A twelve cent day

[Ray in WA]

Hit an old school yard today and got a '53 Rosie at around 7". Chalk up another one for the Safari! Like I've been saying...they've been coming one at a time and that's just fine. Cool

This time I was detecting in all metal mode, trying to listen for that "silver" tone, and sure enough when I got over the dime I knew I had silver. Can't tell you how, I just knew by the tone it was silver. I thought I was going to dig up a silver earring, charm or small ring, but to my surprise the Rosie came out.

Just a few minutes later I also got a somewhat dateless IH, the obverse of which is extremely worn but the reverse not so much. The only number I can make out is a six (look hard in the photo, you'll see it). The placement of the six on the obverse puts it in the 1860s, my oldest US coin.

Also got a 40's wheatie and a nice old button down about 7" as well.

The school itself first met in a loaned barn in the late 1880s, and the first one room schoolhouse was built in 1890. That original school has since burned and another one was built which burned too. In the 1930s a new school was built and this one is still in use today.

I've detected this school about three times now, and this was the first time I've found anything of significance, and you can bet I will be going back as it just might be the place to get my second goal for the year out of the way...a seated dime. thumbsup

HH,

Ray

 

[ngrelic]

Nice coins Ray.

 

[zeekeys]

Ray I am glad you post. Those are some mighty nice finds.
In the going on the 4th summer that I have been back to detecting I have not found a IH penny. I always liked finding those little guys. Maybe with the Safari and the deep holes I am digging those little guys will start to appear again. Thanks again Ray and keep those posts coming.....Z

 

[Onus]

Ray, looks like you and the Safari are getting along swell. That's good to hear. I was just getting the hang of it when I had a run of health problems and haven't been able to get out much at all. I had began deciphering out the different sounds and was finding some items that I could almost always guess what they were before I dug them up. The Safari is not a difficult machine to use, just gets some getting use to after using other brands for so long. Glad to hear you are making some neat finds. Onus

 

[Ray in WA]

Thanks folks! Yes, I'm really enjoying the Safari now that I have a couple months of practice behind it. I am now up to seven silver coins with the Safari, and that is doing pretty good for here in the state of Washington. Still haven't found a really "deep" silver yet (9-12") but I'm sure that will come with time and more practice.

I've been trying hard not to use the display as much for silver identification as I am trying to identify it by ear using ferrous tones. Of course, once I identified the "silver tone" of the Rosie yesterday by ear I just had to look at the display, and sure enough it showed +38. This value will show for a few different items, from clad dimes and quarters to certain memorial cents and even some aluminum, but the tone for silver is slightly different. And even on silver the value can jump around between +36/37/38 depending on a coin's depth and how it is situated in the ground. This was the first time I was able to identify silver by ear. I'm hoping I can do it again.

I learned after doing some research that the IH penny is an 1864 "L". One can tell by the point on the bottom of the bust just above the number 6. All other IH pennies are rounded there rather than pointed.

Also, I am learning that the best mode to detect is all metal so long as the area is not terribly trashy. You will hear and hit more "good" targets in this mode and deeper too. The button was found using the low trash density setting (and in all metal mode), but I get a bit impatient with this setting as one has to swing slower due to a slower processing speed.

Ray

 

[chuck ky]

does the safari give tone and numerical i.d. in all-metal. i know the sovereign doesn't but some machines do. thanks.

 

[Ray in WA]

In the factory all-metal mode the Safari provides a ferrous tone and two types of target ID: (1) a numerical value, and (2) a target composition ID bar graph.

Ray

 

[ngrelic]

And yes, it gives tone I.D., in all modes. The number of tones seems to be endless.