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This one has me stumped. I found it this past Saturday. It appears to have been nickel plated at one time. There are some numbers stamped on the back but I can't quite make them out. Might be 2883? Any ideas?

Since the days are getting longer I now have a couple of hours to hunt after work. Yesterday I got permission at an old farm house just down the road from us. The owners told me that somebody had detected there a few times before. I could tell that the previous detectorist had hit it pretty...

Nice finds, Jeff! :clapping: The sterling item is part of the clasp from a 1920s era beaded purse.

I don't know what it is, but I found one back in 2012. Here's mine: Here's the thread where we tried to figure out what it is: http://www.americandetectorist.com/forum/showthread.php?9427-More-Indians-plus-a-Barber-at-the-old-park-on-Cinco-de-Mayo It's a head scratcher! Mine is in rough...

The kind of spill we all dream about, eight Spanish silver coins from the 1700s and a Matron Head Large Cent all in one hole. Incredible! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7UzCU_YFdE Warning: Mild profanity in the video.

The current view out my window: Oh, did I mention that my brother got me permission to hunt these two properties? The first one is supposedly the oldest remaining home in town. It dates from the 1860s. The other is from around 1900 on a large corner lot. We are going to hit both of them...

Anyone have an idea of what this object is? I'm stumped.

Is it a scale weight? I thought it was a drain stopper. LOL It is slightly tapered and it is hollow. The padlock does not have any marking other than the number "5" on the hasp and the letters "AT, PD, DR". It is oddly shaped, I had never seen one like it either. This was my 16th...

I was able to get out on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend. On Saturday I hunted two local home sites. At the first I found a neat pocket spill: 1942 Walker, 1944 Merc and a 1948 Nickel. At the second site I only found 3 wheats and an 1896 Indian Head. Today I went to Flora, Illinois to...

Definitely! :thumbsup01:

It got up to 69 degrees here yesterday and I got out for about 3 hours. I went back to the school yard where there are lots of targets but the soil is tough on the coins. Nothing to write home about, but I found 2 Indian Heads, 4 Wheat Cents and a 1935 Mercury Dime to avoid the Silverless...

This is how much we received yesterday and it's supposed to be back up near 60 by Saturday. :bananadance:

The year 2016 was kind of an "off" year for me, metal detecting-wise. I didn't get out much and this really shows in my silver totals. However, sometimes quality is better than quantity and I was able to make some decent finds in my infrequent outings. I even found a bucket list item, my...

This has been on my wish list for quite a while. How nice that it will work with all machines, not just Minelab. Press release from Minelab: We are excited to announce the release of our new PRO-SONIC Wireless Audio System, which is available to order now from our Australian dealers, and...

It's a One Real then. It would have looked like this:

It was cold and rainy yesterday, but I managed a 3 hour hunt in between the rain showers. I went to a nearby school yard where a newer school stands, but there was an older school building on the same grounds back in the late 1800s. I ended up with 2 Indian Heads, 3 Wheat Cents, 1 Buffalo...

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

It was very cold and windy yesterday, but me and Digger Don made the best of it anyway. Don drove down to my neck of the woods and we detected pretty much all day. Most of these finds came from door-knocking permissions. It was great to meet up with Don for a hunt! We both found...

Me and my new detecting buddy returned to the large site from the 1850s that we have hunted a few times. This site has been open to detectorists for decades and finds are very sparse, nevertheless I managed to find a Large Cent and a barber Quarter today. The Large Cent is really beat, it has...

I went out for a brief 1 1/2 hour hunt yesterday at a site just down the road from where I live. Supposedly an old school house once stood on this site. Finds were few, but I did get an interesting token. Here is the last remaining original structure in the tiny town I live in, the old...