Waveoff
Elite Member
My girlfriend just started detecting with me recently using my Compadre. Today, we had a chance to detect some of the yard at her grandparents' old farmhouse that her cousin now owns. The place dates to at least 1900 but may be older. We spent about 2 1/2 hours digging up typical farmhouse trash. I finally started finding some coins in the side yard. Nothing earth shattering...a couple of wheats (1940, 1956) and a couple of pieces of modern clad. Then I hit a large coin sounding target. It turned out to be an old Calvin Coolidge presidential token. Doing a quick Google search I could only find one reference to it on Numista. So if anyone has any extra info on this token I would appreciate it!
My girlfriend had thrown in the towel because she was tired of digging junk. I told her to come detect where I was because I had found some coins and that cool token. She decided to give it another go. After only finding one modern dime in the yard, she decided to move along the chain link fence where I had just detected with my Vaquero. She called me over because she said she was hitting a nice target and wanted me to verify it for her. It sounded better on the Compadre because the fence wasn't interfering with the coil like it was with my coil. Regardless, it still sounded good on the Vaquero. I stuck my shovel into the ground and this spot was the hardest spot in the whole yard! I started telling myself that this would be the last target we dig before calling it a day and it figures she would hit a sweet sounding target in a hard spot to dig in. I dug about 8" down and could hear my TRX going crazy but couldn't see anything down there. I dug in a little deeper and popped out a chunk of dirt and something silvery came popping out. She was like, " What's THAT?!" I grabbed it and here it was a freaking 1938 Walker! Her first silver coin and she bags herself a Walker! I was shaking with excitement for her and she was actually tearing up a bit because she found something so cool. We called it a day after she found that but we will definitely be going back again soon!
My girlfriend had thrown in the towel because she was tired of digging junk. I told her to come detect where I was because I had found some coins and that cool token. She decided to give it another go. After only finding one modern dime in the yard, she decided to move along the chain link fence where I had just detected with my Vaquero. She called me over because she said she was hitting a nice target and wanted me to verify it for her. It sounded better on the Compadre because the fence wasn't interfering with the coil like it was with my coil. Regardless, it still sounded good on the Vaquero. I stuck my shovel into the ground and this spot was the hardest spot in the whole yard! I started telling myself that this would be the last target we dig before calling it a day and it figures she would hit a sweet sounding target in a hard spot to dig in. I dug about 8" down and could hear my TRX going crazy but couldn't see anything down there. I dug in a little deeper and popped out a chunk of dirt and something silvery came popping out. She was like, " What's THAT?!" I grabbed it and here it was a freaking 1938 Walker! Her first silver coin and she bags herself a Walker! I was shaking with excitement for her and she was actually tearing up a bit because she found something so cool. We called it a day after she found that but we will definitely be going back again soon!
