Digger_O'Dell
05-06-2016, 09:50 PM
Hi all,
I got out on road trip day on Thursday to 4 parks in 3 towns, including a water hunt. First park had nothing but trash, but the beach looked inviting so of course I had to go for a dip! Turns out those using the place are pigs, with loads of trash in the water and sand, with plenty of broken glass. Nothing much good here either, but at least I did score some clad.
I was told the second park gets detected a lot. A friend says he sees multiple people there detecting all the time, but since it's an 1800s park I gave it a go anyway. Turns out it only had zincolns and the usual trash. So i went to the next town over to try a park and beach there I found on the teens Web site but isn't shown on the map. This was a bust as it's fenced off and is restricted to town residents only with an ID wrist band. I've never seen such a thing-odd. So i decided to hit the road and go back to an old park about 30 miles away that I was a briefly last year with my X-Terra.
This turned out to be a great call! At first I was stymied by all the iron- place is just loaded with square nails. Now i can sympathize with you east coast cellar hole diggers! Apparently the park had been hit hard before, but they only cherry picked the silver. The main open area was pretty cleaned out, but along one roadway it was one wheatie after another for a bit. I don't know what was in the soil, but it was hard on the copper and they all came out just huge balls of green corrosion.
One good signal I got was an iffy 12-34, but when I dug past a couple nails instead of the expected penny I got a nice 1944 Merc! With all the nails pulling the signal lower, I can understand why the cherry pickers missed it.
Later on i got another iffy wheatie signal but this time right next to a big coil of copper wire I pulled out a bigger green disc. All I could see was the "states of america" around the edge. I looked up coin spect trying to figure out what I had and was sure I had a 2 cent piece. Of course first thing I did was text a couple friends and do the happy dsnce! As it turned out after it dried out some of the crust flaked off. Rerunning it, it came up as a 12-12. Nope, a nickel :( Still seeing the big blank area on the coin and a pattern in the crust, I was sure it was a shield nickle. But after cleaning in lye and then a hot peroxide bath it turns out to be a damaged undatable V nickel.
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Later on, I did find a deep relic that looks like a decorative saddle or harness piece, though it's pretty rusted up. But neat the end of the day in an area of the park where I wasn't finding anything I suddenly got a shallow 12-12. First I get the expected Jefferson nickel, but rechecking the hole I got another signal and out pops a 1918 Buffalo! My first one, which knocks that off the bucket list! :)
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Military shells, 2 from 75, one from 1945
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I got out on road trip day on Thursday to 4 parks in 3 towns, including a water hunt. First park had nothing but trash, but the beach looked inviting so of course I had to go for a dip! Turns out those using the place are pigs, with loads of trash in the water and sand, with plenty of broken glass. Nothing much good here either, but at least I did score some clad.
I was told the second park gets detected a lot. A friend says he sees multiple people there detecting all the time, but since it's an 1800s park I gave it a go anyway. Turns out it only had zincolns and the usual trash. So i went to the next town over to try a park and beach there I found on the teens Web site but isn't shown on the map. This was a bust as it's fenced off and is restricted to town residents only with an ID wrist band. I've never seen such a thing-odd. So i decided to hit the road and go back to an old park about 30 miles away that I was a briefly last year with my X-Terra.
This turned out to be a great call! At first I was stymied by all the iron- place is just loaded with square nails. Now i can sympathize with you east coast cellar hole diggers! Apparently the park had been hit hard before, but they only cherry picked the silver. The main open area was pretty cleaned out, but along one roadway it was one wheatie after another for a bit. I don't know what was in the soil, but it was hard on the copper and they all came out just huge balls of green corrosion.
One good signal I got was an iffy 12-34, but when I dug past a couple nails instead of the expected penny I got a nice 1944 Merc! With all the nails pulling the signal lower, I can understand why the cherry pickers missed it.
Later on i got another iffy wheatie signal but this time right next to a big coil of copper wire I pulled out a bigger green disc. All I could see was the "states of america" around the edge. I looked up coin spect trying to figure out what I had and was sure I had a 2 cent piece. Of course first thing I did was text a couple friends and do the happy dsnce! As it turned out after it dried out some of the crust flaked off. Rerunning it, it came up as a 12-12. Nope, a nickel :( Still seeing the big blank area on the coin and a pattern in the crust, I was sure it was a shield nickle. But after cleaning in lye and then a hot peroxide bath it turns out to be a damaged undatable V nickel.
54210
Later on, I did find a deep relic that looks like a decorative saddle or harness piece, though it's pretty rusted up. But neat the end of the day in an area of the park where I wasn't finding anything I suddenly got a shallow 12-12. First I get the expected Jefferson nickel, but rechecking the hole I got another signal and out pops a 1918 Buffalo! My first one, which knocks that off the bucket list! :)
54211
54212
54213
Military shells, 2 from 75, one from 1945
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