CTXAgGetter
Full Member
- Joined
- Mar 2, 2019
- Messages
- 193
- Reaction score
- 547
- Golden Thread
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- Location
- Central Texas
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Etrac
Minelab Equinox
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I got out for what was supposed to be a couple hour hunt yesterday... that turned out to be 6 hours!
Not finding too many high tones in my favorite corner of my new honey hole, so I've been digging the low tones and going for gold. I know it's there!
Started the afternoon with a buffalo, followed shortly by a wheat. Nothing else but can slaw and bottle caps for the next hour or so. Watched a couple pull up at the hundred year old church across the street... he hollers from across the way, "You finding anything?" I reply with, "Just a few old nickels and pennies."
He nods and follows his wife into the church. I figure they're getting communion set up or turning on the A/C for Sunday morning. While they are inside, I get a solid 18 at 4 inches on the Minelab Equinox. Pop the plug... war nickel! Yes... some silver. Five minutes later, they come back out and I drop everything to ease across the road and show them my finds and tell them about the hobby. Five minutes later, I am detecting in front of the church with the lady's blessing and her name if anyone stops and questions me. Not much but clad there... and a 1943 merc! Yes! Silver number 2.
After working the church yard and not finding anything else old, I went back to nickel scrubbing for an hour with no luck... and then hit a row I must have previously only cherry-picked. Got a signal that sounded wheatie tone one way, half dollar tone at 90 degrees. Popped the plug for an on-edge 1938 merc. Yes! More silver. Two steps later, I get a deep low tone that could be a war nickel... around a 17 on the nox. Cut a plug... there is a TINY silver coin! Looks foreign...
I see a king... it's gotta be a fish scale! What the heck is a Canadian 5 cent silver doing in Texas? I've seen them dug on YouTube, but never imagined I'd dig one around here. Well, I had to keep going... because I've had several 4 silver coin days before... but never 5.
Five minutes later, another 18 signal buys me another war nickel and I head to the car with a new personal best!
Here's the good stuff...
Front and back of the silvers and buff...
A closeup of the Canadian fish scale...
And... does this count as a nickel trifecta?!?
Found this tiny filled ring in a short hunt there Friday...
And got a few more keepers, including a sterling handle and a war nickel, this afternoon (Sunday) in a 2 hour hunt!
Thanks for looking! HH and GL!
Not finding too many high tones in my favorite corner of my new honey hole, so I've been digging the low tones and going for gold. I know it's there!
Started the afternoon with a buffalo, followed shortly by a wheat. Nothing else but can slaw and bottle caps for the next hour or so. Watched a couple pull up at the hundred year old church across the street... he hollers from across the way, "You finding anything?" I reply with, "Just a few old nickels and pennies."
He nods and follows his wife into the church. I figure they're getting communion set up or turning on the A/C for Sunday morning. While they are inside, I get a solid 18 at 4 inches on the Minelab Equinox. Pop the plug... war nickel! Yes... some silver. Five minutes later, they come back out and I drop everything to ease across the road and show them my finds and tell them about the hobby. Five minutes later, I am detecting in front of the church with the lady's blessing and her name if anyone stops and questions me. Not much but clad there... and a 1943 merc! Yes! Silver number 2.
After working the church yard and not finding anything else old, I went back to nickel scrubbing for an hour with no luck... and then hit a row I must have previously only cherry-picked. Got a signal that sounded wheatie tone one way, half dollar tone at 90 degrees. Popped the plug for an on-edge 1938 merc. Yes! More silver. Two steps later, I get a deep low tone that could be a war nickel... around a 17 on the nox. Cut a plug... there is a TINY silver coin! Looks foreign...
I see a king... it's gotta be a fish scale! What the heck is a Canadian 5 cent silver doing in Texas? I've seen them dug on YouTube, but never imagined I'd dig one around here. Well, I had to keep going... because I've had several 4 silver coin days before... but never 5.
Five minutes later, another 18 signal buys me another war nickel and I head to the car with a new personal best!
Here's the good stuff...
Front and back of the silvers and buff...
A closeup of the Canadian fish scale...
And... does this count as a nickel trifecta?!?
Found this tiny filled ring in a short hunt there Friday...
And got a few more keepers, including a sterling handle and a war nickel, this afternoon (Sunday) in a 2 hour hunt!
Thanks for looking! HH and GL!
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