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Exactly! They have been found and posted here on the forum previously. Cool find!

Welcome to the forum, ScottyB! :waving: We're glad you joined us! It is a frozen winter wonderland here in southeast Illinois as well. I guess it's a good time to do research and watch metal detecting videos on YouTube. Spring will get here eventually!

I would guess that it's a 1783 blunt rays Nova Constellatio. I'm not sure of the exact variety.

I know most of you probably don't know John "Marty" Tracy, but he used to be one of the sponsors of this forum. He has helped me out many times over the years. I bought my RNB Lithium Ion battery off of him, plus a new coil for my E-Trac. He graciously donated a brand new Tesoro Silver Umax...

Here's the illustration from Minelab's website: This is regarding the X-Terra but it should be the same for all Minelab Double-D coils. https://www.minelab.com/treasure-talk/x-terra-controlling-the-search-coil

Kinda makes you drool, doesn't it? Yeah, it must have had the same affect on the previous 50 people who detected it. :crying02: I got permission to detect this wonderful property, and the owners told me it had been detected several times. Not to be deterred, I knew I had to give it a try...

Incredible token! I am finding sources that date it to 1841. Yours still has wonderful gilding left on it. How does the other side look? Here are some pictures I found on the internet:

As did the Freemasons, apparently.

It might be an Odd Fellows pin of some sort. The skull and crossbones is a common image on their pins, badges and insignias.

p.s. Seeing your Modern Health Crusaders tokens reminded me of this pin I found back in the 1980s. I was just reading up on this program and apparently the K.B. stands for "Knight Banneret" which the child would receive of they sold 500 Christmas Seals. Here is a very good website about the...

HAPPY 8th ANNIVERSARY AMERICAN DETECTORIST FORUM! On this day in 2009 the American Detectorist metal detecting forum was founded. In those eight years many fantastic finds have been posted, but more importantly, many friendships have been formed. Thank you to Angie (Epi-hunter) for continuing...

Best Coin of the Month Award - August 2017 On behalf of the American Detectorist Metal Detecting Forum, it is with great honor that we extend to Noah congratulations for winning the Best Coin of the Month award for his 1826 Six Pence. The above icon and description of the award will be...

So many great finds! First of all, congrats on the bucket lister FATTY Indian Head! They are not easy to find. Yours is actually in pretty good shape compared to most dug examples I've seen. Awesome! And let's not forget that you also got a GOLD ring! Amazing that the opal is still intact...

This past weekend Daddy Digger planned a detecting trip to Ohio and invited us fellow Illinoisans to tag along. I met up with him, Digger Don and Digger Al early on Saturday morning and we detected a park around the courthouse square, a few houses in town and a few farm houses in the country...

Love that badge! :loveit: Gang Busters was a radio show from 1936-1957, a movie serial in 1942, a comic book series from 1947-1958, and a television show in 1953. I found a couple badges like yours on the internet, one from hake's auctions and another on Pinterest. Hake's says it is circa...

As some of you may have heard, Photobucket recently changed from a free image hosting site to one that you have to pay for. In order to share your Photobucket images on another website you now have to pay the ridiculous sum of $400 per year. Obviously not many people are willing to shell out...

Sorry you couldn't join us, Tom. We will get together for a hunt someday! I almost forgot to show this giant reed I found. It is huge! It must be out of a pump organ or something. It rang up like a deep silver half dollar. Rather disappointing.

This past Saturday I met up with Daddy Digger and Digger Don in northern Illinois for some metal detecting. I haven't been out much this year, so it was nice to get out for a long hunt! On Saturday we hunted a couple of houses in town and a couple of farms in the country. We all had...

And it's the same on the five dollar bill as well. And if you hold the bill up to the light you will see a third image of Honest Abe. :thumbsup01:

Nice to see a post from you, Alec! At least you did your research before you decided to travel to that site. I'm guessing you may have has some trouble getting in. :lol: The only site I can think of where I had similar disappointment was this one in the small town where my dad grew up. On...