...I can at least give the intro t the situation. (Pardon me if it's less clear o typo-laden than it might be--I stopped and bought some tequila on the way home (Lagavulin is $70 a bottle now!!!!!!!), so I'm a bit fuzzy.) So here goes (please excuse any incoherence (and my keyboard's tsticky latelyl too))...
I've been hunting this one site on and off for a couple of years. I've never hit anything particular fantastic at it--though some nice stuff--but something about it kept me coming back. There's an OLD oak(?) tree in the middle of the lot (I'll have to get a picture of it), and the location shows up on 1700s maps, though never with anything located on it. Just the blank spot between roads and houses. But, a week or so ago, I hit anIndian Head on it and my oldest Merc, a '23, so I knew there were still goodies there. A couple days later, I hit it again and found another Indian. Then 2 nights ago I hit it and didn't find anything but an old, or semi-old, button and a 1919-S wheat. Now I've never seen anyone else on that site but dog-poopers but I talked with a woman at work about it after I'd found the Indian and Merc and she said her club--the main one in the Boston area--had hit it at least once. So, when I was there last night--and not finding much--I glanced across the road and thought, "hmmmm..., I never thought abut that spot before. I wonder if there's anything interesting there." "Maybe no one else has hit it much." (Which I suspect turns out to be the case.) After leaving work tongiht I was going to hit another sot but drove past and parked nearby and walked around the corner to see what I thought. There was actually a part of that park I'd never even noticed before, and I've driven by it hundreds of times! Okay, I figured, if I hadn't noticed that, the odds are good that it hasn't been hit too hard. So I went back to the Jeep and geared up. Walked to the unknown part and hit nothing but trash and then a modern spill wi/ two cents, two quarters, and then a dime, all right on the surface. Worked my way along further and dug a signal that turned out to be #$*#$% and then kept going to the part of the park that I'd at least seen before, when I used to live out along that road. Hunted along the edge, and then towards the middle for about an hour with nothing to show for it but a couple of clad dimes and memorials.
It was staring to get dark then. It was staring to look like this about then:
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(phto taken a little later but lightened to match what it looked like then)
(and that might be the old oak(?) I mentioned showing across the strete)
About then, I got a signal that was bouncing around between the top left of the screen but seemed to be stuck a bit on the 24 conductive level, though i t was bouncing a lot on the ferrous (horizontal) axis. But it seemd to be doing that pretty consistently. Was reading about halfway down on the depth meter. After some failed iffy readings earlier--including some disappearing signals that wer epobably hot rocks--I wasn't too confident but I was thinking "Indian" at that point since the VFO seemed to be locking on to i pretty well. Cut the plug, dug down, and was VERY pleasantly surprised. I was so surprised, I didn't think to take a pic. Cleaned it up slightly with some spit and a toothbrush and thought I had a early 1800s Classic Head large cent. (Didn't find out until I got home that it wasn't.)
But I was quite excited at that thought and, after checking the hole, poured the dirt back in, flipped the plug back, and started spiralling around that spot. After a few minutes, about 18 inches away, I got a similar signal. Oh yeah! Cut the plug, pulled out some dirt, and again about 6" down, found me a wonderful piece of copper. Did the ol' spit and toothbrush bit and saw something I couldn't quite believe. "That really can't be a ****ing _____, can it?" Whether it was or wasn't, I was already feeling "detecting can't get much better than this."
And I'm going to leave it at that for the moment and go to bed.
But here's the raw pic of the 2nd one at 9:12 this evening. In the soil off the end of the trowel against the plastic:
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And in the hand:
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Answer: Yes, it was a ****ing _____!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And, while that may be the most rare one, since I don't know what the last ___ are yet, I'm still not sure.
But, given what that one coin is, I'll be lucky to ever top it, no matter how long I end up detecting.
Needless to say (even if I'm leaving what it is unknown yet until I get a better picture (and have the energy to finish typing this), that I'm quite happy. (If quite tired by now.)
A colonial pocket spill? Dig, dig, dig. As I got carefully got closer the readings were starting to look like possibly silver but, after a brief bit of extra excitement, large copper #3 was in the loose dirt in the bottom of the hole. 