time4me
Bronze Member
- Aug 30, 2005
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- Detector(s) used
- E-Trac, Explorer II, Excalibur
I went back out to my newest site yesterday for 4 hours. This is the site that produced 17 silvers last Tuesday.
I'm still covering the same small grassy areas that I've already covered, as there are still so many detections. I started off finding a few wheat cents again, and thought I had another wheat cent as my E-Trac was giving me a 43/44 on the conductivity reading. Most of the wheaties I've been finding there are in the 43/44 range, sometimes even bouncing to 45 and fooling me. So I proceeded to dig, and about 4 inches down, out pops a gray disk with a familiar image of a lady standing in the middle of it
Holy Cow!!! Rechecking the hole gave me another solid signal which turned out to be a wheat cent. Maybe the reason why I didn't get a strong silver signal from the quarter - must have been mixed with the wheatie. My first ever standing liberty quarter in over 30 years of detecting!!!! Too bad it is so worn that I can't read any date, but still a huge goal of mine now met!
I could have found pull tabs the rest of the day and I would have left a happy man. But only a few pulltabs came from the ground this day. The rest of the hunt was terrific, with merc, rosies, buffalo nickels, war nickels, 47 wheat cents, and a very cool play coin. I gotta tell you, I'm tired of digging wheat cents
There are so many there that I don't even take time to try reading the dates on them until after I get home. I just toss them into the find bag as fast as they pop out of the ground.
Here is the whole shooting match:
And here is the goodies pile:
Goodies cleaned up:
The buffalo nickels came from the same hole. One is a 1919 and the other is a 1920:
And here is that neat play coin - does anyone know how old this might be? I'm guessing 50's or 60's:
Thanks for looking, and have a great hunt next time you're out!!!
Jim
I'm still covering the same small grassy areas that I've already covered, as there are still so many detections. I started off finding a few wheat cents again, and thought I had another wheat cent as my E-Trac was giving me a 43/44 on the conductivity reading. Most of the wheaties I've been finding there are in the 43/44 range, sometimes even bouncing to 45 and fooling me. So I proceeded to dig, and about 4 inches down, out pops a gray disk with a familiar image of a lady standing in the middle of it
Holy Cow!!! Rechecking the hole gave me another solid signal which turned out to be a wheat cent. Maybe the reason why I didn't get a strong silver signal from the quarter - must have been mixed with the wheatie. My first ever standing liberty quarter in over 30 years of detecting!!!! Too bad it is so worn that I can't read any date, but still a huge goal of mine now met!
I could have found pull tabs the rest of the day and I would have left a happy man. But only a few pulltabs came from the ground this day. The rest of the hunt was terrific, with merc, rosies, buffalo nickels, war nickels, 47 wheat cents, and a very cool play coin. I gotta tell you, I'm tired of digging wheat cents
There are so many there that I don't even take time to try reading the dates on them until after I get home. I just toss them into the find bag as fast as they pop out of the ground. Here is the whole shooting match:
And here is the goodies pile:
Goodies cleaned up:
The buffalo nickels came from the same hole. One is a 1919 and the other is a 1920:
And here is that neat play coin - does anyone know how old this might be? I'm guessing 50's or 60's:
Thanks for looking, and have a great hunt next time you're out!!!
Jim
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Thanks for posting!
) and the play coin. Fantastic!! 
That is so cool! It feels like plastic, but it gives me a low tone on my E-Trac, which is how I detected it. It was about 3 inches deep. The info you posted says that it is heavily silver plated plastic.
