4 visits to new site: 140 wheats, 15 silver coins, silver and gold rings!

[mdakin]

So a friend and I began exploring an unused area of an older park. The first trip netted almost 60 wheat penny's and 6 silver coins. We had been hunting with heavy discrimination, only digging high end signals. (the area is extremely trashy, TONS of screw caps) We were a bit taken aback by how many wheat penny's there were. Subsequent visits, 4 total for me, and 2 total for my friend yielded 140 wheat's and 15 silver coins, along with the 2 rings shown in the pics on this post. It wasn't until this last solo visit by me that things really started rocking!!! I had still been detecting with discrimination until I found the v-nickel 3 wheat spill. At that point I decided I was going to circle around the hole with no discrimination and dig every signal. (we had discussed doing this in a 10'X 10' area to see what the trash was hiding from us) I'm glad I did, my first signal after was the gold and silver wire ring. 30 minutes later, and maybe a 15'X15' area later I had 4 buffalo nickels 2 war nickels, some junk jewelry, and of course that very nice gold and silver ring!!! I can't wait to go back and start digging everything, though near the end I started to go over a trashy area and was getting a ton of screw caps again. Enjoy the pics.

 

[del]

very sweet finds Matt , love the gold and silver ring erfect10:

 

[Tony Two-Cent]

Wow! That's a ton of nice finds from one site! 140 wheat cents?! HOLY COW!

I really like that gold & silver wire ring! :loveit:

I bet there is a lot more there. :yes:

:congrats:

 

[sfox54]

i dream of hunts like these!!!140 wheats,,i think i am up to 20 in my first year...i would probably lose sleep until i could get back there again...lol way to go

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

You have to be one with your machine. Dig them all...whatthe halibut. Nice selection of finds. <

 

[RobW]

Sounds like you got a fun site. thumbsup01 Very unusual gold/silver ring, I like it :congrats:

 

[SeabeeRon]

WOW! That is a great haul for 4 hunts and all at one site!! |) Congratz! :clapping:

 

[Bell-Two]

Man did you have a wheelbarrow to haul away that load?!

 

[PL8MAN]

Great bunch of finds ! thumbsup01

 

[Ill Digger]

mg: What a couple of hunts.... and finds! :shocked04:
Like the others have said... the gold & silver twisted wire ring is just sweet! :loveit:
Plus the sterling ring, and all those old coins.... :daydream:
Good call on checking-out the other part of the park! thumbsup01
Congrats! :grin:

.... I had still been detecting with discrimination until I found the v-nickel 3 wheat spill. At that point I decided I was going to circle around the hole with no discrimination and dig every signal. (we had discussed doing this in a 10'X 10' area to see what the trash was hiding from us)

You say no discrimination.... :thinkingabout: Did you dig alot of iron as well? Any goodies sitting on top of or next to iron? ::huh::

 

[milco]

Wow! I would pound that place for years. Have you looked at old aerial imagery from the 1930-40's to see what was in that unused section of the park?

 

[mdakin]

mg: What a couple of hunts.... and finds! :shocked04:
Like the others have said... the gold & silver twisted wire ring is just sweet! :loveit:
Plus the sterling ring, and all those old coins.... :daydream:
Good call on checking-out the other part of the park! thumbsup01
Congrats! :grin:
You say no discrimination.... :thinkingabout: Did you dig alot of iron as well? Any goodies sitting on top of or next to iron? ::huh::

I was listening to all signals including iron sounds. I didn't dig any iron signals, but anything above iron I did. Prior to that, I had discriminated out everything but screw cap and higher sounds.

 

[Dimeman]

You got a good mixture of items !!!!! Congrats on a great hunt !!!! erfect10: erfect10:

 

[coinnut]

Nice looking finds Matt. :shocked03: That is a ton of wheats lol Junky areas have potential if you don't mind listening to a lot of sounds. That place will keep you busy for a while

 

[mdakin]

Thanks all for the nice feedback, I'm really enjoying this site. Here's a link to my fifth visit to it. http://www.americandetectorist.com/forum/index.php?topic=14617.0

 

[AmxFred]

Very impressive! erfect10: