I was recently invited to a friend’s permission they had visited once and found a few hammered coins. The day started slowly with just bits of lead and the odd copper coin. Then out of the blue a nice high tone signal, I dug the clod and there it was sat in the mud, my first hammered off the new permission. It was and Edward I penny. I carried on and twenty minutes later, another hammered silver coin, this time a half groat of Henry VIII. After this, daylight was slowly disappearing so we packed up. Between 4 of us, 12 hammered coins came up. The next week I was invited back with my detecting buddy. The day was going slow with hardly any good signals until I moved towards the top of the field and got a banging mid tone signal. I dug the club and saw a dull silver round object on the top of the mud. I picked it up and believed it was a pewter button until I wiped one side and saw a roman figure. I couldn't believe it was a roman silver denarius! I had been after one of these since I started detecting four years ago and now my Explorer XS had got me one finally. It was of Julia Mamaea from 222-235ad. Apart from this, there was not many other finds. After going home we got invited back once again and this time I was sure I would not find anything as a Garrett AT PRO, Teknetics T2, CTX 3030 and my Explorer XS had covered the field. But was I wrong, within 4 hours detecting slow and low I managed to winkle out another 3 hammered silver coins of Edward.
Thanks Minelab for the great machines! I couldn't see myself with another brand now.
Mikey – England, UK.
