We're back to hot and dry and I am hard pressed to find an area with new targets, old targets, and SHADE. But I had a site in mind that has had a school since the turn of the century - it's seen a lot of detecting activity, but sees daily use so I figured that I'd have plenty of clad targets.
Well, the clad started showing up pretty fast. Some quarters in a cluster, dimes, a couple of nickles, and the usual heaps of pennies were all found under shadows of the shade tree. I ventured out to a green spot and hit a couple of bottle caps that were trying to fool me into digging them. But next to the caps was a similar hit that wasn't changing in the TID value as a I lifted the coil, so I dug. My plug covered the first 2.5" of soil - under it was 2"+ of gravel and right under the gravel I found my target. Up came a lovely Boy Scout token from 1910:
Reverse:
Yeah, that is a swastika, but in 1910 it merely represented good luck here in the USA. The reverse must have sat next to the gravel, hence the damage.
Here is a link to some shots of an undug version of the token: http://www.sageventure.com/coins/version4.html
The token was blanketed pretty heavily by iron / crap targets and given that is about the same diameter as a half-dollar, I'd qualify it as a Deus-centric find - something that the fast recovery speed earned me. I am pretty sure that I've personally put a coil over it twice without finding it. I also got over to an area that I recently covered with another detector and recovered 3 coins too close to trash that it had missed. The striking thing is that these aren't iffy, maybe recoveries - they are usually as plain as day.
I am still tweaking my easy to use Deus program. I've been using some field programs from UK hunters for comparative purposes, but I don't have the trash density or the .25gr hammered silver coins to worry about, so fast, fun, and friendly is what I want from the Deus.
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Well, the clad started showing up pretty fast. Some quarters in a cluster, dimes, a couple of nickles, and the usual heaps of pennies were all found under shadows of the shade tree. I ventured out to a green spot and hit a couple of bottle caps that were trying to fool me into digging them. But next to the caps was a similar hit that wasn't changing in the TID value as a I lifted the coil, so I dug. My plug covered the first 2.5" of soil - under it was 2"+ of gravel and right under the gravel I found my target. Up came a lovely Boy Scout token from 1910:
Reverse:
Yeah, that is a swastika, but in 1910 it merely represented good luck here in the USA. The reverse must have sat next to the gravel, hence the damage.
Here is a link to some shots of an undug version of the token: http://www.sageventure.com/coins/version4.html
The token was blanketed pretty heavily by iron / crap targets and given that is about the same diameter as a half-dollar, I'd qualify it as a Deus-centric find - something that the fast recovery speed earned me. I am pretty sure that I've personally put a coil over it twice without finding it. I also got over to an area that I recently covered with another detector and recovered 3 coins too close to trash that it had missed. The striking thing is that these aren't iffy, maybe recoveries - they are usually as plain as day.
I am still tweaking my easy to use Deus program. I've been using some field programs from UK hunters for comparative purposes, but I don't have the trash density or the .25gr hammered silver coins to worry about, so fast, fun, and friendly is what I want from the Deus.
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The ground here is as hard as a brick! It almost takes all the fun out of coinshooting!