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I received an invite from Grant Hansen to hit the standing colonial home site where I found my USA button two weeks ago. This was our third hunt at the property. It's a standing home in New Jersey about 15 minutes from my home and the finds can date from the early 1700's to yesterday. You can...

Thanks! I added a couple of photos above. The button looked brownish due to the lighting on my desk last night but it's actually a gray color. The shank is degraded.

Hi everyone! I haven't been out detecting in over a month until today. It's summer break time for us. I have been itching to get out and dig some holes. I got an invite from a good friend to hunt a standing colonial home permission today for a few hours. I was running 14khz and Reactivity 5...

Hit some colonial cellar holes with my friend, Ron, yesterday. It was a struggle for most of the day as three of our planned sites were choked off with vegetation. :girlcry: We switched over to an improvised back-up plan and hit three sites that we had been to previously. These back-up sites...

This past Saturday, Danny, Ron and I revisited the small cabin site where Danny dug the 62nd British Regiment of Foot Button two weeks ago. We had high hopes as we marched to the site on the snowy trail! Snow in May! All three of us are swinging Deus machines now and we got to work to see if...

Got out Saturday with Danny and Ron for some colonial cellar hole digging. It was a beautiful day for digging and I was quickly shedding clothes as the temps warmed up. Danny and Ron were both sporting brand new machines and each made a great find. Danny got the find of the day with his Rev War...

"like listening to a clown making balloon animals" - ROFLMAO! :rofl: Great find on the Revolutionary War button, Danny. Congrats! What a great day!

Got out Danny on Sunday to hit some cellar holes. It was a great day for digging in March. I love the weather we have been having this year. The day started slow for me and I only made a couple of finds before our lunch break including this possible International Order of Odd Fellows silver...

Found about 16 years and 1000 miles apart! I found the New York State Seal Staff Officer's Button in Connecticut on Sunday. I found the New York Militia Staff Officer's Button in Chickamauga, GA about 16 years ago.

The walls have eyes! Last Sunday, I stayed with my "new" Modus Operandi for metal detecting. I had been staying around the cellar holes and not roaming around. I had noted for several years that Del seems to love to roam around sites. I know he's looking for hot spots and he always comes back...

I'm going streaking! Well, not that way! I found my THIRD complete shoe buckle in the past three hunts on Sunday. I got out with Danny and HeavyMetalNut, Dave, to hit some colonial cellar holes. Two weeks ago, I dug up this beautiful shoe buckle. Last week, I dug another complete shoe buckle...

Oh, we have detected a countless number of sites that are choked off with brush, mountain laurel (evil stuff :devilish:), thorn bushes, and saplings. They're not very photogenic so I hardly ever take a photo of those sites.

As you all know, I have been learning from The Master, Danny LaMontagne, on The Art of finding Colonial Shoe Buckles. We got out Sunday with the gang to hit some colonial cellar holes. As you probably already know, The Master, dug a beautiful, huge, colonial shoe buckle and an equally beautiful...

"I've got a screamer over here." I have heard Dan say that so many times over the past few years (always with a grin). That statement is almost always followed by a nice copper or a colonial shoe buckle. This past Sunday, I finally got to say those words to Dan!:cheering:We went out with one of...

Got out with the gang on New Year's Day and I got my first copper of the year. It was definitely circulated for a few decades and you can make out Britannia on the reverse. The obverse is toasted. Toast happens. I also got to be the "assist man" :cheering:for some really great finds at a...

I just received my medieval silver coin from David Rose. I had to take it out of the coin flip in order to hold a hammered coin from the Middle Ages in my hand. It is so incredibly thin and beautiful. This coin is a Pfenning that dates between 1290 - 1296 from Duke Otto III & Bishop Heinrich...

:hystericallaugh:Del has me hooked on Lift your Kilt Scottish Ale now. It's the only beer I want to drink. So darn good!

Absolutely stunning finds. I hope that one day I can find a 1794 Liberty Cap; however, until then I will always remember the excitement of seeing one dug live. Thanks for letting me listen to it. After you clean it let's put it in a plastic case and bury it so we can listen to it again. Congrats...

I was thinking the same thing. I don't see how a lead counterfeit could have circulated unless it was plated. Maybe, it was intentionally cast to look very worn?

Got out to Ye Olde Cellar Hole for a few hours Sunday morning. Got my second Municipal Police of New York City (1845 - 1857) button and it cleaned up very well. Also, got six coins including a lead contemporary counterfeit Large Cent :shocked04::omg::happydance01:. Pulled the Danny...