mapper65
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Hi everyone, some of you may remember reading my previous post "A Good Day Of Detecting"
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,1549604
Today we went back to this same site for the 3rd and more than likely final time. This time my brother hotrod53 was able to spend the day detecting with us. Being that we've been to this location two other times prior to today, we were really there to see if there was anything left and hopefully to find some silver.
We've found a large number of pennies and nickels that were in the silver era but as luck would have it, we still didn't find one silver coin not even a war nickel. I'm very puzzled by this. We know that place has never been detected because we were given permission by a guy that been involved with the property since 1944 and we are the first group of people that he's allowed on the property to detect. This place for lack of better terms was polluted with coins. Even today I was surprised what we were able to find but I really think that after today we've got the place hunted out. I know they say a place is really never hunted out but we have a combine total of 35 hours between the 3 of us hunting this property and it was really starting to be slim picking near the end of the day.
On my first two go rounds I used the 10.5" MF coin but today I switched to the 10.5" HF. I usually find more coins with the HF coils after going over an area well with the MF coil. Today was no exception.
My previous record for the most number of coins at one location had been 204 coins. Today, after 3 trips to this location, I've reached a new personal record of 331 coins at one location. To give you an idea of the area that we covered, Google Earth shows it as 100 yards x 47 yards which is just shy of the dimensions of a football field.
The total number of combined coins that we have found between the three of us at this location was 471 coins. Below is a breakdown of each of our finds. hotrod53 had an unfair disadvantage being that me and our Mom had been here twice before but he still managed to do very well today finding 40 coins. Today I added 66 coins to my total and Mom added another 14 to hers. There were only a small handful of pocket spills so the majority of these coins were dug one for one.
hotrod53 (40)
mom (100)
me (331)
My breakdown of the 331 coins were as follows:
21 Quarters
80 Dimes
27 Nickels
203 Pennies (12 Wheats)
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,1549604
Today we went back to this same site for the 3rd and more than likely final time. This time my brother hotrod53 was able to spend the day detecting with us. Being that we've been to this location two other times prior to today, we were really there to see if there was anything left and hopefully to find some silver.
We've found a large number of pennies and nickels that were in the silver era but as luck would have it, we still didn't find one silver coin not even a war nickel. I'm very puzzled by this. We know that place has never been detected because we were given permission by a guy that been involved with the property since 1944 and we are the first group of people that he's allowed on the property to detect. This place for lack of better terms was polluted with coins. Even today I was surprised what we were able to find but I really think that after today we've got the place hunted out. I know they say a place is really never hunted out but we have a combine total of 35 hours between the 3 of us hunting this property and it was really starting to be slim picking near the end of the day.
On my first two go rounds I used the 10.5" MF coin but today I switched to the 10.5" HF. I usually find more coins with the HF coils after going over an area well with the MF coil. Today was no exception.
My previous record for the most number of coins at one location had been 204 coins. Today, after 3 trips to this location, I've reached a new personal record of 331 coins at one location. To give you an idea of the area that we covered, Google Earth shows it as 100 yards x 47 yards which is just shy of the dimensions of a football field.
The total number of combined coins that we have found between the three of us at this location was 471 coins. Below is a breakdown of each of our finds. hotrod53 had an unfair disadvantage being that me and our Mom had been here twice before but he still managed to do very well today finding 40 coins. Today I added 66 coins to my total and Mom added another 14 to hers. There were only a small handful of pocket spills so the majority of these coins were dug one for one.
hotrod53 (40)
mom (100)
me (331)
My breakdown of the 331 coins were as follows:
21 Quarters
80 Dimes
27 Nickels
203 Pennies (12 Wheats)