schoolofhardNox

That's what you call a great hunt! 🙂 And motivation for the follow up hunt too.

Got to love those beach conditions! Targets that have been there for years are now easily reachable. Nice hunt.

21 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Absolutely brutal, Chase met me there. No wind and high pollution for some reason, despite being 64 when I started, I couldn't stay out there more than 3-4 hours. 😵 We both got dehydrated and dizzy. 🤬

Want that cannonball I found? It's a 12 pounder from the Revolution or the War of 1812, I found it about 250 feet from the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Potomac. 🤣 Probably American, no arrow. Could be Spanish.

It'll only cost about $100 to ship... 😬

Wow that turned out differently than you thought it would. Probably better that you left and not stayed. Thanks for the offer but a man and his cannonball shouldn't be separated 😄 Bad Karma. Must have been fun digging that and lugging it to the truck. 

8 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

 

With the previous detector hammering , electric doggie fences , swamps , landscaping you did a lot of work for that handful of balls SOHN !   

And still finding what you're looking for in spite of it all is a good day !  WTG 🤗 

 

Thanks. Saved by luck at the end of the day. 😏 But when I get back there, I'll be hitting that area hard. You have to beg for quality targets no matter what machine you use. 

19 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Happy Independence Day School! 🎆 🦅🇺🇸

Good on you for putting all that time in, at least you were rewarded...

Somewhat. 🤔🫤

How big are the large rounds? I have an area some might be in, dug a 12 pounder there. 

Always better to come away with something!

Thanks. Hope you enjoyed the day. I think the smaller stuff is around a 3 pound ball and maybe some are larger as well. There are plenty of town people that say they dug cannon balls in their yards, but I haven't seen any one of them 🤔 At least now I know I am in a yard that has potential. The bad news is that I may have to go pulse and dig almost every signal. My ferrous to non ferrous ratio is about to explode 😌

I usually switch machines when one isn't finding what I want 😂 I find if I keep them classified by beach conditions the chatter of the Manticore doesn't bother me much. Wet sand does not do very well with the GPX, but the Manticore does extremely well there. I rarely have a chance to use the AQ, but I do remember what a pleasure it is to use. They are two different worlds though. 

The plane looks like it's made of zinc or some type of white metal. Cool looking.

Beautiful coin. 😍 Hard to find in my part of the country.

On 4/21/2025 at 7:51 AM, Jim in ma said:

SHN The season is ending soon.  We have not heard from you ☹️

Nor from you as well 😂. Unless there is a huge storm ripping away the sand, I'm pretty much done until fall 😭 The Rev War project unofficially started the other week and I found my first .72 caliber round ball and a KG II copper. So that's where I'm gonna be hanging out until fall. I did get some hunts in locally in doing some beat up cellar holes, testing out the Manticore on some irony dry dirt. It did pretty well.

Sometimes leaving the machine on and removing the battery can reset some problems. Hope you get it fixed. For me, it was one of the best deep silver park machines at the time.

Nice relic hunt. Love the decorated dandy and of course the Regiment button. Even the Draped bust is readable.

That's a lot of cool stuff. Congrats on the silver.

That will wake you up 😄 What a nice find.

I think it's a button with a missing back.

1 hour ago, Earl said:

Nice finds, look much like the finds here in Holland.

One question. Do you know what this is, material and such?

It does look interesting.

That piece looks like lead to me. Maybe a bag seal of some sorts.  Just my guess though.

20 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Awesome finds! 

I really like how the Manticore hits on Tombac buttons, and that's one awesome decorated one you have there. I will probably revisit other places I've found them, might produce quite a few more. 👍

It also loves Buck balls... 😏

Yeah, the Manticore hits hard on targets within its range. Got lucky with the Tombac. It was covered with a hard dirt and so it appeared to be plain. I soaked it and decided I needed to use #0000 steel wool to get that hard dirt off. What a surprise to see a beautiful pattern emerge. Those little round balls seem to be everywhere.

18 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Button and thimble , Maybe a sewing kit ? 

That IS a fancy button !

 Could be. They were close by each other and a good distance away from the home site. On a nice gentile slope. It may be a child's thimble because it is tiny!!

 I had a couple of hours to spare, so I decided to hit a cellar hole that is close by. This was a virgin site that I pounded with the DFX and later on with the GPX. I did a short hunt with the Equinox a while back, but haven't tried the Manticore. First thing I noticed were some recent dig holes, but not many.😄 I don't have the small coil which would have been the coil of choice for the cellar hole lip area. I ran low conductor, at 25, any more and it falsed too much. It's a large area, multiple long fields on both sides of the path. I found a lot of junk iron and very little non ferrous other than what I have pictured. Here's the better stuff. The targets by the thimble were found at the outskirts of the property, while the other targets are the ones that the Manticore sniffed out in areas I previously hit pretty hard. Some of them read around 4, So I wouldn't have dug those (on purpose) with the Equinox. But the Manticore did get a decent amount of buttons along with some round ball that should have been found earlier. It did not find anything new on the lip. That is where I wanted to see if the Manticore could pull a non ferrous target out. So not earth shattering, but I do like the way it latches on to a good target. You can tell the resolution on the Manticore is it's main worthwhile feature. That is what I like about it the best, along with some other features as well. It's a nice time of the year, with no ticks at this location, and it is still too early for yellow jackets. 😊

I got no picture on my end? Is it me or did it not go through?

