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Hi everyone.
Today I had about 3 hours to hunt before work so, I took off to the little town where I found my 1821 farthing last week. I headed right to the house next door. All the time last week during my hunt I kept looking at this house that was sending messages to come hunt me......come hunt me.......come hunt me.
So, today I pulled into the driveway next door and had my intro speech all ready as I walked up to the door. I did a little knock and waited for the old man to come to the door. As soon as he got close enough I saw he too was a customer of many years in my pet shop ( so much for my intro speech lol ).
He opens the door and says Hi Dan. ( this makes it a lot easier to ask ). I tell him that last week I was next door searching with my metal detector and I had to come over here and see if I would be able to search his law too. He smiles and says of course have fun.
I headed right to the truck to get started before the rain might run me off. I fire up the my Etrac and did a quick noise cancel and, started to hunt. It sounded like a pinball machine with all of the tones going off. I pick a nice high tone and see that the target is a penny and only like 2 inches. Thinking ok lets see whats we have I cut a shallow plug and flip over the sod to see a nice little wheat penny ( maybe 2" ).
I start to work the well worn path to the front porch and, had lot's of targets going off. Next, I have to readjust my settings for everything is going off super shallow. So, I lower the sensitivity to auto and, also removed the +3 and, then turned deep off and, fast off. Now, the Etrac is purring like a kitten with all of these shallow targets.
Trying t work a nice tight pattern towards the front porch I keep hitting wheaties at less then 2". Then I get a nice 11/11 and, know this has to be a nickle. This too shows only 2" and, I pinpoint it to make sure I do not scratch it. Kneeling down I cut a nice shallow plug and, again lay it over this time to see a nice little buffalo that was scared and wanted to come home with me ( after all I own a pet shop ).
Next few minutes I dig clad one hole then a wheatie then a clad then a wheatie.
This is so cool I have no idea if I'm going to get a new coin or an old coin on the next flip of the plug. Then I got a nice high tone ( the silver tone ) and cut a plug looking for a dime maybe. But, out comes a really nice little religious medal from Chicago.
This is turning out to be a great hunt. I always try to find a penny-nickle-dime-
quarter-jewelry and silver in every hunt. ( Not that I get them all every time lol ) So far, I have the penny the nickle the dime and now I get the silver and the jewelry out of the way in one fell swoop.
I have been searching for about an hour now and, am getting all sorts of fun little things. I have got 3 junk rings plus all the coins so far ( not to mention the silver religious medal ). I am close to the old dog house and, get a nice soft high tone. The numbers are bouncing around but, the tone tells me to DIG. I pinpoint to the spot I am going to dig and cut a nice square plug and lay the sod back. This time there is no coin sitting there so I pop out my Garrett pinpointer to check the hole. It sounds off in the hole in the 2 o'clock position so, I careful open the side up a little and out pops a very very tiny silver little disk.
Slowly I look at the coin and think to myself that it's the right size to be a 3 cent piece but, no way would I be lucky enough to get something like that. I popped it into my zipper pouch inside my hunting pouch and continue to search for more goodies.
Back to digging both clad and wheaties when I get a really high tone that reads 11/46. Still the target only shows to be 3" at the most. I am super careful again while pinpointing to make sure i do not scratch anything. Kneeling down I cut a square plug and lay it open looking for silver maybe. Then I see a great big old copper.
I got a large cent with no date ( but, hey I'm super happy date or not ). Now, I am thinking omg how cool is this. I have found some great finds so far and, I have only scratched a tiny section of this huge lawn.
Then mother nature tells me ok you're done lol and the rain starts to fall making sure I am not late for work. lol I pack everything into the truck and make sure I tell my buddy thank you and, make sure he does not mind me coming back to finish.
When I get to the shop I pour all my goodies out onto a bench and start to look at everything. The 1st thing I wanna see is the tiny silver disk. After, a little soap and water I see that IT IS A 3 CENT SILVER 1852. I try to find a date on the large cent but no luck so, I move onto the buffalo to see what I can do. Come to find out it is a 1921.
Now, none of these wonderful coins are in great shape ( kind of like me a tad ugly ) But, to me they are beautiful!!!!
I can not wait until Thursday to go back and see what other goodies lie waiting for me to rescue them.
I plan on taking some nice cookies to my buddy to enjoy while I enjoy searching his lawn.
Thank you all for looking I hope you can see the coins they are not in great shape so I scanned them and tried to make the pic's the best I could.
