More E-Trac yack. Family detecting. And Seattle.

I am truly, truly blown away with this machine. Honestly. Words can't describe how well this machine works. Put simply. You get over a coin spill. You hear multiple coins like you have never heard them before. Over a silver coin on edge under a nest of roots 6 inches deep next to a nail, you hear it. Incredible. I recently got to get back out to do some detecting. This time I hit Seattle. I asked everyone I knew on these sites if they knew of any spots to detect. I got not a single response. So I had to hit the town blindly. I did however. Have a little bit of an edge. I lived in Seattle once upon I time. So I had a few places in mind. However. They all turned out to be totally hunted out. And any coin older than 1990 was over 4 - 5 inches deep - Seattle rains constantly and drives the goodies down deep. So add that to a spot that has been hammered to death. I was SOL. Even the easements gave up very little. But. That was ok. At least I was finally detecting in a different state. And I was happy about that.

This detecting adventure in reallity. Was more of a much needed vacation anyway. In fact. A long overdue one. We had to juggle the time we had carefully so the girls had time to do all the "Seattle tourist" stuff. Which was also great fun. However. I was shocked when the girls said they wanted to go threw Antique shops and....go metal detecting! So, we hit the University area first. Loads of clad, and more beaver tail pull tabs than I have ever dug in all my hunts combined. I learned a beaver tail tone so well. I can see why they are all left in the dirt by fellow coin shooters. Our first hunt was short. About an hour. It was all the time we could squeeze in. But we had a blast. And it was cool to be walking around in my old neighborhood.

(Me outside of my old Seattle Apt)
The next day. We devoted to cruising around the city. Looking at old buildings. Visiting antique shops. Where I bought quite a number of old stocks. And old ads and labels to decorate our new home. As much fun as that was. I was really looking forward to the next day. When we could get out to do some metal detecting. Holly was the first to locate a silver coin. Her first silver on the E-Trac. I quickly followed up with the nicest merc dime I have ever dug. And Sahale dug her first wheat penny right after that. The only wheat cent I might add! See video clip of the Seattle digs below.


1949 Rosie Dime. Silver Number 1 for Holly on her new E-Trac

Reverse of 1943 s Mercury Dime. Fully split horizontal bands on faces! A first!

Sahale's First Wheat cent!

After we got home. I was incredibly eager to do some more detecting the next day. But was lacking the energy to really go out and hit it hard. So I just hit my front yard in a 2 tone ferrous. And dug a wheat cent followed by this little brass political token of Franklin Peirce. This commemorative token was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut during the mid-20th century.

The following day. There was a rather big event across from our house. Where the families all met up. Had a picnic and hung out. We even heard a story from Holly's cousin about a guy who dug a gold ring in the easement out front of their house. They described this person in such detail. That we knew who it was.
Afterwords. Everyone came and toured the new house. And the kids were so impressed with our house. That they all want to spend the night. So. Holly and I let Tal have her little cousin over. Where we BBQ'd, and ate on the front porch. And then went and flew the remote control helicopter. After which. We decided to take out Holly's Daughter along with her sisters daughter for a quick little metal detecting hunt. We didn't plan to dig, or video any of it. Just toss out a few coins and let them find em. However. I got a good signal and ran to the house for the digger. I came back and dug a 1940s Wheat. Was very surprised to find a wheat in this spot. Then, we found another. Then, a nice big SILVER RING! FUN! Family is GOOD LUCK! This video has no digs. But shows the finds right after. See below.


Ring and Wheat Cent. Dug on 7/14/11

Anyway. Its hard to beat. Taking out the youngsters. And digging treasures. The kids dug over 2 dollars each in clad. And had a blast using the pinpointers to help locate the goodies. And the E-Trac's performance can't be topped. Its an incredible machine. Anyway. Will be updating as I get some more hunts in. Which, will be very soon! probably tomorrow!