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Explorer 2 With EXcelerator 4.5"x7" Coil
Finds 1857 Half Dime!

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The last few days have been perfect detecting weather here in NW Indiana. I have been trying to squeeze any amount of detecting that I can get in.  On my last short outing I had an appointment to go to and thought maybe I could squeeze in a half hour or so of detecting at an old town square where the appointment was.

I showed up at the small town park after my appointment and there wasn't a soul there.  It sure always makes detecting a lot easier without people in the way. I was armed with my Explorer 2 equipped with the excelerator 4.5x7 coil.  This little coil has proven to be a favorite of mine already.  The conditions were perfect as we had about 2 inches of rain last week and the ground was still moist.  The ground at this park is extremely mineralized and has a lot of iron pieces mixed in the soil.  It sits next to two sets of railroad tracks and use to have a train station which sat right in the middle of the park.  I was there for about 15 minutes and had dug two memorial cents. 

My next signal would be an iffy signal, while hunting in a discrimination screen of the upper right corner opened up and the area of Indian pennies and nickels opened up. The crosshair was bouncing around and giving me a high tone broken up with a nulling.  I switched to iron mask -15 and could now see and hear that there were iron tones mixed with this high tone.  I figured I had something here, so I dug a 6 inch plug and the signal wasn't in the hole any longer.

Breaking off about an inch of the plug revealed a small disc which I thought was a button at first. To my surprise and delight, I was holding my second ever half dime dated 1857!  It still amazes me how I can think a place is hunted out and I make a find like this.  I suppose its true that an area is never really "hunted out".

 – Larry V., IN

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