I'd been over this area on a farm near Gettysburg several times with the AT-PRO. I mean, I gridded it off, back and forth one direction, then the other......slow. It's Buttonville. Colonial buttons. Not sure how many buttons I've dug, but it's a bunch. Not to mention a couple Union bullets, and a few coppers. I'm new to Minelab, brand new. I just purchased a NOX 800 and am still learning the machine. So I'm back out to this little spot, in the blazing sun. I'm set up in Field 2, cranked the volume to 25, and set the tones from 50 down to 5. In the midst of a bunch of crackle, I hear a high pitched tone. I look at the screen and see a 38 jump in and out of the mix of numbers. So what's a newbie to the NOX do? DIG IT! Out popped a thick copper, kind of crusty, but thicker than any I've dug so far, and I've probably dug 50 or more. So I get home with this coin, and start to clean some of the dirt off it, and eventually see a left facing bust, and around the rim some really hard to make out letters, two of which are W's. What could it be? What could the writing be on this thing? After a period of time, a good bit of speculation, a bunch of google searching, I think I've ID'd this coin. It appears to be a Warwickshire half penny with the bust of Shakespeare on it. The reverse side is so worn as to have no recognizable features. I am convinced the AT-PRO missed it because it was sitting in a bed of iron. The NOX picked it up though :) Cheers!
Brad – Pennsylvania, USA
