Garrett424
Silver Member
- Jun 20, 2014
- 3,164
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- Detector(s) used
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Teknetics Omega 8000
Teknetics Delta 4000,
Deteknix XPointer,
Fiskar's Big Grip Digger & my old Army Trench shovel for the tough jobs
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I went back to my abandoned house site where I recently found a lead soldier. The place is so loaded with trash and the weeds are gettin' so high it's almost not even fun (with the emphasis on almost).
I dug targets for at least 4 hours and almost all of them were trash, including lots of shell casings, a few bullets and other assorted random hunks of lead of many shapes and sizes. I'm beginning to think that these people scavenged metal or something. It's horrible.
So I decided to hit the driveway where I've pulled a few Wheaties in the past one last time. I got a very questionable hit I still can't quite figure out.
This coin rang up in the mid 60's like aluminum or a possible nickel but after digging through the layers of PACKED gravel (a freakin' PITA), out popped this baby:
It's an 1857 Flying Eagle cent and only the second in my collection. My first is an 1858 but I didn't dig that one. My uncle gave it to me when I was a kid.
I'm really happy with this one to say the least. It surely saved the day. It looks shiny because after lightly rinsing it I smeared it with olive oil to try and get a good shot. Overall, it's not in bad shape at all for being in the dirt for all of these years. It looks even better in person.
I also dug a 1925 Wheatie:
I worked really hard for those two small coins. I dug a few other modern Lincolns and one 1989 dime but that was about it coin wise. It's a really tough site and although I keep telling myself that silver HAS TO show up, so far it remains elusive. I'm really thinkin' it may have been cherry picked long ago because it's not exactly a secret location.
Still, I know that Flying Eagles don't show up often or easy so all in all, I'm pretty darn happy and consider this a great find and a great hunt. I can now scratch this one off the list.
Thanks for lookin' and HH.
*****EDIT*****
The mystery of the strange signal on the Flying Eagle is solved. They're not pure copper but copper & Nickel. I had no idea.
Hmm. Learn something every day.
Thank you PlzBSeated.
I dug targets for at least 4 hours and almost all of them were trash, including lots of shell casings, a few bullets and other assorted random hunks of lead of many shapes and sizes. I'm beginning to think that these people scavenged metal or something. It's horrible.
So I decided to hit the driveway where I've pulled a few Wheaties in the past one last time. I got a very questionable hit I still can't quite figure out.
This coin rang up in the mid 60's like aluminum or a possible nickel but after digging through the layers of PACKED gravel (a freakin' PITA), out popped this baby:
It's an 1857 Flying Eagle cent and only the second in my collection. My first is an 1858 but I didn't dig that one. My uncle gave it to me when I was a kid.
I'm really happy with this one to say the least. It surely saved the day. It looks shiny because after lightly rinsing it I smeared it with olive oil to try and get a good shot. Overall, it's not in bad shape at all for being in the dirt for all of these years. It looks even better in person.
I also dug a 1925 Wheatie:
I worked really hard for those two small coins. I dug a few other modern Lincolns and one 1989 dime but that was about it coin wise. It's a really tough site and although I keep telling myself that silver HAS TO show up, so far it remains elusive. I'm really thinkin' it may have been cherry picked long ago because it's not exactly a secret location.
Still, I know that Flying Eagles don't show up often or easy so all in all, I'm pretty darn happy and consider this a great find and a great hunt. I can now scratch this one off the list.
Thanks for lookin' and HH.
*****EDIT*****
The mystery of the strange signal on the Flying Eagle is solved. They're not pure copper but copper & Nickel. I had no idea.
Hmm. Learn something every day.
Thank you PlzBSeated.
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the Flying Eagle has eluded my coil.
