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- Jul 27, 2015
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- E-trac, Excalibur, XP Deus, & CTX 3030.
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- All Treasure Hunting
Thursday I took the DEUS and headed north of The Bronx. It was into the woods. It seems there are less of the nuisance steel bottle caps that you really have to discipline yourself not to dig. They will come in with numbers ranging from 90 to 93. The same number as a possible silver dime. They will also come in shallow, (3" or less), and the audio signal almost always ends with a pop. If it is a signal that is in the 90's and is deep, has no pop, it is an automatic dig. My second good target # of the day was a 95. It turned out to be a 1917 Mercury dime.
I'm also starting to hear something different with some signals in the high 80's. They can almost always be an aluminum screw cap. If they are shallow, they too will give off a loud pop. If the target appears deeper than 5 inches, it doesn't end in a pop, it is worth investigating. At least that is what I'm finding. Yesterday's brass targets ended up being keys, lock parts, a brass spoon bowl, and some copper scrap. All of these target were in the high 80's.
Now the Parking Meter Face Plate came in deep and rang up at 95. I didn't realize until I got it home that it is for a circa 1950's Parking Meter. I was born in 1950 and my family didn't have a car. I didn't own my own car until 1972. By then I believe the parking meters in NYC were all 25 cents.
I had never heard of a penny parking meter. The face plate I dug says, "12 minutes for a penny, 1 hour for a nickel, and 2 hours for a dime."
Kind of cool.
I'm also starting to hear something different with some signals in the high 80's. They can almost always be an aluminum screw cap. If they are shallow, they too will give off a loud pop. If the target appears deeper than 5 inches, it doesn't end in a pop, it is worth investigating. At least that is what I'm finding. Yesterday's brass targets ended up being keys, lock parts, a brass spoon bowl, and some copper scrap. All of these target were in the high 80's.
Now the Parking Meter Face Plate came in deep and rang up at 95. I didn't realize until I got it home that it is for a circa 1950's Parking Meter. I was born in 1950 and my family didn't have a car. I didn't own my own car until 1972. By then I believe the parking meters in NYC were all 25 cents.
I had never heard of a penny parking meter. The face plate I dug says, "12 minutes for a penny, 1 hour for a nickel, and 2 hours for a dime."
Kind of cool.
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