Hi, all:
Been revisiting some of my old haunts with my new E-Trac and have been pleasantly surprised at how much I had left behind with other detectors. Yesterday I finished hunting the yard in front of an old school about two blocks from my house. Needless to say, I've pounded it hard over the years. The front of the building has a 75' by 200' yard, which I gridded of and hunted thourghly. I had done the same thing last Spring with another high end detector. I know you can miss items, but I know I wasn't THAT sloppy with my coverage. I dug an additional 45 coins I had missed three months ago. Almost all were 2"-4" deep, so they weren't lost since my last hunt. Today, I went to a small town (pop.500) that has a small town square where they hold city fairs and get-togethers. Last Summer I had covered it completely with the same top end machine with a 6" eliptical coil, due to the trash. Today I hunted about half of it again and found the items pictured. A number of clad pennies and dimes, along with four wheat pennies (1911,1923, 1927D, and 1930D), and a 1897 barber dime. The old coins were four to five inches deep. My first dig was the pin that says "United States Fuel Administration". Never having heard of it, I Googled it. Turns out it was for coal production, and was only in service from 1917-19. Was set up during World War I. Anyway, I've been consistantly finding coins that I had missed previously. I can only attribute it to the E-Tracs ability to find treasures in trash. BTW, this was my first silver coin in a "worked out area". I'm looking forward to more, as time goes along, and I learn this machine.
Thanks for lookin' and keep on diggin'
jimmyk in Missouri
Been revisiting some of my old haunts with my new E-Trac and have been pleasantly surprised at how much I had left behind with other detectors. Yesterday I finished hunting the yard in front of an old school about two blocks from my house. Needless to say, I've pounded it hard over the years. The front of the building has a 75' by 200' yard, which I gridded of and hunted thourghly. I had done the same thing last Spring with another high end detector. I know you can miss items, but I know I wasn't THAT sloppy with my coverage. I dug an additional 45 coins I had missed three months ago. Almost all were 2"-4" deep, so they weren't lost since my last hunt. Today, I went to a small town (pop.500) that has a small town square where they hold city fairs and get-togethers. Last Summer I had covered it completely with the same top end machine with a 6" eliptical coil, due to the trash. Today I hunted about half of it again and found the items pictured. A number of clad pennies and dimes, along with four wheat pennies (1911,1923, 1927D, and 1930D), and a 1897 barber dime. The old coins were four to five inches deep. My first dig was the pin that says "United States Fuel Administration". Never having heard of it, I Googled it. Turns out it was for coal production, and was only in service from 1917-19. Was set up during World War I. Anyway, I've been consistantly finding coins that I had missed previously. I can only attribute it to the E-Tracs ability to find treasures in trash. BTW, this was my first silver coin in a "worked out area". I'm looking forward to more, as time goes along, and I learn this machine.
Thanks for lookin' and keep on diggin'
jimmyk in Missouri
This was the trashiest site I've hunted, so far. I loaded Andy Sabisch's coin program and have been using it, as well. Has less discrimination built into it. I was a little gunshy going into this spot. Will try using it when I hunt the other half of the city square.