Don in SJ
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Ocean7 made a comment on his last post about how it is finding a coin at the beginning of your hunt and than that is it for the day. Well, this morning, I wanted to do some exploring type hunting and I walked in on an old stage road kept open by ATVers and I knew an adjoining road that parallels this one about half block further in, was not quite as open but probably never has been detected before. I have done well over the years doing old dirt road hunts and this morning that continued.
I did not turn my detector on for the 5 minute walk to this road, and when I spotted the road I did finally turn on the detector. I was immediately greeted by the sweet little iron hits, which when you are in the middle of nowhere is a good thing! As soon as I started swinging on the actual road, I got a sweet, weak but definite big copper reading on my detector.
We are in a drought like condition in my section of the state and the sandy soil is as dry as I have seen it in years. This sandy type soil was very solid and hard to penetrate and my detector was indicating at least 8+ inches in depth.
Luckily I had the Sunray Probe attached, since the coin was much deeper than I originally thought and thanks to the probe I did not strike the coin despite having a very small opening at the 10-12 inch mark, which is where the coin finally was recovered from its long hiding on that old road.
It was a decent but not great 1812 Classic Head Large Cent,the variety is Sheldon 289, they usually are not too great coming out of ground due to what has been said to be made of inferior copper, although I have one that is in spectacular condition found a couple years ago.
Of course, now that I found the coin in the first two minutes, although it took about 3-5 minutes to recover it! But I did not get another decent reading the rest of the morning.. Sort of like a jinx to find a coin right away for me, but it makes the hunt very successful from the git go.
I am also attaching a WHATIST, that I found, I did not give it much thought, until I washed it off. It is broken whatever it is, but what intrigued me was there are wires that taper embedded in this hunk of iron and as I looked at it from different angles I began to believe it might have been to represent a bird and the wires were meant to be the wings folded. Just a thought.
Oh, back to the coin, I do want to mention, that other than finding old coins in fields, the only other place that I have found coins deeper than the average of 4-6 inches at homesteads are the ones that are buried on old dirt roads. I suspect deposition of soil is higher on these old roads due to leaf matter accumulating on them, not totally sure but I do know my deepest non beach or field found coins have come from these old roads and only detectors that truly go deep will ever get them. If I had my smaller 8 inch coil on today, I am sure I most likely would not have had the signal..
HH
Don in South Jersey
I did not turn my detector on for the 5 minute walk to this road, and when I spotted the road I did finally turn on the detector. I was immediately greeted by the sweet little iron hits, which when you are in the middle of nowhere is a good thing! As soon as I started swinging on the actual road, I got a sweet, weak but definite big copper reading on my detector.
We are in a drought like condition in my section of the state and the sandy soil is as dry as I have seen it in years. This sandy type soil was very solid and hard to penetrate and my detector was indicating at least 8+ inches in depth.
Luckily I had the Sunray Probe attached, since the coin was much deeper than I originally thought and thanks to the probe I did not strike the coin despite having a very small opening at the 10-12 inch mark, which is where the coin finally was recovered from its long hiding on that old road.
It was a decent but not great 1812 Classic Head Large Cent,the variety is Sheldon 289, they usually are not too great coming out of ground due to what has been said to be made of inferior copper, although I have one that is in spectacular condition found a couple years ago.
Of course, now that I found the coin in the first two minutes, although it took about 3-5 minutes to recover it! But I did not get another decent reading the rest of the morning.. Sort of like a jinx to find a coin right away for me, but it makes the hunt very successful from the git go.
I am also attaching a WHATIST, that I found, I did not give it much thought, until I washed it off. It is broken whatever it is, but what intrigued me was there are wires that taper embedded in this hunk of iron and as I looked at it from different angles I began to believe it might have been to represent a bird and the wires were meant to be the wings folded. Just a thought.
Oh, back to the coin, I do want to mention, that other than finding old coins in fields, the only other place that I have found coins deeper than the average of 4-6 inches at homesteads are the ones that are buried on old dirt roads. I suspect deposition of soil is higher on these old roads due to leaf matter accumulating on them, not totally sure but I do know my deepest non beach or field found coins have come from these old roads and only detectors that truly go deep will ever get them. If I had my smaller 8 inch coil on today, I am sure I most likely would not have had the signal..
HH
Don in South Jersey
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What size coil were you using? I see you think that you wouldn't have found the coin with the 8 inch coil.