HH Dan
Today I had about 3 hours to hunt before work so, I took off to the little town where I found my 1821 farthing last week. I headed right to the house next door. All the time last week during my hunt I kept looking at this house that was sending messages to come hunt me......come hunt me.......come hunt me.
So, today I pulled into the driveway next door and had my intro speech all ready as I walked up to the door. I did a little knock and waited for the old man to come to the door. As soon as he got close enough I saw he too was a customer of many years in my pet shop ( so much for my intro speech lol ).
He opens the door and says Hi Dan. ( this makes it a lot easier to ask ). I tell him that last week I was next door searching with my metal detector and I had to come over here and see if I would be able to search his law too. He smiles and says of course have fun.
I headed right to the truck to get started before the rain might run me off. I fire up the my Etrac and did a quick noise cancel and, started to hunt. It sounded like a pinball machine with all of the tones going off. I pick a nice high tone and see that the target is a penny and only like 2 inches. Thinking ok lets see whats we have I cut a shallow plug and flip over the sod to see a nice little wheat penny ( maybe 2" ).
I start to work the well worn path to the front porch and, had lot's of targets going off. Next, I have to readjust my settings for everything is going off super shallow. So, I lower the sensitivity to auto and, also removed the +3 and, then turned deep off and, fast off. Now, the Etrac is purring like a kitten with all of these shallow targets.
Trying t work a nice tight pattern towards the front porch I keep hitting wheaties at less then 2". Then I get a nice 11/11 and, know this has to be a nickle. This too shows only 2" and, I pinpoint it to make sure I do not scratch it. Kneeling down I cut a nice shallow plug and, again lay it over this time to see a nice little buffalo that was scared and wanted to come home with me ( after all I own a pet shop ).
Next few minutes I dig clad one hole then a wheatie then a clad then a wheatie.
This is so cool I have no idea if I'm going to get a new coin or an old coin on the next flip of the plug. Then I got a nice high tone ( the silver tone ) and cut a plug looking for a dime maybe. But, out comes a really nice little religious medal from Chicago.
This is turning out to be a great hunt. I always try to find a penny-nickle-dime-
quarter-jewelry and silver in every hunt. ( Not that I get them all every time lol ) So far, I have the penny the nickle the dime and now I get the silver and the jewelry out of the way in one fell swoop.
I have been searching for about an hour now and, am getting all sorts of fun little things. I have got 3 junk rings plus all the coins so far ( not to mention the silver religious medal ). I am close to the old dog house and, get a nice soft high tone. The numbers are bouncing around but, the tone tells me to DIG. I pinpoint to the spot I am going to dig and cut a nice square plug and lay the sod back. This time there is no coin sitting there so I pop out my Garrett pinpointer to check the hole. It sounds off in the hole in the 2 o'clock position so, I careful open the side up a little and out pops a very very tiny silver little disk.
Slowly I look at the coin and think to myself that it's the right size to be a 3 cent piece but, no way would I be lucky enough to get something like that. I popped it into my zipper pouch inside my hunting pouch and continue to search for more goodies.
Back to digging both clad and wheaties when I get a really high tone that reads 11/46. Still the target only shows to be 3" at the most. I am super careful again while pinpointing to make sure i do not scratch anything. Kneeling down I cut a square plug and lay it open looking for silver maybe. Then I see a great big old copper.
I got a large cent with no date ( but, hey I'm super happy date or not ). Now, I am thinking omg how cool is this. I have found some great finds so far and, I have only scratched a tiny section of this huge lawn.
Then mother nature tells me ok you're done lol and the rain starts to fall making sure I am not late for work. lol I pack everything into the truck and make sure I tell my buddy thank you and, make sure he does not mind me coming back to finish.
When I get to the shop I pour all my goodies out onto a bench and start to look at everything. The 1st thing I wanna see is the tiny silver disk. After, a little soap and water I see that IT IS A 3 CENT SILVER
1852. I try to find a date on the large cent but no luck so, I move onto the buffalo to see what I can do. Come to find out it is a 1921.Now, none of these wonderful coins are in great shape ( kind of like me a tad ugly ) But, to me they are beautiful!!!!
I can not wait until Thursday to go back and see what other goodies lie waiting for me to rescue them.I plan on taking some nice cookies to my buddy to enjoy while I enjoy searching his lawn.
Thank you all for looking I hope you can see the coins they are not in great shape so I scanned them and tried to make the pic's the best I could.
HH Dan
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