First off Ray spied a old cemetary that he thought must have had a church at one time. We investigated and sure enough we found the remains of one on the side. We then proceeded to hunt what we thought was the parking lot. Ray had the new Minelab 17 inch coil on and I had the stock Pro Coil. Ray immediately hit an indian penny. I immediately found nothing. 
I moved further out to the street and Ray came along a bit later and hunted along side me. He then hit a nice 9 to 10 inch screamer and he called me over to it. My coil screamed also saying even more definitely then his did that it was a quarter. No one could miss that target with a CTX at least apparently. Ray dug it out and had himself a seated quarter. 1854 I believe. I'll wait for him to post up about it. He then got another hit a while later and retrieved a 2 foot piece of wire. He almost forgot to go over there and recheck the now unmasked hole and he got a barber dime. I only had 2 hits on my own that seemed to be coins at this site and both turned out to look like bullets but they weren't. We weren't sure what they were actually. Both of us checked the targets and thought coin.
But the above isn't why I posted. We went to another park a while later and this time I found a couple of wheaties and one presumably indian penny that I still haven't cleaned up enough to know. Just after the third coin I dug up I moved ahead about 7 feet from my last dig and I got a solid 11-45 and it was deep. It kept telling me it was 11 to 12 inches deep. I was running 26 manual in the standard coin mode so I wasn't doing much if anything to account for getting that strong of a hit that deep and in a park that was so cleaned out there was hardly any clad even shallow. I circled the target and was able to hit it everywhere. It even occasionally hit 11-46. I started the dig as Ray was 75 yards away and didn't want to come that far over. At 10 inches I finally got a solid beep on the pin pointer.. I kept going with two more excavations before I got the last clump out that contained the target. Once uncovered it was a 1904 Barber dime, (pictured here) Using me shovel to get a clue on how deep the dig was I determined it to be between 11 and 12 inches. Just what the depth meter had told me. What was surprising to me was that it was a dime that deep giving the for sure hit. Not sure about the rest of you but I've dug a quite a few 9 inch dimes but cannot really think of a deeper dime I've dug with that much of a hit from any machine I've owned. I've gotten large cents and one silver dollar both at 13 inches. Heck the silver dollar rang as a penny on the Explorer and didn't start to really show off until the Sun Ray probe got pretty darn near it.
I also explored the now empty hole to make sure there wasn't another dime in there...
That's it.. Here's the coin.
[attachment 244246 1904-Barber.jpg]
I was impressed and now I'm going to guard my stock coil with my life.
G..
I moved further out to the street and Ray came along a bit later and hunted along side me. He then hit a nice 9 to 10 inch screamer and he called me over to it. My coil screamed also saying even more definitely then his did that it was a quarter. No one could miss that target with a CTX at least apparently. Ray dug it out and had himself a seated quarter. 1854 I believe. I'll wait for him to post up about it. He then got another hit a while later and retrieved a 2 foot piece of wire. He almost forgot to go over there and recheck the now unmasked hole and he got a barber dime. I only had 2 hits on my own that seemed to be coins at this site and both turned out to look like bullets but they weren't. We weren't sure what they were actually. Both of us checked the targets and thought coin. But the above isn't why I posted. We went to another park a while later and this time I found a couple of wheaties and one presumably indian penny that I still haven't cleaned up enough to know. Just after the third coin I dug up I moved ahead about 7 feet from my last dig and I got a solid 11-45 and it was deep. It kept telling me it was 11 to 12 inches deep. I was running 26 manual in the standard coin mode so I wasn't doing much if anything to account for getting that strong of a hit that deep and in a park that was so cleaned out there was hardly any clad even shallow. I circled the target and was able to hit it everywhere. It even occasionally hit 11-46. I started the dig as Ray was 75 yards away and didn't want to come that far over. At 10 inches I finally got a solid beep on the pin pointer.. I kept going with two more excavations before I got the last clump out that contained the target. Once uncovered it was a 1904 Barber dime, (pictured here) Using me shovel to get a clue on how deep the dig was I determined it to be between 11 and 12 inches. Just what the depth meter had told me. What was surprising to me was that it was a dime that deep giving the for sure hit. Not sure about the rest of you but I've dug a quite a few 9 inch dimes but cannot really think of a deeper dime I've dug with that much of a hit from any machine I've owned. I've gotten large cents and one silver dollar both at 13 inches. Heck the silver dollar rang as a penny on the Explorer and didn't start to really show off until the Sun Ray probe got pretty darn near it.
I also explored the now empty hole to make sure there wasn't another dime in there...
That's it.. Here's the coin.
[attachment 244246 1904-Barber.jpg]
I was impressed and now I'm going to guard my stock coil with my life.
G..
