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Second large cent in two weeks...

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Nick A

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After 19 years of finding none, now I have two large cents! No special site or anything, just my local park. How about that? Still digging around someone else's recent holes, obviously I have nothing to worry about. :detecting:

Back at the park again, digging iffy, terrible signals in the COLD wind. Kept turning up wheats, so kept going. Then I got an odd signal something-22ish but it sounded better than a pull tab. So I dug, pulled out a pull-tab tail. Shrugged, closed the hole and swept over it again. Now a few inches away, I got a 1-33 on the E-Trac and it was deepish. Well, 33 should be an Indian head, or maybe a wheat. So re-dig I did. Holy smokes... another large cent at about 8-9" deep! Totally different area of the park from where I dug the other one. Anyhow, not two seconds after I dig the large cent, the batteries die. So I walk back to the car to switch them out and then my buddy Dave calls to tell me about his day and see what's up for the weekend ahead. He tells me about his nice find, and I casually mention that I just dug a large cent. :rolleyes:

Kept going after that, and got a 1925-S Mercury dime, also very deep and a bad signal. More wheats and I was trying for an Indian head to have a penny grand slam, but no such luck. I came close though with a 1909 wheat. The large cent is an 1844, holed, but with great detail.

Closing in on 300 silver for the year, it's gonna be tough, but I think I can make it. Fifteen more...
 
Nick, I am rooting for you to hit 300 silver. I wonder why someone pounded a hole through that Large cent? It doesn't appear to be in the best spot for a necklace. It has already been noted the hole appears to be from an old square nail. So it was done a very long time ago. Must be a story behind it. Congrats on the Large cent, the Wheats and the Merc. Very nice finds.
 
Howdy Nick, congrats on the copper and the silver count. I'm definately rootin for ya. My question is can you find some of the iffy signals like you mention above and put them on by video. Don't know if you are into that but I am still learnin the heavenly etrac. I have seen the previously posted vid by gibsondan (I think). Lord knows I have gone over some of those signals on that curve we call learnin.

Tanks for your time and good luck to ya.
 
I don't know where you hunt but thats a long dry spell for coppers.Up here in the northeast they are not common place but not rare.And still any day with a LC is a good day.Congrats to you on your finds.
 
Haven't been into video, and certainly wouldn't try it in this cold weather! I'm digging things that have some peeps of high tone in them, but it breaks up. I'm ignoring any low tone, and focusing on anything coming in CO 30 or better and sometimes down into the 20s. The signals repeat from 90 degrees and poinpoint relatively cleanly. Some signals do not register on the ID at all, so I am going by sound alone on those. I am also watching the depth meter, and especially digging if it is iffy and deep. Part of what makes this possible is that this area has been hunted hard by others, and by me. There are no easy or good signals left, so I'm picking and choosing out of what remains. It's a lot of swinging, and not a lot of digging. As good as videos might be, at least for me, there's no comparison to just getting out there and detecting to learn the machine. Of course, you're talking to someone who does not own a TV, so while video may work for some, it's obviously not my thing.
 
Awesome Nick
 
When I dig those 35 -46 or 1-33 it's junk, but if it has a somewhat consistent FE in the 8 to 16 range and occasional 35 bounce and also has that solid CO it's a copper with a halo. Evan
 
My first year out with my DFX I found a 1803 large cent. 3 years later with my V3 I found her sister 1808 large cent. Now I wonder what I will find with my new E-Trac next year at that spot. I can't weight for that E-Trac to get here. I just orderd it today and I have my chair at the windo weighting for UPS. "HAY HUN IS IT HEAR YET" NOPE What is take him so long :confused:
I am going to need find out what that means 35 -46 or 1-33. ??????

Eagle 1
 
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