Cheap Thrills
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I haven't been posting any finds lately as the good ones have been too far and few between . It got so bad I couldn't even bring myself to go hunting for awhile even after our brief heat spell ended . This weekend I was ready to go again . I put in two 5hr. days , the first with an Explorer SE and the second with a Tesoro built Troy X-2 . I hit a small dirt playfield ( about 90'x90' ) at a school I have now hunted several times . The first day I crawled along with the SE and found 2 of the wheats , the Silver earring and most of my high tone clad ( not one nickel in the bunch) . The next day I dug everything and the amount of can slaw and zincs was horrendous , surprisingly enough very few pulltabs and bottle caps . The Troy sniffed out the 46s Roosie on the last hr. of the hunt (it was a few inches away from a chopped up coke can I dug up ) . It ( the Roosie) rang so loud and with such a tone variation I thought it could have been either a clad quarter or a half it was 3 deep (if that). This hunt gave up 14 nickels ( all common Jeffersons).The wheat's were 56', 52' and 40 . 3 foreign coins in the mix , a 2005 Mexican 10 peso ,1985 British pound and a 53 Canadian cent . Also found 2 religious crosses . toy jet , Buzz magnet and an Olympics pin .The Buzz magnet had me going a bit crazy for a while because it had a long chopped ,crackly , broken signal like a cheap , thick chain or bracelet might have . It also registered on the Troy's coin check . I cut a plug , grabbed the pro-pointer checked it , the hole and all around the hole NO SIGNAL , what the .... ? Ran the coil over everything still nothing went to fill the hole thinking that maybe something was wrong with the detector 
. Grabbed my digger and there was the magnet sticking to the shaft . :shocked04:stretcher:
The deepest find was with the SE , it was the older more ornate cross at about 6 . everything else was pretty much at the 3 and 4 mark . You can rest assured this spot has been hit for years and cherry picked with Explorers and E-tracs .
This is a very old school and was told by another detectorist that on his first trip there { several years ago ) with some friends they found Indian heads and Barbers . I haven't been able to find
anything older than Merc's or wheats I'll bet all the really old stuff is under that asphalt playground :thinkingabout: . Oh yeah , $5.03 in clad . Thanks for looking .
H H ,
SY
. Grabbed my digger and there was the magnet sticking to the shaft . :shocked04:stretcher: The deepest find was with the SE , it was the older more ornate cross at about 6 . everything else was pretty much at the 3 and 4 mark . You can rest assured this spot has been hit for years and cherry picked with Explorers and E-tracs .
This is a very old school and was told by another detectorist that on his first trip there { several years ago ) with some friends they found Indian heads and Barbers . I haven't been able to find
anything older than Merc's or wheats I'll bet all the really old stuff is under that asphalt playground :thinkingabout: . Oh yeah , $5.03 in clad . Thanks for looking .
H H ,
SY
and taking a step back or a break can really recharge the batteries . its good to see ya posting again and don't worry the finds will come , stop trying so hard and have some fun . congrats on the loot.
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