Metal Detecting - AG Baby!.. 2 US Silver Coins

That crusty greenie intrigues me. Indian cent, I’m guessing?

 

OK, I wasn't paying attention to the scale in the photos, so I was guessing wrong about the size of it.

But...

Re. your subsequent update about that item...

See? You should always trust the LordM spidey-sense when it comes to dug stuff!

 

Oh- one little bit of unsolicited advice, If you don't mind, since I'm only now belatedly watching the video...

You posed those silvers for the shot by shoving them back into the edge of the hole:




Don't do that. You run the risk of scraping them against a pebble, or other unseen foreign object, and scratching them.

I speak from sad personal experience, you see. I once put a scratch on an otherwise lovely 1916-D Barber quarter when it was peeking out the edge of a hole like that.

Mind you, I didn't stick it in the side of the hole to pose it for a photo (alas, I didn't carry a camera in those days). But I pulled it out of the edge of the hole when I saw it peeking, and unbeknownst to me, it was sitting on top of a hidden rock in the ground, and my pulling it out sideways like that scraped it across the top of the rock and put a tragic scratch in it.

If you ever happen to dig and see a coin hanging out of the edge of the hole like that (I know you re-posed this particular photo after the fact, but you know what I mean), then carefully scoop away the whole (big) clump of dirt surrounding it until the coin falls free, so as not to risk damaging it. That adrenaline-filled "peekaboo" moment is so exciting- particularly when there's the flash of silver - that it's all too easy to enthusiastically jump the gun and snatch it outta there without thinking about the consequences. Pause for a moment and go really easy and gently once you've sighted your target.

 

Yeah man- that thing looks hard core! I had a Lesche digger once upon a time, but it was a smaller, handheld jobbie.

I like the rubberized foot holds on it.