mapper65
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For the last few years we've had access to an old late 1800's house nearby. We've found a few indians a Barber dime a V nickel and decent handful of wheats not to mention some clad and a 3 or 4 late model silvers.
We really kind of feel like we had the place nearly hunted out because we probably have a combined couple of hundred hours between myself, our Mom and Hotrod53. It's been raining off and on over the last week including a quick shower earlier this evening. When it quit raining we decided to take our chances and see if we could find anything else. Coins have really been few and far between. I've been exclusively using the Digger coil and as of last week, our Mom now has one.
My first target of the evening was an iffy signal in the low 30's and when I dug it, I could tell that I probably had a nickel and possibly a V nickel. It just didn't feel like a buffalo and I knew that it wasn't a Jefferson. Much to my surprise it ended up being a fairly crusty 1887 V nickel. What is surprising is that I found it about 8 feet from the only other V nickel that I've found since I started detecting and both of them were with the Digger coil.
I put it on the ground after I found it and it reads as kind of a choppy 12. The first one that I found was a 42 in the ground and a 12 on top of the ground. I'm guessing the rain has helped conductivity but the surprising thing is that this was only about 3" deep and we've all been over that area nearly hundreds of times with other coils. Like always, I was going really slow with the Digger coil and at least at this site, listening for those iffy signals. The ID was bouncing a fair amount but in pinpoint mode, I would have almost bet money on it being a coin. She's not real pretty but I'll take her!!
We really kind of feel like we had the place nearly hunted out because we probably have a combined couple of hundred hours between myself, our Mom and Hotrod53. It's been raining off and on over the last week including a quick shower earlier this evening. When it quit raining we decided to take our chances and see if we could find anything else. Coins have really been few and far between. I've been exclusively using the Digger coil and as of last week, our Mom now has one.
My first target of the evening was an iffy signal in the low 30's and when I dug it, I could tell that I probably had a nickel and possibly a V nickel. It just didn't feel like a buffalo and I knew that it wasn't a Jefferson. Much to my surprise it ended up being a fairly crusty 1887 V nickel. What is surprising is that I found it about 8 feet from the only other V nickel that I've found since I started detecting and both of them were with the Digger coil.
I put it on the ground after I found it and it reads as kind of a choppy 12. The first one that I found was a 42 in the ground and a 12 on top of the ground. I'm guessing the rain has helped conductivity but the surprising thing is that this was only about 3" deep and we've all been over that area nearly hundreds of times with other coils. Like always, I was going really slow with the Digger coil and at least at this site, listening for those iffy signals. The ID was bouncing a fair amount but in pinpoint mode, I would have almost bet money on it being a coin. She's not real pretty but I'll take her!!
Those Diggers just keep sniffing out the good stuff! 