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Went back to the cornfield for a few hours this afternoon.. first signal I got a nice tone which ended up being what I presume to be a colonial copper but its pretty toasted. 20 minutes later, got another nice tone around 80, and I was shocked to find another seated half dime, 1871. She has some...

Well, it has been some time since I last posted on here... not so much that I haven't been out digging holes, but mostly because nothing too interesting to post. One can only post so many toasted large Cents and Colonial coppers that don't have any detail at all.. But today I found a first for...

Got a new permission from a local business that had an empty 5 acres field (pasture) next to them. Wasn't too sure if I would find anything worth while but there was an old farm house next to field and thought maybe that property belong to the farmers at one time long ago.. and my guess was...

It was such a nice cool morning I decided to go to our local beach. It isn't a very big beach, but decided to give it a try since they recently built a new boat ramp and made repairs to the beach area itself. I was quite surprised to find a 1944 Walking Liberty Half Dollar along with a couple...

I guess maybe I should of put this in the what is it forum, if moderator moves it I understand. I'm not very familiar with Indian tools, etc, but found this in my target hole, it just seemed to strange to be natural, but then, I could be wrong.

Went out a couple hours on Friday and about 5 hours today, was very happy to see the farmer mowed a part of the pasture between the corn & wheat fields. Found several lead musket balls and bullets, along with at least 15 of those dang brass casings, but you have to dig them cause they have the...

Decided to try cleaning the Vermont Copper coin I found over the weekend. It took a few hours, but I think it came out nicely. I followed Dan's advise from the "cleaning Coins" section. I was nervous as hell having to stop every 5 - 10 minutes and walk away as my hand was shaking. I also...

Headed out early today and went back to hunting the field edges and within an hour got another bucket lister. Vermont copper with britannia. I'm disappointed in myself, as I gave her a kiss on the head with the lesche. And like every other copper from this field , no date.. but, another bucket...

Went out today to the wheat/cornfield, the pastures are chest high in grass, so I've been working the edges were the farmer mows the paths. I'm pretty confident that I found my first Nova Constellatio Copper, no date however. I'm hoping someone with more knowledge in copper coins can verify. If...

About a week and 1/2 ago I found a small 5" cleaver in the cornfield., the first thing that came across my mind was I was going to have it restored. I asked a local knife maker to do the task and it came out beautiful.. we agreed to have the blade beveled on both sides so it could be used as a...

Went back to the park that has fields. There was a large odd hill with a flat top that looked like it may have been man-made with fill but thought I'd give it shot anyways.. once I noticed gouged rocks I knew it was part of a field at one time. Came out with several flat buttons one small...

Went out yesterday for a short 3 hour hunt, wanted it to be longer, but I forgot the bug spray and the may flies were eating me alive. But in that time I managed to find a few things, Pocket watch key, a couple buttons, and of all things a Trumpet mouth piece (strange for a cornfield). But my...

Went out metal detecting today for a few hours, didn't find much worth talking about except for this huge crotal bell. It's about the size of a tennis ball. I placed a regular size crotal next to it for comparison. It is cracked, but the dingler is still inside and still rings. I didn't find...

So a couple of my friends and myself went to the cornfields that are part of park on Saturday. One field was turned over and quit muddy from Fridays rain. Really didn't find too much, I found a kid's shoe buckle.. my first shoe buckle that I've found not broken. Musket ball, a couple little flat...

So found this coin last Saturday, and I've been told it was a King George, and others say it's a CT Copper... Or maybe it's something else all together. I've been searching online to identify it, but coming up with nothing. The obverse is pretty smooth with little detail, but the Reverse it...

Yesterday I received permission to go metal detecting on a farm with Lots and Lots of acres of cornfields and pasture. The home was built in 1780. So, today I went for a quick 2 hour exploration hunt, hitting a few rows randomly through out one field and hitting edges on the front and back of...

Went out for about 3 hours today, back at the cornfield.. Found another Braided Hair Large Cent.. 1857, the last digit was a little iffy.. Odd thing about all the coppers I've found at this field, all were about 20-30 feet from the edge of one side of the field. It could be just coincidence but...

After finding that 1/2 Reale the cornfields shut right off.. Wed-Fri I went out for 3 or 4 hours at a time only finding 1 or 2 desirable finds.. I'm not going to show the insane amount of lead bullets I've found.. so over those 3 days managed to find 3 buttons, a musket ball and I don't know...

Found this lead bullet the other day but having trouble identifying it. I took a pic of it next to the large musket ball I found the other day, the one with the grooves is dime sized diameter. Any ideas of what its .cal is and the name??

Went for a 4 hour hunt yesterday back at the Corn field. The bullets stopped and everything else started .. My first good signal was the 1/2 reale, a first for me ever, and I was pleased to see it holed. Having a hard time making out the date, I can see the 1 and the last number 5, but the rest...