West Jersey Detecting
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1817 Large Cent and Some More Goodies from This Morning's Outing
I got out with Pat (Con) this morning. We hit a wooded spot that has produced some nice finds in the past. We sprayed plenty of "Deep Woods OFF", and it did a fairly good job of keeping the ticks away.
I have checked this area thoroughly in the past, so I knew signals would be sparse. I set my recovery speed higher to see if I could find some good targets that might be next to iron. After quite some time, I was getting frustrated with nothing but some Wheaties (1913 & 1916), an Indian Head (1899), and an iron fork. I had my mind set, though. I wasn't leaving until I found big copper. I finally got a funky iron hit that bounced up to the 80's on my DFX. I dug a chunk of iron, and scanned the hole again and got what I came for, Big Copper. When I looked at the coin at first all I saw was dirt and a thread stuck to the coin as you can see in the photo. Then I flipped it over and I knew I had a nice coin that would clean well, or at the very least the reverse would.
Pat dug and Indian Head and what I think is a colonial copper farthing judging by the size and thickness, although he says after cleaning there is no detail.
I also found the men's diamond ring marked 14K P(lated). I thought for sure I was going to get shut out for the month of May, but I pulled it out at the last minute!
Thanks for looking, and Happy Hunting!
Neil
I got out with Pat (Con) this morning. We hit a wooded spot that has produced some nice finds in the past. We sprayed plenty of "Deep Woods OFF", and it did a fairly good job of keeping the ticks away.
I have checked this area thoroughly in the past, so I knew signals would be sparse. I set my recovery speed higher to see if I could find some good targets that might be next to iron. After quite some time, I was getting frustrated with nothing but some Wheaties (1913 & 1916), an Indian Head (1899), and an iron fork. I had my mind set, though. I wasn't leaving until I found big copper. I finally got a funky iron hit that bounced up to the 80's on my DFX. I dug a chunk of iron, and scanned the hole again and got what I came for, Big Copper. When I looked at the coin at first all I saw was dirt and a thread stuck to the coin as you can see in the photo. Then I flipped it over and I knew I had a nice coin that would clean well, or at the very least the reverse would.
Pat dug and Indian Head and what I think is a colonial copper farthing judging by the size and thickness, although he says after cleaning there is no detail.
I also found the men's diamond ring marked 14K P(lated). I thought for sure I was going to get shut out for the month of May, but I pulled it out at the last minute!
Thanks for looking, and Happy Hunting!
Neil
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I think the chances of finding one around here are p r e t t y slim! :P 
