Old Park "SCRAPS" or Whats a Low Conductor Target?

[Cobalt*Blue]

Old Park "SCRAPS" or What's a Low Conductor Target?

What could be better than having an old city park across the street from where you work? Last year I did three separate hunts, working many areas of this park and came up with one wheat cent and less than 1$ clad in 6-7 hrs hunting. Lump it and move on you say? I agree. Then I upgraded my detector this summer and decided to try it at some of the my old sites. At this discarded site I have now found 8 Indian Cents, a Buffalo Nickel, and some older button's and older costum jewelry, and all on one small section of the park. What I haven't found is also of interest. Zero wheat's (since the one last year) and no silver with 20+ detecting hours in. All modern clad is between 1-2". Why the turn around in finds, I asked my self? Is my new little Cibola that good? Then it hit me that this park had, over the last 30+ years, been methodical detected by many hunters who set up there machines to just vacuum up the silver. And boy did they do a good job on the silver and wheat's. This park really must have produced in the past. The Indians (scraps) must have not sounded good enough to dig. My Cibola and I were just getting acquainted so I was diggin the lower conductors and finding IP's just above the pull tab range. Point of story is there are some nice finds hiding in the high pull tab to lower Penny/dime discrimination zone. Now a few pic's of the park and the finds. The nickel is a 1913 T2, and the IP's are 1882 (2), 1883, 1887, 1900, 1906, 1907, and unknown (quess which one was found over by the pine trees?) hh blue

 

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[West Jersey Detecting]

Re: Old Park "SCRAPS" or What's a Low Conductor Target?

You hit the nail on the head! I have heard tales of "the good old days where all we dug was silver". I have detected many heavily detected sites where I found plenty of Indian Heads and, even better, I also dug many old 19th and 18th century buttons.

Keep in mind that the technology has changed a lot in the last 30 years. Todays high end detectors go much deeper than those oldies. There is still silver in that school yard. YOu just need to slow down your sweep, and dig all of those faint, non-iron signals.

 

[dave-enc]

Re: Old Park "SCRAPS" or What's a Low Conductor Target?

nice bunch of finds wtg
hh
dave+bobbie

 

[wingmaster]

Re: Old Park "SCRAPS" or What's a Low Conductor Target?

Great finds there congrats I wouldn't have passed up those IH's for sure.

 

[Cobalt*Blue]

Re: Old Park "SCRAPS" or What's a Low Conductor Target?

Thank you for the replies Neil and Dave. I now leave for work an hour or two early 2 or 3 day's a week. Seem to get something good almost every sort hunt. Forgot to include the radical cleaning method I tried on the 1913 5 cent. Gently worked on it with 800 grit sand paper until I liked the results. Not for special coins but at least an alternative for the hard to clean nickels. hh blue

 

[Goldiver]

Re: Old Park "SCRAPS" or What's a Low Conductor Target?

Nice work Mr. Blue! I really like going into sites exactly like yours, I can really clean up on the lower conductivity items. I also find they are great spots for silver on edge or silver close to trash items. Simply put most folks back then were just looking for the perfect sounding silver signals. Thank god because they sure left alot behind.

Hey on cleaning nickels many folks use salt and vinegar and soak them in it for a while till it starts looking good. You may already be familliar with this method, but if not you may want to give it a try.

Good Hunting!
Steve

 

[allen]

Re: Old Park "SCRAPS" or What's a Low Conductor Target?

wtg on that tribe of indians and its chief buffalo !!

 

[ivan salis]

Re: Old Park "SCRAPS" or What's a Low Conductor Target?

indian head cents ring up / sound just like a post 1983 zinc cent does --- culling out the zinc cents means you lose the indian head cents too as a rule -- but the silver cherry pickers didn't care --the real copper wheat cents and silver rang up just fine * thats why you find the IH but no wheaties or silver --pounded to death in the past by cherry pickers --- now if they were using older type machines --and missed the nickle they could have missed gold as well * since on the older machines nickles & pulltabs and gold come in the same " tone" range---while copper and silver were at the "high end" tone wize