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Hi, I thought it would be a cool thread if we posted pictures of key date and semi key date coins that we've found. I've only been detecting for a couple years and haven't dug one yet, but I thought it might be inspiring to see that others have. Thanks

Hi, I have several very corroded old aluminium tokens. I'm wanting suggestions on how to clean these? The oxidation is black. Some of them are pretty pitted from the corrosion so I don't expect to make them look new or anything. But I think if I could get some of the oxidation off they would...

Hi everyone, It's actually quite hard to pick my favorite find because it changes from time to time. But right now my favorite find is a piece a jewelry that is not very valuable but historically important to me because it most likely belonged to one of the founders of my town. Thanks for the...

Hi, I am holed up because the ground is frozen, and being bored, was air testing my stock 10" DD on my v3i the other night. When I had a particularly startling discovery. I had my detector set to 5 band, 3 frequency, correlate with a -94 wrap and a 28 span. And when I took a whole handful of...

Hi, I dug this dime sized token?, medallion?, today at the site of a late 1800's early 1900's school house which is now a plowed field. It appears to be copper with silver plate. The back is plain with some small writing I can't make out. I've dug other tokens from the same company. I believe...

Hi everyone, I put my shooter coil on my V3I tonight and thought I'd try to hunt some of the junky spots in my hunting spot that I dug four barbers from during labor day. And I dug a really nice early 20th century lane brothers token. It's from Pisgah, Iowa and was David Vredenburgs' first...

Hi, I've been hunting an estate built in the late 1870's. The property was originally 20 acres, but I just hunted around where I believe the carriage house was, due to all the horse tack I've dug. I had, for me, a stellar day digging a 1902 O barber quarter, a 1908 S barber quarter, and 1907 O...

Hi, I've been hunting an estate built in the late 1870's. Tonight I popped a shallow bottle cap and rescanned and got a jumpy signal which turned out to be this button. It was at about 5 1/2 inches. I'm hoping someone here could help me date it? I'll post more relics and coins as I get them...

Hi, my friend dug this coin up. And neither of us being experts in foreign money, we were not able to identify it. Does anybody know what it is? How old it is? What is it worth? Translation of the characters? Thanks in advance

I got out for a hunt yesterday before the big snow storm. I went to a house built in the 1870's that is now a museum that I have permission to hunt. It has been hunted a lot over the years. But surprisingly I found a few keepers. Including a 53 D wheat, an 1889 liberty head nickel, a 1945 D war...

I found this 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair pendant in an old ghost town in northern Missouri. It hit like a quarter, but I believe it is bronze. On the front is a bust of Thomas Jefferson commemorating the 1803 Louisiana purchase. [attachimg=2] On the back is a view of the Palaces of...

Hi I'm getting bored and posting some of my 2012 finds. I thought it might be interesting to show how using plat map overlays over satellite data can help you make interesting discoveries. It is also important because you can attach the names of the people who lived there, approximate dates...

Hi, I found this gold woman's class ring in a section of a ghost town in Missouri that I have permission to hunt. It has been hunted over the years and cherry picked so I have never found much in the way of silver coins there. But I found this beauty about three weeks ago with my v3i using my...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any tips or specific tools for digging in frozen ground? I hate doing it but do it anyways when it warms up a bit and I'm going through detecting withdrawel. I'm thinking about trying to build a battery powered heated spade. Has anyone else tried this...

This is a 5 mill tax token. It is made out of zinc. It was about 10 inches down. They were started around the thirties, because when the state governments started sales taxes to support the poor, people didn't want to pay the extra partial cents. For example a 25 cent purchase with a 3% sales...

I modified my garden spade for Relic hunting. My lesche just isn't adequate, as my main tool, for digging in the woods and fields. Digging with a hand trowel requires you to get down closer to the poison ivy, poison oak, ticks, and chiggers. Folding shovels are just not as functional when...

I air tested this effect on three separate pinpointers. The Garrett pro pointer, White's older Bullseye 120mm (has a very boxy housing) and the newer White's Bullseye 2. On both White's I only tried extending the range with a silver rosie dime. But on the Garrett Pro I used a 1/2 by 1/2 single...

Hi, My friend Steve and I went out hunting yesterday and Steve found a couple of very interesting relics and I was hoping we might have some experts that could help us identify exactly what he has. We found both items in Northern Missouri. The tag has printed on it. A. HARRIS 100 F. GRANNISS...

I think I figured out what I like about this. It reminds me of show and tell in early elementary school. :yes: I went to the local park down the street for a few hours this evening and found the nicest 57 Washington I've found yet, and a 54 Rosie plus another chewed up wheat. But my favorite...

Hi everyone, So Saturday I went and hunted this reservoir built by the railroad in the 1850's to supply water for the trains. I had to wade through a bunch of bottle caps and collected a fair amount of clad and thought I was going to get skunked until I dug this merc dime. After pulling it out...