Recent content by Mr. Digger

Multiple hunts and locations shown here. Dug my first complete Colonial shoe buckle since getting the Nox 800. Rang up as a 26. It swiveled flawlessly right out of the ground! Also found a nice knee buckle in a different location. The coins are New England copper mystery discs....thin and 1/2...

Sometimes it pays to take a closer at your finds! I found this small silver plated item earlier in the summer but had never bothered to clean it until today. I almost tossed it! A light brushing revealed the name "J. G. Coolidge" and under it "No. Andover" which is the town in Mass where I found...

Hit a new field today and dug my first Woods Hibernia. It's a 1723 farthing and the flaking has started. I had never found one of those heart heal plates and today I dug two! What a beautiful New England spring morning. Hope everyone had a chance to get out!

After almost 10 years with the SE Pro I got a great deal on a Nox 800 and picked it up yesterday. I'm sure it will be a big learning curve but I'm so excited. Still trying to get my head around the concept of wireless headphones (see what I did there?), no AA batteries, charging with a USB...

I'm a New England woods and fields Colonial relic hunter but find myself as a fish out of water literrally...in Florida for the next week. I've actually never detected on a beach. I have my Minelab SE Pro with me and will dust off my Andy Sabisch book, but any help appreciated on settings for...

Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on possible value of this stamp collection of 1940's era First Day Issue and First Day Covers. Dates range from 1944 to 1949 and stamps are mostly 1c to 6c stamps. Have not counted them all but there are probably somewhere between 150 and 200 of them. If...

My 6th year of detecting was really a mixed bag. Despite detecting almost every weekend, my totals for silver coins and coppers were WAY off from previous years. Yet, on the bright side I managed to find two of my greatest "bucket list" coin finds ever...an 1821 Capped Bust Dime (my first...

Found this 1943 steel penny in the coinstar earlier today. Wondered if this meant good luck or a bad omen for the Pats against the Steelers tonight. Well the win wasn't pretty, but just like this coinstar find...I'll take it!

Getting caught up on posts for some of my other finds from the summer and fall. Found my first silver pocket watch...can't believe how heavy it is! It says "coin silver" on the inside and I think the case is Elgin, but I still need to officially ID and date it. One of my other favorite...

Visited a relative in CT this weekend who lives on an old farm with lots of land. The property is late 1700's and my relatives have lived there a very long time...I'm confident it has never been detected. Got a great signal in a field near the house and my heart nearly stopped when I saw a...

Everything You see in the pic except the '64 Washington Quarter came in one recent haul from the coinstar. I was shocked to see a '42 Merc in there among the coins from Canada, Ecuador and Hong Kong. Then just now I was passing through the store again and spotted the silver quarter in the...

Last year my top 2 bucket listers were a Flying Eagle Cent or a Capped Bust anything. Neither materialized. Well I guess I was off by one year, at least for the Capped Bust anyway. Found her along an old cart road where I also found my first Seated Quarter a few years ago. Also pictured are...

Here are some images and a slideshow of some of my better finds from 2016. Thanks for looking! Happy New Year everyone. https://youtu.be/5UxLTLQJ6hI *

Here are some of my better finds from this fall, including my first Mass Copper! Some other finds on the slideshow link below if you like. Thanks! https://youtu.be/xdkh0KNYxBg

Here is a sampling of my finds over the last couple of months. The highlight was a beautiful Seated dime....my first and only of the year. Got a dateless William III. Also had an odd spill containing three $1 dollar coins...unusual. Found a WW II Navy whistle and beautiful 2 piece Coast...