<p><strong>There was a break in the weather, the sun was shining and I decided to take the CTX 3030 to an area in the local woods that I had previously searched with the E-TRAC and had found some nice Victorian silvers here.</strong> But they came at a price due to some modern dumping and it was difficult to search from the many signals generated by the large amount of trash under the leaf mould.</p> [split] <p>But the silvers I had found were nice, very clean and dated from the mid to late 1800's. I just had that feeling that "there has to be something else there!"</p> <p>Since my last visit, I was again saddened to see many more 'black bags' had been thrown in and animals had ripped them open and some of the contents were strewn about the exact area I had wanted to concentrate on.</p> <p>So I readied myself for battle and before even powering up the CTX I began to use my Timberland clad feet as huge brushes and literally scraped away as much debris as I could. That took about 20mins and a nice area had been cleared.</p> <p>I fired up the CTX and engaged High Trash in Coins Mode Pattern 2 and lowered the coil to the soil. Bang bang... more signals came right away!</p> <p>Again, kicking away some more leaves a few large pieces of foil were seen..these were picked up by hand, scrunched up and put in my pocket.</p> <p>Lowering the coil again another beautiful sounding signal 'locked-on' right away! It was very hooty and repeatable...</p> <p>I pin pointed and sank my 'Black Ada' digger into the loose soft soil, pushed it away to the side and for a fraction of a second caught the glint of gold just as some soil hid it from view.</p> <p>Hmmm...I said...as I had searched here before this was probably something dropped since my last visit and, having seen a gold color in the hole assumed it was going to be a modern coin from the Euro family, possibly a 20 cent.</p> <p>But, as I said, I had the feeling about this place and immediately took my cell phone from my pocket and hit 'Record'.</p> <p>Using my index finger to move the soil near the target a golden object was in plain view. <p>Now my eye sight isn't the best and it still hadn't registered that it did look extremely yellow over the paler Nordic Gold color of euro coins.</p> <p>Picking it up and as it came closes into my better field-of-view, it then dawned on me that YES, it is TRULY a GOLD COIN...</p> <p>...a full gold Sovereign of Queen Victoria.</p> <p>I was truly over the moon with the coin and was delighted that I had listened to my hunch and returned to a place that I had almost given up on because of the trash.</p> <p>But, if there was a lesson learned that day it has to be don't give up, continue to search an area if you have a hunch.</p> <p>Use the tools the detector can offer and like everything else in life...do a bit of ground work, quite literally in this case.</p> <p>Kudos go to the CTX 3030!</p>

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