First Silver Coin on the Garrett Ace 350

Spurphy

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May 24, 2013
3
3
Wisconsin
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Garrett ACE 350
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Metal Detecting
Today I found my first silver while metal detecting. I have been detecting in a park near where I live for the past few days and have only found pennies and a clad Texas quarter. But tonight, I found a 1946 Roosevelt dime. I do not own a pinpointer, so I had to use the pinpointing feature on my Garrett Ace 350 to narrow down its location in the plug. I was expecting to find a bottle cap or an old aluminum can, so when the rosy popped out, I almost screamed. The coin was about 2 inches deep. I knew it was silver since it was so clean and shiny coming right out of the ground. I will be going back to this park many times because there has got to be more!:laughing7:
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marh415

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Apr 30, 2013
199
59
Rhode Island
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Garrett AT Pro, Garrett ACE 350, Garrett Pro Pointer
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Cool find, it's an awesome machine for under $300! 8-)

Nice pic on the right BTW... looks like an advertisement!
 

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christo000

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Mar 17, 2013
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congrates on the first silver its only gonna get better HH
 

BadM0nkey

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Apr 28, 2013
246
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Garrett ProPointer
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Congratulations. Love my 350.
 

mercury1

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Mar 9, 2012
1,649
533
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Today I found my first silver while metal detecting. I have been detecting in a park near where I live for the past few days and have only found pennies and a clad Texas quarter. But tonight, I found a 1946 Roosevelt dime. I do not own a pinpointer, so I had to use the pinpointing feature on my Garrett Ace 350 to narrow down its location in the plug. I was expecting to find a bottle cap or an old aluminum can, so when the rosy popped out, I almost screamed. The coin was about 2 inches deep. I knew it was silver since it was so clean and shiny coming right out of the ground. I will be going back to this park many times because there has got to be more!:laughing7:
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Congrats spurphy. How many hours of hunting before you found silver?
 

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Spurphy

Newbie
May 24, 2013
3
3
Wisconsin
Detector(s) used
Garrett ACE 350
Primary Interest:
Metal Detecting
Congrats spurphy. How many hours of hunting before you found silver?
Well, this was my first real public metal detecting, I had done my own yard to learn the ACE 350. I had been at this park three times before finding silver. If I had to estimate hours, I would say 10-15 hours of hunting at this park before I found the silver dime. This park had a large amount of trash ranging from bottle tops, aluminum cans, and other miscellaneous chunks of metal. It was quite frustrating at first since the trash usually shows up as 10/25 cents on the ACE 350, so I was stuck digging it in hopes of a coin. There were however, a ton of pennies (two of them wheat cents). But now, I can usually tell just by the pinpointing feature on the ACE 350 if it is a coin or not. The signal drops off rather quickly for a coin, and for trash it is usually more of a broad signal while pinpointing. I must say, with the pinpointing feature of the ACE 350, my recovery time has greatly reduced.
 

BadM0nkey

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Apr 28, 2013
246
77
Andover, NJ
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Fisher F75 SE Limited Edition
Garrett ProPointer
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All Treasure Hunting
Congrats! May it be the first of thousands!

My first silver was on my first day MD. I found a VF 1943 merc only 2 inches deep in wood chips on a school playground. Must have been for show and tell and got dropped.
 

Old as Dirt

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May 19, 2013
64
34
Crest Hill, Illinois
Detector(s) used
Garrett Ace 350 & Garrett Pro PinPointer
Primary Interest:
All Treasure Hunting
Today I found my first silver while metal detecting. I have been detecting in a park near where I live for the past few days and have only found pennies and a clad Texas quarter. But tonight, I found a 1946 Roosevelt dime. I do not own a pinpointer, so I had to use the pinpointing feature on my Garrett Ace 350 to narrow down its location in the plug. I was expecting to find a bottle cap or an old aluminum can, so when the rosy popped out, I almost screamed. The coin was about 2 inches deep. I knew it was silver since it was so clean and shiny coming right out of the ground. I will be going back to this park many times because there has got to be more!:laughing7:
<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=802373"/><img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=802375"/>

Nice find. I have the Garrett Ace 350 also the Garrett Pin Pointer. I love them ,but have only been able to go out a dozen times or so, for the public parks all around me evidently have ordinances, against detecting.
 

worldtalker

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May 11, 2011
21,048
29,127
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Well, this was my first real public metal detecting, I had done my own yard to learn the ACE 350. I had been at this park three times before finding silver. If I had to estimate hours, I would say 10-15 hours of hunting at this park before I found the silver dime. This park had a large amount of trash ranging from bottle tops, aluminum cans, and other miscellaneous chunks of metal. It was quite frustrating at first since the trash usually shows up as 10/25 cents on the ACE 350, so I was stuck digging it in hopes of a coin. There were however, a ton of pennies (two of them wheat cents). But now, I can usually tell just by the pinpointing feature on the ACE 350 if it is a coin or not. The signal drops off rather quickly for a coin, and for trash it is usually more of a broad signal while pinpointing. I must say, with the pinpointing feature of the ACE 350, my recovery time has greatly reduced.

You got the ear,pinpointer helps greatly,wait till you have 3500 hrs. First Silver on ANY machine is wild!!! GodBless Chris
 

jimzz977

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Jun 23, 2012
1,791
4,707
New Mexico
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Minelab Etrac
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Nice find I'm still look for my first silver coin, but did find GOLD !!!!!! today
 

Produce Guy

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Dec 17, 2008
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austin,texas
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Dude I would go out and buy the garrett pro pointer as soon as you can.
 

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