Beautiful day here in Tn. Took my wife out to breakfast and since she mentioned she had some errands to run and I should go detecting, I did just that.
After thinking hard about going back to the 'bank", I decided to give it a rest and go to our old fairgrounds and keep the larger 11" coil on just for kicks. This place is so full of iron, decaying iron and decades of crap in general, typically we hunt it with small DD coils. Its a spot that usually isn't all that kind to coins and anymore, yields few targets. Old or new.
Within 20 minutes of getting started, my first 2 coin targets were wheat cents, so wasn't going to get entirely skunked on old coin varieties. A little bit later I dug another wheatie and then just a few feet away got a faint bleed through kind of signal showing 8" on the depth meter and a bit bouncy. Dug down about 6-7" and found a nail in the clod. Re-checked the hole with the pin pointer and got a nice vibration. That turned out to be a 1940s Mercury dime. It must have been fairly close to the nail as you can see some rust marks on the dime. Not to bad with the 11" coil on. Ended the hunt with what I think are 2 more wheat cents and a pretty nice green patina 1919 Buffalo nickel
The 2nd shot shows the kind of junk that abounds on the site along with this mornings other finds. The last shot includes the junk jewelry from yesterday as well as the 1937 Buffalo and 1943p war nickel. What you don't see is a larger sterling ear ring hoop that didn't make it home with me yesterday. It wouldn't fit in my water bottle so must have missed my apron pocket when stowing it away. Maybe it will still be there on our next trip to the spot. Have a great weekend everyone. HH jim tn
After thinking hard about going back to the 'bank", I decided to give it a rest and go to our old fairgrounds and keep the larger 11" coil on just for kicks. This place is so full of iron, decaying iron and decades of crap in general, typically we hunt it with small DD coils. Its a spot that usually isn't all that kind to coins and anymore, yields few targets. Old or new.
Within 20 minutes of getting started, my first 2 coin targets were wheat cents, so wasn't going to get entirely skunked on old coin varieties. A little bit later I dug another wheatie and then just a few feet away got a faint bleed through kind of signal showing 8" on the depth meter and a bit bouncy. Dug down about 6-7" and found a nail in the clod. Re-checked the hole with the pin pointer and got a nice vibration. That turned out to be a 1940s Mercury dime. It must have been fairly close to the nail as you can see some rust marks on the dime. Not to bad with the 11" coil on. Ended the hunt with what I think are 2 more wheat cents and a pretty nice green patina 1919 Buffalo nickel
The 2nd shot shows the kind of junk that abounds on the site along with this mornings other finds. The last shot includes the junk jewelry from yesterday as well as the 1937 Buffalo and 1943p war nickel. What you don't see is a larger sterling ear ring hoop that didn't make it home with me yesterday. It wouldn't fit in my water bottle so must have missed my apron pocket when stowing it away. Maybe it will still be there on our next trip to the spot. Have a great weekend everyone. HH jim tn