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Hello friends, Last year I received an invitation from our very own Ill Digger (Tim) to go to England for 7 days of metal detecting heaven! Our group would also include Fire Fighter 43 (Jeff) and BTV Digger (John). It was great to finally meet Jeff and John after all these years of seeing their...

Howdy Diggers, I've been reorganizing my treasures and thought I'd share some pics of my little "museum." I hand-lettered all the little calligraphy signage myself and glued them to colored card stock. I still have several frames to complete and hang on the wall, so this is about 80% of my...

Hello diggers, Tony, Don, and I live on opposite sides of the state of Illinois. We decided to meet somewhere in the middle and do some door knocking. We picked a small town (where folks tend to be friendlier) and got several yesses. It was a fun day, and the weather was actually pretty nice...

Had a great weekend detecting with Tim IllDigger, Digger Don, and Fire Fighter 43 (Jeff). Thank you, Tim, for sharing some great sites with us! This was actually my first good find of the day, but I didn't realize what I had till I got home and cleaned it up. It's an Andrew Jackson...

Hi Friends, Today I stopped at the store to get some snacks and the cashier tells me that someone had just given her a fake quarter. She shows it to me and mentions it doesn't even sound like a quarter when you drop it on the counter. And to prove her point she drops the coin on the...

Hello Friends, I was going to do electrolysis on the spur from my recent trip to Germany but upon closer examination I could see shiny under the rust. I realized the spur had been "tinned." Electrolysis would probably cook off all the tin coating, so I opted to soak in rust remover instead. I...

Wow, what a week I had! Good German Beer, good German Food, laughter till midnight with the guys, and detecting all day in ancient forests! I brought back over 10 pounds of iron relics dating to Roman and Medieval times. So much electrolysis to do! Here is a couple pics but it is just a sample.

Hello Diggers, Now that I am back in the USA and settled into my new home and job I have been able to get out 3 times detecting. The first 2 hunts were with Don and Noah up in Northern Illinois. The 3rd trip was to Indiana where we were hosted by Tony Two-cent. Why do I always pick the cold...

Hello Friends, I made the 2-hour drive this weekend to hunt with my German friends and we stumbled across a GREAT location! So much medieval activity! I suspect this area had never been detected either since we were finding so many great targets. The forest was quite dense in places and I had...

Hello friends, What a surprise I got when I dug a huge signal today! My first-ever gun. But not just any gun. An actual Nazi machine gun! It's an StG 44. I'm going to give it to one of my detecting buddies. He is way more interested in the WW2 stuff than I am. From Wikipedia: The StG 44...

Hi Friends, I found this little watch winder a couple weekends ago. The seal matrix does not have an image on it. I soaked it for a bit in CLR to bring out the silver gilding that survives. I wonder if the owner was a musician. It looks lyre themed to me. How old do you think it is?

Hello friends, Today I spent 3 hours in one corner of a meadow on the side of a big hill. The area I searched for 3 hours was probably 100' x 100'. The grass is starting to get tall and I really had to push my coil down in spots. My buddy Tom and I found 9 Roman coins between us! We each...

Hello friends, I'm sure you are sick of me posting all these finds but I have to share them with someone! I went back to meet my friends in the Swabian Alps again on Saturday. It's a 3 hour drive and worth every minute! We went back to the Roman/Celtic hotspot that we had detected twice...

Tony, it has the typical shank but no backmark. I thought the exact same thing Del. It wouldn't surprise me if the reverse of our large cent was copied from this button (considering our love affair with France during the Revolutions). I'm thinking about it...

Hello friends, Yesterday I found an older horseshoe. It spent the night in my electrolysis tank and this morning I cleaned it up, baked it and coated it in paraffin. Looking through my horseshoe book and talking to my German detecting friends it looks like this is circa 1400's. Horses must...

I found an amazing French Revolution Army button today! I took a friend detecting at the 1794 battle site about 3 miles from my house. He is new to detecting so I was "showing him the ropes." I got a screamer 90 signal on my XP Deus. It was only a half inch deep and at first I thought it was...

Hello friends, Today I went detecting for 3 hours at the 1734 battle site (the French trenches I hit a couple months ago). Not many signals but I did see other dig holes and there was usually a piece of trash or iron next to each one! Anyway, I got a pretty sweet signal and fully expected it...

Hello friends, I spent 5 hours trudging through the forest and only found the odd musket ball and a couple of flat buttons. I was just about to give up and go home when I got a decent signal next to a fallen tree. It had been well over an hour since I had a good signal. Hearing a solid 62 on...

Hello Digger friends, Last Sunday I went back to the castle ruins near my house and spent 3 hours in the woods. Not many finds to report. Mostly .50 Cal casings fired from U.S. fighter planes during WW2. Must have been several strafing runs in that valley because there are hundreds of shell...

Hi Friends, Here are some more banknotes I've added to my collection! I think they are all 1920 and 1921 series.