The number one coin on my hit list went down, sat down that is, on a short swing on 20 May 2017. I was detecting at a location that I had been to numerous times. Very trashy area, with a late 1800's Indian Head Cent, and a few wheats being the only "keepers" from the area thus far.
Grass was freshly cut and the ground was very saturated from all the rain as of late, so the swing was easy and smooth. Great conditions for running TTF with my E-TRAC, my preferred program to run. I had been swinging for about 45 minutes with nothing but undesirable tones and read outs when I got a clear and clean tone, with a display of 12-46, showing 8".
There was a little chasing involved during the recovery. Dug my plug, checked the plug, nothing, checked the hole, still a hit, was off on my dig. I had to extend and remove two more smaller portions of sod before the coin was exposed. I was not very proud of my hole size, but being off on your pin pointing location happens at times to all of us.
The coin was almost all the way on edge, lying in the 11 - 4 o'clock position. I extracted the coin, took a pic, popped some soil from it and could see the distinctive reverse eagle, and not a Barber eagle that I would have suspected in this location.
I moistened the coin enough to reveal that it was a Seated quarter!! Got home, cleaned it up a tad to determine the date, 1891! Pleased and thankful to have found the number one coin on my hit list, onto the next "lister".
Todd – IA, USA.