First Door Knocks of the Year

[Full Metal Digger]

Hey Diggers,
With temperatures nearing 70 degrees today and all my honey-do items done, I was able to get out for a couple hours. Knocked on two doors and got yesses both times. Both yards had been previously detected though. All the easy targets were gone so I was compelled to listen for faint, deep signals mixed in with iron. I did quite well however.

I was in a very old section of town and the lots go back to the mid 1800s. The original houses are gone and the newer houses were all built around 1930. My first deep signal was so faint I thought for sure it was just a bit of iron falsing. I decided to dig it anyway. I'm glad I did. at 10 inches I pulled a very crusty large cent! It's in really bad shape but it is a legible 1853 date!

I also found three indian head cents. All turn of the century dates but I suspected they were IHCs before I even dug them! Finally after about 3 hours I got a squeaky wheat cent signal at 6 inches and was very happy to see a thin silver rim appear in my dirt pile. A 1920-S dime! AND it fills a hole in my coin album! Also found a few doodads typical for old yards.

Thanks for looking and HH to all! Dave.

[Digger Don]

Nice to see you getting out Dave. It's only the middle of winter and you already have a Large Cent.
Great job sniffing out those deep iffys. Congrats on a very productive hunt.
See ya soon, Don

[Digger_O'Dell]

Very nice finds, cool key!

[OxShoeDrew]

Ten inches is deep! Professional pictures too

[del]

I'm surprised the large cent sounded so faint Dave , was it on edge or something ?? they usually still sound pretty good at that depth .

[Full Metal Digger]

I'm surprised the large cent sounded so faint Dave , was it on edge or something ?? they usually still sound pretty good at that depth .

You're right Del. They usually pop at about 12-47 and sound a lot like a deep clad quarter. The soil around this coin though was full of brick fragments, coal ash, and other debris. Might have been an old burn site or something. The signal was scratchy at best and really sounded like a rusty bent nail to me.

[relichunterryan]

Congrats on a great hunt! Sounds like the large might have been in a fire by the soil you described. HH!

[MangoAve]

Nice. Most are period finds for the newer houses. For a sec I was thinking I hadn't gotten an LC yet this year, but I had.

[Bucknut]

Way to go on finding all of those keepers in an already detected yard!

[groundhog53946]

Nice job sniffing those coins out!

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[del]

You're right Del. They usually pop at about 12-47 and sound a lot like a deep clad quarter. The soil around this coin though was full of brick fragments, coal ash, and other debris. Might have been an old burn site or something. The signal was scratchy at best and really sounded like a rusty bent nail to me.

Wow Dave , the red brick fragments usually have a bit of iron in them but the coal ash is particularly high in iron from the hard hotrocks . so hearing anything ten inches deep under that mess is quite a feat !! well done !!

[OxShoeDrew]

I'm surprised the large cent sounded so faint Dave , was it on edge or something ?? they usually still sound pretty good at that depth .

At 10 inches?? wow....with my machine I have to be spot on over it in most cases at 10 inches. Seriously, I've never dug a LC over 11 inches. I think I need a new machine

[Hiluxyota]

Great find on the lc , I been trying to find one forever !

[Tony Two-Cent]

Great finds, Dave! Your 2016 is off to a good start!

Congrats on the large cent, that is a scarce find in these parts. Good job filling a hole in your Merc album with the 1920-S too!

[Pacivilwarluke]

Awesome largie!!