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After yesterday's gold find I was pretty hot to get out again. Like yesterday I only had an hour or two in the early morning, so I hit another tot lot shortly after dawn. I did alright, scoring 35 coins worth $3.36, a small silver earring, some trinkets, and a big chain necklace stamped 14k...

I haven't been detecting in about a month as my family is moving soon and every non work moment has been filled with packing and preparing our current home for the market. We've finally gotten most of the work behind us, and I had a few hours in the morning today before my son's baseball game...

Couple of follow ups... I brought the perfume locket I found (pics here: http://www.americandetectorist.com/forum/index.php?topic=9395.0 ) to a jeweler in the area who is very interested in older items like this and does a lot of work with them. She was more excited than I would have expected...

I had a few nice evening hunts this past week followed up with one of my best weekends ever. I'm still too excited to even know where to begin... Long story short, I dug 254 coins this week including 24 wheats and seven silver. Among those seven silvers were TWO Barber dimes one of which is a...

My wife and son and I made a quick trip back to New England over the Easter weekend. It was a pretty busy trip but I did manage to get in a bit of hunting time with my dad on Saturday morning. We were out bright and early at a local park I'd asked him about. As he told me it would be hunting...

I got out three nights this week. Monday I hit a big, well hunted tot lot with my son. I'm usually lucky to land more than 5 or 6 coins at this spot, but they had just pulled out a piece of equipment so I was able to pull a good number of coins from where it had been, as well as a small silver...

Here's a week's worth of finds... I got in two decent evening hunts last week, but was mostly rained/snowed/hailed out this weekend and wound up hitting a bunch of tot lots. Total for the week was 277 coins worth $25.26 including 4 wheats. The only find even close to a keeper was a badly mangled...

I'm so pleased with two of my finds this month that I can't help but post more pics... the first two are the two center I found in the woods. I doubt I'll ever find one again this nice. It has an almost black patina which makes getting a good picture tough even in broad daylight. The rest of...

It was a good weekend for digging... I got out Friday evening and hit a local park for some clad. Saturday I hit some tot lots, and hunted an old rural school which gave up a nice '44 Merc. Sunday I got pretty lucky at a local school where I landed an even 100 coins including 2 Mercs ('19 &...

I got out again tonight and headed back to the woods... my luck is steadily on the decline at this spot. I dug two pennies - a copper memorial and a 1928 wheat - plus a pump organ reed, a salt shaker top, a small piece of buckle, a few large grommets, and a rusty old foothold trap. I started...

I had time for a hunt this evening after work so I headed to my new spot in the woods. Based on the finds there so far I would hope there some nice digs to be had still... some old silver would be great. It was not to be tonight though. I found 10 coins total but they were all modern. I did...

You don't typically expect to get sweaty and sun burnt when detecting in March in Upstate NY... but danged it that wasn't the case this weekend. I got out on Saturday and Sunday and hit some one my usual spots with pretty good luck - I dug 201 coins total including a silver Rosie, 9 wheats, and...

What is this? Based on the color of the metal and the lack of tarnish or corrosion I am guessing silver and gold? Help!!! I feel like this might be something good! The back of it has broken loose, it looks like it was dented or crushed at some point. I'm not sure how it was attached in the...

I was fortunate to be able to get out this evening for an hour or two before sunset. I was planning on hitting a local school, but the wooded area I had hunted earlier in the week was calling to me, so I headed there instead. Once again I was glad I gave it a go. Targets were few but almost all...

In spite of the mild weather I'm off to a bit of a slow start detecting wise due to work and a busy schedule at home as well. I managed to get in a few short hunts this past weekend though, and in each instance I found myself heading back to the same old spots I've hunted again and again. Finds...

The mild winter granted an early start to the season this weekend. Temps got into the 40's although the wind was gusting up to 40-50mph. It's always a little odd getting back in the swing after a few months of winter. I started out in a tot lot, which gave up a buck or so in clad. I then headed...

Finally getting around to a year end summary. I still haven't figured out how to stick pics in the middle of a post so I'm going to leave the pictures at the end and let them speak for themselves. Long story short, this was a tough year detecting wise as a slew of events and conditions...

Well, you can call it junk... it's treasure in its own way I guess. I like to dig a lot, and I get a bit of pleasure from seeing how many of any one type of object I can find. So here's some totals for 2011 of some of the less desirable categories of stuff. It was an off year in many ways...

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Jan 1, 2012 may be the last year of my detecting season. It was beautiful out this morning but we are supposed to get a mess of a winter storm over the next few days, so we'll see what happens. I took advantage of the sun and warmth while I could and headed to one of my absolute favorite spots...