Amazing Day With The 600

[Noah (FL)]

Just spent a couple days hunting a hopefully not a once in a lifetime site!!!! A 70’s built cafeteria building at an old 1915 school was just torn down and the foundation removed.  A roughly 60’x100’ area that was absolutely loaded with coins. Hands down my most productive opportunity to date!

 Was running the 600 in park1 w 50 tones, iron on and stock recovery and iron bias. Sensitivity started at 20 but with the targets being shallow I backed down to 16-18 and it seemed to behave a little better with the shallow iron and corroded conduit littering the site. 

Hoping to get back Monday or Tuesday to go back over it again as I’m sure there is still some targets hiding.  I have only had the EQX a few weeks, coming from Tesoros, Explorer2 and a MakroMK, I really enjoy the audio, much more pleasant to listen to than the Makro at least.  Seems to handle the iron very well too!  

Grand total was 1slq, 1 Washington, 1rosie, 4mercs, 6buffaloes, 2 war nickels, 1891indian, handful of early jeffersons, 60+ wheats, a copper ring and a tiny silver ring and charm. The majority of the silver was super corroded, I assume from the lime in the concrete, and the two war nickels rang up above normal. Strangely enough the buffalo nickels were the least corroded of all the coins. Fortunately the SLQ was off the edge from where the concrete had been and wasn’t corroded at all! Still reeling from the experience, and still sore too!! LOL. Thanks for looking 

[BeachHunter]

Awesome hunt! Congrats on all the goodies. Thanks for the pics

[GB_Amateur]

Quite a site you've found, and nice work on the recoveries.  Do you have the 6" coil?  I'm curious if that will help find a few more between the iron background.  Does the Standing Liberty 25 centpiece have a date?  How about the Buffies?  Get back there ASAP!

 

[Chase Goldman]

1 hour ago, phrunt said:

Great hunt, what a site! It always puzzles me how the coins get down in the soil like that, the spot looks like pretty packed hard soil.

Great article on why coins sink on seemingly hard packed ground or on any type of ground for that matter.  Multiple forces are constantly acting to push targets up and down in the ground.

https://www.minelab.com/go-minelabbing/treasure-talk/why-do-coins-sink

[Noah (FL)]

1 hour ago, GB_Amateur said:

Quite a site you've found, and nice work on the recoveries.  Do you have the 6" coil?  I'm curious if that will help find a few more between the iron background.  Does the Standing Liberty 25 centpiece have a date?  How about the Buffies?  Get back there ASAP!

 

No 6” for the EQX but will probably go back with either a Tesoro or my Makro wearing a small coil. However I was extremely impressed with the big coil on the EQX.  It was able to separate some targets that I know would have been problematic with an 8” Tesoro or the stock coil on the MakroMK  

No date on the SLQ but does have an S mintmark. Probably the 1917-24 version.  Buffaloes were 14,26,35,36 and two no dates. 

[Noah (FL)]

2 hours ago, phrunt said:

Great hunt, what a site! It always puzzles me how the coins get down in the soil like that, the spot looks like pretty packed hard soil.

It was packed sandy clay, fortunately when they tore the slab out it broke most of it up. It would have been part of the school yard from 1915-1970ish when they built this cafeteria on top of them.  Fortunately the building hid them from the couple guys that have told me about all the silver they pulled at this school in the 80s.

[Dan(NM)]

I love tear outs, you did fantastic, way to go!!

[Chase Goldman]

Way to take advantage of the tear out.

[Noah (FL)]

2 hours ago, Dan(NM) said:

I love tear outs, you did fantastic, way to go!!

 

1 hour ago, Chase Goldman said:

Way to take advantage of the tear out.

Thanks!!!!  

As the saying goes....”timing is everything”. 

[ECris]

Great finds!!