tnt-hunter
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- Apr 20, 2018
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- Location
- Mountain Maryland
- Detector(s) used
- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
DAY 1
I went back in the water cleaning up another swim area in the same park I detected last week. They have 3 swimming areas and I did check this one out in early June and didn’t have much luck, just some junky jewelry and 4 coins that added up to $0.17. In the 6 weeks since I was here last the folks have been busy depositing stuff for me to find.
I spent 3.5 hours swingin the ATPro set at PRO ZERO, 30 IRON DESCRIMINATION, IRON AUDIO ON and SENSITIVITY 2 down from the max. Altogether I found 29 coins with a face value of $3.09, a bunch of jewelry, a small knob, a small cord end, 2 sinkers, a zipper pull, 2 tabs and some foil.
As usual more junk jewelry than good stuff including 3 large pendants in a spill, 2 belly button pieces, a stainless cross and 6 rings.
3 pieces of the jewelry are gold and 2 are silver. All three gold pieces rang up as 43 on the ATPro. That is one of the numbers you get from aluminum foil. If I ignored the foil numbers I would miss the gold like these. A heavy gold ring would give a different number, 53 or higher. The first ring is 10k, the second piece is a 14k pendant, the third piece is a very tiny 14k ring, the next one is a 925 silver ring and the last is also 925 but it has some tiny black stones that tested as diamonds. The 15 on the jewelry stands for the quinceañera, a celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday.
2 of the other rings are plated copper and rang up like a copper penny in the 81-83 range. The last ring is a tungsten carbide ring. It is a TRITON TC .850 and I found it on line. It sells for $455 new, but used like this I might be able to get $5 for it at the yard sale.
The thin stainless steel cross has the Lords Prayer in Spanish inscribed on the surface. I keep finding tiny stuff as usual, a tiny cross charm and a 1/8 inch sequin.
DAY 2
I went back to the far fields hoping for more goodies. Again the fields are pretty quiet and you have to cover a lot of ground to get much, but I did ok. Nothing great, but a decent hunt.
I spent 5.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 64 coins with a face value of $6.17, a modern token hit by the mower, an older pin, a game token, a small piece of junk jewelry, a copper jacket bullet, a Pepsi game tab, a dead AirPod, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, foil, whole aluminum cans, melted aluminum, 38 tabs and a pencil end.
The pin looks like it has been in the ground for awhile. It has an owl on it and says BE WISE WEAR OWL BRAND CLOTHES. You can see where the pin was soldered to the back. The soil was really hard on this one. I tried to look it up, but all I get is a modern OWL BRAND with a company that was started in 2011 and I don’t think that is correct. Any help would be appreciated.
DAY 3
I went back to the middle school hoping for some luck as always. I haven’t found anything much good there lately except clad and that’s only good because I can spend it. I keep gridding sections with the goal of covering every inch and getting everything worth digging. Of course nobody ever gets it all, but I keep trying.
Choosing from the spots that are left to cover is kind of a toss of the dice kind of thing. This trip I decided to finish up a small 35 foot wide strip that runs down the hill from the driveway to the main field. It is about 80 feet long and I have walked over it cherry picking many times on my way to and from other areas I have gridded. I found lots of tabs, 3 dimes, 4 nickels and 2 pennies in that strip. One of the dimes was a very iffy signal in the very dry soil. I almost didn’t dig it thinking it was probably a small piece of can slaw. It was a Mercury dime about 7 inches down. It was probably tilted or on edge because it sounded fine when it was out of the hole in the dirt on the bucket lid.
After I finished that section I went to the hillside by the upper field. I have walked over this several times picking up coins and cans in the taller grass (they haven’t mowed this hill recently). I got a decent coin signal and popped the plug. I used the Garrett carrot to find it in the plug and scooped that section onto my lid and found what looked like a coin ball (coins sometime come out in a ball of dirt with the coin the surprise filling in the middle). I picked it up and saw a silver edge that didn’t look right for a coin and when I rolled it over I could see it was a silver ring.
As I was moving along digging up coins and junk I got another of those pesky pop tab signals and dug out a plug. The soil was so dry a large portion of the plug was a pile of dirt on the shovel (it happened that way a lot this trip). I dumped it onto the lid and I could see the gold shining out at me. A nice little gold ring. Man am I glad I dig those iffy signals and tab signals. This is the best land day I have had for a long time.
I spent 6 hours swingin the CZ21 and ended up with 43 coins (no quarters) with a face value of $1.25, 2 silver dimes, 2 rings, a 4H spinner, 2 cheapie pendants, the top of a disposable lighter, a dead watch, a whatzit, aluminum cans, can slaw, foil, aluminum bottle caps, aluminum tie wire, a small chunk of lead, a rechargeable camera battery, 47 tabs and 3 pencil ends.
The first dime is a 1941 Mercury dime that was in a spot that stays damp most of the time, that’s why it is tarnished. The second dime is a 1964 Rosie. The first ring is a silver knot ring. Really it is 2 knot rings made together. One is made with smooth wire and the other is made of rippled wire. The rippled one is bent out of shape and is sticking down inside the ring. The second ring is a small diamond cut 10k ring. It is not real heavy, but the gold price is so high it is still worth a nice amount. It has what looks like a YI makers mark beside the 10k. That makes 41 silvers and 8 golds since my 24th year started May 1st, a decent start to my year.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I found a few coins in the coinstar at the market that included a 1936 wheatie.
So a very good week with 4 golds and 5 silvers. The 2 silver rings and one dime were good high tone signals. 2 of the silvers and all of the golds were mid tone foil or tab type signals so you really do need to dig those signals. As I always say on the bottom of my posts “If you’re not digging trash you are missing treasure”. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things (mine does).
