Went looking for gold and found big silver!

[Larbear2]

I went to one of the local high schools to try for some gold. Was not finding much at the softball field, just an occasional zincoln or clad dime, very little trash even. Then the F70 gave a soft audio signal, the vid was fluctuating in the high 80’s to the low 90’s. Gotta love spell check, that’s vdi, not vid. Down in the dirt 3-4 inches, finally got it out of the hole and it was in the last handful of dirt. Hello Big Ben franklin! Been a long time since I dug one of those!
Finished up with the softball field and moved onto an adjacent field, probably a practice field for football and/or soccer. Was finding some snaps, buckles from athletic apparel and tabs, foil, etc. And some clad.
Never did find the gold, gave it a good shot, dug lots of low conductors. Ended up with a decent amount of clad and the Ben Franklin half!

 

[Ronstar]

Your story is very similar to mine but he was hiding under a bunch of clad quarters!!! Nice find.

 

[miserman]

The Franklins are not very common. Nice find

 

[Missouri -- Ma Betty]

I went to one of the local high schools to try for some gold. Was not finding much at the softball field, just an occasional zincoln or clad dime, very little trash even. Then the F70 gave a soft audio signal, the vid was fluctuating in the high 80’s to the low 90’s. Gotta love spell check, that’s vdi, not vid. Down in the dirt 3-4 inches, finally got it out of the hole and it was in the last handful of dirt. Hello Big Ben franklin! Been a long time since I dug one of those!
Finished up with the softball field and moved onto an adjacent field, probably a practice field for football and/or soccer. Was finding some snaps, buckles from athletic apparel and tabs, foil, etc. And some clad.
Never did find the gold, gave it a good shot, dug lots of low conductors. Ended up with a decent amount of clad and the Ben Franklin half!

Congrats on the Silver Half--That photo of your hunt looks so much like the ones I used to have --Pencil erasers & all & YES! Once in a while silver including a silver half! God surely blesses MD"ers now & then! Ma

 

[jim tn]

Nice find! Those Ben's don't crop up all that often. Walkers far more common. Bet there is still a piece of gold in that field and you seem to have the patience for finding it. HH jim tn

 

[Larbear2]

Your story is very similar to mine but he was hiding under a bunch of clad quarters!!! Nice find.

Thanks Ronstar!

 

[Larbear2]

The Franklins are not very common. Nice find

Thanks miserman!

 

[Larbear2]

Nice find! Those Ben's don't crop up all that often. Walkers far more common. Bet there is still a piece of gold in that field and you seem to have the patience for finding it. HH jim tn

Thanks jim tn: yes it seems that Walkers are found more frequently than the Ben’s. I will return to that field again sometime to try for the gold, low and slow might do the trick.

 

[Larbear2]

Congrats on the Silver Half--That photo of your hunt looks so much like the ones I used to have --Pencil erasers & all & YES! Once in a while silver including a silver half! God surely blesses MD"ers now & then! Ma

Thanks Missouri—Ma Betty!

 

[dfmike]

I would have loved to dig that heavy chunk of silver ! Congrats.

Just out of curiosity, did you raise the discrimination on your detector to knock out small foil ? My typical old school finds resemble yours but with a lot more bits of foil or can slaw.

 

[Larbear2]

I would have loved to dig that heavy chunk of silver ! Congrats.

Just out of curiosity, did you raise the discrimination on your detector to knock out small foil ? My typical old school finds resemble yours but with a lot more bits of foil or can slaw.

Hi dfmike, good to hear from you, thanks for the response. Yeah, it was a lot of fun and a big surprise to dig the Franklin half !

No, I don’t raise the discrimination to knock out small foil. I don’t want to miss the smaller gold so when I run my F70, my disc is in the 0-6 range, 3-4 usually. I let the tones and the fluctuations on the VDI influence my decision to dig low foil or not. If it is a good clear tone and the VDI does not fluctuate more than 2 or 3 numbers, I will probably dig, unless I am feeling lazy that day. I have 2 gold rings this year that gave a good tone and came in at a solid 23 on the F70. One of them I just dug yesterday. I will do a post on that later today or maybe tomorrrow.

If I am going to change settings on my detector, it will probably be the sensitivity setting, threshold, or tones. And then there is always the notch option. But i prefer low disc, dig more trash find more stuff.