This is why I dig all the zincs

[MackDog]

Went out to a 1927 school today to try my luck. I used the V3i and Detect 12 x 15 coil as usual. On the V3i zincs and wheats come in about the same 52-58 VDI and dominant on the red bar. SO usually if you don't want to dig as many zincs you only dig the deeper ones. I like to clean the ground of most signals so I dig all zincs hoping for a wheat. Today I got six wheats. The shallowest was only 3" down in tree roots on a sloping hill. It turned out to be a 1931 S (only 880,000 minted). Also dug a Catholic Sterling cross and 1963 dime. Plus 49 other clad and 2 pieces of costume jewelry. Thanks for looking and good hunting

 

[port ewen ace]

31-S

 

[Ogre1190]

Hah! I gotta Merc n the exact same pendant on a quick hunt about two weeks ago! Nicely done! 🙌

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[coinman123]

That's a pretty rare coin! For me, zinc signals are very high numbers out in the woods, it is anything below around 50 (foil is 40s) that I sometimes question about digging. It seems like any pre-war cent shows up as zincoln numbers, always worth digging! Congrats on such a rare coin, and some nice silver!

 

[scruggs]

Good hunt you had with a good many targets! Nice job!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on the 31s and other finds

 

[Mzjavert]

Great, amazing, and spectacular!

 

[vpnavy]

Nice assortment of finds MackDog.

 

[HighVDI]

Great hunt! Nice rare wheat, and silver to boot...

 

[G.A.P.metal]

Nice coin and religious metal find !
Gary

 

[washingtonian]

Woah, great finds. I had no idea how rare that 31-S is!!

 

[Carolina Tom]

The 31S is really a sweet little find.

I like sterling too.

Best of luck to you sir.

 

[PirateLabs]

Nice finds! Wow, I just did a quick and dirty Google search and it shows the average value of that penny to be $100 and, if in good enough condition, up to $185! (I only checked one site and this may or may not be accurate) I know next to nothing about coins and this amazes me. I am glad you shared this info with us.

Bill

 

[cooper1841]

Now I need to go through my wheats!!

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on your finds, 3 keepers make for a good hunt. I dig zincs because that's the range where IHC's ring in. One can never dig too many IHCs or wheats.

 

[GB1]

whoa that is a great find

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions on the very nice coin recovery and a few silver items.

In school yards, I dig everything above iron...some really cool finds "pop" out of the ground with low and zinc VDI's.

 

[lurk]

Nice key date there good catch

 

[sutphin]

NICE FINDS

 

[Kurios1]

Gotta' love it when the lowly innocent Wheatie turn out to be a KILLER! I dig nearly every repeatable signal I can unless I am about to fall over from unearthing pull tabs from a park. I dig my zincolns to get my Indians. Very similar VDI numbers on my Makro Racer 2 and other machines as well. Big surprise and score on that way rare old Wheatie!