Mick in Dubbo
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I finally got the opportunity to hunt a park today in a town that is a 100 miles to the north. My son had a 4 day came there that had a lot to do with Astronomy (near Siding Springs Observatory). I was going to use my brand new X-Terra 70, but after taking it out on it's second outing yesterday, the numeric display malfunctioned.:sad: That's 2 out of 2 X-Terra's that I've owned that have not been reliable. Starting to sound like another brand that I've heard about. Hopefully it will be back in action soon as I still quite like them.
That meant that my GTI was up for the hunt. The park in question, hosts a market the every few months. Not having seem the market, I noticed that on arrival, there was a pathway around the park with a good amount of trees for shade. A perfect location for stall holders. after hunting for 30 mins, a couple of local kids came up asking the usual questions, so I fired a few of my own back at them to clarify the layout of the market. Apparently they had been naughty and had been expelled from the park a year ago. `
Continuing on the hunt for a while longer, I got a solid signal of 6 that came up as a C size target at 4inches. After a quick probe, I pulled up a 10c piece. Not the source of the signal. Next a $1 coin came out, which I found to be unusual (they hit at 7.5). I waved the coil over the spot and still had a solid signal, so out came the Pro pointer again and I recovered a 20c piece at 3 inches. There were no more targets in the hole. The moral to the story is, be alert to how possible coin spills hit, as it's easy to walk over them if you are looking for single coins. These ones had averaged their numbers out, so they didn't hit in their spots. It makes me wonder how many coin spills I've walked over. I've found a few as well.
I found my first silver coin for the year as well, a 1956 sixpence. The only coin that I scratched, was a 1943 half penny (which was only my third pre-decimal coin find of the year.
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In total, I found $17.40 in modern coins (only $15.40 pictured) and 2 pre decimal coins.
Mick Evans.
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That meant that my GTI was up for the hunt. The park in question, hosts a market the every few months. Not having seem the market, I noticed that on arrival, there was a pathway around the park with a good amount of trees for shade. A perfect location for stall holders. after hunting for 30 mins, a couple of local kids came up asking the usual questions, so I fired a few of my own back at them to clarify the layout of the market. Apparently they had been naughty and had been expelled from the park a year ago. `
Continuing on the hunt for a while longer, I got a solid signal of 6 that came up as a C size target at 4inches. After a quick probe, I pulled up a 10c piece. Not the source of the signal. Next a $1 coin came out, which I found to be unusual (they hit at 7.5). I waved the coil over the spot and still had a solid signal, so out came the Pro pointer again and I recovered a 20c piece at 3 inches. There were no more targets in the hole. The moral to the story is, be alert to how possible coin spills hit, as it's easy to walk over them if you are looking for single coins. These ones had averaged their numbers out, so they didn't hit in their spots. It makes me wonder how many coin spills I've walked over. I've found a few as well.
I found my first silver coin for the year as well, a 1956 sixpence. The only coin that I scratched, was a 1943 half penny (which was only my third pre-decimal coin find of the year.
.In total, I found $17.40 in modern coins (only $15.40 pictured) and 2 pre decimal coins.
Mick Evans.
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, but the answer is Garrett.
