Tim LeBlanc
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Hope this worked. Indianhead penny
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MarkCZ
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Your upload worked, but if you don't mind Let me help a little!
I found that when I want to take a REAL closeup picture of something I can hold a magnifying glass up in front of the object and shoot the picture through that. The better the magnifying glass and the more power the glass the better the picture. The picture below was taken that way.
The picture is a slice of a penny that I found detecting an old closed down golf course.
Oh, and the camera wasn't nothing to brag about it's just a little compact digital that I got free for a service award (Sony DSC-W130).
Mark
I found that when I want to take a REAL closeup picture of something I can hold a magnifying glass up in front of the object and shoot the picture through that. The better the magnifying glass and the more power the glass the better the picture. The picture below was taken that way.
The picture is a slice of a penny that I found detecting an old closed down golf course.
Oh, and the camera wasn't nothing to brag about it's just a little compact digital that I got free for a service award (Sony DSC-W130).
Mark
Tim LeBlanc
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thank you for the very good tip........i took the pic with my cell phone.. well any way i tried to post this earlier its a 1890 Indian head penny that i dug out of my girlfriends backyard ..her house was built in the 1920's her neighbors home was built in the 1880's..there is a very old cemetery behind the house .I've been digging all sorts of neat things here and she doesn't mind..there is an overwhelming amount of targets in her yard.I've dug up quarters ,dimes,nickles,pennies and a bunch of Wheaties......no silver yet..the penny was a good 8 to 9 inches. also dug up a tiny button right after the IH.HH....Tim
MarkCZ
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LOL! well when I posted the picture of the penny I was really just thinking about the how I did the picture and just trying to help another forum member better their picture.mudpuppy said:
But,
The closed golf course was for a number of years an Icon, it was a country club that was pretty grand in its day (1929-to around 2007). The golf course was in use up until maybe three or four years ago, now its wasted. Kids has gone in and ripped the building apart, sprayed painted stuff, the greens has gone to weeds.
Anyway, my two brothers when they were young caddied there for a source of spending money, my middle brother played golf there even after becoming an adult.
My middle brother spent more time on and around the golf course than did my older brother (forum member WV62). So after the gulf course closed my middle brother had the idea of some places at the gulf course to metal detect (key places) like,
#1 Tee box.
Below the caddy bench (which was a bench behind the the proshop, kind-a out of sight, they really wanted to rent golf carts, not caddies)
The #1 tee box (the tee off position for the first hole) was where I found the clipped piece of the penny. Like the other poster stated its looks to have been clipped or cut by one of the mowers that they used for the golf course, my brothers has stated that at the golf course they Did Not Use just regular mowers. The penny looks to be clean cut more like a sissor type of mower cut it rather than just hit and chopped buy a rotating blade??
Very little good targets came out of the #1 tee box, only a couple of wheats and a couple of Zinc's, the clipped penny was a copper penny and I found it with my early version (Free) Fisher 1266, it was a good hit to have been so small and the best I remember it was around 4" deep.
We did hunt the hill below the caddy bench and did pretty good, I found several wheat pennies, one silver dime and one silver quarter. The problem in this area was TRASH! the area was over the hill which was just woods and wasn't a maintained area. The caddies tossed ALL their trash there, layers of it.
The good thing is that nothing was deep, wheats could be found just by stirring the surface of the dirt. Nothing was more than 2 or 3" under the ground, but the area was VERY small, like 15' X 25' (or so)
The best place we found started out at the frenge area around the # 9 green. The course was an 18 hole course and the #9 came back in to just a few yards behind the club house, well there is a traffic area from the green to the club house (foot traffic) that area turned out to be really a lot of fun, every dig was a wheat penny or even two in the same hole. Me and my brother was finding and digging them as fast as we could. The area was well seeded we them, not a lot of silver (I found one silver dime). It was gitting late and starting to get dark, but that time was sure exciting, we knew that every wheat put us one coin closer to silver!
Now there is a problem, kids on four wheelers has caused either the owners or the realtor to put Large Metal "No Trespassing" signs. The culf course is set in the middle of a pretty nice communty (quite) and I think what happened is the home owners around the gulf course was complaining about all the noise, and racing around that the kids were doing on the course. I don't think that the signs were put up for any other reason, but no trespassing is No Trespassing!
So, the way it stands right now I don't know if we'll be able to get back there and hunt anymore??
That traffic area off the #9 green is a place were I would really like to get back to with my 1266! (I had my F2 that day because of the little coil) but the traffic area didn't have ANY trash! If I could hit it with the 1266 I could pretty much dig everything (some of those wheats were goetting pretty deep)
Oh, well that's how it goes sometimes.
Mark
MarkCZ
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Tim LeBlanc said:
It sounds like you have found the PERFECT place to metal detect, my brother has hunted cemeteries before! some people don't like the idea of it, but if your coin hunting your only hunting a few inches deep so your really not digging deep enough to hurt anything, or dig anybody up! So people will hunt them but they'll stay off the graves and hunt the traffic area's around them, but in any case some cemeteries are huntable!
Mark