Dances With Doves

I think it is unique. I think #1 belongs in a museum.It is a lot of labor to make that cube and find those targets.Maybe he should put a gold ring that he finds in the next one.

I added up my indian total and i have 1666 even though i went 9 straight years without going over 30. I love finding nice looking indians because they look so cool.A work of art.i talked to clad hopper and in 2007 when i got 175 he got 226 total. The poor guy did not get his explorer until may 2003 and while hunting with a explorer expert friend of his, that guy found 15 silver to his 0 in 1 day and they were mostly barbers.He would get a explorer after that and would keep up with the big boys. As a side note I would talk to a old timer who had a paper route in 1939 and he told me out of ten pennies he would get on his route that 2 would be indians at that point in time which is 30 years of them being out of circulation.

I follow my buddy Clad Hoppers rule and dig quarter signals as it could be a big silver ring.If it takes 30 seconds at most usually to dig a quarter and that=$ 30 a hour for your time on that target.Hunting for clad would be a lot of fun if $1 and $2 coins were plentiful.Clad hopper had about $300 and that was mostly at the beach. For a cashless society i never saw more coins found on the beach for a year.He loves his Nox on the beach and did not bring his At gold out at all there.The $1 coins are scarce and I average about 3 a year.I wish that they were as common as a quarter.I got $9.30 in the sand one day and that is with people hunting it all the time.

Since upstate N. Y. is a ice box I am going to see if I have 1000 Indians total since I can't detect at this time.Clad hopper has 994.I will add to the years above by edit.It should be close.

I found a total $275 which is nothing compared to the serious clad hunters out there or those who hunt the countries that have the higher denomination coins.

I added up my totals and I have 2138 regular silver coin finds and 594 for my cache which brings it to a grand total of 2772 .I hope I did the math right.This total is to 2/12 21. I did not think I had 2000 regular silver like Tom described.Thanks for following my ride of a person who was in the beginning of the FBS era.I wonder what it would of been like to hunt the good ole days of the 70's 80's and 90's. I heard one woman cleaned up at a certain park that I did good at an even made the paper with her great finds in the 90's.

In 2016 my 10'' 7.5 kz coil would break because the ears are to thin.I would get 7 Jesuit rings in a field before this happened.I would get 21 silver coins with it also.We would revisit the cache spot because they lowered the pond water making it just mud along the shoreline.I would add 14 coins to the cache total this year in 1 hunt here. I would use the 3kz. concentric coil in a old boy scout camp and would get some silver there.I also would get about 15 in the water with the At gold including 2 halves in 1 scoop.My buddy clad hopper would let me use his extra explorer 2 and would get 7 silver with it at the end of the year. Total silver count for the year is 70 normal silver plus 14 for the cache =84 for grand total for the year.I would get 6 Barber coins for the year.I have now done every year and just have to add up my totals.As of 2/12/ 21 I also have 10 silver to start the new year. I found 19 indians in 2016 and mostly with the 10'' 7.5 kz coil.

In the last few weeks Platinum is also making a big move and in the last 10 month copper has gone up a good amount.I like it when platinum is worth more then gold because it is much scarcer .

I would start 2015 using the x-terra 70 with the 10'' 7 .5 kz. coil and would use it almost all the time in the turf even though it was nose heavy.I would find 128 silver coins this year, with the x-terra getting 110 that year and the At gold finding 18 in the water.I would even get 2 barber halves in 10 days with the x-terra to start the year. With this combo I even found more then clad hopper with his explorer 2.A very good combo for the price for places where the targets are mixed.The explorer would have an advantage where the pull tabs were thick but this machine was very good on a variety of targets.This combo was deadly on Indians at that frequency.I would get 6 Barber dimes this year. I did get 4 silver with the xterra using my friends 10'' 18 kz. dd the few times that I used it. I only got 16 indians this year but did not hunt good indian spots.It scored when i went to Indian spots.

I am glad you live in California and not Rochester because my totals would be even lower since there were a lot of good hunters here already. The year i found the most was not because of skill but because of all the coins there were here.If I hunted in 2000 with my nox and my skill today i would have gotten way more.I spent a lot of time in the warmer month at the beach and that lowers the silver count unless it is productive which most of the time it is not. This is Rochester and winter puts a damper on hunting time.Those are impressive results for sure that you had in that time frame.

If that is a gold coin that is the ugliest one i ever did see but it could have been in a fire.It would still put you in the gold coin club if it's gold.

I also find a lot of those aluminum sea nuggets and some of the them are cool looking and sound like high conductive coins.

