First Seated Quarter

[Larry--IndianaHVAC]

I've been detecting 30 years and have found seated dimes and half dimes but this is my first quarter! I was using the new excelerator 4x7 DD and this little coil is hot. The ground at this old school was extremely dry as we haven't had but a half inch of rain in two months. The area was infested with iron and I decided to run in iron mask -6. I was running in the digital mode when I got the 00-31 and 00-29 for a reading. It finally locked on the 29 and I dug. I cut about a 4 inch plug out and saw a nail sticking straight up. At first I thought this was my only target, as I pulled it out and re-checked the hole, I got a 29 again. Removing some more dirt there was the 1877 quarter! That darn nail was standing right on the coin as you can still see where it stained the coin. The Explorer is certainly an amazing machine and so is the little coil. The coil was great at seperation and for pinpointing, the target would drop off the front of the coil.
My next find would be a 18k wedding band which was 4 inches deep along an old foundation. It doesn't look like gold in the picture but after cleaning the tar off of it, it finally looks like gold. I was running in smart screen with my old coin and gold program together when I found it.
Tomorrow I will be heading there again as my time was cut short having to head to work. I just hope there are some more seated's lurking there waiting to come out of their graves!!

 

[Jim C (Mich)]

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[Dan MI]

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[Buzzz (Southern Tier NY)]

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[beaver]

Hi.Can i ask what is your old coin and gold program. I am trying to hunt for the coins and gold/jewelry around parks,old homes,cellar holes and old drive in cinemas. As you can say I am 2 weeks old user.I found 2 rings on fac settings and $5.25 change.Thanks.

 

[WessThompson]

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[Robin (MI)]

Cool Coin! The Explorer does great things sometimes - hard to believe things. We just have to listen to what it is telling us.

Check out my similar nail/coin story on my old web site. It is still up on my old ISP, not sure how long though.

HH - Robin

http://www.parrett.net/%7Erbeachy/detecting_graphics/finds8.html

 

[Larry--IndianaHVAC]

Beaver,
First thing, if you don't own Andy's book, Mastering the Explorer, you need to get a copy. Building a coin program is as simple as getting the coins you wish to find and going into the learn mode and get the explorer to learn the coins. Then save this program in one of the s programs. Do the same with all the gold rings you can find. You can turn both programs on at the same time or run seperate. Mind you, with the gold one you will still dig some pulltabs but a lot less of them. It just helps running a program like this at times in high trash. Listning to eveything in iron mask "on" mode can get annoying at times and the break on the ears can be a relief.