mapper65
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Hi everyone, about two weeks ago I was driving through a local park and small block building at the edge of the woods caught my eye. About 30 yards to the right of it I could see where the roof of an old picnic shelter had collapsed onto the concrete slab that made up the base of the shelter. There was no parking near this wooded area being that the shelter and it's surroundings had not been maintained for what appears to be a decent number of years.
Today we headed for the park and found the nearest parking to this closed down grove. After a pretty short hike through the woods and we were at the site. I was using my 10.5 MF coil which is my least favorite of my two large coils. I probably have 24 hours or more on this coil but I just seem to find more with the HF coil. Every now and then I tell myself that I'm going to use this coil for the entire day. Today was one of those days.
After 10 minutes of hunting I finally had my first signal that I felt I should dig. I dug down about 3 inches and saw a little bit of silver but wasn't sure that I had a coin. If it was a coin I was expecting it to be a silver quarter. The coin felt heavy and a little bigger than a quarter. I lightly pushed some of the dirt off of it and could see the liberty bell. I was in disbelief that this was a half dollar.
It ended up being a 1955 Franklin Half! I was so excited because I've never found a half before. We spent about another hour or so there and I ended up finding a pocket spill with a 67 quarter, two dimes from the 90's and a penny. Those were the only other coins that we found in the amount of time that we had spent there. This area was almost a little too grown over to detect so I would expect that we won't go back until fall unless I can make some time to go back this week.
Today we headed for the park and found the nearest parking to this closed down grove. After a pretty short hike through the woods and we were at the site. I was using my 10.5 MF coil which is my least favorite of my two large coils. I probably have 24 hours or more on this coil but I just seem to find more with the HF coil. Every now and then I tell myself that I'm going to use this coil for the entire day. Today was one of those days.
After 10 minutes of hunting I finally had my first signal that I felt I should dig. I dug down about 3 inches and saw a little bit of silver but wasn't sure that I had a coin. If it was a coin I was expecting it to be a silver quarter. The coin felt heavy and a little bigger than a quarter. I lightly pushed some of the dirt off of it and could see the liberty bell. I was in disbelief that this was a half dollar.
It ended up being a 1955 Franklin Half! I was so excited because I've never found a half before. We spent about another hour or so there and I ended up finding a pocket spill with a 67 quarter, two dimes from the 90's and a penny. Those were the only other coins that we found in the amount of time that we had spent there. This area was almost a little too grown over to detect so I would expect that we won't go back until fall unless I can make some time to go back this week.
