dwayne sueno
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- upstate ny
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- se pro
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got back out for a quick hunt today to the spot where i found the 1834 half dime last week.
this site seems to be all or nothing these days, as i've gleaned all the non-ferrous surface items from the ground, trash included.
at least 90% of my holes here produce a square head nail, but i'm usually pretty sure that i'm digging a nail.
my last target of the day sounded no different, and as i was cutting the plug, i was mentally giving the signal a 1 in 10 chance of being non-ferrous, to say nothing of it being a keeper. the plug got me down 6", and when i got the x-1 down into the hole, i got a low and wobbly tone on the headphones of the se, and was thinking "ok, a little scrap of lead, or maybe a pewter spoon fragment."
pulled another inch or two of dry dirt out, working my way around a huge pine root, reapplied the x-1, and suddenly sirens were singing in my ear. i checked the screen, and saw cross-hairs around where an indian head penny should be, and thought, huh, interesting...
shooed some loose dirt away from the bottom of the hole, and saw a silver disc as bright as any sun stretching it's shoulders into the daylight.
it still had some 200ish years of dirt about it, but i could see a big unwieldy nose, and knew i had something spanish. heh.
don't get too many of these in upstate ny, despite all the large coppers, and hardly ever seem to pull one in this sort of legible condition.
i celebrated with a spring salad and a growler. last week i was getting 30 morels every time i went metal detecting (you have to be sly with the fungi...), but alas, the morels are spent.
p.s. for you real mavens out there, does the "M" denote mexico city? thanks, and HH, dwayne
this site seems to be all or nothing these days, as i've gleaned all the non-ferrous surface items from the ground, trash included.
at least 90% of my holes here produce a square head nail, but i'm usually pretty sure that i'm digging a nail.
my last target of the day sounded no different, and as i was cutting the plug, i was mentally giving the signal a 1 in 10 chance of being non-ferrous, to say nothing of it being a keeper. the plug got me down 6", and when i got the x-1 down into the hole, i got a low and wobbly tone on the headphones of the se, and was thinking "ok, a little scrap of lead, or maybe a pewter spoon fragment."
pulled another inch or two of dry dirt out, working my way around a huge pine root, reapplied the x-1, and suddenly sirens were singing in my ear. i checked the screen, and saw cross-hairs around where an indian head penny should be, and thought, huh, interesting...
shooed some loose dirt away from the bottom of the hole, and saw a silver disc as bright as any sun stretching it's shoulders into the daylight.
it still had some 200ish years of dirt about it, but i could see a big unwieldy nose, and knew i had something spanish. heh.
don't get too many of these in upstate ny, despite all the large coppers, and hardly ever seem to pull one in this sort of legible condition.
i celebrated with a spring salad and a growler. last week i was getting 30 morels every time i went metal detecting (you have to be sly with the fungi...), but alas, the morels are spent.
p.s. for you real mavens out there, does the "M" denote mexico city? thanks, and HH, dwayne
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