vpone
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- May 1, 2007
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hello all,
vp here, got out detecting today, the other Bone Dry guys couldn't make it so i went out solo ... went to an old colonial farm field that has stumped me in the past - literally i have not found one coin here, BUT the land is so old and is mentioned in numerous old texts that when i have time, i just keep hitting it, there have to be coins on the property somewhere, it's a large field too so i keep hoping i'll hit the hot spot
anyway today was frigid, about 20 degrees out and the wind was blowing, not the greatest day to detect but when you have time it's better than working so i figured what the heck
i dug two targets in the matter of an hour, first one was can slaw at 6 inches which normally wouldn't phase me except the ground was frozen SOLID to a depth of about 3-4 inches - so it took me about 15 mins to dig it out - boy was i mad when i saw it !!! so i went on and promised myself only to dig "perfect" targets
about 5 mins later i got a "00 29" on my SE, now anyone who has an SE knows your heart beat starts racing when you get a signal like that because 95% of the time it's a coin. the depth read 5 inches, i started to dig - only it was more like chiseling - about 15 minutes later i popped this large copper out, i rubbed at it a bit and saw the "One Cent" and a wreath on the back, immediately recognizing the large cent - the front was too hard to see a date
so i checked around a bit more and found nothing, freezing but very happy, I decided to call it a day
now next i made a BIG mistake, i learned a couple weeks ago that with a dug copper there is not an aweful lot you can do to improve the coin, but there is an aweful lot you can do to make it worse, i had washed my 1835 copper with soap a few weeks back trying to get the dirt off and now it looks terrible
paco always tells me to just rub the dirt off and leave it alone but STUPID ME i wanted a date on this coin - i tried the peroxide treatment - well i must have left it in too long or the coin was more corroded than i thought because now the pretty wreath and "One Cent" i had seen so easily when i dug it are totally gone !!!!!
i know it wasn't worth anything anyway, so i'm not too upset about it but i think i've learnt my lesson - that's 2 coppa's that look worse than when i dug them !!!!!
so here is the picture of my coppa large cent slug
take care,
vp
Bone Dry Detecting
demoted back to junior member
vp here, got out detecting today, the other Bone Dry guys couldn't make it so i went out solo ... went to an old colonial farm field that has stumped me in the past - literally i have not found one coin here, BUT the land is so old and is mentioned in numerous old texts that when i have time, i just keep hitting it, there have to be coins on the property somewhere, it's a large field too so i keep hoping i'll hit the hot spot
anyway today was frigid, about 20 degrees out and the wind was blowing, not the greatest day to detect but when you have time it's better than working so i figured what the heck
i dug two targets in the matter of an hour, first one was can slaw at 6 inches which normally wouldn't phase me except the ground was frozen SOLID to a depth of about 3-4 inches - so it took me about 15 mins to dig it out - boy was i mad when i saw it !!! so i went on and promised myself only to dig "perfect" targets
about 5 mins later i got a "00 29" on my SE, now anyone who has an SE knows your heart beat starts racing when you get a signal like that because 95% of the time it's a coin. the depth read 5 inches, i started to dig - only it was more like chiseling - about 15 minutes later i popped this large copper out, i rubbed at it a bit and saw the "One Cent" and a wreath on the back, immediately recognizing the large cent - the front was too hard to see a date
so i checked around a bit more and found nothing, freezing but very happy, I decided to call it a day
now next i made a BIG mistake, i learned a couple weeks ago that with a dug copper there is not an aweful lot you can do to improve the coin, but there is an aweful lot you can do to make it worse, i had washed my 1835 copper with soap a few weeks back trying to get the dirt off and now it looks terrible
paco always tells me to just rub the dirt off and leave it alone but STUPID ME i wanted a date on this coin - i tried the peroxide treatment - well i must have left it in too long or the coin was more corroded than i thought because now the pretty wreath and "One Cent" i had seen so easily when i dug it are totally gone !!!!!
i know it wasn't worth anything anyway, so i'm not too upset about it but i think i've learnt my lesson - that's 2 coppa's that look worse than when i dug them !!!!!
so here is the picture of my coppa large cent slug
take care,
vp
Bone Dry Detecting
demoted back to junior member
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