West Jersey Detecting
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I finally was able to get some detecting in this morning. I have my in-laws visiting from Florida, so I had to stay local. I hit a spot that has produced a lot of silver, and my goal today was to dig some Merc's or Silver Rosies.
My first decent signal was a bouncy penny signal, with a VDI on my V3 bouncing from the 60's to the 70's, at a depth about 4 3/4". I was hopeful that I was starting out with a Wheat Cent, but when I pinpointed the dirt pile I saw the large copper disk and said to myself, "this can't be!". Out popped George! I just stared for about 10 seconds saying to myself over and over "this can't be!"
Unfortunately I cannot get a date, but it looks like it may end in a "7", so possibly 1777
. The spot was once farmland, but I cannot date the site earlier than the 1840's. The fertilizer did a number on this one, and what you see in my hand is the best it is going to get after cleaning.
My previous oldest coin at the site was an 1877 Seated quarter, and that was my only nineteenth century coin at the site until this morning. I dug some civil war era buttons, and one early flat buttons in the past, but colonial copper was the furthest thing from my mind!!
After that it was 3.5 hours of nothing but modern trash and coinage, but what a beautiful morning to be out!
UPDATE 12/22/09: I forgot to mention the clipped planchet at 6:00.
My first decent signal was a bouncy penny signal, with a VDI on my V3 bouncing from the 60's to the 70's, at a depth about 4 3/4". I was hopeful that I was starting out with a Wheat Cent, but when I pinpointed the dirt pile I saw the large copper disk and said to myself, "this can't be!". Out popped George! I just stared for about 10 seconds saying to myself over and over "this can't be!"
Unfortunately I cannot get a date, but it looks like it may end in a "7", so possibly 1777
. The spot was once farmland, but I cannot date the site earlier than the 1840's. The fertilizer did a number on this one, and what you see in my hand is the best it is going to get after cleaning.My previous oldest coin at the site was an 1877 Seated quarter, and that was my only nineteenth century coin at the site until this morning. I dug some civil war era buttons, and one early flat buttons in the past, but colonial copper was the furthest thing from my mind!!
After that it was 3.5 hours of nothing but modern trash and coinage, but what a beautiful morning to be out!
UPDATE 12/22/09: I forgot to mention the clipped planchet at 6:00.
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but why did the signal bounce around , it should of locked onto it especially at that depth.
