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Took me 5 years to find my first hammered coin..
Now less than a month later up pops hammy number two...
Edward 1st penny.

A bit like buses mister, you're on a roll well done 👍👍

Cheers everyone said the first one was the hardest to find... ;)

now cut it out trouty your finding far 2 many hammies lately  ;)

well found mate , keep it going  :) :)

Lol cheers Mike...👍

Well done!

Cheers..👍

Just remember there are only so many in Pembrokeshire and I haven't found one yet.  Next one's mine  ::)

Well done Mark, you'll have to give me some tips. ;)

Nice find mark, must be on some good land ;)

In it to win it Val...👍

Land looks good Steve...👍🙀

well done more to come ;D ;D

Cheers mark
Hopefully more to come...👍

Well found Trouty, you're on a roll ;)

Looking good.

Cheers guys....😝👍

Great news - it goes that way sometimes - and I think it is a case of now you know what a hammy sounds like on your detector you are more likely to find one.

There was (is) a field that I detected for two years before I found anything, and I detected it for about 3 1/2 years before I found a hammered coin in it - and as you might have seen in the news, I then found a few more - that was four years into detecting in that field - and even after all of that, I still missed a denarius that Mike found (I'd managed 2 roman silvers in that field).

About the last thing I found there was part of a bronze age axe head - mad - how could I have missed all that stuff?

As you say once you know what they sound like...
God only knows how many low tones I haven't dug over the years...
Wen looking for silver I was waiting for a sweet high tone...
Little did I know lol...👍

well done mr trout cracking as said there like buses, hope you get a few more too at this rate you will overtaking MR CHEF,  ;D ;D ;D ;D ::)

Strange you both should mention that Probono and Trouty.  On the way home from the last rally, John and myself were discussing my lack of a certain item and he suggested I ask someone who'd got one if we could re-bury it, carefully protected, of course, so I could run over it and see what it sounded like or if it even registered on the settings I'm using.
I often wonder if I've walked over any and not recognised the tone. Do they sound the same as, lets say, a Bull head 6d. ??

Val

Hi Val
I do actually carry a small battered hammy in my finds box. It goes in a polythene bag and I have many times buried it on site and at various depths so I could be assured that my settings on the day would still detect it.
It is a different noise and always a lower reading.
I confess that I haven't found many hammys with my Deus yet but feel assured that is mainly because I haven't swung the search coil in the right places. Also, and possibly like yourself, I have problems getting up and down to dig signals and only cover half the ground and dig speeds that most others do.
My Deus has the 9 inch head and I might do better with the 11 inch but cant really justify the extra £300 odd to buy the 11 inch new. I would happily buy a 2nd hand 11 inch if they were about but they are like hens teeth.

Almost a foil tone val...👍

If I've understood the instructions correctly I don't think I've missed much.  I have set discrim. at 29 and iron volume at 0. Reactivity at 3.  I aim to dig anything above that as long as I can get a 2 way signal. (Farmers take exception to swimming pools in their fields)
Foil comes in above that, at abt. 34 but varies, so unless it's very deep I can't see how I could miss anything good.  I think I probably answered my own question when I told Dylan,  'Ignore iffy signals with the Deus at your own peril'

If I'm proved wrong it means I've got a lot of fields to re-visit.

Val

That won't be hard....mind you if I actually got of my arse and did some detecting it would help ;D