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Nice finds. I still use my ATP mostly in freshwater ponds. Thinking of snagging the larger concentric coil for it so iron is not an issue. Tempted to sell my Nel Big for it as I don't use it that much since it is difficult to gb in many of the areas I hunt. Surprisingly the large coil actually works well at the beach, hits a nickel at 8" in the wet. I just use my seahunter there now.

You could always run your AT Pro without the headphones and scare any remnants of wildlife off. Should reduce the number of hunters out there :) For myself I'm thinking of leaving the bullwinkle hat at home.

I wanted to build a water proof Lobo and a custom coil that fits the detecting I do better than what is out there. So not having a standard Delta connector I can't put an existing known coil on the Lobo to tune it properly and can't build a custom coil and put in on a known Tejon to tune and test that properly. I can try to use jumpers to tune the coil and hopefully don't introduce any noise that would throw me off then hard wire it to the Lobo (which would make waterproofing simpler) but that would limit my coil options on the Lobo and not be able to use the coil on my Tejon. Going to keep my eyes out for a junk broken Delta connector machine that I can scavenge the parts off of.

Back is bad too if not worse. Front has a hint of a profile and only way I know it's a lrg cent is the size and material. Usually pure copper holds up bit better, wondering if this planchard was an alloy or just not pure copper? At least I know there is some much older stuff in the region so it gives me more enthusiasm to stomp over fallen trees and stumble through vines in the woods near by where I found the eagle cents and 2 cents. There is another forest to check out on the opposite side of the lake but I think it's hunting season still and even decked out in orange I don't trust the locals 🙂

Found this in what was a farm then turned into an estate then taken over by Nuns then turned into a city park. Coin is older than the town and older than the estate that was there. Good sign for older stuff but as you can see the farm land really beats these old coins up so back to the maps, wait for warmer weather and start hitting the wooded areas around some more. Looks like 1790's and only give away it was a large cent is the diameter. Might be a draped or flowing hair, hard to tell.

Unless there is a lot of foot traffic on the property the coins should be fairly shallow. I would hunt it as you would in a park. Expect less trash than a park has. Scout it in all metal mode or discrim off if you can and listen for the coin size objects. Usually near chicken coops etc you may run into more iron. If it had fields that were picked crops vs hay you may find some nice old coins. For coil size I would run the stock coil or larger one if the iron is low. Looks like a really cool place to detect, best of luck!

I did, the pinouts are like the new ones and missing the flat opposite of the keyway. Tesoro could have had custom connectors made. Garrett has custom connectors of their own.

After talking to SwitchCraft it seems it was either a custom connector or now discontinued part. So guess making a coil that would work on my Tejon is out of the question. Will still pursue the project but probably hardwire a custom coil to one of the Lobo boards and make it water resistant.

Good to see that level of production in the USA. Should help with combating the counterfeit machines flooding the market.

Nice you can get other coils for it too, Nel seems to have the full line for that detector.

Thats a good deal, didn't realize that machine has those features. Might make some good xmas gifts for my nephews.

I think people tend to buy newer and newer machines to add to their collections and maybe also they think the newer machine will find stuff their other machines don't. Curious that when people hit old grounds and find stuff they missed with the older machine that just maybe they didn't swing over that spot and/or had previously unmasked that area. I hit a local park that is so polluted with aluminum slag and tabs I can go back over a spot and keep finding coins that I missed before. Finds I get with my Tejon that I gloss over with my ATP for example is because the Tejon doesn't have a display so I pay more attention to the target and not glance at a VDI that may or may not be correct. I do dig more trash with the Tejon than I do with the ATP no doubt but I also find more. I think generally people are more apt to use a vdi not only because it is cooler watching what the machine is doing but also because they think they are not going to pick up any garbage and be able to cherry pick their way through. I can't tell you how many nickels I have from heavily hit areas that people pass over as well as jewelry. I know when I am in an area that has been picked through because there a usually square tabs, ring tabs bits of foil and nickels yet copper pennies and silver is gone or very sparse. Analog machines from my limited experience take a long time to really learn what the machine is saying. They can be frustrating if you don't put the time in.

Amethyst does look good, better on silver I think. Found this thing 14k amethyst ring couple years ago and doesn't doesn't stand out as much as the silver ring. Sorry pic is blury and my niece has it now.

If you have a loop, look through one of the facets and look for any rainbow colors. CZ's will refract light. No rainbow colors it's a diamond. I was tempted to buy a tester but know if I did I would jinx myself and never find another.

Iron looks like some farms around here. Good picking through all that.

Was there a lot of trash out there? Cool Finds.

Those CZ's? Hard to tell in a photo and look a little bright. Nice rings either way.

Nice find, looks like a kids ring with the puppy on it.

Wonder if they could encapsulate the circuit? https://www.smooth-on.com/products/solaris/ is an example of one product I know of.

I run into masking problems too in many areas when using a DD. I recently sweep the coil normal in one directly then back swipe at an angle. Seems to help. Of course if when there is a lot of iron I find myself setting my disc so iron just chirps as a marginal target and then approach each target at different angles. Wonder why ML doesn't make a concentric?

Your probably right on military so if that is the case the cloth might have been a flag? Maybe it was a buckle cover that went to a satchel or bag.

Haven't been out too much as weather been iffy and I been lazy. Getting back into the swing of things (pun intended) thanks

Was in an old 1940 school yard that used to be a farm and got all giddy at first when I dug this up, was pretty deep about 14" or so. Thought it was a large cent in good shape but still kind of neat. Medal is bronze.

The part looks like it was from some old farm equipment. Hard to tell how old because iron gets that crust and seems to stay that way for a long time and depends so many factors. The park could have fill or was once a farm. If it was a farm then look on old maps and see if it was hay fields or picked crops. Pick crops should have some old coins. You can do some reverse electrolysis on it to take the rust off, might be a marking on it.

Old farm? If you got a pair of headphones, listen for the shorter softer sounds. Junk usually has a pop to the beginning and end of the tone, better stuff has a round sound to it, soft-louder-soft. If you have a DD the only thing that might throw you off is steel bottle caps as they sound bit like quarters. In open fields with a DD on my Tesoro I set my discrimination so iron nails will just chirp and approach the target at angles if there is a spike to make sure nothing is masked. Parks and modern areas where there is can slag you may need to nudge it up to the foil line.