Recent content by Tony Two-Cent

It was before the update. No worries, I just reposted it. (y)

I got out for a short hunt this past Sunday in a small front yard on Main Street here in Robinson. The house is probably from the 1940s so I wasn't expecting anything too spectacular. The 1914 Barber Dime was a nice surprise and it saved me from the dreaded Silverless Drive Home of Shame. I...

It's looking good, Angie! Everything seems to be working correctly. I did notice that thread I created yesterday is gone now but I can post it again. Thanks to you and Chris for all of the work you're putting into the forum! 👏

I found both of these in a farm field about 20 feet apart. They are approximately 3" x 3" x 6 1/2" and weight about 10 pounds each. Fairly heavy! They have a shallow hole in one end. For the life of me I can't figure out what they might have been used for. Any ideas? And don't tell me...

I got out for some local door knocking yesterday in the 87 degree heat. I knew it would be a challenge to find someone at home on a weekday but I eventually got a friendly yes at a 1920s house. I ended up getting four pieces of silver from this yard, one Merc, one Rosie, and two silver rings...

Here are some finds from yesterday that I made in a farm field where an old house used to stand. I was particularly happy to find the Civil War-era buckle shield, a first for me. I also found a trigger guard. Any ideas as to what type of gun it may have been from? Thanks for looking and...

Yesterday was the 15th anniversary of the founding of this forum. We are still limping along! This forum was founded on October 21, 2009 by angellionel and Epi-hunter.I just thought it needed to be mentioned. Hopefully we are still here for the 16th anniversary!

I apologize for the ongoing issues with the forum. I realize that people are going to lose interest if they can't access the forum, or if they can't post photos. I have also noticed that the quote function isn't working. I have emailed the forum owner twice in the past month with no reply...

Is anyone else having trouble adding photos to posts here? When I try to post a new thread from my PC the button isn't even there to add photos. When I try from my phone it says "upload failed".

It was great to get together with the guys again yesterday! It had been a long while since we had detected with Dave, he's always jet-setting off to Germany or England! But Digger Don, Noah and I finally cornered him and detected three small towns in central Illinois. It was a fun day...

Yesterday I obtained permission to detect around a house that the owner told me was built in 1845. The soil was rich and black and we have had a lot of rain recently so my hopes were high. Alas, I only found one coin, an 1819 One Skilling from Norway. It was very deep and when it came out...

This past Saturday, May 18 I got out for a day of door knocking in a small town in central Illinois with Digger Don and Noah. Almost everyone said yes but we could tell several of the yards had been detected before. Nevertheless, we all got some decent keepers. My first good find of the day...

It is a beautiful spring-like day here today so I took my E-Trac to a nearby beanfield that I have detected several times before. This time I tried a different area of the field where I noticed there were a lot of rocks and bricks. After a couple of hours I had only found a 1940 Wheat Cent...

Garrett "The Hunter" and I still have it!

I went to visit my dad yesterday and he said, "Be sure to bring your metal detector" so I did. He didn't have a specific site in mind so we ended up trying our luck at a grassy strip between the main street and railroad tracks in his small hometown. There weren't many finds but I did find a...