mapper65
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My brother (Hotrod53) and I decided to go back to a place that we detected a few months ago with our brother in law. It's an old 5 over 4 home that we were told is from 1807. The last time we were there my brother found the owner's wife's wedding ring and a flying eagle cent. I think my brother in law found an indian, some wheats and a nice civil war era token. I found some wheats and a small handful of clad but it wasn't my day for a good find.
Today we both started out with the 6" Coiltek coils and after an hour or so of finding a few wheats and memorials I pulled up an 1842 large cent. Someone punched it with a square punch so I suspect it was worn by someone back in the day. Coins were getting a little scarce so I decided to switch to my second favorite coil, the 10.5" MF DD Minelab coil. I was hitting some obscure parts of the property while Hotrod53 was grid searching the front yard with the 5x10 HF Minelab coil. He was just finishing up going from the road to the front of the house and back and I said "I'll grid search it left to right". He said "you should search it at 45 degrees." Within a few minutes I found an indian, then an 1892 V nickel. Then I found two indians in one hole. In just under an hour I found 3 more indians! One of the wheats is about the same diameter as a dime so I'm not sure if it was eaten in the soil like that or if maybe someone had played around and filed it down. It seems almost too evenly sized for it to have been done be the soil.
We spent about 6 hours at this place the first time with (2) 705's and an E-Trac but the ground was pretty dry and hard. The ground was a little softer this time so with the conductivity being a little better along with the change in frequency, that seemed to be what made things a little easier to pick these coins out. I was surprised when one of the indians had a .22 shell in the same hole with it. That always amazes me when your able to pick a coin out under those circumstances. For the most part we have found that changing frequency will give you a slight edge with certain coins in certain soil but I've never had a day that a frequency change made coins that were completely invisible to another coil show themselves. That just goes to show you that no matter how long you've been doing this, you're always learning.
Hotrod53 came out with a nice handful of wheats and some other clad. This is one of those rare cases that on this particular day, under these conditions, frequency seemed to make all the difference.
My notable coins were:
1842 large cent
1882 Indian
1889 Indian
1892 V Nickel
18?? Indian
(2) 1904 Indians
The large cent didn't photograph very well but it's in better condition than the picture shows. I'm not sure that we are in that much of a hurry to go back after putting 12 hours into this site but it's definitely still on our list.
Today we both started out with the 6" Coiltek coils and after an hour or so of finding a few wheats and memorials I pulled up an 1842 large cent. Someone punched it with a square punch so I suspect it was worn by someone back in the day. Coins were getting a little scarce so I decided to switch to my second favorite coil, the 10.5" MF DD Minelab coil. I was hitting some obscure parts of the property while Hotrod53 was grid searching the front yard with the 5x10 HF Minelab coil. He was just finishing up going from the road to the front of the house and back and I said "I'll grid search it left to right". He said "you should search it at 45 degrees." Within a few minutes I found an indian, then an 1892 V nickel. Then I found two indians in one hole. In just under an hour I found 3 more indians! One of the wheats is about the same diameter as a dime so I'm not sure if it was eaten in the soil like that or if maybe someone had played around and filed it down. It seems almost too evenly sized for it to have been done be the soil.
We spent about 6 hours at this place the first time with (2) 705's and an E-Trac but the ground was pretty dry and hard. The ground was a little softer this time so with the conductivity being a little better along with the change in frequency, that seemed to be what made things a little easier to pick these coins out. I was surprised when one of the indians had a .22 shell in the same hole with it. That always amazes me when your able to pick a coin out under those circumstances. For the most part we have found that changing frequency will give you a slight edge with certain coins in certain soil but I've never had a day that a frequency change made coins that were completely invisible to another coil show themselves. That just goes to show you that no matter how long you've been doing this, you're always learning.
Hotrod53 came out with a nice handful of wheats and some other clad. This is one of those rare cases that on this particular day, under these conditions, frequency seemed to make all the difference.
My notable coins were:
1842 large cent
1882 Indian
1889 Indian
1892 V Nickel
18?? Indian
(2) 1904 Indians
The large cent didn't photograph very well but it's in better condition than the picture shows. I'm not sure that we are in that much of a hurry to go back after putting 12 hours into this site but it's definitely still on our list.
