My 1st hammered coin!

[Smithfire]

A great day for me this Sunday!

Out on the club dig in Oxfordshire (UK) farmland. Had changed from a 10.5" DD 7.5K to the 18.75K 10"x5"......1st time I've changed to the higher frequency since owning a X-terra 70.

Wandered over the 1st field.....not a single good signal. On the way to the next field I dug a small grey pewter button. Better than nothing.

I'd walked about 50 yards into the next field when I got a nice signal, around the 24-26 mark, I dig a good sized square clod and turn it over, and I see what looks like another button the same as the 1st. So I pick it up expecting to find a loop.....no loop. At that moment I see the writing and realise I've found my 1st medievil hammered coin! Punch the air and shout "YES". What a rush!.

Its an Elizabeth 1st half groat minted in London 1591-2.

I like to think it was the high frquency coil that sniffed it out but I guess I'll never be certain?

Clive

 

[Jack Beam]

Great find!!

 

[Delaware Bill]

NICE FIND

 

[Lizardchaser]

Congrats!! You broke the ice may your next beep be a hoard

 

[Gaz]

.....well done Clive....great coin!!!

Nah mate.......you would of found that with the 10.5" 7.5Khz DD coil......my mate has found load of hammies with that coil.

Gaz.

 

[Terra1959]

Congrats Clive

That a beauty mate
may there be many more

T59

 

[jeepcj5]

WOOHOO awesome find wish we had the history here!!! Congratz buddy

 

[TURNMASTER]

That is cool I would to dig a coin that old. Medieval coins must be cool to dig up. Probably akin to Mayan or Aztec relics in Mexico and CA.

That is where I would like to spend some tine beeping.

Jeff

 

[7centsworth]

That is a good one.

 

[Digger]

Nice find Clive. I can only dream of finding coins of that era. As to your comment about the higher frequency coil, I agree. Although the coins I find are not nearly the vintage of those in your part of the world, I've found my 6-inch DD at 18.75 to be a silver coin killer! HH Randy

 

[Smithfire]

Thanks Digger

The 18.75khz 5x10" DD coil really made an instant impression on me for being good on the thin hammered coins we get here in the UK. Think I'll keep it on for a while to see how my finds differ from those I found at 7.5khz.

Clive

 

[Snoopy36]

I have found most of my silver coins with the 5x10 too. I guess it's because that's what I have on the most

I recently went over a spot on a park with my Sovereign GT. This same spot I thought was hunted out by the x-terra both 5x10 and 10.5 MF DD. It's about 10sqm in size. My last two hunts there with the xterra yielded nothing.

This time though with the sovereign I pulled out SEVEN silver coins (including one large silver coin) and two large copper coins in the same area! It's amazing how different frequencies will find different things. So yes play with different frequency coils.

Cheers
Snoop

 

[Bavaria Mike]

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