First Relic Hunt Brings Gold Moral Test #2

[F350Platinum]

Don't know what it is this year, for the second time I've found gold that came with a moral obligation 🤔 Apparently the karma from the last time I found gold and "did the right thing" led me to an even greater test, I hope I passed... 

This past week I noticed one of my permissions had been harvested of corn, they cut it really short. I've been eager to get out and relic hunt, this particular spot has been hit hard, but I hoped I'd find something and I did.

Got out there fairly early, and decided to look for a gold coin that I was originally asked to find when I first got this permission. 

I poked around for about 45 minutes or so where they told me the coin should be, only hearing and digging aluminum. I wanted to go to other parts of the 67 acre field, so I headed out feeling I had done my due diligence. I've spent hours looking for that coin over the last couple of years.

Today I brought my WS6 Master setup with the 9" coil. I figured the 9" would be easier to get around the corn stalks but the battery wore down fast, later I switched to my trusty 13" coil and the RC. 

Not 5 minutes into my walk across the field I got an upper mid tone, and a solid 79 in all directions. I'd been finding nothing, so I was glad to finally find something.

It was more than something: 

1886 S $5 gold coin. It also had a gold bezel around it but it was mangled. There was also a chain, I'll have to look for that some more but it's probably part of a tilling machine now. 🙄

The landowner drove up, and joked with me that he now wants half of everything I find, and I said "How about everything I've found today?", and held out the coin. You should have seen his face. I said "But wait, there's more!" and handed him the bent bezel.

This coin has been lost for a long time, probably 5-10 years or so. The landowner thought he knew where it was lost, but it wasn't near that today.

There is a long story behind all this but I've written enough about it. He did say he felt bad taking it from me, but I said "Honor feels much better than deceit", and I thanked him for all the stuff he did let me have. Nothing I've found was as valuable or desirable as this coin, but I've done well. He also has now allowed me to hunt around the house. 🙂 This coin and another were passed down by the original builder of the farmhouse.

I also did good afterward:

Mid sized button with shank and no marks, a broken brass object I believe to be a small crotal bell, a suspender clip that is decorated with a fish and a dragonfly, and a large copper or brass strap. Also got a small lock slide. 

The best objects are the two small buttons:

Really old one with decoration;

And a most interesting ball button with no base, the shank soldered inside.

I figured out why I got so much trash:

This might be some good advice to the more inexperienced with the Deus 2.

I've been hunting all summer in full tones, if you follow my posts the trash got to be less than the good finds. It didn't start that way, listening to the tonal nuances was the process that got me a successful summer. Now I'm using Relic with pitch tones and I'll have to learn it all over again. 🤔

My point is that bouncing around different programs with different tones will mess you up. Find programs and settings that work, and stick with them. It will get better. I use a modified Beach Sensitive and Relic, that's pretty much it. I might switch between the two to verify a target, but that happens increasingly less. Relic for relics, and Beach for beach. 

Ok, I have one question for y'all, am I now in the Gold Coin club, or am I disqualified because I "knew" it was there? It was lost the same as any gold coin gets lost...

Anyway a great day. Yet again I had to take the moral high ground with an awesome find, and it feels pretty good. 

🍀

 

[schoolofhardNox]

You're certainly in the gold club!  Great job finding it. I hope you get the rest of the chain, but that will be tough. You did the right thing by giving it to him. It belongs there to be passed down to the next in line. I bet he never tells you NO, you can't hunt here anymore 😅

[Doc Bach]

Well done soldier!

And welcome too and being an honorary member of the GCC!

You have certainly paid your dues sir and yes I would have loved to have seen the look on the mans face for sure.

On a side note if the Deus 2 only had the Relic program and no others I would be happy with it.

Great story Bob😊and congrats. 

Doc.

[JCR]

Well done indeed.

[kac]

Very good day for ya and even better for the owner of that coin! You might not have made it in the GCC if the drop was less than week lol.

One thing you can do is make 2 identical programs and back them to back, one in 40khz, one in 14khz and you can cross check targets by how much id can shift. Aluminum will shift left vs say nickel that can drop 5 points or so from 40 to 14.

Make sure you turn off auto frequency scan so the change toggling between programs is instant.

[Joe D.]

I bow before the great "King Bob"!😂 Great job, again!🎉🍀🏆👍👍

[Valens Legacy]

Another fantastic hunt for you, and glad that you were able to return the lost coin.

Good luck on your next hunt and stay safe out there.

Let the permission know that there is only one free gold coin in the deal.

[F350Platinum]

7 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

You're certainly in the gold club!  Great job finding it. I hope you get the rest of the chain, but that will be tough. You did the right thing by giving it to him. It belongs there to be passed down to the next in line. I bet he never tells you NO, you can't hunt here anymore 😅

Thanks! 😅 I wasn't sure if I qualified because it was something I was looking for, and I didn't feel I should keep it. It's fortunate the coin survived the hit, I wish I had taken a photo of the bezel but everything happened so fast, and now I know what it is like to find one.

Knowing the landowner as I do, I wasn't sure he truly trusted me. His story is really interesting as is the place, and I have a lot of respect for him so I can't tell it.  There is something else I will have to look for now, part of the expanded permission. 

[F350Platinum]

7 hours ago, Doc Bach said:

Well done soldier!

And welcome too and being an honorary member of the GCC!

You have certainly paid your dues sir and yes I would have loved to have seen the look on the mans face for sure.

On a side note if the Deus 2 only had the Relic program and no others I would be happy with it.

Great story Bob😊and congrats. 

Doc.

Thanks Doc,

67 acres is a lot of land, over the last two years I got differing accounts as to where the coin was lost, so I really never thought I'd find it. This also vindicates the person who lost it, it's probably been a sore spot between them. Sadly the other coin was stolen, there were two coins originally. 

I hope I do find one for my collection now, over the summer I got a few more permissions that have possibilities. I've been over this place many times by myself and with another person, sad to say there really isn't much left to find. All the real hotspots have been searched thoroughly, so now what is left is random.

Relic is a really accurate program when tweaked a bit, maybe the stock form is just fine but I'm satisfied with my adjustments.

I've found only 2 settings might need changing on the fly with either program I use - Audio Response for EMI and Reactivity for areas with a lot of targets. I probably could have used my Beach program which seems less sensitive to interference and I might have dug less trash, but it didn't seem right.