I had a chance to get out yesterday. Last weekend was the first I had been out in at least a month. I was getting burned out on detecting. I think the time off has done me alot of good in re-focusing my mind on listening more intently to the Explorer... 
I was originally intent on going to the park where I found the 1907D Barber quarter last weekend. I went by and there were way too many kids there for my liking. So, down the road went to a old school site that dates back to 1860 and is now private property. As I recall the school was rebuilt in 1910 or so. So, some of the dirt was more than likely moved around then. Amazingly, the first coin up was a 1855 large cent... 
I was pretty happy as I've always thought there was a chance of large cent being there. The owner stopped by and talked a minute. I am glad he did... he told me exactly where the propertly line was. I was hunting well short of the property line erroring on the side of not detecting on someone else's property. To make a long story short... I ended with the LC, 2 mercs, 1 rosie, 1 IH and a pile of wheaties.... and a clad Kennedy half that had been hit by a lawnmower. You can see in the my picture that the large cent was touching a piece of iron. The coin beside the large cent is indeed a wheatie. I threw it in the picture to show how much rust was caked on it. I initially thought it was a round piece of iron until I flipped it over in my hand and seen it was a wheatie. I've just begun my 6th year using the Explorer. Seeing the Explorer pull coins like that out is truely amazing even after the thousands of hours I have on it. Setting were pretty sedate... 18 semi auto, gain at 6 and IM-13.... and slow as a turtle. Thanks for looking!
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and last week's 1907D Barber quarter since the post was deleted.
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-Bill
I was originally intent on going to the park where I found the 1907D Barber quarter last weekend. I went by and there were way too many kids there for my liking. So, down the road went to a old school site that dates back to 1860 and is now private property. As I recall the school was rebuilt in 1910 or so. So, some of the dirt was more than likely moved around then. Amazingly, the first coin up was a 1855 large cent... I was pretty happy as I've always thought there was a chance of large cent being there. The owner stopped by and talked a minute. I am glad he did... he told me exactly where the propertly line was. I was hunting well short of the property line erroring on the side of not detecting on someone else's property. To make a long story short... I ended with the LC, 2 mercs, 1 rosie, 1 IH and a pile of wheaties.... and a clad Kennedy half that had been hit by a lawnmower. You can see in the my picture that the large cent was touching a piece of iron. The coin beside the large cent is indeed a wheatie. I threw it in the picture to show how much rust was caked on it. I initially thought it was a round piece of iron until I flipped it over in my hand and seen it was a wheatie. I've just begun my 6th year using the Explorer. Seeing the Explorer pull coins like that out is truely amazing even after the thousands of hours I have on it. Setting were pretty sedate... 18 semi auto, gain at 6 and IM-13.... and slow as a turtle. Thanks for looking![attachment 31433 P7290010a.jpg]
and last week's 1907D Barber quarter since the post was deleted.
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-Bill
