beepsilver
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Dear Naps, I'm sorry I was such a jerk to you when I was a kid!. It was hot today and I felt like sleeping after sweating for two hours with only clad and the gold filled/sterling ring. I was just about to be lulled to sleep by the background chatter in my headphones when I got another high tone--bouncing around in the mid 90s. Nothing at this place was deeper than 5 inches and I'd been hearing these high tones off and on for over two hours. The targets usually turned out to be various flat rusty metals, a few rusted caps, a few new ones and even some clad quarters (I'm not used to such high TDIs with White's detectors). I was also digging an unusual amount of pennies and dimes...I had been digging a lot and was just about to go into cruise mode and get pretty choosy about what I dig; glad I didn't! So here was another high tone...I switched down to 8K then 4K to see if the TDIs would drop instead of go up--they did. I checked the xy screen again--straight lines and they filled up more than half the screen--shallowish so I wasn't expecting anything different. I was in 12Khz because the chatter wouldn't relent in 4K or 8K. I was running +3GB at 79. Disc 10/full tones. React 3/Silencer 0. IV: 0. AR 4 (could have dropped this some since nothing was deep, but the noise was keeping me awake). Sens 82/TX 2. I dug my hole without caution because...hey, more rusty metal right? Wrong. I dug the hole and couldn't pinpoint it immediately. I finally found it on the wall nearest to the right of the hole. Hmm, I took another chunk of dirt out with the lesche and then I saw silver and was immediately angry at myself for being careless. It's a 1901S with a couple of scratches (mine) on the reverse. So it was a bittersweet find...and a lesson to me in the future. If it had been flat I'd have been fine, but since it was straight up and down, it pinpointed off for me and...well, I've already told the story. Here's the photos...I have the ring soaking; there's a little corrosion because it's only gold filled and not solid 10K. The 1903 injun was an easy shallow find near some gardening...I always check shallow finds carefully around plants. Thanks for looking! Without further ado....
