On top of an iron pipe

[JMC]

There is nothing all that special about this wheat penny. It's a 1955D long buried. What is unusual is where I found it. I got a solid hit scanning with my Vaquero in the backyard of the house behind us. Almost as old there are always weird iron chunks coming out of that piece of ground. The unit sounded off as a decent hard coin hit. When I dug down and used the pin pointer it went nuts. The signal was hard and almost all over the hole. I rechecked with Vaquero and got a much more localized signal. So I dug out about 9 inches of soil into a pile on plastic next to the hole. Kept checking and finally the ground signal was gone. The pin pointer however loved the hole. What I found was that the coin was sitting directly over an old iron pipe. The Vaquero was able to stay focused on the coin in spite of the big hunk of iron in the hole. Pretty cool.

 

[BarberBill]

What were your settings?
BB

 

[JMC]

I got the hit before the nickel setting and then thumbed the knob past tab to check to see if it was a coin. Sensitivity was at 8.

 

[kaolinwasher]

good hit one that one

 

[mudpuppy]

Thats really something there JMC! Great post and Tesoro testimony...lots of masked targets out there a fellow has to think, in fact, that penny would have never been found under those circumstances by nearly all guys and nearly any other rig sweeping a coil over it, the big iron pipe would have either nulled it completely, or skewed the signal so much that a fellow couldnt get a bead on it .....thats a REAL trophy..congratulations and thanks for the post!
Mud

 

[metalfun]

Sounds like you are getting better and better with the Vaq.I carried mine out for about an hour maiden voyage yesterday and will post my finds later.Nothing special on first hunt but I'm learning a new machine.Alot deeper machine than I've ever used.Great job on the penny HH

 

[tabman]

Nice going! I've dug up plenty of nails that were on top of or beside coin targets.

tabman