This afternoon I met up with Lee, one of our forum members, to hit a site or two. I had been detecting for about 90 minutes when Lee arrived. During that time I had picked up three coppers and two Indian Head cents. The coppers are in bad shape though I can make out enough details on one of them. It's a Massachusetts copper.
The plan had been to detect elsewhere, so we took off heading out to a nearby park where we detected for a while. The park was yielding nothing but clad coins however. I'm sure there are old coins there, but it will take some time and effort to find them. We then decided to head back to the site where I found the coppers and detected there for the remainder of the time. Not long after starting I picked up my first silver, a 1909 Barber quarter.
After a while I managed to dig up two more silver coins, Barber dimes, dated 1893 and 1908. Lee had to leave by then but I kept detecting for a short while longer. Then just as it was almost time to leave I picked up a deep sounding but very faint signal. After checking it from several angles the signal was now coming in a bit stronger. I knew it was a good target. Likely a copper, but hopefully silver, is what I was thinking. I cut a plug and dug some soil, but at the eight to nine inch mark the probe failed to give a signal. The target had to be deeper I was sure. I dug several more inches and now I could make out a somewhat strong signal. I dug out more soil and at about the 12 to 13 inch mark the probe was singing! I dug in a bit more and dropped the soil on the towel, and here is what I saw.
It's a beautiful 1786 Spanish 2 Reale!
Here are the four silver coins I dug up.
These are finds from a short hunt this past Sunday, two corroded coppers, a few wheat cents, and a 1899 Indian Head cent.
Have a great weekend everyone!
The plan had been to detect elsewhere, so we took off heading out to a nearby park where we detected for a while. The park was yielding nothing but clad coins however. I'm sure there are old coins there, but it will take some time and effort to find them. We then decided to head back to the site where I found the coppers and detected there for the remainder of the time. Not long after starting I picked up my first silver, a 1909 Barber quarter.
After a while I managed to dig up two more silver coins, Barber dimes, dated 1893 and 1908. Lee had to leave by then but I kept detecting for a short while longer. Then just as it was almost time to leave I picked up a deep sounding but very faint signal. After checking it from several angles the signal was now coming in a bit stronger. I knew it was a good target. Likely a copper, but hopefully silver, is what I was thinking. I cut a plug and dug some soil, but at the eight to nine inch mark the probe failed to give a signal. The target had to be deeper I was sure. I dug several more inches and now I could make out a somewhat strong signal. I dug out more soil and at about the 12 to 13 inch mark the probe was singing! I dug in a bit more and dropped the soil on the towel, and here is what I saw.
It's a beautiful 1786 Spanish 2 Reale!
Here are the four silver coins I dug up.
These are finds from a short hunt this past Sunday, two corroded coppers, a few wheat cents, and a 1899 Indian Head cent.
Have a great weekend everyone!
erfect10: :thumbsup02:
mg: :wow:
