West Jersey Detecting
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Yesterday's Silver & Manganese and.... oops!!
I got my DFX back from servicing yesterday, so I returned back to the site that I had the most trouble ground balancing. I have found some nice finds there, dating from pre CW era to the 1950's, including my only Seated coin and a CW Infantry button. The machine appeared to be acting much better, although I did not get any deep targets. I will need to hit another spot that I know has the deepies to make sure it is finding them.
I did manage to find some keepers such as a couple of nice early 1800's buttons, including a flat cast button. I also dug a bunch of wheaties and some early Jeffersons, two of which were silver "War Nickels", a 1943 P and a 1945 P (bringing my war nickel total to four). I used an old toothbrush and some Crest toothpaste to clean off residue from forest fires and it worked great as it is less abrasive than baking soda.
As I was cleaning the 1945, it slipped out of my hands and down the drain!!! . At least it was a fairly common coin. So this morning I took off the P trap and recovered it after spending the night under the sink.
I hope to get out next week to check out my favorite spots, which I haven't been back to for a few weeks.
Have a great weekend!
Neil
I got my DFX back from servicing yesterday, so I returned back to the site that I had the most trouble ground balancing. I have found some nice finds there, dating from pre CW era to the 1950's, including my only Seated coin and a CW Infantry button. The machine appeared to be acting much better, although I did not get any deep targets. I will need to hit another spot that I know has the deepies to make sure it is finding them.
I did manage to find some keepers such as a couple of nice early 1800's buttons, including a flat cast button. I also dug a bunch of wheaties and some early Jeffersons, two of which were silver "War Nickels", a 1943 P and a 1945 P (bringing my war nickel total to four). I used an old toothbrush and some Crest toothpaste to clean off residue from forest fires and it worked great as it is less abrasive than baking soda.
As I was cleaning the 1945, it slipped out of my hands and down the drain!!! . At least it was a fairly common coin. So this morning I took off the P trap and recovered it after spending the night under the sink.
I hope to get out next week to check out my favorite spots, which I haven't been back to for a few weeks.
Have a great weekend!
Neil
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