First silver with the new machine was same coin as first machine.

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Things have been a little tough since the last bit of finds. I wasn't gonna post for a handful of wheats at my friend's house. That house says it was built 1915, but all the houses near there have brick foundations. Across the street is a big tree, so I know it's an older area. This place I needed to use the gf's GTI due to the EMI.

This previous weekend I did get to an area with a few cellar holes. Unfortunately I came up with the typical bullet casings and shotgun shells. I parked on the far end and hiked the long way in. I was shaking my head walking in and seeing a truck coming down the road and then two motor bikes. I should have just driven in from the other way and skipped the hiking. ugh. I tried checking one area that looked suspect via the aerials. But it was just a place used for some camping. A ways down I came to a cellar. I checked around it. The growth was bad plus all the downed trees near it made it hard to swing around and almost impossible to reach the lip. Across the road I thought I saw a pen. Turns out it was a grave site with three graves. I took a pic of one. Maybe some who have been to this place will recognize it. North of the pen was another wall. I tried checking around it. The finds were just too hard to find. I walked back toward the car as I knew there were stone walls back that way. The stone walls actually line a separate property with another grave at its edge. It currently has people putting change on the gravestone. The cellar was pounded. Across the road, tho, was a small depression with some stone work. I checked near it. Somewhere by there I found a buckle spill. Two slide style buckles. No one has identified them yet. I am guessing for a suspender or a late 1800s/ early 1900s replacement for those small pants buckles.



This weekend I didn't really get much detecting in either. BUT, the new machine had arrived on Friday. Saturday I used the gf's GTI in my back yard. I wasn't expecting much beyond clad. I was just doing it for the heck of it. The house was built '59. The oldest on the street is '34. Every parcel has a mound around the foundation and a valley on the property line. So I wrote it off knowing any old soil if it was used as farmland in the 17/1800s it was covered now and the only finds would be just newer than the house. Turns out the back yard was hiding something like 60 cents in clad.. NO QUARTERS. There was a spot that used to be a coy pond which is visible in one of the older satellite views. Years ago it was on google, until google updated their map and now it shows what it is. My neighbors said the coy pond was filled in and now there is a concrete walk. The ground is definitely darker dirt, which came from the back wooded area. I took out the new White's Treasurepro and went over the same area. First target right in the area which was filled was a 1945 wheat. Less than half of the area I covered with the GTI, is what I did with the Treasurepro. Came up with 4 more clad pieces. Yesterday I did some errands after work. While I was home I had some time. In the back of my mind I was thinking "maybe with that many coins from the back yard I might actually be able to pull some silver from the front yard." Bam.. first silver with the machine was from my own yard. Same GW silver quarter as was the first silver I found with the TR. The TR got a 1941 GW. This machine got a 1940. Surprisingly, there wasn't as much clad in the front as was in the back. There were trees in the front I'm sure kids were climbing. And trash targets in the back was 4 pc, while the front came up with like 10 pcs. I went to a local school which I noticed otw to doing the errands. The school wasn't old but it was near some early 1900 houses. It was graded and filled, most definitely, but aside from a handful of clad I pulled up an interesting pendant (or fob). I am happy with the machine and hoping to see what it can do at a cellar hole. I might actually vid it. Lol.