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What an awesome coin! I've never seen on before. That's what we love about metal detecting! You never know what's going to be in the next hole. :congrats: Here are some images of the coin that I took from your video:

Well, looky what arrived today! As instructed, I ran my E-trac over the packet before I opened it. It rang up a solid 12-32 from every direction, which would be a low Indian Head type signal on the E-Trac. A couple of times it did jump up to 12-33. The button did arrive with some of the...

I was able to get out with Moose for a few hours yesterday. Our hunt was interrupted by a hail storm but after it blew over we were able to continue. All of these finds were in private yards in a river town so the soil is very sandy and the oldest coins and relics quickly sink below the...

I'd say that is a nice pile of finds for the week, Drew! I, for one, love your stream of consciousness posts. :-) For the reasons you mentioned, it definitely pays to revisit sites that you thought were "hunted out". Gotta love the first year of issue Barber Quarter, and it even has a New...

A recent comment about a member here having over 10,000 posts made me curious about who has the most posts on this forum. For your amusement during self-quarantine, here are the top 30: 12,563 del 10,224 aloldstuff 9,370 coinnut 6,772 Tony Two-Cent 5,847 OxShoeDrew 5,439...

What a wonderful token, produced in the midst of the civil war. I think the original brewery building is still there?

Great finds, Jeff! I love the shoe token. The Boy Scouts of America were founded in 1910. It looks like the Excelsior Shoe Company started in Portmouth, Ohio in about 1889. Look at how massive their factory was! Congrats on the sharp Barber Dime too! :clapping:

I did find a similar spill in 2015. Mine was 6 silver Rosies and one clad, so Tim's spill beats mine! Don wasn't with me that day though. Congrats, Tim! That is very cool! :clapping:

Yesterday I got out with Digger Don and Digger Al in a town on the banks of the Wabash River. I have a love/hate relationship with river towns. The soil is always very sandy and the old coins seem to sink too deep to find. On the other hand, the coins you do manage to find are always in great...

I went back to this same small yard on Tuesday of this week and found a few more oldies. The Barber Dime is 1906 with no mint mark.

This hunt was a little over a month ago. I plan to go back to this permission if it ever stops raining here. Surprising number of Indian Heads in such a small yard. The owner just bought the lot next door and said I could hunt it too, but it is mostly gravel parking lot. Video...

Your post made me curious, Dave, so I got out my bag of Rosies that I have found detecting. When I poured out the bag my first thought was, "How did THAT get in there?" (Do you see it?) After sorting them by date I discovered that I also have never found a 1955 Rosie! Very odd!

Here's the property that mansion is on. It would have taken us a month to cover it all. Just imagine all of the Large Cents and Seated coins that are there!

Tim (Noah) was unaware that I took this photo of him getting ready to knock on the door of this (abandoned?) mansion a couple of weeks ago. Clearly the place is haunted. I watched from the safety of my truck. I thought I saw an evil spectre watching Tim from one of the windows, but it may...

Hard to pick a favorite, but this find probably got me the most excited.

Believe it or not, this forum turns ten years old today! It was founded on October 21, 2009 by angellionel and Epi-hunter. In an age where forums are regularly disappearing due to Facebook and other social media, we have managed to stay relevant thanks to loyal members like you! The staff...

I met up with Digger Don and Noah for a weekend of detecting in Ohio. We couldn't believe how dry the ground is there. I got the 1865 Indian Head right off the bat on Saturday. It is worn but it cleaned up really well. The silver Washington came from the same yard. The 1912-D Barber Dime and...

I got out with Don yesterday for some door knocking in central Illinois. It rained on us for the 2-hour trip there but by the time we started detecting at 8:30 it had stopped. When I arrived Don had already procured a permission for us at an 1865 house! It was a beautiful old brick mansion...

Here's one I found in a coin spill. Since they are steel it is unlikely that you will find one if you're using any discrimination at all. (Unless they're in a spill.)

Both!