Hello White's Electronics,

I just wanted to tell you about my first Seated Liberty Half dollar find!

I've been detecting for about 16 years now and I've found plenty of old coins in my time, but living here in Oregon we don't find a lot of Seated Liberty type coins. That all changed for me one day late May 2009! I took the day off of work to take a little road trip to do some detecting. I ended up in Corvallis Oregon ~ a nice town with some neat old history! I found some open grass that wasn't too far from The Oregon State University campus. After detecting for a few hours I only dug a few wheat cents and some modern clad coins, nothing too exciting ~ the sun was starting to set, it was getting late and the city street lights had come on. I kept detecting while I worked my way back to where I parked my car. Then it happened... a nice soft deep sounding target that read 89/90 on my XLT. I carefully pinpointed the target and dug down about 7 or 8 inches and uncovered a 1876 Seated Liberty Half dollar! WOOHOO!!!!

This is only my second Seated Liberty type coin that I've ever dug! Needless to say I was very excitied!

Neil M.

Dear White’s,

When I first got my DFX a while back I wrote to tell you how amazed I was at the performance of the machine. I had found my oldest coin ever, an 1809 half cent. Well I wanted to write again to tell you it gets even better. May has been my best month of detecting ever!

The month started off with a visit to a town that was established in the 1870’s, and faded away sometime in the early 20th century. I was hoping to find some Indian Head Pennies and hopefully some silver Barber coins or Seated coins. About 25 feet from my car I got a good 88 VDI reading. I was expecting to find junk, but dug a beautiful 1942 Walking Liberty Half Dollar. After that I was finding only trash for quite some time. I decided to check out a wooded area with a small path. I immediately was greeted with a nice penny reading at about 6.5 inches. With a 79 VDI, I was thinking it must be an old Wheat Cent. After digging an 8 inch plug, I realized my target was still in the hole. Now I knew it was something good, but I was very surprised to find an 1801 Draped Bust Cent!

About 2 weeks went by before I had time to detect again. I decided to take my DFX to the site I dug the 1809 Half Cent and more than 20 old buttons. I passed the field where I made these finds and decided to work a wooded area that was also once a farm field. On the way to the field I found a few modern coins, a 1999 nickel and a 2005 dime. As soon as I hit the woods I got a nice 79 VDI and about 7 inches down was a nice large copper coin. A little while later I got a strong 83 VDI and out popped my second copper. Some time passed and I dug a few more buttons and then I got a lower 65 VDI. I was thinking Indian Head, but out came my third large copper coin of the day! After getting home and carefully cleaning my finds, I realized what I had found. An 1839 “Booby Head” Large Cent, a 1787 Connecticut Copper, and my oldest coin, a well worn William III Halfpenny dated 1699! Five coins spanning Five Centuries!!!!

Thanks to the DFX this was my best month of metal detecting ever!

Thanks White’s!

Neil in NJ  

 I just wanted to write to tell you how happy I am with the performance of my DFX. I have been detecting for many years and let me tell you, the DFX has outperformed all of my other detectors in the short time I own it. I have only been out a few times with it, and already have made some great finds. On my first outing I was easily detecting dimes at more than six inches. My keepers for that day were a silver 1955 “Rosie” and a 1943 Mercury dime.

On one of my next outings I returned to a site that I have detected over and over. On these previous outings, the site has produced a few early nineteenth century “flat” buttons, six in total, but the only coins I had found there were a 1941 Quarter along with a penny from the same year. All that changed, however, with the DFX. In a two hour hunt I detected six more buttons. All of these buttons were small, and all were deep; beyond the range of my previous detectors.

My real find of the day came when I got a solid hit with 71 VDI. I was fairly confident I was going to dig an older coin, and the VDI seemed too high for an Indian Head or a Zinc cent, and it was too low for a “Wheatie” or a dime. What I dug was an 1809 Half Cent, my oldest coin to date! Needless to say, I am going to return to the site as soon as I get another chance. I have a feeling that this coin may just be the tip of the DFX iceberg!

Thank you for making such a great machine!

Neil in West Jersey