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I know it seems crazy, but my friend found a KG III half penny, 1799, in Wisconsin last year in a farm field. Him and his other buddy went back to the same field this week and found another British copper, likely another half-penny, a War of 1812 artillery button, and two Civil War eagle...

I spent two fantastic days with my oldest son this week traveling over 400 miles, taking in two organ concerts, visiting an organ builder's shop in Chicago and my son getting to play four different fantastic instruments! What a remarkable two days we had!

Cashed in most of my scrap metal from the 2012 season today: Iron - 65# 0.1075/lb 6.99 Copper - 5# 2.60/lb 13.00 Brass - 11# 1.80/lb 19.80 Lead - 20# 0.40/lb 8.00 Total 47.79 Not as much in some years past, but every little bit helps add...

I was out for about four hours yesterday in order to get in some detecting before the snow/rain came today. I made a few stops, spending most of my time at a sidewalk/street project. After that I went to a house demo site, then finished for a short hunt at the pond shoreline. The first pictures...

I was on vacation this past week and made it over to the pond shore a few times. Spent a few hours there altogether and found a lot of bits of this and that. The coins are not quite as plentiful as they were when I started hunting at this site in July, but I can't complain. I got a nice group of...

My uncle and I set up one last full day of hunting for this past Tuesday to hit some fields before the ground gets really frozen. We had a little cold spell here for several days with lows in to the mid to low teens, so the frost was out and the ground was a little frozen when we started. Once...

Now that the tearouts I have been hitting in the older parts of town are pretty much completed I have been hitting a different one in a newer part of town. This is a 1940-50's neighborhood. I went today at lunch and about 40 minutes after work. I found the two 1965 quarters at lunch, oh that...

Spent about 30 minutes hitting a small spot at a street tearout in a newer neighborhood in the dark tonight on my way home from work, found a 1959D Rosie and my 250th wheatie for the year.

I found a few decent war nickels this year, but most of them were totally toasted and one I did not find until I started to clean up my clad for the year. Anyway, I decided to throw the war nickels in the tumbler with a 50/50 water and vinegar mix for about two hours. Here are the results. I am...

Another short little hunt on Sat, another little silver, it sure was a nice day, warm and 55 degrees! 1940 merc and 1911 & 1928 wheat cents.

Stopped off after work for a short 30 minute hunt and found .21 cents in clad and these. Felt pretty good to score one more silver to add to the pile! Gotta get 'em while it lasts as this project will most likely be complete in the next week or two.

I was going to meet up with a IllDigger (Tim) and Firefighter43 (Jeff) to hunt some parks out of town today, but it did not work out for my schedule. (Sorry I had to bale on you guys at the last minute!) So I decided to try out a small park for an hour this morning, and then hit the street...

Some of my research this year has finally led me to a place where I hope to find the location of an 1830's home site. Nothing big for you guys out east, but for Wisconsin this would be great to find. Well here are the results of the first couple of hours, little to no glass or pottery so I don't...

Thanks to Tim and Tony for the ID on this one. This thing is pretty toasted but my cleaning efforts are starting to reveal some details. I am hoping some more of the stubborn green stuff will peel off yet, without loosing too much of the nice green patina that I can see in some areas. This was...

Here are some more finds from two stints at the sidewalk/street tearout project where I have been going regularly the past two weeks. Good thing is, they keep moving dirt around and exposing more targets. Also, as I dig out more and more trash I keep exposing yet more targets. These trashy curb...

Philatelic & Numismatic Exhibit - Paying the Postage in the United States 1776-1921 This is a very interesting philatelic, five frame, exhibit that has been digitized and placed online. This exhibit was shown at the last international philatelic exhibition in 2006, called Washington 2006. I...

Here are some more finds from this week from the street/sidewalk tearout I hit last weekend. A 1936 Merc, a semi-key and worn 1921D Merc and six wheat cents. Plus I also found a very large copper item which appears to be coin or token. It is very green and is 33mm in dia. and abt 2mm thick, any...

Found a sidewalk tearout that I did not know about the other day. Spent two hours there on Sat and made some nice finds. An 1862IH, my first fattie, a 1901IH and rusted jack in the same hole, six wheat pennies, a 1916 Buffalo, plus lots of other coins and trash. The funny thing was in talking to...

These are not my finds, but they were found by my uncle this afternoon when he received permission to hunt at a circa 1860 school house on private property. The lady has owned the property since the 1960's and she thought it had been detected about ten times before and she has chased off...

Nothing too exciting on this weekend's visit to the pond shore, but I am still amazed to see how many coins can still be found. Also found some more lead for the bucket, a 1951 wheatie, some fishing tackle and misc finds.