This year has been really slow due to the drought but I finally got to go detecting today since it rained a few days ago. I hunted a park a couple blocks from my house and found this indian head cent. Its been too long since I found me an indian! The park I hunted has been hunted out so hard over the years but I credit the D2 for sniffing this IH cent out. I deliberately picked a really trashy spot with lots of bottle caps and melted metal probably from burn barrels in the past and burning aluminum and tin cans. Its tough detecting and my ears were hurting from all the noise but it paid off. The D2 can search right up against junk or between 2 pieces of junk and still get deep with such a narrow window to peek through between the junk.
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Long time, no indians...till now!
- Thread starter Aarong81
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It was only about 3-4 inches deep but the tough part is finding the signal in the midst of a ton of junk. There is litterally too much trash to try to dig it all, the preferred method. Its a public park and I try not to make it obvious that I have been digging in it. If I owned the property or it was farmland I would dig every signal over +0 just to get all the goodies out. My next best method is to have an edge over the previous hunters and get a glimpse of a signal next to the trash and dig high tones. I know there is still goodies under all that trash though.
PS: Don't be discouraged with your D2 when your VDI's are a bit high, its normal for the D2. Remember, its big advantage is seeing targets in tough areas, trash, ect, that are normally nulled out because of the trash or mineralization. It will have you digging bottle caps that normally show up as +50 with the 950. They show up as a zinc and even copper penny so don't be shocked when you dig them. If your in a good area you REALLY need to dig bottle cap signals anyways. Its just a bit of a bummer when a good spot is littered with them.
PS: Don't be discouraged with your D2 when your VDI's are a bit high, its normal for the D2. Remember, its big advantage is seeing targets in tough areas, trash, ect, that are normally nulled out because of the trash or mineralization. It will have you digging bottle caps that normally show up as +50 with the 950. They show up as a zinc and even copper penny so don't be shocked when you dig them. If your in a good area you REALLY need to dig bottle cap signals anyways. Its just a bit of a bummer when a good spot is littered with them.
Wow, I thought it would have been deeper. You just never know til you dig. Thanks for the tips on the D2. I have been using the 6 x 10 at our old homeplace. There is a small cement goldfish pond that was built in the 20's if I remember correctly. The original house burned back in the mid to late 60's and I am not sure when it was built. Anyway, my parents bought the land and built about right over the top of where the original home was. The pond is about 25 ft. in front of the house and it has August 1923 I believe scratched into the concrete. I have only went around the pond a couple of times and so far got 1 wheatie and a memorial. I am finding lots of melted metal from the old house. It's pretty bad and tough to tell what I am going to get once I dig. Even with a good solid coin signal it ends up being more melted junk. Kind of disheartening. lol. I have a shooter coil that I used some too, trying to get between the junk. May be my only option to dig all the junk. I am anxious to see how the D2 does there. Sounds like I may be digging even more junk though. Sorry for the long post, I'm not trying to hijack your thread.
not hijacking, thats what the thread is here for. I've found a few spots with a lot of melted metal too and its always a let down when you get your hopes up on a +79 signal or so just to dig another glob of aluminum. Your right about digging all the junk, rememebr you only have to dig the junk once then the ground should be pretty clean. Those loud signals from the modern junk makes it impossible to hear deep signals EVEN when the signal is NOT nulled out from junk. Imagine 3 targets within 12 inches of each other and the two outter targets are really loud melted pop cans and the middle target is a sweet but faint high tone of a deep Merc. Its easy to understand why they get missed in high trash public parks but if you don't mind stirring up some dirt you can get rid of those shallow targets and that faint Merc will stand out much better. I've cherry picked one of my favorite hunting spots of ALL the easy targets and then BLAM, I seemed to run out of stuff to dig. Then I got desperate for a place to hunt and went back there MANY times since and keep finding old goodies that were there all along but my mind was fixed on those loud shallow targets that I didn't pay any attention to the faint signals. Those are the ones that should get you excited! It should be common practice to dig junk, just for the very reason of getting it out of your hunting spot. Sure, detectors are designed to disc junk but they are all fooled when a good target is wrapped in it too. The D2 is good for areas where you cannot ethically dig all the junk or you just choose not to. But it can give you a high tone from a target that would NOT give a good signal with, say, the 950 coil. That I swear by. I've dug a few great targets with the D2 that my 950 coil has been over multiple times without making me stop to dig......The 950 was a victom of nulling and I never knew the goodie was there. So whether I dig ALL the junk or not, the D2 recovered a few goodies that would otherwise still be in the ground.
Thanks Nancy.
I soaked it in Virgin Olive Oil over night and placed it in the palm of my hand still saturated with the oil and sprinkled a small amount of baking soda on it, which does not dilute in oil, and slowly circled the slightly gritty soda around on the coin for a few minutes. The soda does not react with copper or the green tarnish, its just used as a bleaching agent and provides really small grit in the oil to assist in removing the hard dirt build up. It was only dabbed off with paper towel afterwards so it has oil on it which is good to leave there when you put it away. I have soaked these IH cents for weeks in the past for really bad build up. The natural green tarnish is never affected.
I soaked it in Virgin Olive Oil over night and placed it in the palm of my hand still saturated with the oil and sprinkled a small amount of baking soda on it, which does not dilute in oil, and slowly circled the slightly gritty soda around on the coin for a few minutes. The soda does not react with copper or the green tarnish, its just used as a bleaching agent and provides really small grit in the oil to assist in removing the hard dirt build up. It was only dabbed off with paper towel afterwards so it has oil on it which is good to leave there when you put it away. I have soaked these IH cents for weeks in the past for really bad build up. The natural green tarnish is never affected.
Lodihunter
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A buddy of mine got one of these in change last week!!! I'm still looking for one! 
Click the image below to view an animated GIF of the coin before and after cleaning. The heavy buildup on it coroded into the green tarnish and affected the coins surface (seen as pitting) but removing the buildup helps clarify parts of the details such as the date. Its debatable whether its better before or after cleaning and I wouldn't clean a coin that has potential of being worth very much. What do you think, does this coin look better before or after cleaning?? And more specifically, which condition would you prefer it before or after?
Hmm, it is gone now but I'll upload another one or two in hopes at least one will work.
I don't think they will be animated until you click them. It shows before/after olive oil and soda cleaning. The pictures of the coin in my hand are also AFTER the olive oil / soda cleaning in a bit different light.
Also, I REALLY believe the after pictures here mis-represent the COLOR of the cleaned coin. I am now uploading a video on Youtube that I just now took of the coin that will show the original GREEN tarnsih that I promised was not lost in the cleaning process. If the video completes uploading in time I'll edit it onto this post, if not it will be in the next comment down.
http://i.imgur.com/CJsml.gif
I don't think they will be animated until you click them. It shows before/after olive oil and soda cleaning. The pictures of the coin in my hand are also AFTER the olive oil / soda cleaning in a bit different light.
Also, I REALLY believe the after pictures here mis-represent the COLOR of the cleaned coin. I am now uploading a video on Youtube that I just now took of the coin that will show the original GREEN tarnsih that I promised was not lost in the cleaning process. If the video completes uploading in time I'll edit it onto this post, if not it will be in the next comment down.