oknorom
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hello out there!
wow...i have not posted anything in a great while. i have enjoyed reading about all of your great finds! lots of oldies surfacing around the country in recent months. i wouldn't expect anything less from the great hunters here on T-Net!
i didn't do too much detecting during the summer. i rekindled my love of bass fishing and spent most of my summer looking for lunker bass. recently, i have been getting out maybe once a week for a couple hours a pop. i have mainly been hitting a local park that has given up some REAL oldies in the past. my hunting buddies and i have gotten seated dimes, a seated half, barber dimes, a barber quarter, nickel and silver three-cent pieces and much more from this park. it's a great park to hit if you don't have a lot of time but still want a chance at finding something really old.
well, i met CAPTN SE there yesterday for a short hunt. we started in an area that has produced the oldest coins for us. it was an area that seems void of all coin signals...we got all of the easy signals out a long time ago. i have been hunting this area recently using different settings. i have been using FAST on the explorer, digging anything that peeps high...and surprisingly, i have popped out some oldies from this supposedly "hunted out" meadow. only a few minutes after arriving i got a faint, one-way signal. it only sounded high when i swung the coil from right to left. i called dan over to listen to it and he heard it too. i was not confident that it was going to be a coin. it just sounded too iffy. but, i was in an old area and you never know. soo...i dug down and when i put the probe in the hole it screamed a high tone ! after a little digging, i managed to pop out a silver coin! then i saw the "one dime" on the back. turned her over and saw a seated! an 1890-s. I COULD NOT believe it! i never thought i'd get another seated from this area without a scrape! this was my 5th seated ever. seateds are pretty hard to come by in SoCal...i also got a '60 rosie and two wheats.
i'm not sure if the FAST setting helped or not, but i have been finding a lot of oldies in trashy areas with that setting.
glad you were there with me dan!
happy hunting everyone!
Mike
wow...i have not posted anything in a great while. i have enjoyed reading about all of your great finds! lots of oldies surfacing around the country in recent months. i wouldn't expect anything less from the great hunters here on T-Net!
i didn't do too much detecting during the summer. i rekindled my love of bass fishing and spent most of my summer looking for lunker bass. recently, i have been getting out maybe once a week for a couple hours a pop. i have mainly been hitting a local park that has given up some REAL oldies in the past. my hunting buddies and i have gotten seated dimes, a seated half, barber dimes, a barber quarter, nickel and silver three-cent pieces and much more from this park. it's a great park to hit if you don't have a lot of time but still want a chance at finding something really old.
well, i met CAPTN SE there yesterday for a short hunt. we started in an area that has produced the oldest coins for us. it was an area that seems void of all coin signals...we got all of the easy signals out a long time ago. i have been hunting this area recently using different settings. i have been using FAST on the explorer, digging anything that peeps high...and surprisingly, i have popped out some oldies from this supposedly "hunted out" meadow. only a few minutes after arriving i got a faint, one-way signal. it only sounded high when i swung the coil from right to left. i called dan over to listen to it and he heard it too. i was not confident that it was going to be a coin. it just sounded too iffy. but, i was in an old area and you never know. soo...i dug down and when i put the probe in the hole it screamed a high tone ! after a little digging, i managed to pop out a silver coin! then i saw the "one dime" on the back. turned her over and saw a seated! an 1890-s. I COULD NOT believe it! i never thought i'd get another seated from this area without a scrape! this was my 5th seated ever. seateds are pretty hard to come by in SoCal...i also got a '60 rosie and two wheats.
i'm not sure if the FAST setting helped or not, but i have been finding a lot of oldies in trashy areas with that setting.
glad you were there with me dan!
happy hunting everyone!
Mike
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