MTtrashdigger
Elite Member
Made it out today to my old park that has given up some of my oldest coins. Except for a biting wind, conditions are still excellent for this late in the year. One particular area of this park seems to hold the oldest stuff so that is where I concentrated my efforts. Good signals are becoming exceedingly more rare but I keep going back. I am glad I did today. Between the deeper pulltabs and a couple of falsing rusty bolts, I managed 3 older wheats ,a 1919, a 1913 and a 193?.
Deep and under a root, I also recovered a 1893 Indian Head penny. It's bent, crusty and worn but it is my 8th IHP this year and my first pre-1900 coin from a park.
A few yards away, I got a faint, deep 31-33 that I couldn't seem to pinpoint and even showed a few negative VDIs when I switched to all metal mode. Since I did the last update on my Equinox, I will frequently check these types of signals with the 4khz frequency. When I did this, the signal stabilized and I was able to pinpoint better. I commenced to dig the plug and pulled out a few handfuls of dirt from the bottom of the hole and put it on my towel. Stirring the dirt with my pin pointer, I located the clump and broke it open to see the sweet shine of silver. I picked off the dirt and in my hand was my very first Standing Liberty quarter. It is actually in pretty reasonable shape and the date is legible -1917 S. I don't dig very many silver quarters and in fact, this is only my third silver quarter this year and seventh in my detecting career, all the rest are GWs. Tomorrow I will be back there looking for more.
Thanks for looking and happy hunting!!
Deep and under a root, I also recovered a 1893 Indian Head penny. It's bent, crusty and worn but it is my 8th IHP this year and my first pre-1900 coin from a park.
A few yards away, I got a faint, deep 31-33 that I couldn't seem to pinpoint and even showed a few negative VDIs when I switched to all metal mode. Since I did the last update on my Equinox, I will frequently check these types of signals with the 4khz frequency. When I did this, the signal stabilized and I was able to pinpoint better. I commenced to dig the plug and pulled out a few handfuls of dirt from the bottom of the hole and put it on my towel. Stirring the dirt with my pin pointer, I located the clump and broke it open to see the sweet shine of silver. I picked off the dirt and in my hand was my very first Standing Liberty quarter. It is actually in pretty reasonable shape and the date is legible -1917 S. I don't dig very many silver quarters and in fact, this is only my third silver quarter this year and seventh in my detecting career, all the rest are GWs. Tomorrow I will be back there looking for more.
Thanks for looking and happy hunting!!
