Viking
05-27-2011, 05:43 PM
My wife got me permission from a co-worker to hunt an 1894 yard last night. This has been a long time coming, so I was excited about it to say the least. A little background info- I have hunted a friends yard from 1910 a few times and really never found anything old (~35 shallow coins with an average age of 1982- due to a lot of landscaping and fill in the 1980’s >happydance02, so I knew that this new prospect was no slam dunk. Sure enough, it started off really poorly last night.
I spent about an hour in the tiny backyard and was having all kinds of problems with chirpy signals due to a lot of rusted iron trash, EMI, and metal landscaping edging. Autosensitivity would only go from 16-18, which says something about the conditions. I hunted the whole back yard and found a couple rusty nails (dug them because they were iffy and my arm was about to fall off from all the swinging) and a pop top. I decided to go over it again, switching from Angel/Andy’s pattern to the standard coins pattern (figured I’d up the discrimination to see if it would talk less) but still couldn’t find anything. Then I tried to hunt wide open- ha! I think I shaved 6 months off my hearing with all of that racket. >:/ Then I tried two-tone ferrous and actually found a shallow clad dime. Between the chirpiness and clumpy, hard-to-swing-over grass, my spirits were broken and my patience was toast. :hairpulling:
I decided to try the front yard really quick before heading home. My first target in the front was a wheat penny. “Ok, ok, this is better”, I thought. Next target was near a bush and only a couple of inches deep. I cut the plug and could see silver staring back at me. Upon further investigation, I about fell over. It turned out to be a 1910 Barber Dime. :happydance01: Woo hoo! Second oldest coin I’ve ever found and first Barber dime (oldest is an 1896 Barber quarter). Ended up with 6 wheat pennies and that Barber in the front yard. Moral of the story is that my spirits are as high as they’ve ever been! :peace:
Thanks for looking- Viking
I spent about an hour in the tiny backyard and was having all kinds of problems with chirpy signals due to a lot of rusted iron trash, EMI, and metal landscaping edging. Autosensitivity would only go from 16-18, which says something about the conditions. I hunted the whole back yard and found a couple rusty nails (dug them because they were iffy and my arm was about to fall off from all the swinging) and a pop top. I decided to go over it again, switching from Angel/Andy’s pattern to the standard coins pattern (figured I’d up the discrimination to see if it would talk less) but still couldn’t find anything. Then I tried to hunt wide open- ha! I think I shaved 6 months off my hearing with all of that racket. >:/ Then I tried two-tone ferrous and actually found a shallow clad dime. Between the chirpiness and clumpy, hard-to-swing-over grass, my spirits were broken and my patience was toast. :hairpulling:
I decided to try the front yard really quick before heading home. My first target in the front was a wheat penny. “Ok, ok, this is better”, I thought. Next target was near a bush and only a couple of inches deep. I cut the plug and could see silver staring back at me. Upon further investigation, I about fell over. It turned out to be a 1910 Barber Dime. :happydance01: Woo hoo! Second oldest coin I’ve ever found and first Barber dime (oldest is an 1896 Barber quarter). Ended up with 6 wheat pennies and that Barber in the front yard. Moral of the story is that my spirits are as high as they’ve ever been! :peace:
Thanks for looking- Viking