Great coinshooting session with a Garrett Euro Ace, Deeptech Vista Gold and Minelab Etrac. Since I had only just received the Vista Gold, I made the mistake of not reading the user instructions so I didn't have the machine set up properly, causing lots of falsing and jumpy signals which needed checking with the Etrac. Next video will be a field test with the Vista Gold, set up properly (I have now read the instructions and know what all the switch settings are for...) and detecting on ploughed land near my home which has recently yielded some nice spindle whorls and a roman coin. If it is as stable as the RG1000 from Deeptech it should be a great machine as even when it was set up totally wrong for this hunt, it still found coins to good depths. Best finds of the day were a silver ring, Elizabeth hammered half groat and a Charles I hammered shilling. The fields where we found the hammered and ring didn't produce any modern coins at all and we made those great finds in about an hour so the fields will be getting a good bashing throughout this summer. Watch out for those videos as there are bound to be some great finds come out of there as they have never been detected before. Check out my dedicated detecting channel - 'UKDetecting'. I have started uploading my detecting videos there and they will be split up into more comprehensive playlists which will be easier to navigate. Any subs will be greatly appreciated. Link here: http://www.youtube.com/user/UKDetecting Thanks for watching.
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A group of three metal detectorists—the narrator, his son James, and their friend Jimmy—explore a coin field and nearby pasture. Using various detectors, they recover a diverse array of finds, including modern copper coins, silver half-crowns, a silver ring, and rare hammered silver coins from the eras of Elizabeth I and Charles I.
Hello there, welcome to my latest video.
In this one I go back to the coin shooting field,
I'm using the e-track, I'm taking my son with me.
He's using a Vista Gold which we've got to
do some tests on. Unfortunately I haven't set it up very well
and I need to read the instructions
before we set it up. Still did find quite a few finds
but a little few of the signals
were a little bit erratic which they shouldn't be.
That's my fault, I do apologize.
We also go with a friend of mine called Jimmy the Horse,
who's using a Garrett Euro Ace.
He also makes some pretty good finds as well,
so watch it, see what you think. If you like it,
give it a thumbs up. This is James using the Deep Tech Vista Gold.
Got a nice signal here, so we're
going to give it a dig. His first coin with the gold, 1932, half penny.
Looks like it's been through
a cement mixer, that one. It's in atrocious condition.
This is a good one, reading 1232 on the e-track.
It's a coin ball. This field produces so many coin balls, it's unreal.
And it's a little farthing.
1942 with the Wren on.
This one's reading 1242
and it looks like another coin,
which it is. It's a 1928 penny.
It's interesting, it's a huge lump of coal.
The E-Track just absolutely ignored it.
The Vista Gold gave a pretty good signal off that.
It looks like a mini cave.
Now then, this is the point in the video where Jimmy
calls me over and says look what I've found in this hole.
I grab the video camera, open it up,
fail to press record, and we look in the hole,
there's two half crowns in the same hole.
One's 1942 and the other one's 1944.
So I missed that bit. I do apologise.
In fact I apologise to Jimmy more than anybody
because that was a great find
and it really deserved to be caught on film.
This one's reading
at 1234 on the e-track.
It's a modern half pence.
Wow that is a small coin. It's not a coin, it's a washer.
A washer? What is a washer?
It's a washer, I thought you put a bolt through.
Oh, weird. It's a tiny little washer.
Did well to pick that up. Hello dogs, you want to help dig?
Yeah. Come on dig, dig. Dig, dig, dig.
Dig for victory.
This one's reading 1242, very strong signal with the e-track.
Another Threepenny bit, three pence,
and it's another Threepenny bit.
I think it's about
there, there might
be two signals there.
What
sort
of coin?
Awesome.
It's awesome.
Well I said it's awesome.
It is awesome.
It's a 1942 Florin, two shillings.
What have we got this time Jimmy?
It's a 1942 Florin.
Two shillings.
What have we got this time, Jimmy?
I mean unless someone's got a very strange shaped finger,
it's just a bit of modern copper.
Is it?
Nothing spectacular, I'm afraid.
But it didn't give a great signal either,
so it's just above ring pull.
Worth a dig.
Worth a dig.
That's sick.
There's something here, James has found it with a vista gold.
I've gone over with the e-track,
this has got a good clear two-way signal.
Mine reads 1243.
Jimmy's also going to go over it with the Euro Ace
and he's going to see what it says as well.
Is it?
The pinpointer.
Picks a large signal up. I would not dig that with this.
So you wouldn't dig it with that?
I wouldn't dig that, no.
Have a go over then, James.
So Jimmy's Euro Ace is saying it's a large, possibly ferrous signal.
So he wouldn't have dug it, I would have dug it.
It also sounds good on the Vista Gold as well.
So we're just going to go over it again with the gold.
Okay.
The spade just slipped off something there. That's a bad sign.
What was a triple unite is now a double unite.
What's this?
Oh, nice one.
It's a coin.
It's a coin?
It's a coin.
It's
a coin.
Yep.
It's a big old penny.
Looks like George V.
It could be iron in the hole as well.
That's the thing,
That definitely read ferrous, and it wouldn't pinpoint it.
At this point it's all getting a bit predictable.
We're finding coins, most of them copper,
the odd silver, blah dee blah dee blah.
We've done it a million and one times
so we decide to head up the bank into some fields
which are now pasture.
And they used to be ploughed quite a lot of years ago.
Quite near a crossroads where a drover's road comes up,
crosses over the existing road, which was possibly Roman.
Most roads around here originally were Roman.
So we give that a bash
and we'll have some pretty good results in there.
It's a pretty strong signal
with the Vista Gold.
