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I got an invite from a great young man from one of the detecting clubs I belong to , through short conversation realized we both had the day off so he asked if I wanted to hunt one of his latest productive cellar hole sites :happy:. David and I hiked through some rigorous terrain to come to a...

Beautiful coin Chris I love those 20 cent pieces :smitten:, I just recently purchased a Connecticut state coin at an annual antique flea market . This place has some professional dealers who know just what to charge for some antiques and some who simply buy the dusty contents to an entire barn...

The beginning of June was a special one when HEAVYMETALNUT (Dave) joined up With Donnie , Jim Atkiv and I for what seemed to be a typical hunt at an old cellar site that I was sure a lot of people had already been to . Dave Wise is an old friend whom I have a lot of respect for as a person and...

Don't use CLR on this ! let the button dry out good , it may start to "shed" off the dirty crust on its own . The button is either an infantry or artillery (very doubtful its a dragoon) These type of 1-piece convex buttons date from 1821 to about 1834 . Its a great piece of history . Try and...

We at American Detectorist would like to thank the brave men and women serving in our armed services , veterans and the many who gave the ultimate sacrifice to preserve our liberty.

Gag loops or swivels were fastened high up onto a horse's bridal harness to hold a set of reigns that went onto a special horse bit (gag bit) to train the lead horse to follow commands . when the reigns were tugged on it forced the gag bit to do just like it sounds making the horse comply with...

When I find a copper or large cent i'll place it by itself in a container (with some paper towel or foam) to keep it from bouncing around with other finds. In hopes it will thoroughly dry out on its own and by dry out I mean the crusty outer layer crumbles or flakes off by itself. This draped...

I've been slacking on posting some finds (Sorry :embarrassed: ) This dirty unknown copper turned out to be a French colonies 9 deniers from 1721- 1722

A matron head large cent recently found before , partially cleaned and then initial cleaning complete ! now onto the "smoothing out the rough areas and then to waxing and preservation .

visual is nice but will it be able to pick out the non ferrous in the ferrous metal and differentiate them , otherwise its just another expensive "toy"

Great finds John !! That place is really starting to cough up the goodies !!well done :cheering: The King George coin is an 1806 or 7 King George III

I don't know if any of you go outside of this forum to get your fix and read of metal detecting finds or just absorb more information about machines or the latest buzz going around the "detecting community" ( I hope many of you do for a lot of reasons ) ! Some are ok , a small few are pretty...

I'd like to wish everyone here a very joyous and special Easter ! Dan

Jeff the coin turned out to be an Ottoman emperor Mustafa III coin of Tunisia from 1754 to 1774 like this example Thanks Don I love shallow overloads ! Thank you Chris Soon Al very very soon ! Too many storms this late in the season Dave , the buckle does have some odd bends to it ...

Donnie and I went back to the site we had hit last weekend (where I found my last shoe buckle and two coppers) but this week it was definitely Donnie's turn to do well there . It was early and pretty chilly :frozen: and the picture really doesn't show to well we had some snow squalls passing...

Its a "young head " variety and would date from 1727 to 1739 , congrats on the half penny

We in the northeast have been getting pounded by Mother nature as of late :shocked03: If tomorrow storm is half of what the weathermen say it will be our 4th Nor'easter snow storm in 3 weeks !:whiteflag: Donnie and I were determined to get out and we found a spot in Connecticut that wasn't...

My only chance to get out this weekend was a very wet one :badday:and the finds were almost nonexistent save for a couple plain of buttons , watch winder and thimble . I did at the last minute of the hunt get a first for me :cheering:a 1930's forestry badge That I am very stoked about !

First off my apologies for posting late , this is last Monday's finds :embarrassed: Went out on President's day in hopes that the 5 to 6 inches of snow that we got on Saturday night/Sunday melted with the high temps afterwards. :crossfingers::crossfingers: So Donnie and I and a couple of...