Has This Ever Happened To You?

[Natman]

Hi all,

I was hunting at an athletic field yesterday and was looking for coins and whatever else may come my way, when my detector went off. The display read a solid penny. Now usually if I have the time and energy I dig everything..I figure it's good practice and helps with the end of year totals. I began to dig and pulled up a muddy quarter. This was what I couldn't figure out..any time my machine reads quarter it's ALWAYS a quarter.

I dropped the coin on the ground and tried it again, and it still read penny. I thought maybe my batteries were going, I was just tired, or something was wrong with my detector. Why was it acting this way?

Then I started to rub the mud off the quarter and said to myself, "Maybe this isn't a quarter..." It turned out to be this nice religious coin, which was the EXACT same size as a quarter.

I wondered how many times this has happened to you..today I dug up a token that my detector read as a penny. Digging those insignificant penny targets sometimes turn out to be really nice things.

Nat

 

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[aa battery]

Nat someone is trying to tell you something.aa

 

[Natman]

Nat someone is trying to tell you something.aa

I was in deep thought about things I was concerned with while I was out there..you may be right

The chuck e cheese token i just found showed up as a penny ...

On the other hand...how many times has a nickel been a pull tab...

Nick

That's right, my CEC tokens were penny readouts as well, and so were most of my president coins etc. My detector reads pull tabs as either a ring or a pull tab..I never came up with anything else. My nickel readings are either nickels or pieces of aluminum cans.

Nat

 

[aa battery]

Nat didnt mean to scare you but that was the 1st thing that went through my mind.Yes i have hit tokens that do that. aa

 

[BIG61AL]

Just yesterday I dug a nice solid target that jumped between nail and pull tab. I dug it to find out what it was and was right on top the dirt beneath the blades of grass. Turned out to be a 2 pence coin from the UK. It was larger than a quarter in size. Must have a odd copper alloy mix to read like that.

 

[teverly]

Saw a magazine article once and it showed all kinds of charms ,tokens,ect that read like pennies on that persons detector.

 

[Ray S ECenFL]

Yes, detectors lie to you.

Rule of thumb is dig everything.

May be lie is too strong of a word, I should say that the detectors get confused. LOL They ( detectors) are designed to find coin sized objects and expect them to be of a certain metal composition. I have had flattened bottle caps read as quarter . Also have had a silver ring read as penny - dime. We have all had the dreaded pull tab tell us they were nickles.

The objects in the ground are just playing with you. It is a test to see what your patience threshold is or to see if you have a colorful vocabulary.

Dig everything because you just never know.

HH

Ray S

 

[UnEarthed72]

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