Yesterday I hit a permission with a few friends that has produced a bunch of mostly 1930s-1950s silver with a few Indian Head pennies and the oldest thing being a 1901 Barber Dime.
We have picked it pretty clean and good signals are hard to come by but after about 3 hours I dug a 29' Merc so I wasn't skunked at least.
Then later I got a very clear, repeatable signal that rang up like a dime and sounded silver on my machine. I dug a 5" plug and scanned the plug but it wasn't there. The pinpointer found nothing in the hole so I pulled out another shovel full and when I dumped the dirt on the side of the hole I saw the back of this looking at me.
We've dug nothing pre 1900 so what was this doing there?
Then again, living in a town founded in 1642 helps.
This is the only way to get Tom upset.
As much as I hate to admit it, you east coast guys have it over us when it comes to the really old stuff. Maybe we can trade some of our outstanding weather for some of your old stuff.
Yesterday I hit a permission with a few friends that has produced a bunch of mostly 1930s-1950s silver with a few Indian Head pennies and the oldest thing being a 1901 Barber Dime.
We have picked it pretty clean and good signals are hard to come by but after about 3 hours I dug a 29' Merc so I wasn't skunked at least.
Then later I got a very clear, repeatable signal that rang up like a dime and sounded silver on my machine. I dug a 5" plug and scanned the plug but it wasn't there. The pinpointer found nothing in the hole so I pulled out another shovel full and when I dumped the dirt on the side of the hole I saw the back of this looking at me.
We've dug nothing pre 1900 so what was this doing there?
Then again, living in a town founded in 1642 helps.