Ohio Jerry
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Just a battered old fatty 64 but it's the first IH I've dug since November so i was thrilled with it. I've only dug three other fatties but it always impresses me how as soon as i hold one in my hand fresh out of the dirt that i know immediately that it's a fatty.
The soil in my area is not very kind to this era of coins 1860-64. I dug a 61 last summer and made the mistake of trying to clean it and ended up instantly losing any sign of the date with just a simple,gentle scraping with a toothpick.
This coin is in the same condition as that 61 and if you look closely you can see the only detail is in a very fragile crust that holds the only detail left on the coin.
This coin and the other relics came from two pounded out sites that i worked over using a new "playbook". As Buckleboy would say "look for places you have either consciously or unconsciously overlooked".
My "fatty" came out within inches of an old buried barbwire fence that normally i would have avoided using the relic mode in my dfx since the metal in the barbire would have had it screaming with every nearby pass of the coil. I found this fatty using a high disc,dp silver mode that blanks out the iron and lets some of the non ferrous signals squeak through. Lesson here is "don't be afraid to experiment with your settings" !! HH
Jerry
The soil in my area is not very kind to this era of coins 1860-64. I dug a 61 last summer and made the mistake of trying to clean it and ended up instantly losing any sign of the date with just a simple,gentle scraping with a toothpick.
This coin is in the same condition as that 61 and if you look closely you can see the only detail is in a very fragile crust that holds the only detail left on the coin.
This coin and the other relics came from two pounded out sites that i worked over using a new "playbook". As Buckleboy would say "look for places you have either consciously or unconsciously overlooked".
My "fatty" came out within inches of an old buried barbwire fence that normally i would have avoided using the relic mode in my dfx since the metal in the barbire would have had it screaming with every nearby pass of the coil. I found this fatty using a high disc,dp silver mode that blanks out the iron and lets some of the non ferrous signals squeak through. Lesson here is "don't be afraid to experiment with your settings" !! HH
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Congrats, Jerry!~
