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There's a park that dates to the 1870's I've been hunting and have pulled many older coins from it. Interestingly I've only found one small 20' x 40' area that's productive (I think the rest of the park has been changed). Three trips ago there I thought it was done for silver, as it had been several trips since silver surfaced, but I still managed to find old wheaties and a few other interesting things, so I kept at it. Two trips ago the ground, which had always been moist on previous hunts, was bone dry. They say dry ground is optimal for hunting around iron as wet ground enhances the halo of large and small rusty iron, and I saw first hand what I was missing in wet ground as I dug several coins in the same hole as rusty nails. Unbelievably I pulled three mercs, two indian heads, and about ten early wheatbacks from the same spot in the course of an hour or so. I couldn't believe it.

Sunday I only had about an hour to hunt it, and my second target was a pristine 1912-S Barber dime :bouncy: It looks like an uncirculated drop, it's crisp and has much more detail then I could capture, looks like an easy AU50. Bummer it wasn't a key date :rolleyes:

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A few feet away from where I got the Barber I dug what I think may be my first love token :confused: When I first dug it I thought I had a normal trade token, but when I got it home and cleaned it up I saw that it was hand engraved. It's the exact same size as a nickel, which is exactly what I thought it was made of, but further cleaning reveals that it's actually copper. Any ideas on this one?

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I was running 99 sensitivity, zero disc and only digging targets that read at 6" or deeper. It was a bit noisy, but according to Dankowski, that combination provides the best audio and the ultimate unmasking capabilities.

I'm amazed that I keep finding coins at this park, I cover the same small area over and over, but for some reason each trip gives up goodies that I couldn't detect and/or hear on previous trips. It's peculiar, really makes me ponder how much stuff is missed due to the multitude of ever changing variables we face.

Thanks for looking,
Brian
 
Good finds Brian.......gotta try those settings........hh........Dan
 
Excellent digging Brian! Always found all my deepest coins in bone dry ground also no matter what machine I was using.

Hey, what were the rest of your settings? I run Disc 0/dE/Sense 90-99/Thresh 0-5/3H/and notch 1-2. If it's noisy I swtch to Program 2 ( an At setup) to quiet it down while I dig and pinpoint then back to Program 1 to hunt again. I stay clear of SL mode unless the ground is fairly clean and dry.
 
ElginTim said:
Excellent digging Brian! Always found all my deepest coins in bone dry ground also no matter what machine I was using.

Hey, what were the rest of your settings? I run Disc 0/dE/Sense 90-99/Thresh 0-5/3H/and notch 1-2. If it's noisy I swtch to Program 2 ( an At setup) to quiet it down while I dig and pinpoint then back to Program 1 to hunt again. I stay clear of SL mode unless the ground is fairly clean and dry.
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I was running the F75 LTD with boost mode (I never run anything but) disc 0, sens 99, nothing notched, 3 tones. It wasn't too noisy. Amazingly the dime was a nice clean 4-way repeatable hit at 8" deep in an area I've covered many times before. The token was more iffy, but with a little investigation finally gave a good 2-way repeatable hi-tone, I thought it might be another dime.

You must be running the F70 as there's no threshold in disc mode on the F75 and it doesn't have multiple programs. Interestingly in some regards the F70 offers more features. I believe the F70 SL mode is the same as the BP mode on the F75 LTD but they upgraded the microprocessor so that the LTD could be swept faster (had to go slow on the my F70 with SL mode), but what I really love about the F75 LTD in BP mode is that you can sweep fast OR as slow as you like. Many times I'll use a moderate sweep speed and when something sounds off, I'll go very slowly over it at multiple angles and can often bring an iffy signal up to a good sounding signal.
 
Thanks Brian, my bad, I thought you were using the F70 on those fine digs. I returned the giant SEF coil and am now deciding on whether to pop the refund on one of the smaller coils as I also have trashy areas where good coinage resides within the top 6 inches liberally mixed with stell bottlecaps and pulltabs. I'm leaning toward the elliptical over the 5" DD.

Any advice?
 
The elliptical might be a bit better on bottle caps than the 5" DD, BUT I felt that the DD was a bit deeper, and it's surgical in trash. Plus you'll be able to crank up the F70 a bit higher, and you'll be amazed at how deep that little 5" DD will go. The only problem with that coil is if feels like your trying to paint a jumbo jet with a Q-tip :rofl:

I wish they made the 8"x6" SEF coil for the Fishers, that seems like a great gap filler between the small fisher coils and the 11" DD. I know guys using them on their Minelabs and it's surgical, BUT would it be on the Fishers, who knows :shrug:
 
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