Indian heads kept on a coming....

I detected a very cool looking old home that sits up on a hill. Just a neat looking place. When I recieved permission to detect the older couple told me that the place had already been detected by 3 others. That never stops me. They musta got all the cool old silver but they sure left a lot of indian heads. Eight in one outting ties my record.
Jim

 

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The link to your slideshow is messed up. Can you repost it?

Congrats on the 8 IHCs. I wish I could find that many in a year.

 

did you dig those up? or just lying around?

 

Maaan, sweet as always man! :thumb:

Phoenix

 

I could not get the slideshow to work here. So I just posted what I could. Thanks, Jim

 

It is extremely uncommon to find coins on the surface after 100 years. Usually they are buried from an inch to several inches. A good metal detector helps you pinpoint not only the location of a coin but also its depth and probable denomination.

 

what are some of the dates of the lincolns you find. do you find any better dates

 

i see, thanks hobo.

 

Cool finds.

 

The oldest one I found yesterday was 1918. A few from the 30s and a couple 40s and a 53. Yes I have found a few key date wheaties. 1914 D was probably my best. Found it in 2005.

 

Jim,

You are making me feel like getting my metal detector out and go hunting. I live an hour drive from the Denver Mint and I keep telling myself that it would be entirely possible for me to find a '14-D Lincoln or a '16-D Merc.

 

Nice finds Jim, Any of the wheat cents key dates?

 

Darryl:
Look up two spaces.

 

- Thanks Frank - lol - scrolled too fast I guess - as I read a couple of the comments but not enough obviously.

Nice finds Jim!

 

Cool finds, as always. Thanks for posting them!

 

Neat!

 

I would buy a metal detector but i dont live anywhere near a place where i could justify it, the closest place would be a fort in the closest town too me, (15 miles) but they don't allow it, for historical reasons. nice coins though man, i wish i could do what you do.

 

You could hit old home sites like I do. Your state has so much history you would clean up. Parks, churches, schools. Tons of places to go. Wish I lived in NY. Well, kinda. Jim

 

I busted out my metal detector today for the first outting. I was having problems with my discriminate. I tried it on GEB but everything set it off. So I went to discriminate and tried to tune out aluminum cans, but that also phased out copper cents. I had a pocket of coins to test my settings with. Anyhow if I tuned out aluminum cans, that also tuned out the copper cents, but I had a Barber quarter and a gold ring that werent tuned out. I finally decided a few aluminum cans wouldnt hurt, so I played with my settings until it picked up the copper cent. But wow, theres way more cans buried than I would have imagined. I found Budweiser, Miller, Coors, Narragansett, and so on, and I found them with pull tabs, regular tabs, and even a few with no tabs where you had to poke your own hole.
But I did find a license plate, Rhode Island Commercial plates from 1940. That was a cool find, its in great shape and its nice and solid. I told my buddy to give it to his dad because his dad has a whole collection of license plates. He will clean it up and paint it back to its origional colors. I gave him a license plate that I found a few years ago, but that one was rotted pretty badly and he was still all excited, he made it look good.
Anyhow, Jim, do you use discriminate or just the GEB. I was told to use GEB then listen to the sound the detector makes. But I have a hard time with that. I know alot of things make different noises, but where I go detecting, theres just too much junk and the detector just doesnt stut up.

 

Its tough when ya first start detecting. I remember when I first got my detector after reading about all the old coins people were finding on the various detecting forums and couldn't wait to get out there. Only to dig up a bunch a junk a few modern coins. I thought they were all liars and it made me very discouraged. Thats why many detectors end up in closets. I got some great advice that helped me out. Location, location, location. Old homes are the best places to go. Old church lots, school lots. Any place where people gathered.
But with the problem your having the best solution is to find a clean area (free of junk in the ground) and bury whatever coins your wanting to go after about 5 inches down. Seperate each one at least a foot apart so you can pick each up with your detector. Now set up your detector until you can get a good repeatable clear signal on each coin and remember the sounds of each. Use that information out at your detecting sites. Only dig signals that sound like the ones you recieved in your coin garden at home. To keep from diggin so much junk only dig signals that are deeper than 4 inches. You'll still get some junk but you will increase your chances. This is just a starting point for ya. There are many variables and other factors that come into play but this will get ya some old coins. And when your first starting try and find some quiet ground, some not filled with so much junk. Hope this helps. Jim