mpostma
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- East Jordan, Michigan
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Finally got our State Rep out on a hunt over the weekend.
Tuned up and cleaned up my old White's 5ID the day before. Walked out in my own yard to give it a try, and found a 1938 Merc!
Now, I have hunted my own yard many times, every time I get a detector or a new coil I run around my yard with it. I have NEVER found a bit of silver, until Saturday morning.
Since I was going out with the Rep on Sunday I decided to hit the woods around the old Fairgrounds on Saturday. Spend a couple of hours, but managed a 1936 Buffalo in great shape, and my oldest coin yet, an 1876 Indianhead! Worn, but very legible! She was deeeeeep, and the signal was more than a little iffy, but I could tell whatever it was was coin sized, and deep, so......! It came out of the ground so caked up with crud I could see it was a coin, but not which flavor, or how old!
So, on Sunday morning I was already pretty pumped when I went out to meet up with our State Rep for a hunt. Been saving the old picnic grove most of the spring, just for this hunt. I really wanted to give him the best shot I could at taking home 100 year old or older coins!
I set him up with my old 5ID and a decent set of headphones. Showed him how it all worked, dropped a few coins on the ground for him to get the "swing" of it.
I started working the slope in the woods where I had found most of the coins on the day I had come out in early spring. He took off exploring between all the downed treetops, coming back in about 20 minutes with a hot rock. By then I had found a 1901 Indian! Which peaked his interest.
We started working the slope together. I got a nice tone with the Quattro, and called him over. He got an iffy signal with the White's, so I suggested he dig it.
Up from about 6 inches came an old nail, and a 1907 Indian! He seemed kinda pumped after that, and took off digging iffy signals. He was putting nails and an old bolt in his pouch while I slowly worked around the hill.
After about 2 and a half hours of hunting he said he needed to head on home to spend some time with his kids. He took the Indian with him, of course.
He is a great guy, and a history nut too. My hope was he would understand what goes into MDing, or if maybe even get into it himself. We'll see.
After he headed home I had to keep on for another hour or two. I knew there were more coins in the area, I just needed to get my coil over them.
Within ten minutes after he had left I dug a 1908 Indian. Twenty minutes later out came my second sweet coin of the weekend, a 1919 D Buffalo!
It isn't in really good shape, but the date and mintmark are nice and legible!
What a nice weekend!
So, I come on Treasurenet tonight, and icing on the cake! I see Silverfreak posted that he went on a hunt with Nick and a Yeti, and came out with a 1916D Mercury! It just doesn't get much better than that, does it?
Thanks for reading my long winded post.
Good Luck,
Mark
Tuned up and cleaned up my old White's 5ID the day before. Walked out in my own yard to give it a try, and found a 1938 Merc!
Now, I have hunted my own yard many times, every time I get a detector or a new coil I run around my yard with it. I have NEVER found a bit of silver, until Saturday morning.
Since I was going out with the Rep on Sunday I decided to hit the woods around the old Fairgrounds on Saturday. Spend a couple of hours, but managed a 1936 Buffalo in great shape, and my oldest coin yet, an 1876 Indianhead! Worn, but very legible! She was deeeeeep, and the signal was more than a little iffy, but I could tell whatever it was was coin sized, and deep, so......! It came out of the ground so caked up with crud I could see it was a coin, but not which flavor, or how old!
So, on Sunday morning I was already pretty pumped when I went out to meet up with our State Rep for a hunt. Been saving the old picnic grove most of the spring, just for this hunt. I really wanted to give him the best shot I could at taking home 100 year old or older coins!
I set him up with my old 5ID and a decent set of headphones. Showed him how it all worked, dropped a few coins on the ground for him to get the "swing" of it.
I started working the slope in the woods where I had found most of the coins on the day I had come out in early spring. He took off exploring between all the downed treetops, coming back in about 20 minutes with a hot rock. By then I had found a 1901 Indian! Which peaked his interest.
We started working the slope together. I got a nice tone with the Quattro, and called him over. He got an iffy signal with the White's, so I suggested he dig it.
Up from about 6 inches came an old nail, and a 1907 Indian! He seemed kinda pumped after that, and took off digging iffy signals. He was putting nails and an old bolt in his pouch while I slowly worked around the hill.
After about 2 and a half hours of hunting he said he needed to head on home to spend some time with his kids. He took the Indian with him, of course.
He is a great guy, and a history nut too. My hope was he would understand what goes into MDing, or if maybe even get into it himself. We'll see.
After he headed home I had to keep on for another hour or two. I knew there were more coins in the area, I just needed to get my coil over them.
Within ten minutes after he had left I dug a 1908 Indian. Twenty minutes later out came my second sweet coin of the weekend, a 1919 D Buffalo!
It isn't in really good shape, but the date and mintmark are nice and legible!
What a nice weekend!
So, I come on Treasurenet tonight, and icing on the cake! I see Silverfreak posted that he went on a hunt with Nick and a Yeti, and came out with a 1916D Mercury! It just doesn't get much better than that, does it?
Thanks for reading my long winded post.
Good Luck,
Mark
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nice score on them old coins.
Glad you're out their doing PR for our hobbie. 
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