I got up this morning very early to beat the heat and try to get a couple of hours of detecting in before the 90 plus temps hit. I have not been out since I found my oldest coin at my favorite park. I started swinging my detector at shortly after 6am and I started up the steep hill leading to the trashy pavilion where I last detected. I got a scratchy high tone(I hunt in three tone) that sounded way better from one direction than the other. I was at 8 inches and the target was slightly off center in the hole. I got a short, but large rusty bolt and was somewhat bummed that it was not a coin. When I re-checked the hole, I touched something else with my pinpointer and when I had it in my hand, it looked like a rusty washer. When I turned it over I saw silver and a figure of a head. 1904 Barber quarter that was shiny on one side and covered with rust on the other side. I don't do pictures, but a picture would paint a thousand words if you saw the difference between the two sides. I worked my way up the hill to the pavilion and was able to detect for about an hour and a half before the sun cleared the trees and the sweat started pouring. I found two wheat pennies in this trash pit and even with the 11 inch dd coil, I was able to isolate them in the heavy trash. I have not got a small coil yet and when I do, it will be the perfect spot to try it. In this trashy spot, I concentrate more on the repeatable tones then the numbers. I do dig loads of rusty bottle caps, but so be it. When I am in more open, less trashy spots, I can lift the coil and watch the numbers to see it they change enough to signal rusty bottle caps. In this heavy trash, I cannot use this trick with the 11 inch coil. One fabulous detector!
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F5 Continues to Amaze!
- Thread starter RLOH
- Start date
coin pirate
Active member
Good info, thanks, I recently bought a DD 8.5x12.5 CORS coil, haven't used it much, but did notice it is very susceptible to EMI near power lines, have you had that issue with you 11"DD?
still looking 52
Well-known member
Nice find on that barber quarter, that's the kind of find that get the juices flowing. I also run the f5 and run the 11" DD coil. Recently I had a silver find with two silver dimes in the same hole and they were tarnished up real bad, must be some type of acid in the ground to cause that issue.