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Let me answer a couple of questions posted to me. I am hunting in a hay field on the exact spot where a large barn burned down in 1915-1920. For the last 25yrs that I know, this particular field is heavily manured and is used just for hay. (beautiful farm land not a rock anywhere). I think all that manure really screwed me in the end. When I got the penny up I didnot know what it was, and I did not what to damage it. So I waited till I could give it a rinse. I got just enough oxidation off to see it was a wheatie, and I could just about read the year. As I said it looked like 1910. Rather than scratch it, because the green was not coming off easy I put it in a cup of water overnight. YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS! When I took that penny out of the water and gave it a slight rub, the bulk of the oxidation came off and Abraham Lincoln disapeared, and the wheat on the back side is gone also! I am left with a piece of copper thinner than a thin dime. The two surfaces were eaten away. A drop of oil is the only way you can tell it was a penny. Unnnnnbelievable!I think that so much manure for so many years just ate it. This coin had to be fairly new when it first hit the ground.
You guys told me in earlier post's about "halo". I think the soil around that coin had so much oxidation from the coin deteriorating that it enabled me to wiggle up a locked 180. I barely moved that 10" coil side to side to wiggle it up. And I did it from 3 positions around the target, in and out of all metal. I was dead center over that target when I dug the hole. I guess the important thing is that I found the target. Right?
Anyway, Without you guys I would still be trying to figure out how to read the manual. As always, Thank you guys very much for all your help!
Gene
You guys told me in earlier post's about "halo". I think the soil around that coin had so much oxidation from the coin deteriorating that it enabled me to wiggle up a locked 180. I barely moved that 10" coil side to side to wiggle it up. And I did it from 3 positions around the target, in and out of all metal. I was dead center over that target when I dug the hole. I guess the important thing is that I found the target. Right?
Anyway, Without you guys I would still be trying to figure out how to read the manual. As always, Thank you guys very much for all your help!
Gene