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Made another afternoon of it for a few hours yesterday and the very first target dug was a 1919 D Wheat! We've been lucky to get a good amount of rain which is really helping in softening the ground, making it much more enjoyable!
Seems like after a good rain some targets stand out slightly better over the smaller junk targets, so I was in 4khz which to me helps null out iffy iron targets a little better than 12khz at the expense of some deeper low-conducting coins (like gold coins
) Found a Rosie at about 7" which had several foil lumps very closeby...I was hoping for a coin spill since occasionally a penny and nickel coin spill will many times "blend" VDI to a pulltab range. The Rosie signal was just like this...no VDI but it had a "pulltab sound" with Full Tones.
Mike and I talked about finding a 1916 D Mercury dime while checking a target, and just a few minutes later I pulled a 1916 D Wheat....a little spooky! Found an almost toasted transit token shortly after, and then things went quiet for about an hour. Occasional deep nails, more foil, and several pulltab fragments later I dug an unremarkable faint signal and saw the coin impression first...it was a bigger coin, but the audio wasn't right for a quarter...next likely coin would be a nickel. Saw the 1912 date and immediately turned it over for the mintmark, and saw one...but couldn't make it out!
The suspense lasted a while but finally revealed a Denver-mint, still somewhat rare as far as V-nickels go but very exciting nonetheless! 2 targets later out came a deep 1907 Indian - and that would be the extent of old coins for me that day. I hunted for almost 3 hours after that Indian and every deep target thereafter was junk.
But the story doesn't end there....Mike would pick up the torch for the closing segment of that hunt...
The take-away from the hunt was the mere mention of digging a 1916 D Mercury dime, as well as know is a key date. I got the date right, but wrong coin. The V-nickel had a mintmark, but not the rarest one. This has happened before, on a previous hunt, while we mentioned digging a 1916 D Merc - and then one of us pulls a 1916 D Wheat. There are so many close calls for the KEY coins, and then occasionally one of us hits one. I wonder what else is waiting.....
Seems like after a good rain some targets stand out slightly better over the smaller junk targets, so I was in 4khz which to me helps null out iffy iron targets a little better than 12khz at the expense of some deeper low-conducting coins (like gold coins
) Found a Rosie at about 7" which had several foil lumps very closeby...I was hoping for a coin spill since occasionally a penny and nickel coin spill will many times "blend" VDI to a pulltab range. The Rosie signal was just like this...no VDI but it had a "pulltab sound" with Full Tones.Mike and I talked about finding a 1916 D Mercury dime while checking a target, and just a few minutes later I pulled a 1916 D Wheat....a little spooky! Found an almost toasted transit token shortly after, and then things went quiet for about an hour. Occasional deep nails, more foil, and several pulltab fragments later I dug an unremarkable faint signal and saw the coin impression first...it was a bigger coin, but the audio wasn't right for a quarter...next likely coin would be a nickel. Saw the 1912 date and immediately turned it over for the mintmark, and saw one...but couldn't make it out!
The suspense lasted a while but finally revealed a Denver-mint, still somewhat rare as far as V-nickels go but very exciting nonetheless! 2 targets later out came a deep 1907 Indian - and that would be the extent of old coins for me that day. I hunted for almost 3 hours after that Indian and every deep target thereafter was junk.
But the story doesn't end there....Mike would pick up the torch for the closing segment of that hunt...
The take-away from the hunt was the mere mention of digging a 1916 D Mercury dime, as well as know is a key date. I got the date right, but wrong coin. The V-nickel had a mintmark, but not the rarest one. This has happened before, on a previous hunt, while we mentioned digging a 1916 D Merc - and then one of us pulls a 1916 D Wheat. There are so many close calls for the KEY coins, and then occasionally one of us hits one. I wonder what else is waiting.....
HH jim tn
