JdsCoins
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It was a beautiful, mild 70 degree day, so even though I wasn't planning on detecting I headed back to the park that has treated me well over the last month.
So after digging a clad dime I had an audience of kids around me, thankfully this time they were more behaved kids, so I didn't mind, so while they were all watching I dug a shallow clad dime just so they could see me dig a coin. I let them swing the probe and help with the holes (and of course showed them how to properly repair one thumbsup01)
So while they were still there I get a strange but solid signal about 4-5 inches down (was hitting between 14-16 on both the ferrous and conductivity numbers on the e-trac.) And out pops a war nickel! :grin: The most corroded one I've ever dug, which explains the abnormally high ferrous numbers.
So I succeeded in boring the kids to death and they moved along. Then only about 10 minutes later I get a clad dime signal, and noticed a deep squeaky 13-47 signal to the left of the dime when I was messing with that signal. So I dig the deep, inconsistent signal first, and BOOM! A 1905-O semi-key barber quarter at about 10 :happy:
Then, probably about another 10 minutes later I dug a 1947 rosie at about 10 as well. Thankfully it was lying completely flat in the hole, otherwise at that depth I think I would have missed it? :dontknow:
After that I spent another 2 hours or so hunting and only found clad, until near the end when I dug a strange object about an inch under the surface. I noticed there was twine on it so I wasn't sure if it was junk. So I get home and start working on cleaning it, so after a few minutes I finally got some mud off, broke some twine, yanked some root out......then another 5 minutes later after unwinding about 10 yards of tightly packed twine out pops a HUGE brass medal :shocked04:
The strange thing about this hunt it exactly a month ago on the same day (march 8th) at the SAME park I also dug a barber quarter, war nickel and rosie. How bizarre? :shocked01:
So after digging a clad dime I had an audience of kids around me, thankfully this time they were more behaved kids, so I didn't mind, so while they were all watching I dug a shallow clad dime just so they could see me dig a coin. I let them swing the probe and help with the holes (and of course showed them how to properly repair one thumbsup01)
So while they were still there I get a strange but solid signal about 4-5 inches down (was hitting between 14-16 on both the ferrous and conductivity numbers on the e-trac.) And out pops a war nickel! :grin: The most corroded one I've ever dug, which explains the abnormally high ferrous numbers.
So I succeeded in boring the kids to death and they moved along. Then only about 10 minutes later I get a clad dime signal, and noticed a deep squeaky 13-47 signal to the left of the dime when I was messing with that signal. So I dig the deep, inconsistent signal first, and BOOM! A 1905-O semi-key barber quarter at about 10 :happy:
Then, probably about another 10 minutes later I dug a 1947 rosie at about 10 as well. Thankfully it was lying completely flat in the hole, otherwise at that depth I think I would have missed it? :dontknow:
After that I spent another 2 hours or so hunting and only found clad, until near the end when I dug a strange object about an inch under the surface. I noticed there was twine on it so I wasn't sure if it was junk. So I get home and start working on cleaning it, so after a few minutes I finally got some mud off, broke some twine, yanked some root out......then another 5 minutes later after unwinding about 10 yards of tightly packed twine out pops a HUGE brass medal :shocked04:
The strange thing about this hunt it exactly a month ago on the same day (march 8th) at the SAME park I also dug a barber quarter, war nickel and rosie. How bizarre? :shocked01:
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