White's Eagle2 sl 90 still nails coins with the best of 'em! 1922 PITTSBURG RAILWAY CO.TOKEN

[HaloEffect426]

Wow....now that's a coin spill...... (Awesome on the seated half, by the way)
The coins must've been really close together then? ..I'm guessing
Funny, i have one of those signals in my side yard,,,, all jokes aside,,,,
It is in the grass strip between the sidewalk and the road....
I keep thinking it probably some old iron lid off the side of the house from an old
Coal shoot. ....and was tempted to dig it up and see. Last week end........
,,,,,........ That's it.....I'm. Grabbing the big shovel. (Since it is MY own yard ....haha!)and going to
Fire up the detector and make sure it IS some junky iron monster and
Not a huge coin spill!!
HH..................that's. A really cool story and an awesome "empty"lot...
Nice going!........previous th'er must've not known what they were doing??
Or maybe just ran outta time??

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Howdy HaloEffect426--

Yes. The coins, for the most part, were very close together. There were a few "stragglers" a few feet from the main concentration of coins. I stayed on my knees for quite a while. I was using the 4x6 coil and when I got ANY signal I just reached my hand into the sandy west Texas soil and would have 4 or 5 coins in my hand. It was pretty much a beep-dig situation; because of the close proximity of the many coins interspersed with rusty bottle caps and rusty nails the VDI's were not consistent. I had VDI's of negative 5 to positive 5 and was rewarded with Buffalo nickles WITH rusty bottle caps and rusty nails. The lesson is that good targets in close proximity to trash can skew the VDI's. Some of my friends laugh at me and say "that Blind Squirrel digs everything!" Oh well, I have fun and sometimes come up with a good find or 2. Oh, by the way, I did post pictures of my finds on the Findmall V3i forum. It was about a year or 2 ago and in three separate posts titled coin spill or back to the coin spill. Maybe I should write a story about it and send it to White's?

Hard to say about the previous hunters at that site. I know that some people only dig those perfect signals that fall into the correct VDI range and are coin sized targets. That's fine - we all have our specific detecting goals and hunting styles. And that's why a site is never hunted out.

Good luck at that big signal in your front yard! I hope that it's a pile of gold! Best of luck and...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel