Ronstar
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Decided last minute to head out about 5:30 and hunt for a couple hours until dark. That elusive gold is somewhere in the intramural field, I can feel it! Decided to work a grid pattern and dig everything foil to quarter. Made a whole whooping 65 cents in clad, 5 copper pennies and a butt load of zincolns.
Decided to start back to the truck and was just swinging nonchalant when I hit a solid 74-76 VDI or dime/quarter reading. Intriguing to say the least, it just held steady and strong period. Hmmmm. Dig.
Pinpoint indicating 10-12” deep, cant be, too strong a sound.
Cut plug with shovel to 8” and trowel down to 10” (trowel is 10” tall and top of handle was level with surface). Handheld pinpointer hitting solid tone so knew I was on it. Careful, I could feel it with trowel so went to the side and dug beyond it. Got my hand in just far enough to pull loose dirt out, check with pinpointer and nothing. Check pile and bam there it was, a penny??? Just enough light to see “1 cent” on coin, what?? It was dirty and caked on clay so get to truck and head home.
Cleaned up really easy and more details came out quickly. Foreign language, Nederlanden! Then the date; 1916!!! Looked it up, made out of bronze!
Pays off to never turn it off until your done done!!!!
Decided to start back to the truck and was just swinging nonchalant when I hit a solid 74-76 VDI or dime/quarter reading. Intriguing to say the least, it just held steady and strong period. Hmmmm. Dig.
Pinpoint indicating 10-12” deep, cant be, too strong a sound.
Cut plug with shovel to 8” and trowel down to 10” (trowel is 10” tall and top of handle was level with surface). Handheld pinpointer hitting solid tone so knew I was on it. Careful, I could feel it with trowel so went to the side and dug beyond it. Got my hand in just far enough to pull loose dirt out, check with pinpointer and nothing. Check pile and bam there it was, a penny??? Just enough light to see “1 cent” on coin, what?? It was dirty and caked on clay so get to truck and head home.
Cleaned up really easy and more details came out quickly. Foreign language, Nederlanden! Then the date; 1916!!! Looked it up, made out of bronze!
Pays off to never turn it off until your done done!!!!
