Made it out to the old school with the Cortes again, last time I was there I spent 4 hours and no keepers except a few old pennies. Spent about 2 hours, Thought I would slow it down a bit and work the area (3acres) a little harder, dig some iffy signals and listen for deeper targets. Dug a small handful of trash, a bottle cap, deep washer, a few nails that were in the side of the plug.
1st digable signal was the 45 dime sitting tilted in the plug- ok signal but not a very good ID, kept bouncing into the high #'s though. Next the sterling ring @ 3" came in nice, Id at 64-66, fairly solid, if it wasn't bent up I'm sure it would have stayed at a more solid ID, The #'s came is solid enough I was pretty sure it was gonna be a ring, wasn't sure if it would be copper or silver.
Next, dug a couple pennies, one being masked by a piece of iron. Good signal/ good Id one way and zilch the other way.
Got the usual jump Nickel signal, turns out it was my 3rd tombac nickel this year at 4-5" down. Next up the 1940 dime, deepest coin today. Smooth, clean sound, I had the hole cleaned out down to 6" and no target, went a couple more inches down and it was out.
Last the 1960 dime not deep, 4" maybe, good signal, perfect id.
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I've been showing and telling about these tombac nickels and how they look look a loony, but when I show it to people they are somewhat unimpressed with all the red/brown patina. So I cleaned one up a bit. Pretty sure they were made of brass, not worth anything, but still neat to find.
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1st digable signal was the 45 dime sitting tilted in the plug- ok signal but not a very good ID, kept bouncing into the high #'s though. Next the sterling ring @ 3" came in nice, Id at 64-66, fairly solid, if it wasn't bent up I'm sure it would have stayed at a more solid ID, The #'s came is solid enough I was pretty sure it was gonna be a ring, wasn't sure if it would be copper or silver.
Next, dug a couple pennies, one being masked by a piece of iron. Good signal/ good Id one way and zilch the other way.
Got the usual jump Nickel signal, turns out it was my 3rd tombac nickel this year at 4-5" down. Next up the 1940 dime, deepest coin today. Smooth, clean sound, I had the hole cleaned out down to 6" and no target, went a couple more inches down and it was out.
Last the 1960 dime not deep, 4" maybe, good signal, perfect id.
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I've been showing and telling about these tombac nickels and how they look look a loony, but when I show it to people they are somewhat unimpressed with all the red/brown patina. So I cleaned one up a bit. Pretty sure they were made of brass, not worth anything, but still neat to find.
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