Narthoniel
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- Virginia Beach
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- Excal 2 and E Trac
Hello,
But there is the old argument of quality of quantity. I Prefer quality anyday!
I have spent another 3 days hunting on the old homesite I started detecting last week. The first 3 hunts were great, and on the 4th hunt, I quit randomly wandering around, and started to grid this place out. I think it will take 15 solid days of gridding to finish the field entirely.
Day 4 was slow, and produced only 2 musketballs, and zero coins.
Day 5 produced only a modern nickle and a plow.
Today, day 6, finally provided a few coins. I started gridding a new section, and on the first pass, I found 2 keepers - another musketball and my second Large Cent!!
This one is HORRIBLY worn and deteriorated. I cannot make out any details at all on the obverse, and very few on the reverse. All that is visible is "TATES OF" on the rim, which can be seen in the photo.
About half an hour later, I dug another plow! I am hoping to clean them up with electrolysis later once I get some experience cleaning iron with it.
After another slow hour or two, I was contemplating calling it an early day and heading home to clean up my new coin. On the way I found 2 zinc pennies in bad shape and a copper memorial Lincoln. While contemplating heading home I finally picked up another decent signal. (5 minutes without a signal, even an iron signal, is common here. VERY few targets at all.) This one registered precisely where a zinc penny in decent shape would on the Etrac. I dug, and pulled about a 6 inch deep plug out of the hole. In the very bottom of the plug my probe indicated the target lay. I quickly located it, and was amazed to see a tiny round coin-like object in my hand. I could see a touch of a silvery color through some of the dirt, but still didn't think it was a coin since it was so small. It was only when I looked at the rim and saw it was reeded was I finally accepted the truth - HALF DIME!!!!!!
Turns out to be 1857 with decent detail. Not as good condition as the dime I found last Sunday, but still pretty good. Either way, I am amazed to have found such a killer coin. Definitely one of my favorite finds
.
I have about 20-25% of this field finished - I cannot imagine any other old coins being left there, but, I will hunt it all!
Thanks for reading, Happy Hunting!
Anthony
But there is the old argument of quality of quantity. I Prefer quality anyday!
I have spent another 3 days hunting on the old homesite I started detecting last week. The first 3 hunts were great, and on the 4th hunt, I quit randomly wandering around, and started to grid this place out. I think it will take 15 solid days of gridding to finish the field entirely.
Day 4 was slow, and produced only 2 musketballs, and zero coins.
Day 5 produced only a modern nickle and a plow.
Today, day 6, finally provided a few coins. I started gridding a new section, and on the first pass, I found 2 keepers - another musketball and my second Large Cent!!
This one is HORRIBLY worn and deteriorated. I cannot make out any details at all on the obverse, and very few on the reverse. All that is visible is "TATES OF" on the rim, which can be seen in the photo.
About half an hour later, I dug another plow! I am hoping to clean them up with electrolysis later once I get some experience cleaning iron with it.
After another slow hour or two, I was contemplating calling it an early day and heading home to clean up my new coin. On the way I found 2 zinc pennies in bad shape and a copper memorial Lincoln. While contemplating heading home I finally picked up another decent signal. (5 minutes without a signal, even an iron signal, is common here. VERY few targets at all.) This one registered precisely where a zinc penny in decent shape would on the Etrac. I dug, and pulled about a 6 inch deep plug out of the hole. In the very bottom of the plug my probe indicated the target lay. I quickly located it, and was amazed to see a tiny round coin-like object in my hand. I could see a touch of a silvery color through some of the dirt, but still didn't think it was a coin since it was so small. It was only when I looked at the rim and saw it was reeded was I finally accepted the truth - HALF DIME!!!!!!
Turns out to be 1857 with decent detail. Not as good condition as the dime I found last Sunday, but still pretty good. Either way, I am amazed to have found such a killer coin. Definitely one of my favorite finds
. I have about 20-25% of this field finished - I cannot imagine any other old coins being left there, but, I will hunt it all!
Thanks for reading, Happy Hunting!
Anthony
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Congratualtions on that.... Can you make out anything on the LC? Can't wait to see what other finds you'll dig there!
