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Site gives up 100th old coin in Stand up way!

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DirtFlipper

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Howdy,

I realized I had found a total of 91 old coins so far at the site I've been hunting this month, so I thought I'd go back today and see if I could crack 100. Turns out I could!

The first three oldies where Wheats, followed by a Merc. Then I got double Wheats from one signal. All right, six down, three to go. I got another Wheat, followed by a 58-D Wheat. Whew! just squeaked that one in. OK, I'm sitting at 99 and was looking for that 100th. I figured surely I could scrounge up one more Wheat, so I just kept it to a crawl in the general area of these finds. Finally, I caught a chirpy tone, but not real clean. After opening the plug, the signal didn't improve a whole lot with the probe, but there was definitely something in there. As I got a scoop for the drop cloth, I saw a flash of silver slip by! Looked like it might be bigger than a dime, so I held my breath and reached in to pull out a quarter. For the 100th coin, the site gave up a SLQ. Talk about celebrating in style! I got a big grin going on that one. Even though it turned out to be dateless, I was still happy to find it. I think if it had been a 1925 or later, the date would have survived, since the rest of the coin still has some detail left. Does have some tar or something left stuck on it, but I decided to just leave it alone.

Still had some time left, so I decided to just meander and see if there were any other spots hiding. Picked up one last Wheat for the day, then packed it in.

That puts me at 101 old coins from this one site this month, consisting of 71 Wheats, 13 Indian Heads, and 17 silver.

I did try for nickels again for awhile too. No such luck. I did find the coveted pull rings and stay tabs though. A special challenge with this place is that it is basically carpeted with iron on the bottom layer, then has more modern trash on top. When I hunt, I have the SE set up on Iron Mask 22, otherwise wide open, and even though I have a threshold tone, I'm searching pretty much in a constant null. The decent conductive signals punch through, but otherwise it's dead. One of these times I'm just going to keep recovering tabs until the nickels start to pop. There just has to be some good ones there. Might even dust off my MXT and go on a nickel hunt...

Thanks for looking!

HH,
DirtFlipper
 
Congratulations on the 100th old coin from that site.:thumbup:
The SLQ is a great find..even if it doesn't have a date.
Gold Nuggets :wiggle:
 
Outstanding, DF!! :clapping: Any SLQ, dated or no date, sure is a great site to see in your plug!!

I really love to hunt sites like yours....they just keep producing.

I see you said you're using IM 22 on your SE. I was using IM 22 for quite some time in the turf, and found plenty of deeper silvers/wheats/etc. in this mode. For the past year or so now, I have IM set at 27-28. I started noticing how the iron at some of the sites I was hunting was pulling the older coppers/silvers way over to the left side of the smartscreen, at FER 22, and sometimes even higher. Since hunting with IM 27-28, I have never gone back to the IM 22 setting. I prefer it at any site while hunting in Conduct sounds. I feel confident that I will still get those oldies/deepies hiding next to/around the iron, instead of just "nulling" right over them and missing them completely. It can happen while in IM 22 in some hunting spots. That little bit of extra open screen helped me to find some coppers/silvers, with higher Ferrous values that were laying in/around iron. I still dig very few pieces of iron at IM 27-28....about the same as I did in IM 22.

Keep working that spot...I want to see how many more over 101 you end up pulling from there!

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
 
Way to go! That spot sounds like a great one and it was fitting to get such a good coin for the 100th oldie. HH& hope you find at least 100 more at the site.
 
Wow what a site. Good finds dirtflipper.
 
what a way to get 100. wtg.
 
Nice going DF on that well stocked old site.:clapping: Too bad we all don't have a place like that to detect and better still to have it all to ourselves. GL & HH on your next trip back there. I'm sure there are some more old coins still waiting for you.

Eddie
 
100!!! Congratulations on a goal setting day!!! Thanks for the pictures and the story!

NebTrac
 
Great find!!!
 
Man, that is one productive site!!! Congratulations on the first 100+ oldies from there!:thumbup: And the SLQ for #100 makes it that much sweeter. Thanks for the story and pictures. Looking forward to seeing the next 100.
 
Thanks, all. I know others have hunted/do hunt this particular spot, but I also know that the Minelab does help give an edge. I suspect it's one of those proverbial 'hunted out' places... gotta love 'em!
 
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