pa-dirt_nc-sand
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- South Western PA
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- ACE 250 with DD coil
Equinox 600
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Had a couple hours open up today and headed to the site in the park woods where I found a 2 cent coin a couple days ago. I have been on a mission to find my first large cent and this site is definitely old enough.
First find was a harmonica reed, have found a dozen or more of these this year, they must have been super popular 100 years ago. Then found about 15 shotgun shell ends, these ring anywhere from foil to silver coin and usually jumpy as they are sometimes really small and sometimes wide with a long brass tube piece still attached. (Rarely the plastic kind.)
Then the best tone of the day, deep silver quarter signal.
I immediately thought it was a large cent, as I have had this on my mind all year and every time so far a token, washer, foreign coin, but never a LC. But today was the day my friends, finally my first big penny, 1846 large cent!! 
I had another 30 minutes and the shotgun shell tones started popping out as buttons.
Here are today's finds for about 45 minutes of hiking to and from the site and 1:15 min of sweeping the poison ivy jungle.
Crazy thing with the nail. This was about 4" away from the LC. One of those find the target and sweep the hole with the pinpointed and get another signal that you have to dig a bit more to retrieve. Odd thing is that this nail has almost no rust and looks like it was never used??
Any ID's on the other items or buttons?
Next mission is Spanish silver!
Good luck out there!
First find was a harmonica reed, have found a dozen or more of these this year, they must have been super popular 100 years ago. Then found about 15 shotgun shell ends, these ring anywhere from foil to silver coin and usually jumpy as they are sometimes really small and sometimes wide with a long brass tube piece still attached. (Rarely the plastic kind.)
Then the best tone of the day, deep silver quarter signal.
I immediately thought it was a large cent, as I have had this on my mind all year and every time so far a token, washer, foreign coin, but never a LC. But today was the day my friends, finally my first big penny, 1846 large cent!! I had another 30 minutes and the shotgun shell tones started popping out as buttons.
Here are today's finds for about 45 minutes of hiking to and from the site and 1:15 min of sweeping the poison ivy jungle.
Crazy thing with the nail. This was about 4" away from the LC. One of those find the target and sweep the hole with the pinpointed and get another signal that you have to dig a bit more to retrieve. Odd thing is that this nail has almost no rust and looks like it was never used??
Any ID's on the other items or buttons?
Next mission is Spanish silver!
Good luck out there!
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