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very nice shoe buckle Drew , its easily pre 1750's . Great find !

Roger , you should look at the RnB lithium ion types as they last about 35 to 40 hours on a 2 hour charge and their lifespan is years longer than the NiMH types . Dan

here on the east coast we find lots of "Dandies" , they help us date the site we're detecting as most were popular from the 1760's to about 1810 . these are just the fancy designed ones i've found over the years , i probably have a bit more that are plain in another case . Dan

Very nice shoe buckle Drew , congrats ! these are usually a copper-alloy as this looks from its coloration , but can be made of pewter , tombac , steel and even silver or gold

besides collecting old medicine and bitters bottles i like early federal era artwork specifically eagles , one of my latest acquisitions is this old Inn sign

I love Seth's enthusiasm Drew , very bright young man . this is an 18th century "William & Mary" high chest notice the backing plates for the toggle pulls ?

I call dibs on your next one !

You did well Don but that kid is ....

here is a very badly worn copper , it was found in a continuous wet area in front of an old cellar site near the old road , you can clearly see the ruddy reddish areas around the edges of exposed copper metal. the coin was also noticeably thinner on one side of the edge than the other and I knew...

I haven't been out in weeks , work has been busy and I (literally) have been doing lots of mechanical work on my jeep . So it was extremely good to just get out and swing the coil again , just a half day hunt and it was unusually cold in the "constitution state" , we hiked out a good mile or...

cool place and cool coin , many cultures used the letter "I" for both the "J and I" until the mid 1700's , also on many of my King George coins "Georgius" is spelled with a "U and sometimes a V"

I'm a late bloomer when it comes to using a tumbler , but i have been doing a lot lately and have had some amazing results . here are two military and patriotic/political button( left to right scripted "LA" artillery , a "Jacksonian era" patriotic eagle and an enlisted Navy reversed eagle with...

Two eagle cannon "corps" buttons now ??

More finds from the "Artillery sites" , these were a group early homesteads not terribly far from an American fort and from all the recent artillery , light artillery type buttons many must of been enlisted there. Five of us made the hike in and even though we were forced to leave a bit early...

Same hunt with Donnie B and HEAVYMETALNUT (Dave) great mild December day with good company , the Deus will sure smell out those smaller cuff sized buttons in mineralized ground. This particular spot where we found them have been detected but as many as a dozen other machines and there is some...

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Thank you sir ! I've been waiting on a find as this ! :thumbsup01: me too Jeff , thanks Yes his name is Ron Yingling i was out with him and his twin Brother Rick , we all swing the Deus and we all did pretty well for only a few hours hunt. I was using Calabash Digger's pitch program...

Sunday i was only afforded a few hours out to play in the woods , to check out a possible site and maybe hit a couple older "hammered out" sites with a new deus program for the heavy iron . Well the "possible site" wasn't anything but i did hit a coin spill in the woods (2 indians 1863 , 1881...

Ooops ! well best "coin silver" , silver coin same difference yes ?