goodies with your T2 as well. Great machine isn't it?

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Our area is heavily hunted...addon more wheats than silver lost...wheats usually easier to find as the leave a halo especially the extremely old ones...In any case nice to know when you look at your meter basically what your digging for....

 

[LilloEsquilo]

True. And the T2 is pretty good at IDing things.

By the way, I went back today to the same site, and dug a 1903 Indian. Read pretty much the same as the wheats, which isn't a surprise as they are the same size and metal composition (bronze). I had hit that area before with my Explorer and didn't come up with this stuff. I must say the T2 in 2+ mode really gets the goodies from the junk in these older sites.