bonepicker
Bronze Member
Havent been posting here much lately, but thought this would be an appropriate place since there was a State of Mississippi item involved.
Went out for a short hunt last night. I wasn't going to go, but I got home from work and started looking at some todays finds and it kind of motivated me.
Left here at 6:00pm and drove around for a short time and finally settled on hitting a local park that I thought for sure was hunted out...
The park was built around 1900, so I decided to give it another shot & see if the XP Deus could sniff something out.
I previously hit this park several times with my Whites V3i and Minelab E-trac never finding anything old, and was going with the assumption that this park had been beat down, and if there was anything old there it had to be really deep or really masked.
Thirty minutes in and I get a nice tone running 8Khz with a 83 VDI# around 6 inches deep. So im thinkin maybe a silver dime, prob a rosie or merc, or just some deep clad. I pop the plug and lo and behold its a 1903 O Barber dime. I was in shock for a moment, but then decided to stick the probe back in the hole and it starts a buzzin again. Wouldn't you know its another Barber dime, 1901 O. I was pretty darn surprised due to my not ever finding anything old at this site with 2 other high end machines. 2 Barbers in the same hole with "O" Mint-mark. How sweet.......
So I kept at it and about 20 minutes later I get another nice signal around 6"es or so down under a large tree root.
Its ringing up around the Quarter range, so im thinking how a barber quarter would be really sweet, since it as about the right depth. After a couple minutes of tunneling under a large Sycamore root I managed to pull out a large half dollar disk with a golden tone. It wasn't really what I was looking for, but still think its pretty neat as it has an eagle with a shield and says State of Mississippi. Im assuming its a State Seal keychain or Watch FOB, but if anyone knows please advise.
I would have posted sooner, but I have been trying to get some of the green off of it, so it could be legible.
After finding the relic I wrapped it up and was home by 7:30pm.
Also ended up with .65 cents in clad and a handful of pulltabs and other junk.
Just goes to show, no matter how much you think it is, no site is ever hunted out.
They must have used a lot of fertilizer in the park, because unfortunately the coins and relic are eaten up a bit..
Went out for a short hunt last night. I wasn't going to go, but I got home from work and started looking at some todays finds and it kind of motivated me.
Left here at 6:00pm and drove around for a short time and finally settled on hitting a local park that I thought for sure was hunted out...
The park was built around 1900, so I decided to give it another shot & see if the XP Deus could sniff something out.
I previously hit this park several times with my Whites V3i and Minelab E-trac never finding anything old, and was going with the assumption that this park had been beat down, and if there was anything old there it had to be really deep or really masked.
Thirty minutes in and I get a nice tone running 8Khz with a 83 VDI# around 6 inches deep. So im thinkin maybe a silver dime, prob a rosie or merc, or just some deep clad. I pop the plug and lo and behold its a 1903 O Barber dime. I was in shock for a moment, but then decided to stick the probe back in the hole and it starts a buzzin again. Wouldn't you know its another Barber dime, 1901 O. I was pretty darn surprised due to my not ever finding anything old at this site with 2 other high end machines. 2 Barbers in the same hole with "O" Mint-mark. How sweet.......
So I kept at it and about 20 minutes later I get another nice signal around 6"es or so down under a large tree root.
Its ringing up around the Quarter range, so im thinking how a barber quarter would be really sweet, since it as about the right depth. After a couple minutes of tunneling under a large Sycamore root I managed to pull out a large half dollar disk with a golden tone. It wasn't really what I was looking for, but still think its pretty neat as it has an eagle with a shield and says State of Mississippi. Im assuming its a State Seal keychain or Watch FOB, but if anyone knows please advise.
I would have posted sooner, but I have been trying to get some of the green off of it, so it could be legible.
After finding the relic I wrapped it up and was home by 7:30pm.
Also ended up with .65 cents in clad and a handful of pulltabs and other junk.
Just goes to show, no matter how much you think it is, no site is ever hunted out.
They must have used a lot of fertilizer in the park, because unfortunately the coins and relic are eaten up a bit..
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