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Oh Darn

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banditicey

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Was at an old site with many past successful finds including my only 1907 Barber Half and a friends 1600 Reale
and lately have been wanting to find something really good because its been a long time
Put my detector on and placed the coil on the ground and it started screaming 12:46-12:48 at 7 inches
I just KNEW that this was IT and IT was going to be great and out came a CLAD QUARTER :eek:

Anyone else have this happen? probably everyone
 
I have had some of those screamers!! Drives ya crazy!!!!!
Bunker
 
When it locks on 12-45 it usually are one of two things; either a coin or a screw cap...
 
One of the most frustrating things..absolutely. I hit a random field a few weeks ago, came up with numerous OLD buttons, a sword buckle of sorts( posted on here somewhere ) and my oldest large cent. couple of feet away i get a hit about 7 or 8 inches( about same depth as older finds)..SCREAMING half or large cent...turns out to be clad quarter. yeah it happens, probably some fill dirt ..the question is is the fill dirt old or the original dirt?? ..just keep diggin I would say:twodetecting:
 
I blame "gophers" ! The little rascals are always moving dirt around. I have found mercury dimes on the surface, just bend down and pick them up and just a few feet away is a modern coin.
 
When I get that 12-45 scream, it's usually my alarm at 4:45 and realize it was just a dream.....
 
terrywl said:
aluminum slag melted into round blob has done it many times and on every machine I own.
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Funny you should say that. I dug something I thought was good and pulled up some non magnetic thing that looked like welding slag. It must be aluminum because it is silver looking and melted looking, light weight, and non magnetic.

At first I thought maybe it was some kind of lighting strike phenomenon but after closer inspection it looked like it was man made.
 
I have found this 'aluminum slag'? all over the fresh water beaches here in North Idaho and I
get a good coin signal from it. Very discouraging to think your digging for a coin and finding this
crud. I don't know where it comes from.
 
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