Saturday 4-11 I decided to try a 1950's era school in the hopes I could score one deep overlooked silver coin. The three hits that I'd call deep and sweet produced two pieces of sterling and a clad quarter. I was using my V3i with 12 x 10 SEF.I recall that sterling spoon is bent up like a cooker - jr. High school drug education class. I don't want to think it was used for that and besides .925?
On Tuesday my stepson had permission to hunt a friends yard, house built 1952. I don't get too excited about homes from that era. The potential for silver is there and it was built on former farmland like much of the town.the four wheat backs were a single spill with two stuck together at about 6. The 1943 dime was less than a foot off to the side. The musket ball was actually pulled on 4-15 from a colonial site. I used the AT Pro for the house yard and it is a great coin hound.
Yesterday I got huge surprise trying the AT Pro at a small site I take every coin hunting unit I've had over the last 25+ years. The soil is is red with iron minerals and the ground balance came in at 92 on the ATP. I ran stable at full sens with the pro audio custom mode. Little signal, but clean showing 81 - 85 at an indicated 8. When I located the edge of the target I thought it was a heavily worn standing liberty quarter from my best hunch. Instead it was way better because the date is the last thing to wear completely on a seated quarter! She's a real smoothie, maybe 50+ years of circulation.
HH-Bruce
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on all those keepers
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