king-ghidorah
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I was just thumbing through the "Redbook" and I saw the 20
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Anyone here ever nail a 20
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king-ghidorah
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http://www.coinfacts.com/twenty_cents/twenty_cents.html
Chris(SoCenWI)
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I'm pretty sure Mike Moutray found one, think some one found one while hunting with Ric(IL). We are getting into ancient history here but they are occasionally found.
Chris
Chris
One member of our club found one dated 1875-s at a construction site here in Rochester MN in the mid eighties. He didn't know it wasn't a seated quarter until he brought it to the club meeting! Lots of gawking at the coin that night....
No one has found one since...
Knipper
No one has found one since...
Knipper
Jesse W. McComas
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I found One in 1975 just outside of Ft. Knox Ky., while I was stationed there in the Army. I was searching a house sit just off post. It was a 1875-S in Good condition. I still have it. That is the only one I have found in 40 years of detecting. HH...Jesse.
http://www.detection.com:80/minelab/cstories.htm (not sure the website will work, you may have to copy and paste the URL to get it to work)
Here is the text from the site, photo of Mike and the coin on that site.
Don
A Find Of A Lifetime
Michael K - Ohio, USA
I've had several detectors over the years and was getting to the point of were I wanted to upgrade to a new detector. So I started to research all the new models out there and talked with several experienced detectorists from each group. Well the Minelab Explorer had them all beat! So I went out and purchased one it was an Explorer 2.
After reading the Manual and having talked to a friend that had an Explorer for 3 years. He told me to put the smallest coil I had on it and adjust the threshold tone down to were it was just audible, also to keep it in factory preset mode for at least 20 hours and run it in auto sensitivity. Next he told me to go and detect in my local school play grounds in the mulch for those 20 hours. Reason being it was easy digging, not much trash to deal with right off the bat and he
told me that I needed to learn what a good coin sounded like.
So after 20 hours I was able to tell yea if it was a quarter, nickel, dime or penny and I actually found a gold ring there also. So I was ready for the next level which Randy suggested that I run it in Iron Mask -10 manual sensitivity. Wow there was a lot of tones after switching to that but when I came across a coin I knew it because I had dug so many coins before hand that it was kind an easy.
In about 3 months I had already doubled my finds from the previous year needless to say I was a very happy camper. Up till now I had not really dug any coins deeper than 6" and I new that this machine would go deeper. I had talked to lots of guys on the forums which helped somewhat, but nothing replaced hunting with some seasoned Explorer users! I went over to Illinois and hunted with Ric, Golddigger, and TC. These guys were digging Indians and seated coins at depths of 10 to 12 inches. They tried to explain to me over the phone and through emails what a deep coin sounds like but that is something that can't be put into words or writing. It's something you just have to hear!
So by the time I had gotten to the park to meet these guys they already had a dozen little flags all over this park that they marked as deep targets that could have been anything from Indians to deep silver! So after chatting with these guys for a few minutes Golddigger checked out my setup and made a few changes and we headed out to check them out. Let me tell yea they don't sound anything like a shallow coin would have sounded! Matter of fact they sounded kinda nasty and it didn't sound like a coin should have sounded to me! So we dug all these targets but none of them were coins but they were targets that you have to dig if you wanna dig old coins! Some were little pieces of copper wire to small pieces of lead, none of the targets were Iron and some had Iron next to them and I was amazed how the Explorer seen right through the Iron target to what we thought was a good
target below it.
So after digging all these targets and some more talk about deep targets we headed out to see what we all could dig up. After about 30 mins of detecting I came across a target that was about 6-7" deep and sounded nasty it was a broken up sound and the cursor jumped on the screen. It had the tone of silver but also nulled out also. I used a few techniques that Golddigger taught me. Like once I get a good sound he suggested that I turn about 20 degrees and check it again and do this all the way around. Once I have a spot marked on the ground were I think the target should be he suggested to move your coil away from there and switch to pin point mode and if it pin points small like a coin would and it pin points right were I thought it was while sweeping in Disc mode.
He said dig it!!! So I dropped down and began to cut my plug and at the bottom of the hole was this silver seated coin along with a big nasty square nail lying right on top of the coin also. So I threw out a big Yell 'woohoooo' I
found a flying eagle! Well everyone came running over and Ric said you had better not have found a flying eagle in his park just joking and they all looked at it and said do you know what you have found? I said yea my first seated coin! Golddigger said don't rub it let me see it so I handed it to him and he poured soapy water over it to get the dirt off of it and he said you have found a 20 cent piece. He said I've been detecting 30 years and have never found one of these and He commented on that it is most peoples gold coin!!!