Complete opposite from what we get on the east coast. 😅 Great looking coins.

Well, that's a ring that screams - "Look at me"  😅 What a find!! I know people like to compare machines, but most of the time both machines can find the target. It mostly comes down to getting your coil over the gold. I did a field a while ago for a project and was using my pulse because it is better than the Manticore. But because my handle broke on the GPX (18 degrees out), I was forced to use the Manticore. End result was it was killing the GPX in number of finds and was going deep! So moral of the story is : you will always love the machine that finds the most good stuff......until it doesn't 😂

4 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Guess you haven't been watching The Curse of Oak Island lately.  😁

 

Are you sure it isn't called The Curse of Fantasy Island? 😂

19 hours ago, fishersari said:

great find @schoolofhardNox 

Thank you for the history of the coins.. I wonder how these coin ended up in my country (South East Asia)  I don't think it used for domestic legal tender, maybe for international trade and what its value in that time I don't know, there are no history with mexico, if spanish yes. I found these 3 coins in 3 different state with 3 different soil type/conditions, I just washed the coin with plain water.

 

Sorry for hijacking the thread @schoolofhardNox

Nice condition coins.  Glad to see them.

Yup those AQ's are worthless 😅 Who wants to spend their time finding silver and gold anyways? 🙄 Those rings are beautiful!! Even the V is in great shape.  Super hunt. I always get charged up when those cap buckles show up. That puts you in a good era for some decent finds.

23 hours ago, Joe D. said:

Great hunt!👍

No shortage of targets which is mostly good! But days like that make you want to borrow someone's beach cart!😆 At least some days, you can dump off the good lead to the surf fisherman! Last good erosion spell we had here, I had a pouch full that nearly pulled my pants off! One reason I don't wear shorts without a good belt!🍀👍👍

This is a common fishing area, so lots of targets. I can only imagine what all the past detectorists found here. Lead doesn't feel too heavy until you get past 10 pieces 😄. No joke, I had to walk a good distance with my Manticore and spade in one hand and the other hand under to pouch holding it up. I was so lopsided that my back was starting to notice the difference. I really thought my pouch would just rip from the strain. I often wonder what people walking by me think of me 🤣 Maybe that is why not many people stop me to talk anymore 🤗

5 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Love the later Spanish coins, although I've never found one, just an 8 Maravedis copper. Yeah, that really old stuff sure is boring 😏🤣

Seriously awesome find, no idea of scale, but I imagine it's a big coin? Congrats! Your two good finds are really good. 

Old stuff bores me too. I much rather dig crusty zincs 😶 I haven't found any early Spanish, mostly everything is Carolus III.  The coin is a 2 Reales and the mint mark is a "Z". About the size of a quarter.  I wish I lived on the coast. So many good coins found from CT to RI due to all the trade that happened there in the early days.

2 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

Great find, Nox.  Beautiful coin.

It's a nomenclature technicality but although new world minted silver in territories (including the famous mint in Mexico City) claimed by Spain are considered Spanish silver coins, once the First Republic of Mexico declared its independence from Spain in 1824, they started to mint their coinage in Mexico City without a royal coat of arms or cross - but instead the shining cap of Liberty.  So technically it's Mexican silver at that point.  I found an 1830 First Republic of Mexico 1/2 Reale variant in PA a few years back, it was sittung ON TOP of plowed ground.  Thought it was a piece of a pull tab tongue at first when I first sighted it as it was tiny and thin and did not look like any of the US silver we were pulling out of that site.  It was a pleasant surprise once I figured out what it was.

In those early 19th century days in the US, silver was silver (i.e., legal tender) whether European, New World Spanish, Republic of Mexico, or US minted.  So it is not unusual to find those Mexican coins scattered across the US eastern seaboard states. If those coins could talk about their journey from the Mexico City mint....

Bob you've basically cornered the market on Spanish silver lately with Cobs, Pistereens, and New and Old world Reales, so calling Spanish or Mexican is merely semantics.  Just wanted to point out the historical nuance.  No criticism intended.  I can imagine an early Republic of Mexico Silver may be lying in wait in one of your fields somewhere.

It's amazing how coins travel. I found a small Roman coin on one beach. Obviously there were no Romans here. This beach was hugely popular after WWII (as most beaches were) so someone stationed overseas brought it back. Talk about a shock when I figured out what it was.  This is why I love to detect. Sometimes something pops out of the ground and you think its junk until you figure out what it really is....like your beaver tail.

22 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

You found a lead mine 😳

And a nice fat piece of silver yup yup !

 

Unfortunately .... yes😄. I'll probably die of lead poisoning. Not a very glamorous way to go.  That silver made the hunt worth it.