Brett
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- Montgomery, IL
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My dad got permission to hunt a 150 year old farm site nearby, and the owner said nobody has been there in the last 40 years detecting that they know of, so it was all looking good enough to eat. I got off work early today just to go on probably the last semi-warm hunt of the year. I still had to suit up in my Dickies, and we ended up watching the grass frost over as the sun went down later in the day... so it wasn't super warm or anything!
I started scouring the areas of interest, around the front of the house, in front of the bushes where kids might have played, the walk down the driveway to the mailbox, from the mailbox to the house, around the side of the house, and around all the big trees. There were more, the property was pretty decent size, but that's about as fast as I move in 4 hours with the SE Pro. I hunted the whole afternoon with the SE Pro coil, and went back over the trashy areas with the 6" Excelerator.
I scored all of the teens wheaties by a tree on the way to the mailbox. I got the lock right up behind the mailbox.
My first good find was actually the 1870 Indian Head Penny believe it or not. Got it right up under the front edge of the bushes in front of the house. It was only 3 or 4 inches down tops.
I got the 40's-50's wheaties around the side of the house in a foot by foot square area, right where my dad had already been with his DD coil too
The pocket watch mech came out by an old burn pile area on the far end of the property.. but that was about the only signal over there, besides a couple cans.
So far the oldest coin I've found before today was a 1989 IH Penny, and it was in a hole with ANOTHER IH touching, so the obverse on both were corroded. This 1870 IH has a really cool "green and gold" tone to it. In the sunlight, the copper shining through sparkles like metal flake. It's really sweet.
My dad got a bunch of wheaties as well, and I think he had me beat by one year on the wheaties (update, nope he had another 1913 plain).
Private sites are really nice! There were a couple areas of the property that I wanted to get up into, but felt like it was too much. I would want to go back there after a good rain and maybe after I get an Etrac
There was quite a bit of iron in the ground which ended up putting about 6 or 7 nails in my pouch. My dad even dug a nail and he has been known to say, "The DFX doesn't dig nails."
UPDATE! I added pictures of the bell that I found up in the front bushes as well. I totally forgot about this thing. After cleaning it all out, it still rings great. At least 40 angels got there wings tonight. Also, after doing a little research on the IH and some of my other wheaties, it turns out that the IH is a semi key date and probably worth at least $30, if not $50. The 1913 was so close to a 1914, but it's actually worth $4 maybe, as is the 1915 D as well. The the D was plain it would have been worth 3 times as much. The 1919-S is actually worth less than the other two. The best part about it all is that it was great digging up old coins from the late 19th century and turn of the 20th.
HH!
I started scouring the areas of interest, around the front of the house, in front of the bushes where kids might have played, the walk down the driveway to the mailbox, from the mailbox to the house, around the side of the house, and around all the big trees. There were more, the property was pretty decent size, but that's about as fast as I move in 4 hours with the SE Pro. I hunted the whole afternoon with the SE Pro coil, and went back over the trashy areas with the 6" Excelerator.
I scored all of the teens wheaties by a tree on the way to the mailbox. I got the lock right up behind the mailbox.
My first good find was actually the 1870 Indian Head Penny believe it or not. Got it right up under the front edge of the bushes in front of the house. It was only 3 or 4 inches down tops.
I got the 40's-50's wheaties around the side of the house in a foot by foot square area, right where my dad had already been with his DD coil too
The pocket watch mech came out by an old burn pile area on the far end of the property.. but that was about the only signal over there, besides a couple cans.
So far the oldest coin I've found before today was a 1989 IH Penny, and it was in a hole with ANOTHER IH touching, so the obverse on both were corroded. This 1870 IH has a really cool "green and gold" tone to it. In the sunlight, the copper shining through sparkles like metal flake. It's really sweet.
My dad got a bunch of wheaties as well, and I think he had me beat by one year on the wheaties (update, nope he had another 1913 plain).
Private sites are really nice! There were a couple areas of the property that I wanted to get up into, but felt like it was too much. I would want to go back there after a good rain and maybe after I get an Etrac
There was quite a bit of iron in the ground which ended up putting about 6 or 7 nails in my pouch. My dad even dug a nail and he has been known to say, "The DFX doesn't dig nails."UPDATE! I added pictures of the bell that I found up in the front bushes as well. I totally forgot about this thing. After cleaning it all out, it still rings great. At least 40 angels got there wings tonight. Also, after doing a little research on the IH and some of my other wheaties, it turns out that the IH is a semi key date and probably worth at least $30, if not $50. The 1913 was so close to a 1914, but it's actually worth $4 maybe, as is the 1915 D as well. The the D was plain it would have been worth 3 times as much. The 1919-S is actually worth less than the other two. The best part about it all is that it was great digging up old coins from the late 19th century and turn of the 20th.
HH!
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