I recently purchased my Minelab Equinox 800 in February 2020 to look for old coins and relics in South East Michigan. Like all new detectorist I was excited to get out and try my hand at using the Equinox 800 and seeing what we could unearth together. To my surprise I have been able to find at least one silver coin every month that I have had my detector but none of the silver was older than 1935. That was until last week when I decided to go back to a local athletic field that I have hunted on a few occasions before. This time I decided to just poke around in the grassy gravel parking area and look for some modern clad change since I only had a short time to hunt. Ten feet from where I parked my car I got a strange signal that bounced between 24 and 32 on my VDI. I proceeded to swing over the target in multiple directions and got the same signal repeating. I thought this must be two coins together and then I tried the new 4kHz single frequency and it lit up my VDI at 33. I decided to dig the hard packed lot with my small trowel and down around 5 inches I saw two coins emerge on edge stacked together with some copper green color on one of them. The second coin was larger and bright and I immediately got excited thinking I had just found another silver Washington quarter. When I picked the quarter up from the hole, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw it was a Standing Liberty quarter dated 1918, my oldest find to date. The second coin I believed was a penny due to the green colored copper but I could not see it well enough in the field to see what it was. When I got home, I was able to clean up the penny well enough to see what it was and read the date. To my disbelief for a second time I was starring at an Indian head penny (a first find for me), dated 1898. I cannot believe that those coins have been sitting in the ground in that parking area since before my father probably walked the earth just waiting for me to come and find them. I am continuously surprised at the items I am able to find with my Equinox 800 even though the sites I hunt have been hammered by detectorist over the years. Thanks to Minelab for making the year 2020 a memorable one for me for all the right reasons.
