Nate in Ohio
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- Joined
- Oct 24, 2005
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- Location
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Detector(s) used
- DFX
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
Hey guys it's been so busy lately. I haven't posted in awhile, but I've been MDing a good bit. Today was one of my best days metal detecting! We spent two hours at the old middle school today. We've hit this place so hard. Anyway, I had my MD on for about 5 minutes in an area that we've pulled a good amount of wheats from. I was sweeping, wandering along when I heard a beep in the 80s/90s that made me stop and investigate the signal. I heard the high tone in about 75% of the sweeps that I made over the target, that is, if there was one. The ground was nice and soft so what the heck, I dug. I stood there looking at my monster clump in doubt, so I called over my dad who was using the White's Classic III temporarily. He had the disc. at min. and sens. high, and had to stick the coil inside the hole to even get a faint signal. (By the way, the Classic III can get very deep, often deeper than the DFX when the disc. is at min. and black sand is on.) But I went for it anyway; I was jabbing my digger and prying dirt up in the hole when I suddenly stopped as I noticed two silver dimes laying in the loose dirt. Oh yeah, I said. My dad heard and walked over and I showed him the Rosies. I scanned the hole again and got the same blips. It sure didn't sound like more silver to me but something else was clearly still down there. So I moved the dirt around and found another one. I rescanned...another one! Yeeha, my first multisilver coin hole!
With boosted confidence we both continued. I ended up near a fence that divided the woods from the football field. The branches were hanging over the fence and it was a kinda scraggly area but I hadn't been so close to the fence before so I gave it a whirl. I came upon an interesting signal. The VDIs were kinda messy. It pinpointed at around 5 inches. Yes, I dug. And I'm glad I did-I pryed up an object that I knew exactly what it was when I saw it: a gold ring! I couldn't believe it, especially when I saw the date: 1926! It's 10k with HMS initials. Are these initials from somebody's name? I don't really know what the ring represents. It's pretty small. So I continued on, and came accross another signal that was messy, ranging mostly from 50 to 85. I was very surprised to see that it was a 1948 Rosie, only 3 inches deep. I found 6 wheats in this area. Two of them were in the same hole with a 1957 nickel. My dad ended up with a silver Rosie in an iron rich area. So the take for the day for us was 6 silver dimes, 6 wheats, and the gold ring. Unbelievable I say.
The other cool thing I found recently was a silver fork at an old farm house. There's an initial B, I think, at the end of the handle where there's some kinda spot. All the other stuff I found here and there since my last post. This weather is great. I think the moist ground really helped us out today with maybe amplifying the signals. Anyway, thanks all for looking. For any questions on the stuff just ask. HH!
With boosted confidence we both continued. I ended up near a fence that divided the woods from the football field. The branches were hanging over the fence and it was a kinda scraggly area but I hadn't been so close to the fence before so I gave it a whirl. I came upon an interesting signal. The VDIs were kinda messy. It pinpointed at around 5 inches. Yes, I dug. And I'm glad I did-I pryed up an object that I knew exactly what it was when I saw it: a gold ring! I couldn't believe it, especially when I saw the date: 1926! It's 10k with HMS initials. Are these initials from somebody's name? I don't really know what the ring represents. It's pretty small. So I continued on, and came accross another signal that was messy, ranging mostly from 50 to 85. I was very surprised to see that it was a 1948 Rosie, only 3 inches deep. I found 6 wheats in this area. Two of them were in the same hole with a 1957 nickel. My dad ended up with a silver Rosie in an iron rich area. So the take for the day for us was 6 silver dimes, 6 wheats, and the gold ring. Unbelievable I say.
The other cool thing I found recently was a silver fork at an old farm house. There's an initial B, I think, at the end of the handle where there's some kinda spot. All the other stuff I found here and there since my last post. This weather is great. I think the moist ground really helped us out today with maybe amplifying the signals. Anyway, thanks all for looking. For any questions on the stuff just ask. HH!
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Nate, when you find it you really overdo it. 
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