deepskyal
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2007
- Messages
- 1,927
- Reaction score
- 62
- Golden Thread
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- Location
- Natrona Heights, Pa.
- Detector(s) used
- White's Coinmaster 6000 Di Series 3, Minelab Eq 600
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
Haven't considered myself a newbie for a while until Ringfinder put it in perspective. Guess we both started about the same time.
I grew up in area that was mostly mill-hunkies and poor people...not many people around with metal detectors back in the early 80's there.
There were quite a few "virgin" parks around and I made my killing in silver, mostly dimes, and hundreds and hundreds of wheaties. I think people were a lot more cautious with money because they didnt have much to lose as it was...but they still lost it. Never found anything bigger than a half dollar.
My first machine was a White's Coinmaster 3000. I dug a fair share of rusty stuff and ground balancing was a huge pain in the rear...but I still enjoyed finding stuff. My deepest coins probably weren't more than around 3-4".
But...as time wore on...more folks got them, parks got worked harder and I upgraded around 1990 to the 6000Di pro...a lot better ground balancing, better depth, discrimination, and a meter for ID'ing.
I was in heaven.
I still liked the older days better when we didnt have all the foil trash, screw caps, pulltabs weren't knee deep everywhere....but that's why we have the new machines with bells and whistles....."Necessity is the mother of invention"
There are still parks around here people are pulling thousands of coins from....and I do mean thousands.
One county park, every time I go there, I can almost bet I'll find coins. I just approach it a bit differently from 20+ years ago.
Stay away from the shelters, hit the outskirts, the woods....places I didnt think of before because coins were plentiful in the obvious areas.
And I'll repeat it cause it's worth saying....we didnt have the internet to research places like we do now...there are still many, many virgin sites out there....you just need to do a little more work to find them now.
Al
I grew up in area that was mostly mill-hunkies and poor people...not many people around with metal detectors back in the early 80's there.
There were quite a few "virgin" parks around and I made my killing in silver, mostly dimes, and hundreds and hundreds of wheaties. I think people were a lot more cautious with money because they didnt have much to lose as it was...but they still lost it. Never found anything bigger than a half dollar.
My first machine was a White's Coinmaster 3000. I dug a fair share of rusty stuff and ground balancing was a huge pain in the rear...but I still enjoyed finding stuff. My deepest coins probably weren't more than around 3-4".
But...as time wore on...more folks got them, parks got worked harder and I upgraded around 1990 to the 6000Di pro...a lot better ground balancing, better depth, discrimination, and a meter for ID'ing.
I was in heaven.
I still liked the older days better when we didnt have all the foil trash, screw caps, pulltabs weren't knee deep everywhere....but that's why we have the new machines with bells and whistles....."Necessity is the mother of invention"
There are still parks around here people are pulling thousands of coins from....and I do mean thousands.
One county park, every time I go there, I can almost bet I'll find coins. I just approach it a bit differently from 20+ years ago.
Stay away from the shelters, hit the outskirts, the woods....places I didnt think of before because coins were plentiful in the obvious areas.
And I'll repeat it cause it's worth saying....we didnt have the internet to research places like we do now...there are still many, many virgin sites out there....you just need to do a little more work to find them now.
Al
