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  1. F350Platinum
    Thanks! That little field is pretty wiped out, but thanks for the ID! I did also find a thimble so that does indicate presence of the "fair". 🙂 I've found a few of them in various places, and now I think of it, I almost always found thimbles as well. ðŸĪ” The device they come from is called a "corset busk": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busk_(corsetry) I'm hoping the new owner might clear the woods back to the ravine, there should be more stuff in that area, it's really heavy impenetrable stuff.
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    Thanks Lodge! 🍀
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    Thanks Colonel, Y'all stay safe down there, I'm going camping at a non beach campground I've snagged silver and gold rings from, hope they'll let me do it again 😎
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    Nice stuff Dirtshark, Any modified program I use on the Deus is always Silencer=0, I'm down to using Relic for relics, and Beach Sensitive for the beach. Sometimes I use Beach while relic hunting to verify a target, but rarely. ðŸĪ” Silencer just cuts out targets. To me it's better to hear everything, and I only notch 00-00 in relic. I also run Bottle caps at 5. It's a ferrous filter that slightly changes the reaction to bottle caps, and pushes iron to iron tones. I still find small gold and other small non ferrous items. Maybe the places I hunt are different than others, but using those settings has never failed me. If I dig an "iffy" target it is always undesirable. The only settings I ever change on the fly are reactivity and audio response. Changing iron bias on the fly only brings junk. Trust the tones! ðŸĪ” 🍀
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    Thanks RVP, To me being "psychic" is just an ability to take a direction based on grouping a bunch of general events and conditions and acting on it. ðŸĪŠ Kreskin, I'm not. ðŸĪĢ
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    Thanks VL, No doubt having good tools to do the job helps. We had quite a bit of rain recently, the owner came down a few days ago and cut the grass, so since I had a break I went over there and looked again. Everything sorta came together. I've had a hunt or so recently that hasn't produced much, it was nice to get something cool a few hundred feet from my house. 😅
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    Thanks Doc, The landowner retained a few of the "waterfront" sites after selling the rest off to a farmer. The new owners have all given me permission to hunt them until they build, a very difficult process here. 😅 I've always been kinda lucky, I'm just paying attention to these instances more often now that I can.
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    Thanks Okara, Once a hunch that I should "go over there" netted me a 1690 1 reale cob. I guess after a few years of detecting your hunches and feelings are honed by experience, never second guess.
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    I'm getting ready for my last camping trip of the year this week, really didn't have time to travel to a permission, but this afternoon I got this really strong feeling that I should hunt a small field behind my house. I'm glad I did. The field is only about and acre or so, I've found an early buckle, some buttons and tombacs here. I really thought today that I would find a coin. If you can you should always follow your hunches, if you get a feeling in the field that you ought to "go over there", DO IT. I have found many great things this way. Today was no exception, and a great feeling. I didn't get much junk: Just a few headstamps and an old copper nail. I think the pull tab is probably from the War of 1812 🙄 The British came up the river behind my house and brought a lot of beer. ðŸĪĢ Seriously though, my relic finds were cool: A lead weight or game piece, a lock box keyhole escutcheon, an old brass thimble, and the coin I thought I would find: An 1869 IHP, a semi-key date coin in its own right, only 6 million were minted. It's in pretty good shape, but examining it under my coin microscope revealed another attribute that makes it even more desirable, the "9 over 9" restrike. Here is a pic from the USA coin book: I'm pretty sure of it. ðŸĨģ Follow your hunches! 🍀
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    When they're that jacked up they're probably not worth a whole lot anyway, nice kg2 kac! 🏆
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    Congrats glacialgold! My first war nickels came from a farm where the farmer said the family was so poor they couldn't rub two nickels together, and I dug two. Found them! 😅 Firsts are post-worthy, I hope you return and find more. 🍀
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    Great post regardless, thanks for doing it! 🙂 I did recognize the feeler gauge. 👍 That pendant is also of interest, probably had a cameo in it or something. Poke it with some lemon juice on a Q-tip to see how much gold plating is left.
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    Great hunt Ghound, and good on ya for getting out there. Nice to see some relics and coins, the season is underway! That's a Barber dime ya got there, sorry to correct you. ðŸĪ” I didn't find a Barber for a long time after I started detecting, but once I did I found more. It wasn't for lack of trying for sure. I hope you don't end up having to dig all those concertina reeds, but they sound really good. Albeit broken that's a nice old ring too. 👍 There should be more there.