I went back in the water cleaning up another swim area in the same park I detected last week. They have 3 swimming areas and I did check this one out in early June and didn’t have much luck, just some junky jewelry and 4 coins that added up to $0.17. In the 6 weeks since I was here last the folks have been busy depositing stuff for me to find.
I spent 3.5 hours swingin the ATPro set at PRO ZERO, 30 IRON DESCRIMINATION, IRON AUDIO ON and SENSITIVITY 2 down from the max. Altogether I found 29 coins with a face value of $3.09, a bunch of jewelry, a small knob, a small cord end, 2 sinkers, a zipper pull, 2 tabs and some foil.
As usual more junk jewelry than good stuff including 3 large pendants in a spill, 2 belly button pieces, a stainless cross and 6 rings.
3 pieces of the jewelry are gold and 2 are silver. All three gold pieces rang up as 43 on the ATPro. That is one of the numbers you get from aluminum foil. If I ignored the foil numbers I would miss the gold like these. A heavy gold ring would give a different number, 53 or higher. The first ring is 10k, the second piece is a 14k pendant, the third piece is a very tiny 14k ring, the next one is a 925 silver ring and the last is also 925 but it has some tiny black stones that tested as diamonds. The 15 on the jewelry stands for the quinceañera, a celebration of a girl’s 15th birthday.
2 of the other rings are plated copper and rang up like a copper penny in the 81-83 range. The last ring is a tungsten carbide ring. It is a TRITON TC .850 and I found it on line. It sells for $455 new, but used like this I might be able to get $5 for it at the yard sale.
The thin stainless steel cross has the Lords Prayer in Spanish inscribed on the surface. I keep finding tiny stuff as usual, a tiny cross charm and a 1/8 inch sequin.
DAY 2
I went back to the far fields hoping for more goodies. Again the fields are pretty quiet and you have to cover a lot of ground to get much, but I did ok. Nothing great, but a decent hunt.
I spent 5.5 hours swingin the CZ21 and found 64 coins with a face value of $6.17, a modern token hit by the mower, an older pin, a game token, a small piece of junk jewelry, a copper jacket bullet, a Pepsi game tab, a dead AirPod, can slaw, aluminum bottle caps, foil, whole aluminum cans, melted aluminum, 38 tabs and a pencil end.
The pin looks like it has been in the ground for awhile. It has an owl on it and says BE WISE WEAR OWL BRAND CLOTHES. You can see where the pin was soldered to the back. The soil was really hard on this one. I tried to look it up, but all I get is a modern OWL BRAND with a company that was started in 2011 and I don’t think that is correct. Any help would be appreciated.
DAY 3
I went back to the middle school hoping for some luck as always. I haven’t found anything much good there lately except clad and that’s only good because I can spend it. I keep gridding sections with the goal of covering every inch and getting everything worth digging. Of course nobody ever gets it all, but I keep trying.
Choosing from the spots that are left to cover is kind of a toss of the dice kind of thing. This trip I decided to finish up a small 35 foot wide strip that runs down the hill from the driveway to the main field. It is about 80 feet long and I have walked over it cherry picking many times on my way to and from other areas I have gridded. I found lots of tabs, 3 dimes, 4 nickels and 2 pennies in that strip. One of the dimes was a very iffy signal in the very dry soil. I almost didn’t dig it thinking it was probably a small piece of can slaw. It was a Mercury dime about 7 inches down. It was probably tilted or on edge because it sounded fine when it was out of the hole in the dirt on the bucket lid.
After I finished that section I went to the hillside by the upper field. I have walked over this several times picking up coins and cans in the taller grass (they haven’t mowed this hill recently). I got a decent coin signal and popped the plug. I used the Garrett carrot to find it in the plug and scooped that section onto my lid and found what looked like a coin ball (coins sometime come out in a ball of dirt with the coin the surprise filling in the middle). I picked it up and saw a silver edge that didn’t look right for a coin and when I rolled it over I could see it was a silver ring.
As I was moving along digging up coins and junk I got another of those pesky pop tab signals and dug out a plug. The soil was so dry a large portion of the plug was a pile of dirt on the shovel (it happened that way a lot this trip). I dumped it onto the lid and I could see the gold shining out at me. A nice little gold ring. Man am I glad I dig those iffy signals and tab signals. This is the best land day I have had for a long time.
I spent 6 hours swingin the CZ21 and ended up with 43 coins (no quarters) with a face value of $1.25, 2 silver dimes, 2 rings, a 4H spinner, 2 cheapie pendants, the top of a disposable lighter, a dead watch, a whatzit, aluminum cans, can slaw, foil, aluminum bottle caps, aluminum tie wire, a small chunk of lead, a rechargeable camera battery, 47 tabs and 3 pencil ends.
The first dime is a 1941 Mercury dime that was in a spot that stays damp most of the time, that’s why it is tarnished. The second dime is a 1964 Rosie. The first ring is a silver knot ring. Really it is 2 knot rings made together. One is made with smooth wire and the other is made of rippled wire. The rippled one is bent out of shape and is sticking down inside the ring. The second ring is a small diamond cut 10k ring. It is not real heavy, but the gold price is so high it is still worth a nice amount. It has what looks like a YI makers mark beside the 10k. That makes 41 silvers and 8 golds since my 24th year started May 1st, a decent start to my year.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I found a few coins in the coinstar at the market that included a 1936 wheatie.
So a very good week with 4 golds and 5 silvers. The 2 silver rings and one dime were good high tone signals. 2 of the silvers and all of the golds were mid tone foil or tab type signals so you really do need to dig those signals. As I always say on the bottom of my posts “If you’re not digging trash you are missing treasure”. Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things (mine does).
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