Popular Post Noah (FL) Posted May 26, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted May 26, 2019 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 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachHunter Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 Awesome hunt! Congrats on all the goodies. Thanks for the pics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB_Amateur Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase Goldman Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah (FL) Posted May 26, 2019 Author Share Posted May 26, 2019 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah (FL) Posted May 26, 2019 Author Share Posted May 26, 2019 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan(NM) Posted May 26, 2019 Share Posted May 26, 2019 I love tear outs, you did fantastic, way to go!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase Goldman Posted May 27, 2019 Share Posted May 27, 2019 Way to take advantage of the tear out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah (FL) Posted May 27, 2019 Author Share Posted May 27, 2019 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”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECris Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Great finds!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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