Years ago a friend and I researched and found an old western Spanish Trail site. It hasn't been a prolific site as far as finds go, but enough finds have come out of there to keep me coming back, although my hunt buddy had written it off. I was recently able to get there for the first time to try my EQUINOX 800. The hunt started out slow, found a few buttons, including a Civil War era Eagle Artillery cuff button and I eyeballed an Indian trade bead on the surface of the ground. I climbed up a small hill and was detecting on the top of it. It's a spot that we've detected many, many times before with about every detector known to mankind. Yet this particular hunt would turn out different. First I got a nice high tone on my EQ800 in Field2, and dug a deep plug and there was a seated dime at the bottom of the plug on edge. I figured our previous machines likely missed it because it was on edge and I just got lucky hitting it from the right angle. But as the hunt progressed, I found more, and more seated dimes and seated half dimes. Usually digging one seated dime on a hunt would be a victory in my book, but over the course of the next couple of hours, I would dig a total of twelve seated dimes and half dimes! Dates ranged from 1842-1882, and every single coin was holed in the centre. Given the context of the site, we can only surmise that these were used as Indian trade silver items. This was a dream hunt for me, I cannot wait to get back there with my EQUINOX!
Cal - California, USA