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    Welcome from Northeast Virginia Greg, I would presume the Nokta AccuPoint Pinpointer would be of interest to you, apparently it will pair with any low latency headphones, so if your Double Score came with Bluetooth headphones you might want to read the manual a bit, and research some on Nokta's website. The AccuPoint is a good Pinpointer, it has ferrous discrimination. 🍀
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    Nice finds AZ, I'm sure that place has been hit hard, so congrats on what you got. 👍
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    Thanks! I hope more of y'all find one, and don't incur obligation with it. The story here is far larger than discretion allows me to tell, if I outlive this country gentleman (yeah right) it would be a fitting epitaph. His rewards for his deeds outweigh mine by any standard. 🍀
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    Thanks strick, I'm hoping the new permissions I got over the summer will have some promise, I'm still waiting for the bean harvest and some of the corn. It's been a tough year weather wise, from drought to heavy rain. I'm fortunate to only have to deal with the remnants of Helene. I'm glad I found the coin and returned it, it was always in the back of my mind that the longer it took and the more visits and relics I found there might create some suspicion that I had found it and was not honest. 😅 That is the weight and risk of obligation. All my other permissions have none. I hope my posts inspire others to get out there and endeavor to keep the hobby from being further regulated. Yeah it's fun to brag about finds, but it's more important to show the possibilities and pitfalls - lead by example. 🙂 Being the king of the hill is not even a thought. You're right, I did ask, and got my answers from respected people. I'll leave it at that. ðŸĪ”
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    Hey man, nothing I ever send is THAT important, don't text and drive ðŸĪĢ Whoo, it's been a helluva year! Lots of character tests. I don't think it's the detector so much as the guidance and help and comraderie of you and others, from what you've shown me you've found you're one of the most respected detectorists in my book. Shame your area is sort of drying up (not just the lack of rain) and priorities are, well, priorities. I hope sooner or later you start blowing the forum up with finds again. 🙂
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    Thanks Skywatcher. The landowner, a very wealthy man in his own right, is an old friend of my wife, I'm lucky to have got this permission. In the past 2 or 3 years we have dug many buttons, and there was a spot no one knew about that produced the decorated button I found above, ca. mid to late 1700s, and a lot of other buttons and relics. It's a unique farm that once had the main road running through it on the other side of the house. This farm produced my first Barber Quarter, a couple of large cents and many other old coins. I even got a "Block C" Cavalry button from the civil war there. Chase and I have wiped out a lot of it, but it's a big farm. There still may yet be some things to find, but it will take a lot of finding nothing before finding something. 🙂 I hope it does lead to other permissions. Certainly the story of it to a potential one might help.
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    Thanks NJ, I found it 100 yards in from the road in a 4.5 acre part of the field, not anywhere near where they told me it should be. The other person who lost it said it was on the other side of the highway in a field he owns as well! Definitely a needle in a haystack, it was a pure random chance ("lucky") find. The first 30 yards or so from the road is loaded with can slaw, had they lost it there it would have been lost forever. 😎 Shame it isn't worth as much now from being knocked around, but still the feeling was as good as a couple other coins I've found, and better for returning it.
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    It's been a bit tough for me here, I am originally from CT, although I lived in Richmond for a time when I was young. The people here are a gracious lot with a long history, respecting that history (gracefully) is key, as well as being careful to not attract too much attention. Finding that coin was a blessing but often such things can be a double-edged sword. ðŸĪ”
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    Thanks Okara, Where I hunt you have to have high standards, one mistake and you're out. We're taking counties, not towns, with less than 20,000 residents. Trust is everything here along with honor and discretion. Word travels fast. Heh, that already happened, can't really discuss that one 😎 for now. While I prefer the "easy" permissions, this one worked out well. 🙂
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    Meh, moving on. Shame I had to inspire a dissenting/disparaging comment, I guess I'll have to start the Draped Bust Half Dime Club, and hang my own sign on the treehouse ðŸĪĢ Wait - that was worn as jewelry some 200 years ago! ðŸĪŊ Thanks to all for the encouraging comments and praise. 🙂🍀
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    Thanks Chase, I hope it is a harbinger of things to come, It's been a great year so far. I'm glad to be back in the fields again. 👍
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    Thanks Matt, I've had my Ford avatar up for so long it might be fun to change it if the group approves. ðŸĪ” I can only imagine what it looked like before it was lost, it was probably uncirculated. Sadly it took some damage, just a few years in the ground with modern farm machines put some scratches in it. It's not a rare one apparently, they made over 3 million of them. It's only a 16 on Numista. I have found coins much more rare and valuable than this one but none as heavy or beautiful. The place I live is not known for its vast wealth, I might never find another. There was no civil war activity here despite contributions to the effort. At the very least I had the privilege of finding one and returning it to its owner, and I now have more confidence in my machine and experience. 🙂
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