Minelab Equinox Vs Silver Hoard

[Swifty-TD]

I know for a fact it will find a silver hoard because I was using my Nox in Park 1 when I found this hoard.

http://allmetalmode.com/mikes-blog/2018/07/23/silver-hoard-found-in-ohio/

 

Tom

[Andy2640]

Great Documented story there Tom.  I really enjoyed that and really liked your deep thinking regarding a theory on how it got there.

Like you say, we'll never know how it got there, but all your theory's, and mine, and others would probably be wrong, so is life ? 

No other hobby has this much richness to it in my opinion.  Its got it all.

Great hoard discovery Tom, and thanks for sharing your thoughts, insight and all the little details.

 

May your skill and luck continue.

 

Andy.

[Swifty-TD]

Thanks Andy,

Mike Haer who does post on this forum gets all the credit for writing such a great article.

The main reason I wanted to share it was just to show you cannot trust these extreme tests people come up with on Youtube to always relate to real world conditions.

In my situation the Equinox had no problem detecting a silver hoard.

The main hole that I found most of those silver coins in I had no problem initially hitting with my Equinox 800. It rang up high like a single silver coin. I dug one coin and put the plug back in. Only when I decided to recheck the hole did I realize there was more than one target. There ended up being between 30-40 coins in that hole.

I just wouldn't put too much stock in some of these tests people put out there to show a problem with a machine that may not even exist.

 

Take care,

Tom

 

[Chase Goldman]

Also, it’s a lot easier to set up any machine to demonstrate or feign poor performance than it is to demonstrate or fake extraordinary performance.

[GB_Amateur]

On 7/26/2018 at 9:09 AM, Swifty-TD said:

I know for a fact it will find a silver hoard because I was using my Nox in Park 1 when I found this hoard.

http://allmetalmode.com/mikes-blog/2018/07/23/silver-hoard-found-in-ohio/

This is a fantastic find&story and deserves it's own thread, not buried in this snipe hunt thread.

Regarding when the hoard was lost and how it got spread out, I have a couple comments:

1) According to Q. David Bowers in https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Book-United-States-Mint/dp/0794843972/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532708759&sr=8-1&keywords=A+guide+book+of+the+united+states+mint

"The Act of February 21, 1857, ended the legal-tender status of foreign gold and silver coins, effective two years from the time of declaration, although the deadline was later extended by six months.  It was not until the mid-1850's that there were enough federal (minted by the United Sates) silver coins in circulation to be dominent."

Keep in mind that the speed of commerce, etc. wasn't nearly as fast as today.  Ohio wasn't New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, etc.  It's possible those coins were still being used at the time of the Civil War.  Further, it's also possible the hoard was accumulated over a long period of time.  Suppose you had such a rainy day stash and were told foreign silver coins would no longer be legal for trade in the US.  What would you do?  The country was in turmoil well before the first shots of the Civil War were fired.  It seems reasonable to me that keeping all those coins buried and hidden for later use when food would be scarce and precious metals were the only thing trusted would have been in the minds of many.

2) The comment about that field never having been tilled seems questionable.  150+ years is a lot of growing seasons gone by.  Could the area even have been part of a vegetable garden?

Great stuff -- makes me want to play hooky this afternoon and go for a hunt!!

[staffydog33]

Just done my own uncut and unedited Equinox vs silver hoard video.

Here are the results:

Myth - DEBUNKED!

https://youtu.be/DDBur-nlXWw

Hope you like...lol

 

Matt

[Dubious]

Thanks for the test.  This is more like it.

[Andy2640]

Putting the world to rights.

Nice1 Staffydog.

 

Andy.