Hey whats up safarians! Hit a couple of new spots last weekend, about a 3 hour round trip but its nice to get to some new areas. First cellar hole looked unbelievable, pasture walls everywhere, about 3/4 mile into woods, but produced only a button and some oxknobs. With little time left in the day hit another cellarhole and found this 1809 400 reis from Portugal in the first 5 minutes. It's basically the same size as a 4 reale, it's silver but I didn't clean it. Interesting coin, it was a headscratcher when i pulled it. Apparanetly it was a coin being worn on a necklace. It was as you'd expect on the safari, a solid 38, about 8 inches deep, as with most silver coins and large cents the safari will scream on targets like this at 8-10 inches. Sensitivity 19, custom coin mode.
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1809 400 reis
- Thread starter The Fog
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If they had it on a coin belt I's like to find the rest of that belt! Maybe a belly dancer 
They drilled holes in coins for a number of reasons, on a string and sewed to clothing so they didn't lose them, to be worn as jewelry, some coppers will have a hole in the center that was used as a whizzer (childs toy), some even used old copper pennies as tags for their livestock. Since this was a large silver coin I'd have to imagine it was either worn as jewelry or used to hold in place on a wire or string so they didn't lose it.... which obviously didn't work!
They drilled holes in coins for a number of reasons, on a string and sewed to clothing so they didn't lose them, to be worn as jewelry, some coppers will have a hole in the center that was used as a whizzer (childs toy), some even used old copper pennies as tags for their livestock. Since this was a large silver coin I'd have to imagine it was either worn as jewelry or used to hold in place on a wire or string so they didn't lose it.... which obviously didn't work!crazyjoe999
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I love it! That is so great. I have never done a cellar hole yet because of all the bushes and stuff...and there is usually a ton of metal debris. Not to mention those pesky no trespassing signs. I don't know how you do it. But I am determined to try this year. Thanks for the encouragement!
Crazy joe I cannot tell you how many times i've done research and driven looong distances to other towns, states, etc only to get their and see the dreaded posted sign.... it's a bummer. I know where there are many beautiful sites that would make for a great day of detecting if it weren't for those dam orange signs.
Bushes shouldn't stop you, you gotta get in there, and every cellar hole has a TON of iron and junk, that's just what you have to deal with. It's a rare occasion that you can detect in and around the cellar hole, unless you've got a sniper coil. The stock coil on the safari won't let you get in all that junk, the machine just nulls out. and if you can make sense of all those tones in all metal mode god bless you, It would be quicker to just dig and sift the whole place! 99 percent of my finds are on the periphery of the site, some 20-50 yards away, once I'm confident I've pounded that out I wander amongst all the stone walls and such where the fields would be.
Bushes shouldn't stop you, you gotta get in there, and every cellar hole has a TON of iron and junk, that's just what you have to deal with. It's a rare occasion that you can detect in and around the cellar hole, unless you've got a sniper coil. The stock coil on the safari won't let you get in all that junk, the machine just nulls out. and if you can make sense of all those tones in all metal mode god bless you, It would be quicker to just dig and sift the whole place! 99 percent of my finds are on the periphery of the site, some 20-50 yards away, once I'm confident I've pounded that out I wander amongst all the stone walls and such where the fields would be.