joncooper1986
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- Jul 31, 2014
- 125
- 309
- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus 4.0 9" coil, 11" coil, WS4 w/ Detecting Doodads headphones, MI-6 pinpointer
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
So my wife and I were up at my mothers house to celebrate her birthday, which is also the location of my detection honey hole. The house I grew up in has a field with a cellar hole next to it that I have pulled dozens of colonial coins and hundreds of colonial buttons out of over the years. Today I asked my wife if I could run out between the rain storm and squeeze in 5 to 10 minutes of detecting before our newborn woke up. She said yes and so I strapped the 11 inch coil that I just got onto my XP Deus and put it on 4 kilohertz for the first time. I have mainly detected the whole field in higher frequencies. It certainly paid off! Within three minutes I had a solid 94 squeeking through and I could see and hear that it was deep. I dug down and scooped out about 8 to 10 inches of soil and immediately saw a large round disc spill back into the hole and I imediately knew I had something good. It's pretty toasted and honestly looked a little better with some of the dirt on it. The two notches that you see appear to be very old and it is obvious that they were there before the coin was dropped. The notches are both of the same angle and my guess is that somebody 200 years ago used it against a grinding wheel of some sort because it this way to clean to be a stamped out feature. Anyone have any ideas? In the same field I have actually found a large sent that looks like it had been hit repetitively with a chisel and I have also found a hold coin. My guess is that it was used to test some sort of grinding tool or that a child was screwing around with his parents money and a grinding wheel. Overall it was the most productive detection outing I've ever had when you consider the time/payoff ratio. Now I can't wait to scour over the solid 2 acre field in four kilohertz nice and slow
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