PA John
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I got out last weekend for a morning hunt with a friend I met detecting in one of my local parks last year. We got together this past Sunday for a morning hunt at a park I did some research on. Unfortunately, that park didn't work out. It was all rock and stone in the area's that looked interesting. I looked around the outskirts and only came away with a padlock, and old light fixture, and other scrap metal. However, on the way to this park, is an old baseball field, so we headed there.
In this part of Pennsylvania, in the 1800's, baseball was the favorite pastime! So this is what I started focusing on, parks with baseball diamonds. They are real easy to see on old arial photographs. There is a website that has this whole area on it (Penn Pilot).
I found my first Silver Quarter along with a couple dollars in change
. Unfortunately, my friend was running with dead batteries and didn't find but a couple of coins. No battery meter on his unit. He came over and I was getting a solid hit at 4" and his Prizm wouldn't detect it. He later confirmed the batteries were almost completely dead. He was a little peeved since he doesn't get out much! 
Here is the pics of the quarter. I will say pictures come out real nice using a scanner.
In this part of Pennsylvania, in the 1800's, baseball was the favorite pastime! So this is what I started focusing on, parks with baseball diamonds. They are real easy to see on old arial photographs. There is a website that has this whole area on it (Penn Pilot).
I found my first Silver Quarter along with a couple dollars in change
. Unfortunately, my friend was running with dead batteries and didn't find but a couple of coins. No battery meter on his unit. He came over and I was getting a solid hit at 4" and his Prizm wouldn't detect it. He later confirmed the batteries were almost completely dead. He was a little peeved since he doesn't get out much! Here is the pics of the quarter. I will say pictures come out real nice using a scanner.
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