Keeping up with DD and Riccar....(Updated)

HKnJ

.....Not really....

Anyway. Gone out this morning before it got too hot and found a couple of decent pieces and a cross and about half a dozen of Wheaties.



Thanks for checking and Happy Hunting!

CoinOnTheCob

I still have not found a silver coin.
I plan on ramping up my MDing time.

marym

You know what Dennis? That makes two of us. I've found more wheaties than you could believe, I've found truckloads of clad coins, even a gold ring with a diamond, but not a single silver coin. Not one. Nada. It sucks to be us. (lol)

CoinOnTheCob

My son is out of school and he has a Garrett Ace 250. He and I are making plans to go out a lot this summer. We've only been out twice this year.

HKnJ

<< <i>I still have not found a silver coin. >>







<< <i>I've found more wheaties than you could believe, I've found truckloads of clad coins, even a gold ring with a diamond, but not a single silver coin. >>



I wonder if the machines you are using might have something to do with not having able to find silver coins.

Additionally, In my experience it shows that copper and its alloys (copper + other metal) are easily picked up by MD's while silver coins (dimes, primarily) at the same depth might need slower swinging speed to be able to detect. Besides, silver dimes are smaller and weigh less than cents and much harder to detect.

Just some opinions I thought I would share. Good luck finding your first shiny coin. I remember my first like yesterday. I'm sure you will find yours and DON'T forget to let us see them!

lordmarcovan

Fear not, silverless ones. Your day will come.

I broke my own long silver drought tonight (details forthcoming later).

lordmarcovan

PS- Great work, HKnJ!

It's hard to look good next to these guys that pop multiple Seated and Bust(!) coins, but that's a darned nice day's work, I'd say!

HKnJ

Thanks, LM. It is amazing, isn't it? finding Bust half dime and Seated dime the same night! Riccar raised the bar.



<< <i>I broke my own long silver drought tonight (details forthcoming later). >>



I'm anxious...man. What will it be?

lordmarcovan

Closer to what you found than to what Riccar found.

I'm still pleased, though.

And who knows, maybe I can catch up a little...

goldrush00013

Great work HKnJ!

I would love to find a Buffalo......one of these days.

HH

lordmarcovan

John, you've found Barber dimes, and those are tougher than Buffaloes to find, I think (unless you're in trashy areas where you gotta discriminate pulltabs and such). So you'll get your Buffalo.

Billy found one this morning on our recent site, but it was wretchedly corroded.

demodigger

looks like you did alright. i've had my dry months too. can't be good all the time.

gotta be creative sometimes to find silver coins. we hit all the easy spots back in the 1980's. starting to look like tore up spots are the way to go these days. i only hunt construction areas, hence, the name "demodigger". i was doing this when no one else was. back then people were afraid to go into those areas. now i read about it everyday.

HKnJ

<< <i>John, you've found Barber dimes, and those are tougher than Buffaloes to find, I think (unless you're in trashy areas where you gotta discriminate pulltabs and such). So you'll get your Buffalo. >>



I agree with you there.

I used not to dig low tone targets because I burnt all the time with that little pesty tongue on the pulltabs. But sometimes I might get lucky and strike a nickel here and there especially with deep low tones. As a lesson, I typically carry a nickel in my pocket just in case because I hunt in all metal mode most of the time.

HKnJ

Hit another Buff this morning (1927) and a silver ring. The ring is my second one in two years. The observe on the nickel got a little beating from my metal trowel. The nickel was one of the first signals but I failed to find anything else because mosquitoes were everywhere and I quit shortly after.



Happy Fourth of July!

lordmarcovan

I think you have a hotspot, there!



<< <i>I used not to dig low tone targets because I burnt all the time with that little pesty tongue on the pulltabs. >>

I once dug a shallow "pulltab" signal that was right in the grassroots. Even after I found it, it looked like one of those little pulltab tongues until I got the dirt off it. I was really surprised when I saw what it was.

HKnJ

Thanks, guys.




<< <i> I once dug a shallow "pulltab" signal that was right in the grassroots. Even after I found it, it looked like one of those little pulltab tongues until I got the dirt off it. I was really surprised when I saw what it was. >>



You know what LM, I might have passed a few good targets along the way. Now that you show that coin I will have to do better with my target selection.

That is a wonderful coin, BTW.

SilverDreams

Great finds!

lordmarcovan

<< <i>You know what LM, I might have passed a few good targets along the way. Now that you show that coin I will have to do better with my target selection.

That is a wonderful coin, BTW. >>


It's my one-and-only Bust coin. And that was twelve years ago!

My pal Billy just dug TWO of those on the site we were hunting- an 1829 and 1834- both unholed and in pretty nice grade, although dark.

And the lucky schmuck found this lovely 1820 STATESOFAMERICA dime a year or two ago- I sold it on eBay after I got it from him, and it fetched $200-and-something. If I had dug it, I would've NEVER sold it.







As I recall, most if not all of my half dimes (1 Bust, 3 Seated) came up on pulltabby signals. And all of them are holed. Hm.

Many buttons read in the pulltab range, too. And I have air-tested a $5 gold piece in that range. My wedding band, in an air test? Solid "pulltab" signal.