mapper65
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Yesterday my Mom & I met up with our friend MaynardG at local park that the three of us have hunted multiple times. This was our first trip to this park with the digger coils. In the past I had found an 1899 Barber quarter and a merc, my brother, Hotrod53 had found a few mercs and MaynardG's friend found an 1800's silver dollar. This is one of those parks that you can say has been hunted hard. I've been there at least 3 times, Hotrod53 and MaynardG have been there probably 6 or 7 times each. Many of these visits have been for 4 hours or so per person.
Within 10 minutes MaynardG pulled up a really nice employee ID badge from a now defunct steel company, probably from the 30's or 40's. This was in interesting find because the ID badge looked like it had something attached to it and sure enough, in the same hole he found a key that you could tell was connected to the ID badge. A short time after that I found a really deep penny that we think was possibly an indian or maybe a wheat. A short time later I had a 38-42 signal and about 4" down i pulled up a nickel. it was obvious to me that this was not a Jefferson nickel and after a quick couple of rubs of the coin it ended up being a 1910 V nickel. In the last month and a half this will be my 3rd V nickel. These 3 V nickels are the only V nickels that I've found since I started detecting and they have all been found with the digger coil. They've all ID'd 38-42 in the ground and 12 when air tested.
My Mom ended up finding a 1938 mercury dime and a short time later I found a 1926 merc. All 3 of us found a small handful of clad besides these coins and MaynardG found an interesting car wash token.
What's really interesting about this site and impressive about the digger coil is that when I found the 1899 Barber quarter last year it was with my 10.5 MF coil. Within a 15' radius of the barber quarter is where I found the V Nickel and the merc with the digger coil. The day that I found the Barber quarter I grid searched this area with both 10.5" coils and my 6" HF coil. I mean I was over this area back and forth, left and right and diagonally with all three of those coils. It's really saying something for the digger coil that I was able to find these two notable coins along with a few others in this same area which was probably about 20'x40'.
When I got home I used my brass coin brush on the penny that I thought was an indian or a wheat and it was so worn that no recognizable features of the coin were visible.
Within 10 minutes MaynardG pulled up a really nice employee ID badge from a now defunct steel company, probably from the 30's or 40's. This was in interesting find because the ID badge looked like it had something attached to it and sure enough, in the same hole he found a key that you could tell was connected to the ID badge. A short time after that I found a really deep penny that we think was possibly an indian or maybe a wheat. A short time later I had a 38-42 signal and about 4" down i pulled up a nickel. it was obvious to me that this was not a Jefferson nickel and after a quick couple of rubs of the coin it ended up being a 1910 V nickel. In the last month and a half this will be my 3rd V nickel. These 3 V nickels are the only V nickels that I've found since I started detecting and they have all been found with the digger coil. They've all ID'd 38-42 in the ground and 12 when air tested.
My Mom ended up finding a 1938 mercury dime and a short time later I found a 1926 merc. All 3 of us found a small handful of clad besides these coins and MaynardG found an interesting car wash token.
What's really interesting about this site and impressive about the digger coil is that when I found the 1899 Barber quarter last year it was with my 10.5 MF coil. Within a 15' radius of the barber quarter is where I found the V Nickel and the merc with the digger coil. The day that I found the Barber quarter I grid searched this area with both 10.5" coils and my 6" HF coil. I mean I was over this area back and forth, left and right and diagonally with all three of those coils. It's really saying something for the digger coil that I was able to find these two notable coins along with a few others in this same area which was probably about 20'x40'.
When I got home I used my brass coin brush on the penny that I thought was an indian or a wheat and it was so worn that no recognizable features of the coin were visible.