fwcrawford
Well-known member
I got up with my buddy for some dirt digging today and hit a couple different sites that have given up some goodies in the past.
The first site was an old church site that has given up some silver and wheaties before so we tried it for about 3 hours,but only managed to find a 1917 wheatie and a 1916 Buffalo nickel.
After a quick snack, we tried an old house site located in a field across the road from the church for about an hour, but the grass is getting too tall to swing the coil, so we spent the rest of the afternoon at a local school that we stopped by last weekend for a couple of hours and had good clad counts so we figured we could do well there.
I found 38 quarters in about 2 1/2 hours and a Sacagawea dollar coin. Also found was the pendant which cleaned up pretty good. I'm not sure what my buddy's total was, but he was doing quite a bit of digging too and said that he was also finding lots of quarters.
I also found the two "Nintendo" tokens in the same hole and could use some help figuring out what they are used for.
I was pretty impressed with the little 6" coil and even though we were searching a large soccer field, this coil would sound off if I got anywhere near a quarter.
I usually use a 10.5" DD for these types of areas, but I don't know if I would have done much better with it over the small coil.
Thanks for looking,
Felix
The first site was an old church site that has given up some silver and wheaties before so we tried it for about 3 hours,but only managed to find a 1917 wheatie and a 1916 Buffalo nickel.
After a quick snack, we tried an old house site located in a field across the road from the church for about an hour, but the grass is getting too tall to swing the coil, so we spent the rest of the afternoon at a local school that we stopped by last weekend for a couple of hours and had good clad counts so we figured we could do well there.
I found 38 quarters in about 2 1/2 hours and a Sacagawea dollar coin. Also found was the pendant which cleaned up pretty good. I'm not sure what my buddy's total was, but he was doing quite a bit of digging too and said that he was also finding lots of quarters.
I also found the two "Nintendo" tokens in the same hole and could use some help figuring out what they are used for.
I was pretty impressed with the little 6" coil and even though we were searching a large soccer field, this coil would sound off if I got anywhere near a quarter.
I usually use a 10.5" DD for these types of areas, but I don't know if I would have done much better with it over the small coil.
Thanks for looking,
Felix