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Minelab Quattro
Fisher F2
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Now that the Policía Nacional has the security in the streets of Tegucigalpa under much better control, my hunting partner and I gave a local park a try. Few people here have ever seen a metal detector, and fewer know what it is for. NO ONE has seen one in actual operation, at least in our area, so we were constantly surrounded by a horde of kids, and a few adults, asking questions and wanting to help dig. Several police came by just to ask us about the detectors and how they work, but everyone was very friendly and we had no problems with anyone.
We found the ground simply bursting with modern coins, mostly worthless except to recycle. We pretty well cleaned them out in a couple days, then concentrated on the deeper signals. We found quite a number of older coins from the first half of the twentieth century, and lots of coins no longer in circulation. We found numerous coins from the '40s and '30s. This is an open field here, any ground you can get into is certainly unsearched. Here are a few photos of some of the things we came up with in a three-day hunt.
A very old brooch or something. Gold-plated copper.
Lots of fake diamonds and gold.
Bullets are everywhere, from all time periods. The largest is 11.0 mm, the smallest 5.56 mm. Many look well used.
Religious medallions are common. The middle one, Our Lady of Suyapa, is the patroness of Tegucigalpa.
Foreign coins are common. Guatemala and Chile.
Mexico, Costa Rica and El Salvador.
A rather interesting little copper/bronze dog.
Two quite old coins. Two Centavos from 1920 and One Centavo from 1911, both in bad need of cleaning.
And we did find silver. A broken bracelet, a tiny bell, a small religious medallion (still very dirty), and some 20 and 50 Centavo coins from the days when Centavos were worth something.
This is a token from 1910. I left it uncleaned because it has a Numista rarity rating of 97/100, and supposedly only 100 were ever made, all in 1910.
The opposite side of the same token. I posted a description on the "Tokens" forum asking if anyone has any info on this, but not much response. Regardless, it's good "bragging rights" to have one of such rarity.
We found the ground simply bursting with modern coins, mostly worthless except to recycle. We pretty well cleaned them out in a couple days, then concentrated on the deeper signals. We found quite a number of older coins from the first half of the twentieth century, and lots of coins no longer in circulation. We found numerous coins from the '40s and '30s. This is an open field here, any ground you can get into is certainly unsearched. Here are a few photos of some of the things we came up with in a three-day hunt.
A very old brooch or something. Gold-plated copper.
Lots of fake diamonds and gold.
Bullets are everywhere, from all time periods. The largest is 11.0 mm, the smallest 5.56 mm. Many look well used.
Religious medallions are common. The middle one, Our Lady of Suyapa, is the patroness of Tegucigalpa.
Foreign coins are common. Guatemala and Chile.
Mexico, Costa Rica and El Salvador.
A rather interesting little copper/bronze dog.
Two quite old coins. Two Centavos from 1920 and One Centavo from 1911, both in bad need of cleaning.
And we did find silver. A broken bracelet, a tiny bell, a small religious medallion (still very dirty), and some 20 and 50 Centavo coins from the days when Centavos were worth something.
This is a token from 1910. I left it uncleaned because it has a Numista rarity rating of 97/100, and supposedly only 100 were ever made, all in 1910.
The opposite side of the same token. I posted a description on the "Tokens" forum asking if anyone has any info on this, but not much response. Regardless, it's good "bragging rights" to have one of such rarity.
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