In 2014 My explorer would die in june. I would get 17 silver in about 12-15 hunts with it. I would find 21 with the At gold in the water because of a ghost pier we found where the water was under 4' deep.I would get the rest mostly with the x-terra but the infinium found a few in the dry sand by the Steve H. method. I would also revisit the 2006 cache spot and in a different and very over grown section I would get 38 more in 2 visits using the At gold.My buddies would hunt there 1 time with me there and would find 44 coins between the 2. The total for 2014 is 73 normal finds plus 38 for the cache total =111 silver total for the year.I would but a Nel tornado coil for the x-terra in 7.5 kz. and it would do real good before the coil went bad the few times I used. I would get the minelab 10'' 7.5 kz. dd to replace it and it would get me 5 silver in 2 hunts at the end of December at a old and very secluded baseball diamond which included 2 barber dimes at that spot. A very good coil on this machine.I would get only 5 barbers this year and 2 were found in the last week of the year.The At gold found me a Barber half at the ghost pier.Garrett hit the jackpot offering this fine machine at this time since it was All terrain with target id plus tones.It would be a while for other companies to offer this type machine for the cost which was very good on gold.In 2014 I would get only 12 indians.

A gold coin is a gold coin no matter how old it is.If you found it with a detector you are in the gold coin club.A great find.

Good find.Clad hopper found a couple rare coke bottles but he sold then cheap so he could have some gas money to visit his future wife who lived on the other side of Penn..The things that love will make you do.He also found a old coke bottle opener at a park here in upstate N.Y.. He just told me he sold 4 of those rare bottles for $6 in about 1976 and they are worth between 200- 300 bucks today.

In 2013 i would find 55 silver and only used the getting old explorer a few times but it got a few silvers. I would get a 1772 Spanish silver coin with the Infinium in the water.The At gold would get water in the display so that's why I used it in this finger lake. The At gold would get a 1838-0 half dime in this lake when I got it back plus a nice amount of gold.The x-terra with the stock concentric found the most silver that year and was used the most on the turf.It found a 1877-cc dime.I would only get 3 barber coins this year.In 2013 I would get 16 indians.

Which color sea glass is the best ? I heard red then blue is the most desired.

In 2012 i found 47 silver coins and would buy a AT Gold .This is a splendid fresh water machine that found me lots of gold and cleaned up at a fresh water ghost pier at a old amusement park on silver coins in that iron.I would only use my explorer a couple of times and it found only a couple silvers.The xterra with the coils I had plus the At gold in the water would get the rest. i would get 0 barber coins but I did not go to the parks that produced them that much. The At Gold in it's rookie season would get me my oldest silver coin ever in a finger lake finding me a 1736 Spanish coin.It would get me a 1856 seated dime and my only silver clad half ever in the water too. The At Gold would do good on the gold too.In 2012 I would find 30 indians.

The ones in the Finger Lakes come out nasty.The ones in the clay beneath the Lake Ontario sand come out much better even though they have tarnish on them.These ones have a cooler and smoother look.I found one fresh drop rosie one time that was perfect in the water.The cache water coins were only in the water a couple of weeks, being there because a machine cleaning the area pushed them there which just gave them a light tarnish look.There are still coins in that pond but it is a thick jungle and hard to hunt.The clad from the Finger Lakes come out nice after you tumble them.Much better looking then the silver here.Clad hopper found a 1802 flowing hair silver in a Finger Lake that would have looked better if found on land.Flowing Hair silver = as good as a gold coin or better.They are on my bucket list.A very tough target indeed.I also don't find those super thin silver coins many find in the salt in Lake ontario even though it can get very rough.The lake must protect them good in it's cuts plus the water is not salty.

My friend found a arrow head in his scoop when he was water hunting digging a penny. I found a rock with a hole in it that was used by the Indians for their nets when they went fishing going after a different target.

I only found 25 silver in 2011 and used the the explorer only 6 times in the first part of the year.The silver was found between it and the xterra the infinium and tiger shark and they all found about the same amount of silver.I found 5 Barber coins.I did find a 1.5 ounce ounce 18k chain with part that was in the shape of boxing championship belt.Some kind of martial arts piece in the water with the tiger shark that easily paid for that machine in today's prices. How many silver dimes could I buy if i sold it?In 2011 I found 14 indians.

If I spent that much for a detector I would not be dropping it from 2 feet even on soft grass.

In 2010 i would still water hunt a lot plus go for turf gold more.I did not use my explorer as much since i hit the screen with my shovel. Clad hopper fixed it so i could see half the screen. I kept in in iron mask and could not adjust it that easy. I did not use it as much but when i did it scored. I would get 62 silver.I found most of these with the explorer. The tigershark got about 8 in the water.The x-terra only got a few.I would get 2 liberty cap large cents and a fugio cent in the field I got the badge.I only found 4 Barbers this year but got a nice 1857 Standing liberty quarter.Since I started water hunting most of my time is spent on the beach in the summer compared to before.Only on cold windy summer days did we hunt the turf.In 2010 I would only get 19 indians.

I see a lot of people doing it along the shore of Lake Ontario.I even converted one sea glass guy into a water hunter.He found a ugly 2.5 car. diamond ring looking for sea glass in the gravel.I put the nice pieces in my pouch that I find in my scoop when I detect.I see a lot of woman doing it and it seems like good work out.

You also have a better chance of finding a Roman and even a Greek coin that a Roman brought over. The Greek coins are rare their and the location of where they were found makes them special. It is like finding a 16th century coin in James town vs finding the same coin in England.The James town coin would be more special because it is very early for North American history.