Digger_O'Dell
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I got out today for a couple hours trying a few new park sites with nothing found. So for the last 90 minutes or do I decided to hit a little plot about 2 blocks ftom home that has been pounded over the years as there's little to be found. It's an old 1 room 1857 church next to a cemetery with stones dating back to at least the 1840s. The church had been moved back about 100 ft many years back for a road widening project, cutting the church yard into less than half, but some original yard remains. I managed to pull a seated dime ftom the iron a few years back, and just knew there had to be more. But, because of the construction and rehab of the old church, the place is blanketed with nails, rusted chicken wire, and tiny shards of siding clippings from who knows where.
As I mentioned in another thread, I had done a full reset on the CTX as it seemed pretty sluggish and filters seemed to do nothing, and Ive been fighting this for ages. The reset really woke the machine up! So using the coin/ferrous separation, I went through the heaviest of iron-just layers of nails from over the decades. And one corner of the church where the iron was the worst, I managed a small whisper of a repeatable high tone, with a VDI showing 12-40ish at around 8 inches.
U dug the plug and after probing a bit I expected to see more tangled wire or several crossed nails as I've seen so often before. But then I saw a shiny rim! Pulled it up and saw that it was a Barber. Figured ok, Barber quarter is nice, only got a few in the past. But once I knocked the dirt close off I noticed it seemed larger than a quarter. Flipped it over to see "Half Dollar"! Whoohoo! <happy dance!>. After cleaning a bit found it to be a decent 1903 S. Found several Walkers before, and even a Franklin, but this was my first Barber half, so one more off the 'ol bucket list!
As I mentioned in another thread, I had done a full reset on the CTX as it seemed pretty sluggish and filters seemed to do nothing, and Ive been fighting this for ages. The reset really woke the machine up! So using the coin/ferrous separation, I went through the heaviest of iron-just layers of nails from over the decades. And one corner of the church where the iron was the worst, I managed a small whisper of a repeatable high tone, with a VDI showing 12-40ish at around 8 inches.
U dug the plug and after probing a bit I expected to see more tangled wire or several crossed nails as I've seen so often before. But then I saw a shiny rim! Pulled it up and saw that it was a Barber. Figured ok, Barber quarter is nice, only got a few in the past. But once I knocked the dirt close off I noticed it seemed larger than a quarter. Flipped it over to see "Half Dollar"! Whoohoo! <happy dance!>. After cleaning a bit found it to be a decent 1903 S. Found several Walkers before, and even a Franklin, but this was my first Barber half, so one more off the 'ol bucket list!
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