I plan on getting it slabbed and he figured it would probably grade in around MS-63 with Environmental Damage! If I wanted to sell it I have been offered $1500.00 from a coin collector! So had I wanted to sell it I could have paid for my machine already!!! Since then I have dug many coin firsts for me and it gets better and better. My deepest coin is 11" at a old park and right at 24" at the beach.
There is no better machine on the market I'm convinced of that and I will always own an Explorer.
Here is the text from the site, photo of Mike and the coin on that site.
Don
A Find Of A Lifetime
Michael K - Ohio, USA
I've had several detectors over the years and was getting to the point of were I wanted to upgrade to a new detector. So I started to research all the new models out there and talked with several experienced detectorists from each group. Well the Minelab Explorer had them all beat! So I went out and purchased one it was an Explorer 2.
After reading the Manual and having talked to a friend that had an Explorer for 3 years. He told me to put the smallest coil I had on it and adjust the threshold tone down to were it was just audible, also to keep it in factory preset mode for at least 20 hours and run it in auto sensitivity. Next he told me to go and detect in my local school play grounds in the mulch for those 20 hours. Reason being it was easy digging, not much trash to deal with right off the bat and he
told me that I needed to learn what a good coin sounded like.
So after 20 hours I was able to tell yea if it was a quarter, nickel, dime or penny and I actually found a gold ring there also. So I was ready for the next level which Randy suggested that I run it in Iron Mask -10 manual sensitivity. Wow there was a lot of tones after switching to that but when I came across a coin I knew it because I had dug so many coins before hand that it was kind an easy.
In about 3 months I had already doubled my finds from the previous year needless to say I was a very happy camper. Up till now I had not really dug any coins deeper than 6" and I new that this machine would go deeper. I had talked to lots of guys on the forums which helped somewhat, but nothing replaced hunting with some seasoned Explorer users! I went over to Illinois and hunted with Ric, Golddigger, and TC. These guys were digging Indians and seated coins at depths of 10 to 12 inches. They tried to explain to me over the phone and through emails what a deep coin sounds like but that is something that can't be put into words or writing. It's something you just have to hear!
So by the time I had gotten to the park to meet these guys they already had a dozen little flags all over this park that they marked as deep targets that could have been anything from Indians to deep silver! So after chatting with these guys for a few minutes Golddigger checked out my setup and made a few changes and we headed out to check them out. Let me tell yea they don't sound anything like a shallow coin would have sounded! Matter of fact they sounded kinda nasty and it didn't sound like a coin should have sounded to me! So we dug all these targets but none of them were coins but they were targets that you have to dig if you wanna dig old coins! Some were little pieces of copper wire to small pieces of lead, none of the targets were Iron and some had Iron next to them and I was amazed how the Explorer seen right through the Iron target to what we thought was a good
target below it.
So after digging all these targets and some more talk about deep targets we headed out to see what we all could dig up. After about 30 mins of detecting I came across a target that was about 6-7" deep and sounded nasty it was a broken up sound and the cursor jumped on the screen. It had the tone of silver but also nulled out also. I used a few techniques that Golddigger taught me. Like once I get a good sound he suggested that I turn about 20 degrees and check it again and do this all the way around. Once I have a spot marked on the ground were I think the target should be he suggested to move your coil away from there and switch to pin point mode and if it pin points small like a coin would and it pin points right were I thought it was while sweeping in Disc mode.
He said dig it!!! So I dropped down and began to cut my plug and at the bottom of the hole was this silver seated coin along with a big nasty square nail lying right on top of the coin also. So I threw out a big Yell 'woohoooo' I
found a flying eagle! Well everyone came running over and Ric said you had better not have found a flying eagle in his park just joking and they all looked at it and said do you know what you have found? I said yea my first seated coin! Golddigger said don't rub it let me see it so I handed it to him and he poured soapy water over it to get the dirt off of it and he said you have found a 20 cent piece. He said I've been detecting 30 years and have never found one of these and He commented on that it is most peoples gold coin!!!
I plan on getting it slabbed and he figured it would probably grade in around MS-63 with Environmental Damage! If I wanted to sell it I have been offered $1500.00 from a coin collector! So had I wanted to sell it I could have paid for my machine already!!! Since then I have dug many coin firsts for me and it gets better and better. My deepest coin is 11" at a old park and right at 24" at the beach.
There is no better machine on the market I'm convinced of that and I will always own an Explorer.
mattockman
New member
Man, I enjoyed that story! Thank's for sharing Don.....and Mike!....I did pick up one mistake made by many......it is to threshold volume you turn down to just audiable,....not threshold tone.....2 diff. things......Just a little FYI....sorry I had my proof reader goggles on again......hehe.....just ignor me if I get technical 