Wednesday and Saturday finds

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Tenderfoot
Apr 6, 2004
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It has been hard to find the time to MD, but I got out last Wednesday afternoon (neighbor's house c. 1955), and Saturday afternoon (friend's house c. 1910):

My first silver and my first mercury dimes by the way. I just threw my clad finds in my change drawer, this is just the good stuff. The pennies from my friend's house are extremely corroded, whereas the one's from my neighbor's yard look pretty good. Rack that up to the amount of fertilizer over the years?

Most everything was found at 3-4" deep, 5" at most. The clad stuff (no photo) was found between surface and 3". I have a DFX, so I didn't dig too much junk. The whole family sat out on the porch on Saturday - I only had 2 hours, but we chatted while I dug a coin every couple feet in a tiny front yard. I need to go back and take care of the rest of the yard, plus the mansion next door which is as old or older (rich people didn't look as hard when they lost their change, right?).

I have a DFX and use a vibraprobe, I'm still a newbie and mostly use the default Coin program although I've loaded DSM. I'm pretty sure I'm not getting the depth that I should but every time I use the DSM or really stretch the settings I lose stability. I suppose if you use the deeper programs you have to ground balance often.

I've been lurking here too long, waiting until I could get out and get something worth posting.

Cheers,
DB
 

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lonewolfe

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Great finds!

Keep us posted with all the mansion finds too!

HH

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jeff of pa

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it's always Nice to see Silver :)

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49er

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Nice collection of coinage there db. I am jealous too. ;D Keep up the great detecting your huntin like an old pro.
 

Leon

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Congrats on your first!!! Looks like your off to a great start...
Privite yards can be very, very trashy... I don't know your paticular detector, but all that trash could have an affect on the stability...
You might try to find a spot out in the open and see if it still acts the same...
Good Luck & Happy Hunting!
 

Mona Lisa

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Great finds, DB. :o You're off to a great start.

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By the way, you have the detector of my dreams. I'm trying to be patient and just use my White's Prizm IV for a while.
 

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Tenderfoot
Apr 6, 2004
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Thanks for the comments and esp. the hint on running my rig hot, went out for about 1.5 hours on Sunday and found 25 coins, all clad/memorial except 4 wheaties. Nothing worth posting, really. Weird though that of 4 sites hunted this year, all produced at least one 1946 penny. My own yard produced several. Suppose I should find older sites ;-) Also, since I had all those tremendously corroded wheat pennies from my friend's yard, I brass brushed them and then rubbed candle wax into the porous surfaces with my fingers. It brought the features back! Any other ways to bring coin features out?

DB
 

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