QUARTER FOUND

[Coin Rescue Inc]

Just wanted to show a recent find using the F75 and the oval coil.
My first silver in the Upper Peninsula Copper Country.
Hunting is not easy up there an it takes some immagination to come up with un touched spots.
This quater was found about 6" deep and sounded off in a normal manner with a repeatable singnal.

 

[still looking 52]

Rescue, that's a nice find. Seems like that silver is getting deeper and deeper as the years go by, 6" is about average depth for silver these days.

 

[Elton]

Did you do anything special in respects to hunting the area, or just detect, and hope like we all do for great finds like you found.
The F-75 is a very capable detector.

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Nice find CR. Silver quarters have eluded me this year.

Hunting Copper country do you get any float copper with the detector?

Only been up there a couple times and that was years ago before I started detecting.

Tom

 

[fjs440]

In the three years I have been doing MD, I have found many silver rings, but no old silver coins, just clads. Gold rings and silver coins have eluded me. Maybe some day I will find them.
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Fisher 1280-X w/8” Coil
Fisher F2 w/4”, 8” and NEL Hunter Coil
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[WV62]

The only thing wrong with that silver quarter is it is in your collection and not mine.

Congrats, nice find,

Ron in WV

 

[Coin Rescue Inc]

I used to live in the copper country and go back at least once a year.

Good coin spots were hunted out like everywhere else.

I find many chucks of native copper but most are left over pieces from the poor rock piles.

5% of the copper they found had silver mixed in with the copper- "Half Breeds". the copper and silver was side by side...deposited in different eras.

In the old days the miners pocketed the small silver. They justified this as scrap the owner did not pay him to find.

A chuck of copper about the size of a quarter will ring up like a quarter around 84-85. Smaller piece will be more like a dime.

The ground, if mixed with mine rock, can be too hot with small pieces so using too much power can provide too much info and noise. Sometime low power is best.

There are many you tube videos about find huge chunks of float copper. That would be nice but hard to transport a 40 ton rock. lol

Mine rock was crushed in stampers to sort out the copper so many areas have the grey or red sand from crushed rock. Due to the copper content many of these areas will not support vegetation. Copper is poison to plants.

I found some old tools tools over the years. Pretty excited to find a broken pick ax at a 1850 mining site. What stories could it tell.