Deleon says, "Forget the stinking clad...."

[Topdecker]

I've got an hour long lunch break that usually lets me hunt 40-45 minutes. For the second day, I took the Deleon equipped with a cleansweep coil out onto a make-shift non-official soccer field. I managed .36 the previous day, but was nibbling around the edges.

Today I took the Deleon out into the more beat-up, heavily used portion of the field and was at .76 in clad when I got a really weak, broken hit that was all over the upper range - 68, 76, 95. 66, 83, 95. It kept hitting high-coin, I decided it give it a chance. I cut a 3" deep plug and flipped it out of the hole. Long story short, at 2.5 to 3" down, the Deleon scored me this:

It is my second half-dime, it is an 1857-o!

Well, I turned off the Deleon and blazed back to the office so I'd have time to get it posted AND because the next time I am out there I need to be running some deep hitting coils.

I am frankly amazed that the cleansweep was able to get this for me. It was an iffy hit, but clearly good enough to dig

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[Dancer]

Hardly anything around the edges, but plenty in the beat up muddy area in the middle. Somebody didn't want to get his feet muddy. Not much if anything left when he comes back.

 

[atomicscott]

Sweet!! Congrats! Just goes to show, if you are digging clad, you will be digging silver too (if it's there). Some people call certain machines 'clad hogs'. I think a better term would be 'coin hogs'.

 

[Topdecker]

I've gotten silver before, but nothing older than a merc. Shooting back to seat-vintage goodies was really unexpected - an excellent surprise

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[tabman]

Wow! You were lucky to get that half dime. A deeper coil for that area might turn up some more really good stuff.

tabman

 

[phinbolt]

Nice I am still hunting for my first but I know if it is out there the DeLeon will find it for me Good Job!

 

[GunnarMN]

that is a incredible find. somtimes we really get suprized, amazing

 

[Hombre]

Top,

...The New Orleans

 

[mudpuppy]

Yeah! Great find there Top! Especially with that bouncy signal, most would have passed that off as a crown cap or some bingo tog, or a hair barette .....
Mud

 

[hatpin]

Wow, a half dime would make my year.

 

[Matt_SC]

Nice find!!! Can't wait to see what else you pull outta that site.

 

[Topdecker]

So I went back to that field where I found the half dime. I came with some ground flags and used them to setup a search grid - I'd be lost without them .

I put a 15x12" SEF Butterfly on the Deleon and started working on that big, big field. I had 4 spare flags with me - once I dropped the 4 flags, I put the Deleon down and used the Golden to finish pin pointing the targets. It was a good system - I was able to recover targets with less frustration and I was able to get the big coil off of me enough so that my arm did not suffer.

Well, the Deleon might have said forget the clad, but the clad flipped us the bird and was totally absent today; I did not recover a single coin. But I did manage to keep the silver streak alive with this;

It is a very fine and delicate silver ring. It does not have a makers mark that I have found. I need to clean the reverse, but it would not surprise me if the ring is older than yesterday's half-dime.

Anyhow, the field is very, very thin pickings, but I can't really think of a reason to stop just yet. I did discover that there are a lot of carbon arrows in the ground - just haven't bother to dig one out.

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