just letting everyone know my uncle raymond melton from kirkland ill passed on thursday nite he was the man that got me into detecting back in 1978 he was a great detectorist and even better freind someday in the future i would like to write a article about him and show many of his finds he died of parkinsons disease and had not detectected for some years but he never sold or got rid of any of his finds that i know of it will be interesting to see his collection from all those years it will take some time so bear with me dennis aka pokie