Found a large cent with a old machine!!

[john glassman]

Here's the story guy's and gal's i bought this white's gold master 63t for fivedollar's at a tag sale on friday.I looked up the manual on the white's home page on the top of this website read up on it and took it out to a cellerhole from the 1800. I got permisson to do it from the owner who just cleared the land a few week's ago i walked down street to get cellarhole take's minute's. I set up the detector like the manual said with in ten minutes i found a 1853 large cent it still need a little more cleaning. PS. old machine''s can still find coin's

 

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[njnydigger]

Great score Just proves my theory that it's the spot more than the machine

Way to go on picking that thing up before anyone else got it

I'd say go back to that site and go over it with a fine tooth comb

 

[bryguy5]

History finding history. Awesome!

 

[kimsdad]

WTG on that great find!!!

 

[history hunter]

Very nice! That's the kind of machines that were out when I first started!

 

[Slabman]

Wow... an old BFO. Beat Frequency Oscillator machines were pretty much at the beginning of the show for personal metal detectors.
I started detecting in the early 80's, and that machine is a bit before my time. The big time machines in the 80's were VLF machines
that featured "ground exclusion balance" or the ability to null out ground effects. I don't believe that old BFO had an discrimination
does it. As you have proven, the old timer machines can still do it. Good job!!

Slab

 

[Imnengr]

I agree, it's more the spot (and the detectorist) than the machine! I've been searching for years and never found a largey. Nice going!

 

[Blind Squirrel]

Good find!!! Did that machine come over on the Mayflower? What's it weigh? Hit that spot real well, it probably has a lot more keepers. HH Gene

 

[Mrs Bloom]

SWEET!!!

 

[john glassman]

Good find!!! Did that machine come over on the Mayflower? What's it weigh? Hit that spot real well, it probably has a lot more keepers. HH Gene

the machine weight's under five pound's very light run's on eight penlight's or two nine volt' which i used in it

 

[ivan salis]

which one is older the coin or the machine? --kidding --just goes to show location is the key -- knowing how to use the machine helps too.

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

8) That 5 bucks was well spent within 10 minutes a large cent ..wish I kept the Coinmaster III had some great hunts with that old school , "blue machine" ! Once in a while, I hunt with this old timer who had one since the early 70 's he says, "people laugh at me & my old Whites" , if you saw his collection , your jaw would drop to the floor . Ps Definitely ,correct, about being the first one at the right place Have fun ! many more finds 2 u

 

[allen]

wtg on finding that LC with your "new" machine !

 

[Tennessee Treasure Hunter]

Congratulations

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

History finding history. Awesome!

The Machine or the Coin ...What year is that Machine from..its pretty cool looking

 

[{Sentinel}]

Wow... an old BFO. Beat Frequency Oscillator machines were pretty much at the beginning of the show for personal metal detectors.
I started detecting in the early 80's, and that machine is a bit before my time. The big time machines in the 80's were VLF machines
that featured "ground exclusion balance" or the ability to null out ground effects. I don't believe that old BFO had an discrimination
does it. As you have proven, the old timer machines can still do it. Good job!!

Slab

Yep, thats an early one but my grandfather was out in the 50s using an old army metal detector and then of course who can forget the MIGHTY

METRO TECH

The Premier standard for metal detectors in the 60s and 70s

 

[BobinSouthVA]

Haha thats great to hear. nice find

My grandfather still has his old Whites which looks like that (not sure its the same model, looks the same). He does not get out anymore at 92 and replacement knees, but a few years back he bought an XLT I believe, cursed at it a few times, and sent it back. Got out with him last year and he pulled out his trusty old machine.

 

[BuckleBoy]

I think that detector is actually older than the coin. You sure it didn't drop out of the control box when you put the batteries in?







Seriously though--it goes to prove the point that it isn't what you swing, but where you swing that counts. 8)