Week Long Relic Hunt Day 4 - Attack Of The Zincolns

[F350Platinum]

What a day! Started out all smoggy and still, so I thought I'd try a water hunt today. It was just after low tide,  I got in the sound at the end of one of the piers, the water wasn't too cold and there is a nice sandy bottom.

Well that didn't last long. 🤣 I heard some good signals but the water was almost neck deep all the way to the seawall. I couldn't dig anything!

Switched gears to relic and coin hunting, I went back to the place I was yesterday. It's about 2 acres of tent camping sites. Did pretty good there yesterday with 37 coins, today was even better.

It got clear, warm and a bit breezy so it was really pleasant. Got a small flashlight that still works, and a lot of coins. Got near a very old cedar tree and saw this:

It was just the top of the iceberg. Spent the next 15 minutes there with my pinpointer finding penny after penny, and 8 keys.

Also found a wampum bracelet probably made by a Boy Scout with two pieces of turquoise on it. It was all attached with fishing line. I found a brass General star with the clasp, and an earring with a silver iron cross.

Silver! 😀 Had to buy lunch.

Here's the take for the morning, ended up with 38 Zincolns and a bit of clad.

Also got some memorials.

But the best is below, I did not expect to find any old coins here!

A very nice 1926 Buffalo Nickel, and a 1930 wheat.

Took my wife to lunch, came back and set out again to finish this area up. Got a lot more clad and 10 more Zincolns, but in the middle of it a storm came out of nowhere and it got extremely windy and cold. Also blew the smoke out, we went from 156 air quality to 56 in an hour. I got in a sheltered spot and waited it out 

My last find of the day was a 1965 quarter in the last corner of this area. 🤣 I knew it was time to go.

But that's not all, I dug 3 old buttons today. The first I thought was an old overall button, but it turned out to be an odd duck with a patent date of Feb 7, 1888:

And last but not least, an ancient cufflink button and a lead one. Really old stuff.

Trash from the morning:

And this afternoon:

Banner day, 74 coins total and some relics. I was even treated to a rainbow.

[PI-Man]

Way to go!  Great finds, button, and cufflink.  Need to research that cufflink.  Hopefully someone on here knows something about that type — very interesting.

Hey we have trash just like that down here.  Must be that universal trash.  😂 

[F350Platinum]

Thanks! 🤣 Absolutely no iron trash today. The tent stake was sight pick.

People have been complaining about falsing iron, I'm not having that issue with this program at all. Loving V1.1!

[JCR]

A good day indeed.

[Doc Bach]

Great patina on the patent dated London Paris button.There are a whole lot of varients of those however I cannot recall ever seeing that particular example.

[F350Platinum]

17 minutes ago, Doc Bach said:

Great patina on the patent dated London Paris button.There are a whole lot of varients of those however I cannot recall ever seeing that particular example.

Thanks Doc,

There is a high probability of finding unusual old stuff in some spots here, however I feel it was cherry picked for the easy stuff a long time ago. There should be all kinds of silver coins here, and I have not found 1. It hasn't been picked over since then, most of the clad is from the late 70s to now. I found many wheats and Indian heads, even one large cent where the road to the hunting lodge was. Last year I dug parts of a 1907 Jamestown Exposition medal here.

The tent sites are closer to the hunting lodge that was here in the 1800s to about 2015. It became a campground in the 70s and was bought by a large concern about 4 years ago. There is a tremendous amount of iron and other trash where the house and lodge were, some good stuff may be masked.

[Doc Bach]

3 minutes ago, F350Platinum said:

Thanks Doc,

There is a high probability of finding unusual old stuff in some spots here, however I feel it was cherry picked for the easy stuff a long time ago. There should be all kinds of silver coins here, and I have not found 1. It hasn't been picked over since then, most of the clad is from the late 70s to now. I found many wheats and Indian heads, even one large cent where the road to the hunting lodge was. Last year I dug parts of a 1907 Jamestown Exposition medal here.

The tent sites are closer to the hunting lodge that was here in the 1800s to about 2015. It became a campground in the 70s and was bought by a large concern about 4 years ago. There is a tremendous amount of iron and other trash where the house and lodge were, some good stuff may be masked.

I'm envious 350.The button caught my eye because of its patina and the fact that I have found a lot of variants.That said you have a lot of very nice finds there.

[CPT_GhostLight]

Man, you killed it today, lots of great finds, congrats and well done! I'd say the Reaper 1.1 is doing the job alright. 😎

[Ogliuga]

Very nice again! Love to follow your threads with your finds and photos!

[F350Platinum]

4 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Man, you killed it today, lots of great finds, congrats and well done! I'd say the Reaper 1.1 is doing the job alright. 😎

Thanks Cap'n,

More like digging 48 Zincolns almost killed me 🤣 It was easy though, most were right on top, and I had my trusty Devil's Tongue Park Probe with me.

It deserves an honorable mention, @kac really has a winner there. Leaving no trace is important both to me and the campground General Manager.

Looks like I've got it dialed in with this one. When I can turn the D2 on, noise cancel, ground balance and go it's a good sign. I'll probably just post the settings when I'm confident, but I liked sending it individually to those that requested the old Reaper to get feedback.

I'm going to strongly recommend use of Audio Filter. It really makes a difference with aluminum. My only fear is that I might miss some tokens, but round objects like the 1930 World Fair pull tabs I dug may suggest otherwise. 🧐 Good thing I dig most 62s because that got me the cufflink. It did not have the brassy tone so I was sure I had a nickel 😏 it's awesome when I'm wrong... Sometimes.

Zincolns come in at 84 for the most part, memorials popped as high as 94 today.

What I really love is that even with multiple targets in a particular spot like 2-3 quarters and a memorial or Zincoln, I still got 93-94 consistently. That is another gripe about SMF detectors, the averaging or cancelling - the D2 did not do it. The best example was pulling a memorial out of a bed of nails.

The old Relic Reaper would have been a bit trifling here, this new version is much more quiet. Iron is just a low buzz.