AirmetTango
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I went out for a couple hours today, and about halfway through the hunt I got a mostly good signal - a bouncy bell tone in the penny/dime range that sporadically dipped down into the 30's on the TID. I switched to the Ace's "Iron Audio" feature (I still don't entirely understand Iron Audio), and I was getting some vague grunts at the edges. All this info usually would lead me to skip the target, but the depth showed 6" - at this location I've found enough good stuff at that depth with bouncy signals that I decided to dig, but still fully expecting trash. Right at the 6" mark, I started pulling up wheats 
The fourth and fifth coins came out together, literally in a small clump, but they separated from each other on their own as I plopped them down on the towel I use to keep plugs tidy. One was clearly a wheat, but the other coin was completely unidentifiable. For a little while I was confused by the appearance of the one coin - it was exactly the same size as the other wheats, but corroded worse than any Zincoln I have found so far. The 4 readable wheats were all dated between 1936 and 1946, so I knew it was an old spill - the odds seemed incredibly small that a recent spill would be dominated by wheats. Then I suddenly realized - I probably had the remains of a 1943 steel cent! When I got home, I put a magnet to it, and sure enough, it stuck Completely worthless and unidentifiable, but pretty cool to find one in the ground nonetheless! I never expected to find a steel cent while detecting 
The other highlights of the hunt were another WWII era wheat (dinged by a lawn mower) and Canadian cent (my oldest foreign coin so far), a modern arcade token, a key that looks to be from the 60's or 70's, and a metal "whatsit" (see pics below). Also dug 75 cents worth of clad and a little bit of trash - a couple bottle caps, an older beaver tail pulltab, and some can slaw (not pictured).
Wheatie Spill (Notice the crustiness attached to the face of the wheat that's next to the steel cent. That's the wheat that was stuck to the steel, and the corrosion was beginning to impact the copper, too):
Probable steel cent sticking to the magnet:
Front of the Canadian cent (nicely greened up) and the wheat dinged by a lawn mower (found surprisingly close to the surface):
Back of the Canadian cent:
Modern arcade token (Circus Playhouse & Food Emporium apparently only existed in the 1980's - that would be Lionel the Friendly Lion depicted on the token!), a key and a thingamajig:
Back of the arcade token:
The fourth and fifth coins came out together, literally in a small clump, but they separated from each other on their own as I plopped them down on the towel I use to keep plugs tidy. One was clearly a wheat, but the other coin was completely unidentifiable. For a little while I was confused by the appearance of the one coin - it was exactly the same size as the other wheats, but corroded worse than any Zincoln I have found so far. The 4 readable wheats were all dated between 1936 and 1946, so I knew it was an old spill - the odds seemed incredibly small that a recent spill would be dominated by wheats. Then I suddenly realized - I probably had the remains of a 1943 steel cent! When I got home, I put a magnet to it, and sure enough, it stuck Completely worthless and unidentifiable, but pretty cool to find one in the ground nonetheless! I never expected to find a steel cent while detecting The other highlights of the hunt were another WWII era wheat (dinged by a lawn mower) and Canadian cent (my oldest foreign coin so far), a modern arcade token, a key that looks to be from the 60's or 70's, and a metal "whatsit" (see pics below). Also dug 75 cents worth of clad and a little bit of trash - a couple bottle caps, an older beaver tail pulltab, and some can slaw (not pictured).
Wheatie Spill (Notice the crustiness attached to the face of the wheat that's next to the steel cent. That's the wheat that was stuck to the steel, and the corrosion was beginning to impact the copper, too):
Probable steel cent sticking to the magnet
:
Front of the Canadian cent (nicely greened up) and the wheat dinged by a lawn mower (found surprisingly close to the surface):
Back of the Canadian cent:
Modern arcade token (Circus Playhouse & Food Emporium apparently only existed in the 1980's - that would be Lionel the Friendly Lion depicted on the token!), a key and a thingamajig:
Back of the arcade token:
If only the steel wheatie wasn't so crusted.
