I was going to say "Surprise Spanish Silver" but I shouldn't be surprised anymore with my new Deus. It continues to impress me as a good all around detector. I only had a couple of hours this morning so I made the two minute drive and hit the pounded cellar hole again just 5 minutes from my house. I programmed the Deus for deep hunting and hit a relatively junk-free area at the back of the site.
I got a peep of a nice tone that was repeatable and decided to check it out. To be honest, it had a bit of iron buzz to the tone and I thought it was deep iron and almost passed on it. And the signal didn't improve even after a dug about 6 inches. But in the end I was rewarded with a 1742 1-reale. It was deep! Probably the deepest silver I've ever dug (not that I dig a lot).
Ran into a snapper turtle on the way out. She was wearing her swamp finery and didn't look too pleased I disturbed her egg laying.
Crossed paths with a garter snake too. Lots of those this year it seems.
Stay safe!
Jeff
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