Night detecting with the Explorer SE Pro

[treasureman]

Just may have a few more goodies there gp. A few more 1800 goodies

 

[Goldpick]

Thanks Treasureman/Dejan, it has been a struggle to find spots with coinage dating into the 1800's around here, so hopefully more to come considering the threepence was found only a cm or two below the surface. I only had the small joey coil on, so wasn't going to pick up anything a great depths, back to the stock 11" next time.

 

[rocketaroo]

Love the early silvers, congrats

 

[Goldpick]

Manage a couple of silvers tonight, all from 1942 except for the british 1920 sixpence which is in reasonably bad condition. Will try to clean it up a bit more, though may take some electrolysis to do so.

 

[silver]

Nice silvers to be finding GP,... Hope the1920 comes up good for you.
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[Weaman]

Nice Finds Goldpick but you are a crazy man going out last night, i was sitting in front of my heater freezing.... and your further south than me

i might brave the weather tonight........ maybe

 

[Goldpick]

It was 4 degrees last night, had my thermals on and several layers of clothing, so it wasn't too bad. At least it wasn't 2 degrees like the previous night.

 

[Ramjet]

Nice finds GP. Night's are 4 degrees here too. It's the wind I don't like.

 

[treasureman]

Love the british coin. I inherited several old silver british coins several months ago. Very nice

 

[Goldpick]

Tried a new spot tonight, not a lot turned up except for a coin spill behind a large tree consisting of a 1951 roo penny, 1947 florin, and a 1936 florin. Also picked up a silver earring and a 1943 threepence elsewhere at the same location.

 

[rocketaroo]

Nice spill

 

[Ramjet]

2 florins and a Penny in one coin spill. Nice

 

[silver]

Tripple silver score, with the two Florin bonus,... ding ding ding ding ding, high score GP, you and Santa are on a roll at the moment in the silver department !

 

[Goldpick]

Thanks guys, nothing like finding one florin netherlone two in the one outing. I must say florins are one of the easier coins to find if you happen to walk over one, especially on the Explorer which seems biased towards the high conductors. Add a penny to the spill and it throws the ID no.s out a fair bit over the usual ~ 00:28 for a florin. Bottom line is if it is a high conductor, regardless of ID number, best to check it out.

 

[Goldpick]

Still scouting out locations tonight, no silver coins but managed to find an old silver signet ring at the base of a tree. The surprise of the night was the third oldest coin I have found, being a nice large 1857 brittania penny pretty much found out the middle of nowhere - no other coins were found at that location! The city was only established 3 years previous to that coin date, so quite a lucky find.

Next I moved back to an old suburban park (where I found the ring), and also picked up a 1949 half penny, 1950 penny, and a 1951 penny. The last photo is of something unusual found near the 1857 penny, looks a bit like an old hammer off a gun, not really sure though - probably just wishful thinking.

 

[Goldpick]

Just a short one tonight, managed to sneak out to give my new Detech WSS 10x5" coil a quick run, and came away pretty impressed - good coverage for such a small coil, and handy for rummaging around bushes and tree bases. The area detected seems to be lacking in decimal coinage, so I am not sure whether it is regularly detected. Though on its maiden run, I managed to pick up a 1927 half penny, 1941 penny, and the find of the night, a Professor Holloway's Pills and Ointment token from 1857.

Being hard to read, the token took me ages to identify being smaller than a penny, though about the size of a florin, just thinner. Apparently this specific token is quite prolific on the goldfields, and is one of the more common ones to find, though happy that it is my first token at long last.

 

[rocketaroo]

That roo is pretty cool

 

[Goldpick]

Forgot about the roo, looks like it was attached to something, probably a keyring though looks like it is just die-cast. Would have been nice in silver.

 

[Goldpick]

Well the curse of the BB's hit me last night. For once I tried running a custom discrimination pattern to only receive all decimal and pre-decimal coins by using the learn function on the Explorer, but need to re-jig it a bit to open up the discrimination pattern a bit more to catch ID's that are off by a few digits (as we know coins don't always have perfect ID's when in the ground). Turns out it worked quite well, as most of the junk retrieved was falling only in the gold range (also sampled several gold rings of various sizes/compositions into the pattern).

First good target of the night was a wee bit confusing, numbers jumping around a lot but still strong and repeatable. Turned out to be a spill of 6x10c coins, with a 5c stuck to one of the 10c - nothing exciting, but nice to get a few coins in one hit. The 50c coin copped a mower hit, and still managed to find the other half a few feet away.

The 1948 threepence was a sunbaker - easy pickings, and the 1958 rams head shilling was also not far under the surface, just the way I like it.

The only downside to the hunt was coming across a fair few large holes that had been dug out in the turf, and simply refilled with the soil and no turf, leaving unsightly brown patches all over the place. Just to add to the issue, the junk from those holes was either left next to, or put back into the hole again.

 

[Ramjet]

Not a bad haul GP. A high coin count and a couple of silvers.