The Sequel - If I'm Gonna Find A Coin, I Like it When It's Old

[F350Platinum]

Today I went to a farm I haven't been to in a while, We have pounded this place with Deus 2 detectors, and found a lot of cool stuff dating from the late 1600s on. My favorite find there until today was a 1694 William and Mary twopence, I don't have it on my phone anymore.

It's a huge farm, you have to park on one end of it and walk to the other. There is a small hotspot near where we park, and much larger spots on the other end. With corn stalks everywhere it's brutal to walk on, and tough to detect. They planted cover crop so it was a good idea to go there before it gets too high. Digging today was so easy it should be illegal 😅

Today was the first day of Daylight Savings Time here, so I got there early. Today I brought the Manticore with the M15, I wanted to see if it would find anything I hadn't with the Deus 2.

Knowing I'd be there a long time I brought my backup battery: 

I was there a total of 8 hours, and walked over 5 miles.

For the first 4 hours I found nothing but junk, lead, and shotgun shells. I really thought the day wasn't going to be all that great but the last 4 hours got really good. 

I'm happy to not dig any more iron with the Manticore:

Same old same old. 

Here are the brass and other finds:

Got two halves of and odd metal sphere, one is empty, the other filled with iron. 🤷‍♂️ A couple pieces of Saddle decoration, including what the Hoover Boys call a "Throckmorton" 😏

I think it is a badge identifying a male horse as a stud horse. 🤔

I also got a couple of cool buttons, or maybe they are saddle decorations as well:

Really old stuff. 

At one point I got a solid 55, and I thought "oh, more aluminum".

Well it wasn't, and I was thrilled: 

It's a 1694 William and Mary Half Cent with pretty good detail. 

I was just able to make out the date at the bottom. 

This is what it looks like cleaned up:

But that's not all! I ended up beating that find with this:

A 1687 Spanish cob. 

Sidelighting brings out the date on the reverse of the coin.

And this is what this cob would look like if minted in Bolivia. It's very difficult to read that side of the coin. 

Two coins over 330 years old! 

What a day. 

🍀

[JCR]

Very & very nice.

[geof_junk]

@ F350Platinum you don't want to be caught with that coin in Aust. two-up game. As a double  headed coin is considered cheating 😍

[ColonelDan]

Outstanding coin finds!  A salute to you my friend....  🫡

[F350Platinum]

9 hours ago, JCR said:

Very & very nice.

Thanks JCR,

This is the second William and Mary coin I've found in that spot. I believe it was an early hunting camp. The hill overlooks a large creek, wildfowl and deer still abound. Lead everywhere.

[F350Platinum]

58 minutes ago, ColonelDan said:

Outstanding coin finds!  A salute to you my friend....  🫡

Thank you Colonel, 🫡

Very early and quite unexpected finds, but after finding the second W&M coin, I had to stick around and search for silver, I'm surprised to find a whole coin. The last time I was there was 2 years ago, almost 3. It's a half mile slog to the site. The cob is my second oldest now.

[mn90403]

Display box material for sure.  Clues worthy of a map for future reference.  The age is quite amazing.

Still some good stuff there after all the swinging.  You went back to your 'spots' where you found before, yet you pulled these out with the M15.  What would you suspect was the advantage of the day?

[F350Platinum]

39 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

Display box material for sure.  Clues worthy of a map for future reference.  The age is quite amazing.

Still some good stuff there after all the swinging.  You went back to your 'spots' where you found before, yet you pulled these out with the M15.  What would you suspect was the advantage of the day?

Thanks MN,

I'm putting all my finds in display boxes with locations for future reference. 👍 It's getting to be a heckuva collection!

I most certainly would have found the coins with the Deus 2 and the 13", but I brought the Manticore for its low conductor sensitivity. We have found lots of Tombacs and spectacle buckle bits, even a few whole ones in this place. That is what I was searching for, and expecting only to find higher conductors like lead. It's a 150 acre farm.

Oddly enough the W&M coin was only a 55, and the cob was a 77. The only other stuff I found with IDs over 50 were bullets and old cans.

The only other thing I can think of for both detectors is using an elliptical coil, I'm not sure why but I feel that ellipticals false less than round coils on iron, and iron is there in large quantity. I believe there was a structure of some sort, but so long ago it is not on any map.

The M15, while somewhat heavy and difficult to maneuver in corn stalks no matter how well they turbo till, affords the user a greater advantage in that it catches "fringe" targets on a large scale than the smaller coils.

I've used the M8 in similar conditions and find it can miss a target that is surrounded by iron, simply because of its size. With a larger coil, the edges will find the iron, but the center seems to take precedence over the edges. 🤔 Or at least the processing favors the higher conductor. 

I've been using Neil Jones' Freestyle settings since I first used the Manticore, and am now very used to the way it works. Apparently his soil conditions are very similar to mine. 🙂 Lucky guess when looking to hit the ground running!

[Lodge Scent]

Double dipping into the 1600s! That's just not fair F350.😁Both of those coins have eluded me over the years.

Well done!