Recent content by MIKE54

I snapped the toggle switch off my V3i and sent it off to Virginia to the repair shop. It took a month to get it back because the repair guy had Covid for 10 days!! He got well and so did my machine. I thought I would visit a park my grandson has swim lessons at and was rewarded with a dateless...

I had about 2 hours before the thunderstorms chased me out but I found a few keepers at the old park. The aluminum political squeeze pin was made by the Green Duck button company of Chicago but I was unable to find the year it was made. The company was in business from 1906-1962. The 1981...

Haven’t posted in awhile due to sporadic detecting and an unhealthy obsession with golf but here are a few photos from recent hunts at 2 parks and a torn down house site all within a few miles of my house that I’ve pounded many times before but using the 13” coil I picked up during the winter...

I found this 1832 Matron head at the park within 10 yards of where I found the Ct copper last week. I literally had only 5 or 10 minutes of battery life left when I got the sketchy deep signal. So a 1829 half cent, this largie, a 1788 Ct copper and 2 silver rings (my wife confiscated the other...

I got this in the park not far from where I found the Ct copper. It’s heavy brass and is 2” x 1 1/2” in size.

After the 1829 half cent I found on Sunday I was pretty happy. I'm happier today after the 1788 Connecticut copper I got this morning! Also found a nice old flat button, a few wheaties and a 1945 merc to go with the 1939 merc I found last night(not pictured). And I found this stuff in the...

There's a park that I can literally see from my back door. I hunted there when I first started metal detecting but found not a lot. Noxman Steve pulled a few silvers out of it the other day so I tried again. The 1918 Merc is pretty thin and the 1829 half cent is a first for me. I think I'll...

After receiving my cable TV bill with an increase for the 3rd consecutive month I paid them a visit to have it out with them last week. I was pleasantly surprised when they lopped $86 a month off the bill...just for asking. Like I said, thieves. On the way home I stopped at a park I've gone by a...

Recovering from hip replacement surgery has been slower than expected but I was close enough this week to go dig a couple final holes for the year. The badge is very thin and says "Frank Buck's Jungleland" on it and apparently is from an exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. I found it in...

Great bucket lister, I'm still looking for one too. That ring is awesome. Never quite understood the square nail hole in a coin thing. I found this beautiful large cent in the same condition. Even had a round hole too.

Oct 2 I had hip replacement #2. A few days before that I went back to the park I had some success at and found one last 43 Merc under a tangle of roots. The last was the toughest to dig up. Recovery is going well and I'm hoping to be well enough on November 11 to attend a club-sponsored hunt in...

Nice finds Drew! Here's another coincidence: I dinged the last Barber quarter I found in the exact same place (on the eagles head).

My metal detecting club (Yankee Territory Coinshooters) is holding a 2 day hunt at a Boy Scout camp that they have been to twice before that was established in 1939. This place is massive, mostly woods but all spread out. Usually they hold a few seeded hunts per year but I'm not a big fan. This...

About 6 years ago they tore down a 1910 house about a mile away from me. I detected it then and only found a silver Rosie and a bunch of wheats. They turned half the lot into a parking area for the adjacent business and the other half was untouched. So I decided to return and see what I missed...

I went back to the tiny park for an hour and found the sterling bracelet, 1918 wheatie and $1.50 in clad. I couldn't find the name on bracelet when I checked google and yearbooks from that that town's high school. I'll keep looking. I thought I'd include a photo of the park. That's the whole...