AirmetTango
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It was only a week ago that my area was locked in a deep freeze with a ton of snow on the ground, and I was resigned to there being no chance for detecting for the foreseeable future. Then all of a sudden we’ve had days in a row of temps above freezing and the snow melted like crazy...today (2/28) even made it into the mid-50s! All the snow melt has the ground pretty saturated, as evidenced by my basement sump pump running almost continuously, but I’ve had enough of my cabin fever - I picked out one of my sandiest, best draining farm fields to avoid dealing with a muddy quagmire, and got to swinging the detector.
I’ve hit the site more times than I can count, but even though it’s getting more and more difficult, I can still squeeze out a couple goodies each visit. This time I got over pretty consistent 19-20 signal that pinpointed coin-sized - I was thinking IHP, but I was even more thrilled to see a thin, quarter-sized green disc come out of the plug! My first trade token for the year It’s an oldie for sure - the style and all incuse lettering of the token means almost certainly late 1800s, maybe very early 1900s. Unfortunately, I’ve got no shot of figuring out who “P” might be or where the token was issued, but I absolutely love finding these old tokens anyway!
A little later in the hunt I got my coil over a screaming loud and fairly consistent quarter signal - I was asking myself “how the heck did I miss this on all these other hunts??” as I started to dig. The signal wasn’t perfect - it jumped a bit from 32-33 to as high as 35-36 while I circled the target - and it showed relatively shallow. I was actually half expecting to see a clad quarter roll out of the plug! It pinpointed compact enough to be a coin, but turns out it was compact enough to be a compact It was a little deeper than I expected, which makes sense once I saw it was both larger and thicker than a quarter. It’s a cool little Princess Pat rouge compact probably from the 1930s - gotta love the Art Deco design and classic marketing on the lid!
Anyway, picking a sandy, well drained field had multiple benefits - not only did it keep my boots and coil perfectly mud free, but the keepers came out in awesome shape...basically all I had to do was wipe the sand away to clean them up! Thanks for looking!
I’ve hit the site more times than I can count, but even though it’s getting more and more difficult, I can still squeeze out a couple goodies each visit. This time I got over pretty consistent 19-20 signal that pinpointed coin-sized - I was thinking IHP, but I was even more thrilled to see a thin, quarter-sized green disc come out of the plug! My first trade token for the year It’s an oldie for sure - the style and all incuse lettering of the token means almost certainly late 1800s, maybe very early 1900s. Unfortunately, I’ve got no shot of figuring out who “P” might be or where the token was issued, but I absolutely love finding these old tokens anyway!
A little later in the hunt I got my coil over a screaming loud and fairly consistent quarter signal - I was asking myself “how the heck did I miss this on all these other hunts??” as I started to dig. The signal wasn’t perfect - it jumped a bit from 32-33 to as high as 35-36 while I circled the target - and it showed relatively shallow. I was actually half expecting to see a clad quarter roll out of the plug! It pinpointed compact enough to be a coin, but turns out it was compact enough to be a compact It was a little deeper than I expected, which makes sense once I saw it was both larger and thicker than a quarter. It’s a cool little Princess Pat rouge compact probably from the 1930s - gotta love the Art Deco design and classic marketing on the lid!
Anyway, picking a sandy, well drained field had multiple benefits - not only did it keep my boots and coil perfectly mud free, but the keepers came out in awesome shape...basically all I had to do was wipe the sand away to clean them up! Thanks for looking!