GeorgeinSC
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Yesterday I went to a Soccer field complex where last week I was told that I could detect as long as I did not go on the field of play. So I worked a while in a spectator area when a young man showed up and told me that I was trespassing and to get off the property. I told him what had happened last week and he said that he was sorry but that his superiors did not want anyone detecting as someone had gone on the fields, Dug holes and did not fill them back in.
Since I was there and he had no objections to me working the areas where people park ( I was needing to dig something out of the dirt) I went to work on the parking areas just to dig some clad. My finds for the past couple of weeks have poor at best. I have driven 85 mi round trip to a beach to work it for four hours and come home with 35 cents and four zinc pennies.
I had dug a few dollars in clad and memorial pennies and was just about finished with the area when I got a Very nice signal on my Sovereign GT. The meter gave me a 180 reading which confirmed what I was hearing in the headphones. I knelt down and using the pin pointer I discovered that the target was too big to be anything but trash so I thought that I would use a probe and see if it was an crushed aluminum can. When I probed I hit Solid metal so I popped it out of the dirt. Much to my surprise when it came out of the dirt I saw Silver. My First Silver half dollar. Only the Second Half that I have ever found and the other one was a 72 Kennedy.
A 1945D Walking Liberty Half Dollar in an area where one would only expect to find a little bit of clad. I dug one more target and went home. Just when one least expects it the Detecting Gods quit frowning and smile.
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Since I was there and he had no objections to me working the areas where people park ( I was needing to dig something out of the dirt) I went to work on the parking areas just to dig some clad. My finds for the past couple of weeks have poor at best. I have driven 85 mi round trip to a beach to work it for four hours and come home with 35 cents and four zinc pennies.
I had dug a few dollars in clad and memorial pennies and was just about finished with the area when I got a Very nice signal on my Sovereign GT. The meter gave me a 180 reading which confirmed what I was hearing in the headphones. I knelt down and using the pin pointer I discovered that the target was too big to be anything but trash so I thought that I would use a probe and see if it was an crushed aluminum can. When I probed I hit Solid metal so I popped it out of the dirt. Much to my surprise when it came out of the dirt I saw Silver. My First Silver half dollar. Only the Second Half that I have ever found and the other one was a 72 Kennedy.
A 1945D Walking Liberty Half Dollar in an area where one would only expect to find a little bit of clad. I dug one more target and went home. Just when one least expects it the Detecting Gods quit frowning and smile.
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Great post about hunting that area that most would overlook...wonder how that old silver wound up there?
Amazing and such a great sport!