Chris(SoCenWI)
Well-known member
Seeing I just posted my first 2015 finds I figured I had better finish up the last of 2014 finds that I never seemed to find time to take a picture.
Usually I post on the Minelab Explorer forum but figure everyone there checks this forum out also. Yes/no?
Now that I am ancient coot and need reading glasses badly there are coins that come out of the ground that I can't identify. No longer even try the last couple of years, which is probably good because I'm not rubbing the coin trying to get a date and mint mark and causing damage. Most coins can guess at but these fooled me until I got home.
The first one is an LC I found last December after we had a brief warm up that thawed the ground enough after a cold November.
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It had the right diameter for an LC but was so thin I thought perhaps Bank of Upper Canada coin or something else foreign.
Only LC that I have dug that couldn't get a date on.
The second coin was a trick coin; wheat penny machined into a buffalo nickel. No matter how far I held it from my eyes I couldn't figure it out.
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This came from an interesting yard; normally I don't dig shallow clad coin signals, but I always dig some marginal ones and see what they are. Well, here all the marginals turned out to be wheaties. I kept digging shallower and shallower signals and all were wheats. One of the signals I "dug" was a coin 3 inches above my coil, it hadn't even hit the ground yet and was still a wheat. I think I dug a couple of dozen wheats with no clad. Some yards are the opposite, hugely deep signals that turn out to be zilcons.
Chris
Usually I post on the Minelab Explorer forum but figure everyone there checks this forum out also. Yes/no?
Now that I am ancient coot and need reading glasses badly there are coins that come out of the ground that I can't identify. No longer even try the last couple of years, which is probably good because I'm not rubbing the coin trying to get a date and mint mark and causing damage. Most coins can guess at but these fooled me until I got home.
The first one is an LC I found last December after we had a brief warm up that thawed the ground enough after a cold November.
[attachment 309403 March152015016.JPG]
[attachment 309404 March152015017.JPG]]
It had the right diameter for an LC but was so thin I thought perhaps Bank of Upper Canada coin or something else foreign.
Only LC that I have dug that couldn't get a date on.
The second coin was a trick coin; wheat penny machined into a buffalo nickel. No matter how far I held it from my eyes I couldn't figure it out.
[attachment 309405 March152015018.JPG]
[attachment 309406 March152015021.JPG]
This came from an interesting yard; normally I don't dig shallow clad coin signals, but I always dig some marginal ones and see what they are. Well, here all the marginals turned out to be wheaties. I kept digging shallower and shallower signals and all were wheats. One of the signals I "dug" was a coin 3 inches above my coil, it hadn't even hit the ground yet and was still a wheat. I think I dug a couple of dozen wheats with no clad. Some yards are the opposite, hugely deep signals that turn out to be zilcons.
Chris
