Today I hunted a rural recreation area that was built in the early 50's. It is an area that was established by a local college to be used by the employees of the school for annual picnics and special occasions. It is about five acres of open field with several picnic shelters. I started by hunting in the open field area so I could stay away from the trashy ground around the shelters. The area was clean enough that I could run the F75 in the Motion All Metal Mode. After finding several early 60's pennys, I had a signal that was reading a solid 78 with a full bars on the confidence meter. Pinpointing showed a depth of 7 inches. It seemed to me that it was a clad quarter signal. After digging down the full length of the Lesch digger I turned the plug over and saw the 1944 Washington Quarter stuck to the bottom of the plug. Then I ran the pinpointer around the bottom of the hole and got another signal . I removed a little more dirt and saw the 1953 Washington Quarter. The last signal in the hole was the War Nickel with a Mercury dime stuck to it. I found one more Mercury dime in the area along with about twenty mid 60's pennys and clad dimes. I didn't find any Wheats,which was surprising to me. I hunted the whole time with the F75 in All Metal and there was very little foil or pull tabs.The grass was getting tall around the hunting area so i need to go back when it is shorter. .....Thanks for looking
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Love to see finds like that, nice work.