Tell you what, how much it's hammered.
Hammered? Silver?
Do you want to hold it?
It's a silver hammered coin.
The portrait side's nearly gone.
Maybe there's enough writing on there
to get something out of it later on.
It's a nice find, that's all James.
It's a very good find, well done.
Best find of the day.
Well done indeed.
Charles the second shilling?
Possibly, not sure.
Upon closer inspection it's actually Charles the first shilling,
not Charles the second.
If it was a Charles the second one it would be worth quite
a bit even in that condition because they're really rare.
But unfortunately, well, not that unfortunate,
it's still a great find, it's Charles I.
It's alright, yeah.
It's a pretty good signal,
there's a bit of a tinge of iron to it, but we'll give it a dig.
Whoa.
No wonder there was a bit of an iron tinge to it.
Look at that, that's massive.
Heavy, it's quite heavy.
It's heavy, alright.
Big old lump of iron.
This one's reading, I can't remember what it was, 1118.
It's dug a lot of lead, but it's still worth a dig.
Get in.
By the looks
of it, it's
Elizabeth I.
Half groat I would say. Excellent.
That one was with the e-track. James has got a really good
signal here with the Vista Gold.
I've been over the e-track. Mine has no signal whatsoever.
No matter how fast I go, any direction, go over slow,
increase the sensitivity, no signal at all.
So I don't really know what I'm digging
for here. Big lump of coke.
Whilst we've been making a total
balls of digging this one out, Jimmy's found a ring.
It's like the morning sun. Morning sun I would say.
That's it.
Yes.
More than likely going to be silver with a good clean.
It's definitely silver that Jimmy, definitely silver.
Nice dark patina on it.
I don't know how clear that's going
to come out, but it's a silver ring.
Kind of like the morning rays of the sun.
Very nice indeed.
Nice find, unfortunately it probably won't fit.
Not fit your stumpy fingers.
No, I'm sure it won't.
It's better than, apart from that gold one
that I had to give back, it's better than
any ring I've ever found.
Well if you hadn't had to give that gold ring back
then we wouldn't be here today finding
more things, would we?
Well that's it, no.
We haven't had a canny day.
It's been awesome.
As far as hammered and crowns go, isn't it?
Yeah.
Well, half crowns, let's say.
That sounds totally different to mine, you know.
It sounds much cleaner.
It's just because it's new mate, isn't it, aren't we?
I would say yours has had a bit more stick, in all fairness.
I hope there's five in it.
I hope there's five in it.
I hope there's five in it.
I hope there's five in it.
That's good.
Yes, Dennis.
I hope there's five of them.
There's five in one coin and it's lead.
Lead.
Alright then put that back.
Boom, boom, boom.
Boom, boom, boom.
Okay, I've got a good signal down there.
Have you?
Let's have a look then.
Hey!
That was a bad guess, was it?
Very clear
sign.
Yeah.
It's a threepenny bit.
It says it's in there.
It might be under there.
Oh yeah.
Anywhere.
Giant one.
Oh, hold on.
Well, you didn't turn one.
Didn't have it switched on.
There.
There.
There.
There.
There.
That's what happens to me all the time,
I never actually put it to you know.
Yep.
It's a coin.
It's another George VI halfpenny.
This one's reading 1239 on the e-track.
What?
There you go.
Another halfpenny.
This one's reading 1236.
Definitely worth a dig.
Went over it with the Vista Gold as well, give a lovely clear signal.
Yeah, it's
a coin.
Yep.
Yet another halfpenny.
Another.
I've lost that shilling.
You haven't, have you?
I'm sure I had it in me hand, I don't know where it's gone.
Which shilling?
The Charles II one.
Oh, that's the little Elizabeth one.
Definitely had it here, like.
You were going to toss there.
Totally had it.
Are you sure I didn't give it to you?
Yeah, but...
Oh, man!
Well, that's it there, isn't it?
Where?
How many did you have? Three?
Oh, it's there, man!
Yeah, it's...
I thought I'd lost it.
Ahhh!
That's a very rough...
It's a rough strike, that, isn't it?
Yeah, but I found it at home.
You did? Oh, yes, that's right.
Well, we've all made decent finds.
James has got
Charles the second shilling.
Ah! Charles the first!
Damn you!
I've got an Elizabeth hammered half-groat.
Jimmy found two half-crowns.
And a silver ring.
And we found a host of coins as well.
We'll give you a
close-up of them now.
That's Jimmy's.
Very nice indeed. That's mine.
Not as much silver in there.
And this is James's. Jimmy donated him the half-crown.
For the...
We did a swap for a nice florin as well.
Swapped the florin for a half-crown.
James found the florin.
I think I got the bum deal, I'm not sure.
Let's have a look at what else you found then, James.
Found...
A few coins there.
Three of these.
That was with a Vista Gold, first time ever using it.
To be honest, I haven't even looked at the instructions yet,
so we probably didn't even have it set up right.
Hammered silver.
That's the Charles the Second shilling.
Charles the First!
Damn you all.
Very worn.
Nice old hammered.
And I have no idea what this is.
Yeah, I do. I know what that is.
What?
That's actually a lead token.
A thread.
With very, very little detail on it, though.
And a buckle as well.
A buckle. That looks like a lead.
So that's it. Nice hunt.
How long have we been out?
Three hours, maybe.
Three hours?
We've all got a handful of coins.
We've all found silver.
There's been a silver ring.
Two hammered found.
And a watch, which is possibly gold round the edges.
Not sure.
Thoroughly decent dig.
Well, that's it from me.
That's another great hunt down.
We all had a great time, hope you had a good time watching this video.
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