Are you passing up those shallow targets?

[diggin jimmy hoffa]

I normally post in the Indiana forums and thought I would share one of my most recent finds. Although these aren't rare coins, it might get some people to reconsider checking out those shallow targets a bit more carefully.

Got out Wednesday for a little bit of hunting at the local city park and got one of those iffy signals that was throwing the dime VDI into the mix. Being that I hadn't really dug much, I thought that I would give this plug a shot and at least add to the coin jar.

1919 Merc, 1930 and 1941 Wheat, and a 1956 Nickel.

My first old pocket spill

This spot ended up being near where I found the '37 Buffalo Nickel a couple of weeks ago and also the '64 Quarter. All of these targets were within 2-3" in depth. This spot is an area that is not all that loaded with trash. Surprising, being that it is a park setting and has been hit allot.

DJH

 

[wwwtimmcp]

I love it another hunted out park. keep pounding it you're doing great.

 

[coin1921]

I never pass a shallow target if a decent signal. I have recently found a 1928 and a 1936 quarter in two different park settings both @ no more than 1/2 inch depth. These coins were in AU to UNC conditions. I have found numerous old coins close to the surface in parks and believe that this is likely the spoils from home invasions being "dumped".

 

[goldencoin]

I once got a barber dime that rung up as a zinc penny at 2 inches- neat finds!

HH
-GC

 

[Silver Searcher]

Those coins should be blowing the headphones of at 2 -3 inches

SS

 

[coin1921]

You are right Silver Searcher, the headphones were screaming. I did not believe that @ 1/2 inch it was anything good, and i have to admit that I caught each one of those beautiful quarters with the trowel.
But in response to the OP, that is why i dig the shallow targets a little more carefully now.

gt

 

[Silver Searcher]

You are right Silver Searcher, the headphones were screaming. I did not believe that @ 1/2 inch it was anything good, and i have to admit that I caught each one of those beautiful quarters with the trowel.
But in response to the OP, that is why i dig the shallow targets a little more carefully now.

gt

The poster mentioned a iffy signal, and digging found four coins I can't work out how four coins would give a iffy signal....unless really deep

SS

 

[diggin jimmy hoffa]

You are right Silver Searcher, the headphones were screaming. I did not believe that @ 1/2 inch it was anything good, and i have to admit that I caught each one of those beautiful quarters with the trowel.
But in response to the OP, that is why i dig the shallow targets a little more carefully now.

gt

The poster mentioned a iffy signal, and digging found four coins I can't work out how four coins would give a iffy signal....unless really deep

SS

I think the Nickel was giving that iffy signal as they were all in a 5" diameter plug. Add in the fact that I am still getting used to a new machine which I didn't mention. The VDI's were bouncing back and forth, but all the numbers that were being represented were all good ones.

DJH

 

[allen]

I only dig the shallow hits if im not getting many signals.

 

[Silver Searcher]

You are right Silver Searcher, the headphones were screaming. I did not believe that @ 1/2 inch it was anything good, and i have to admit that I caught each one of those beautiful quarters with the trowel.
But in response to the OP, that is why i dig the shallow targets a little more carefully now.

gt

The poster mentioned a iffy signal, and digging found four coins I can't work out how four coins would give a iffy signal....unless really deep

SS

I think the Nickel was giving that iffy signal as they were all in a 5" diameter plug. Add in the fact that I am still getting used to a new machine which I didn't mention. The VDI's were bouncing back and forth, but all the numbers that were being represented were all good ones.

DJH

That's one of the reasons I don't like screens with read outs I listen to signals through the headphones and make up my own mind, which targets to dig

SS

 

[Shortstack]

I never pass a shallow target if a decent signal. I have recently found a 1928 and a 1936 quarter in two different park settings both @ no more than 1/2 inch depth. These coins were in AU to UNC conditions. I have found numerous old coins close to the surface in parks and believe that this is likely the spoils from home invasions being "dumped".

I beg to differ. The reason those coins were shallow is because that area has never been filled or sodded. That, coupled with new coins being lost from a kid's pocket while he was wrestling around back "in the day". Or maybe Dad's pocket had a hole in it. I have posted several times before that if an area has never been filled or sodded, coins and jewelry will be shallow; less than 3", mostly at the grass roots. I have detected all over the country, including Fairbanks, Alaska, and I'm telling folks that cycles of cold and hot weather does not bury coins. The only things that bury coins and jewelry deeper are when dirt fill is brought or the area is sodded with new grass. PERIOD.

I have found IH pennies, Mercs, war nickels, standing liberty quarters, silver washington quarters, silver Rosies, rings, and a one ounce gold pendant with 10 diamonds..............all at grass root level and all over the country. Once you have learned to tell if an area has been filled and / or sodded, you'll know how to detect the area. Simple. When I found a flattened aluminum drink can 10 inches deep in the midfield area of a baseball diamond, I knew that the diamond had been filled and built up sometimes in the past. DUH!!! That diamond is at my old high school so I knew it had been built up since 1965 (the year I graduated). So, I went to other areas of the school grounds to detect where I could see that no fill had been brought in. That's when I found a 1936 Buffalo Nickel in the roots of some grass in the front yard area. That front yard area had NEVER been filled or sodded since the school was built in 1923.

In Oklahoma City, OK, I found an Old Folks Tax token at about 10" in a old park. I wondered how it had gotten so deep until I remembered that the immediate are I was detecting had been the spot for an outdoors boxing ring back in the 1920s or so and figured out that when the ring was removed, the area was most likely landscaped with dirt and sod to cover the years of neglect and crowd damage. It was in an area that was lower in elevation than the rest of the park which would have meant rains bringing in grass clippings, dust, etc. to add to the build up.

 

[jgas]

Nice finds DJH...I dig em all when I am metal detecting..of course I dig em all when it comes to privies too ...Nice stuff right there though, congrats. jgas

 

[diggin jimmy hoffa]

Nice finds DJH...I dig em all when I am metal detecting..of course I dig em all when it comes to privies too ...Nice stuff right there though, congrats. jgas

You are the master digger of all time jgas

DJH

 

[celtex]

You are right Silver Searcher, the headphones were screaming. I did not believe that @ 1/2 inch it was anything good, and i have to admit that I caught each one of those beautiful quarters with the trowel.
But in response to the OP, that is why i dig the shallow targets a little more carefully now.

gt

The poster mentioned a iffy signal, and digging found four coins I can't work out how four coins would give a iffy signal....unless really deep

The OP I am sure is meaning the VDI was bouncing. When they are that close the detector gets wacky trying to analyze the signals and makes the best shot it can and will take the most predominate signal to display the VDI so I am sure his headset was "ponging" really strong but diplay was iffy. Many times a rusted can will bounce like that as well.

SS

 

[goldsworthy]

I never pass a shallow target if a decent signal. I have recently found a 1928 and a 1936 quarter in two different park settings both @ no more than 1/2 inch depth. These coins were in AU to UNC conditions. I have found numerous old coins close to the surface in parks and believe that this is likely the spoils from home invasions being "dumped". AU to UNC condition coins dug from the ground? mmmmm I guess they were encapsulated
in air tight containers!

 

[Tnmountains]

Sometimes I will find Civil war relics just under the surface if hunting yards but if hunting woods they will be deeper of course due to the leafs falling every year. I like the beep machines like SS. It is easier than a machine readout.
Anyways good post and some fine recovery's!
HH
TnMtns