Detroit Park Hunt

[Bharpring]

I was in Detroit this week for business and got out for a few hours one evening to hunt an old park. I had a good day digging a 1900 Barber dime, 1903 Indian Head Penny, 1904 IHP, Wheaties '17, '18 and '19, 1897 V Nickel, a large marble,

1908 patented collar button, harmonica reed, '20s crackerjack top hat, and a great seal cuff button. All of the​

targets were very deep. Luckily I brought the Equinox 800, which is my park/coin shooting juggernaut. The crusted 1903 IHP was the deepest coin that I have ever found at just about 26" deep (it was below the water table)! This marble is the largest that I have ever found. I don't think that I have ever seen one this big?

 

[Ia.FurTrade]

Very nice find's! Congrat's!! Beautiful marble,also!

Iowa Dale

 

[against the wind]

Congrats on a really nice hunt.
Post a picture of the marble on our Marbles forum and Cheese will probably identify it for you.

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds Bharpring. Thanks for sharing...

 

[Brendan75]

Hi, great hunt with some nice finds. Congrats

 

[Hawks88]

Some real nice saves. Congrats.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on some great finds.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the nice old coin hunt!

 

[dirtlooter]

you are killing it!

 

[Argentium]

Over two feet deep on an Indian Head cent - seriously ??

 

[Carolina Tom]

You got good stuff. Congrats. That’s a sweet old marble and a nice selection of coins. I like following your travels from city to city.

26 centimeters deep, right?

 

[Bharpring]

You got good stuff. Congrats. That’s a sweet old marble and a nice selection of coins. I like following your travels from city to city.

26 centimeters deep, right?

Thanks Tom, this upcoming week will be tough to find a good place to hunt though. I’m headed to Durham, NC.

Yeah, the stuff up north is deep! Soft soil and mild climate and minimal bugs, but deep digging. Even clad is deep.

I was shocked that the Equinox found the IHP that deep at recovery speed 5.

 

[Bharpring]

Over two feet deep on an Indian Head cent - seriously ??

Yeah, I was shocked. In Savannah 10” is deep. The other Indian was about 14” deep. You have to have a good shovel in Michigan. Must be the soft soil and many freeze thaw cycles.

 

[jringo]

Over two feet deep on an Indian Head cent - seriously ??

Only the Nox can do dat. LOL

 

[RichieRich]

WOW great finds

 

[Argentium]

I was wondering how any detector could even see something that small at that depth ?

 

[Bharpring]

I was wondering how any detector could even see something that small at that depth ?

You could see the water table line was at about 17" or 18". Water filled in quickly after digging below this line so the soil was moist and soft. Its also very mild and ground balance was around 4 on the NOX. I set the recovery speed to 5 and the IHP rang up high (like the Deus, deep targets show a much higher conductivity) and faint. Most targets, even the deep ones sound clear and strong on the NOX to me. But this was faint. So I guess the combination of all these things made it possible to hear a target that deep? It is by far the deepest coin that I have dug. In fact, the only other good target that have dug near this depth was a colonial shoe buckle in Charleston that was about 22" to 24" deep. And that was with the XP Deus HF round coil.

 

[washingtonian]

Wow, nice hunting!!

 

[Javadroid]

Over two feet deep on an Indian Head cent - seriously ??

I'm thinking there may have been some fill dirt over it somewhere along the line, but what a reach for the Equinox! I wonder what the signal was like?

 

[Javadroid]

Some really nice finds - congrats!

I keep my reliable old Fisher F2, a pinpointer, and a digging tool in my car, along with an old pair of shoes, because you never know when a site will come up and you'll only have a short window to hit it. Travelling is a great example - congrats to you on being prepared!