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Just watched season 1 today. My wife resisted, but now likes it. Very well done, sort of like "AfterLife" by Rick Gervais. Thanks for posting about the movie. 👍

I'd have to see the front, this one looks like a brass flatty to me, but it does have a really old shank. 🤔 If the front is grey/silver and waxy, it's Tombac. If green and corroded it's probably brass. Left is a pretty scratched up Tombac. They are low IDs on an Equinox, anywhere from 4-10. Right is a brass flat, they are a bit higher. I find them everywhere here. Shame you missed out on that place, I see you're also in VA but it's big 🤔 If you have farms out there, time to befriend a farmer! Or a "country gentleman" with a lotta land. 🙂

You'll always worry about that. Do you have farms around? Seems like you're doing ok!

Here's a quick reference. Any context on where you found it? Not specifically of course. I'd recommend you look there quite a bit more. It's definitely colonial.

Just dug two of them, I'll try that! 🙂

Found this looking up Selden cars:

Thanks! I'll probably go up and down that whole road a section at a time, it's probably a mile and a half or so. Not going to get the whole thing in before the corn is too tall. 🤬 I feel like I'm doing fine with the Deus 2 but because the Equinox has known IDs for certain things it's useful in some places here. It's also good to "mix it up", I don't want to lose my experience with the Equinox. 🙂 I got one large cent at about 8" with the Deus, the other I got with the Equinox, it was about 10". They're big high conductors so they were distinct in both machines. Silver, being the easiest to find, is scarce here. It's not so much because it's been cherry picked but more because people here didn't have a lot of it. 🤔 I can't think of a place other than the few gated communities that doesn't overlook a farm, it's been that way for almost 400 years. I find almost as much Spanish silver as US silver coins! 😀

Nice Matron! 👍 Sorry you got sick. I was wondering 🤔 Those large cents sink pretty deep don't they? Even the trash is interesting. I guess at some point a military funeral occurred, or some sort of salute, that looks like a .308 blank. And you got a couple of jacks! 😀 The ground is very kind to old cents there.

Best of luck to ya! 👍 I don't have any ghost towns near me but there are "ghost" farms, where the house is long abandoned and the land is rented. Got my eye on a couple of those... 🤔

I have no doubt that it will. 🙂 The main reason I used it instead is the history of IDs it has over the Deus 2. If you want to find something specific, you have to use a detector that has been around for a while - with a lot of published IDs. I see no difference in what the 600 with the 10x5 can detect vs. the Deus 2, the main advantage I get from the Deus is that it is much lighter, more adjustable, more interoperable, and the MI-6 pinpointer has much more reach than the Garrett. They both have ~9" coils. In the future I expect to be able to "tune out" more undesirable finds because the 600 has limited controls and is far more susceptible to EMI. I'm not seeing a major difference in depth between the two, seems to me if it's there within a foot of the surface I'll find it. 🙂 I shy away from larger coils because separation is more important to me. With a lighter/faster detector I can cover the same ground as a heavier/larger one in the same amount of time, and identify small stuff quickly. So yeah, the Equinox isn't going anywhere. It's a heckuva detector. 🙂 If Minelab comes out with a better version I might get it, but I'll keep the tried and true.

I plug out the seedling, dig the target, put the seedling back. It's going to rain quite a bit this week so there should be no damage. Only had to do this a few times. The owner said he would handle any complaints from the farmer. 🙂 I want to hunt this area as much as possible before the corn gets too high.

Thanks! Retirement is great. 👍 Weather here is tolerable even in the winter, but it gets windy sometimes. Worst is when we get a long drought, the ground gets like concrete. Almost did recently. We had nearly no snow this winter but it rained a lot.

Today was a cloudy and cool day, with a low offshore throwing intermittent mist and rain at us. 😵 I want to search my new permission some more, so I set out regardless of the mist. It probably rained about 4 times today, luckily I was near a tree every time so I stayed pretty dry. It's going to rain every day for the next 3 and the corn isn't getting any shorter. Today I used the Equinox 600 with the 10x5. I still can't tell if I find any more with the Deus than the Equinox, as you'll see. First I went to the field next to the smaller house, searched there for about 3 hours, only found what might be a brass or copper wedding band: I don't see an inscription inside so it's probably not a "posy" ring. This field was full of can slaw and other aluminum. 😵 I went back across the highway to the main house, and started really finding things "behind" it, before the mid 1940s it faced a road that is now gone. Since then the landowner has added backyard stuff where the front used to be and surrounded it with cedars and other trees. This is a view down the old road going east. It doesn't look like a road but it is. Got a pretty good bunch of coins and relics along this road directly behind the house. It used to be the front yard so it made sense to follow the rows two at a time. From left to right: the ring, a "Lincoln locket", thought it was a penny at first: it's stamped, looks like it had a back that I didn't find. Next is an IHP that I can't get a date off of, a 1998 Zincoln that was hit by a lawnmower, a very corroded 1980 memorial, a 1944 wheat, an 1837 Matron Large cent: It was at least 10" down, and gave a 31 ID. The one I dug last time with the Deus 2 was a 93. a 1908 "V" nickel, the only Barber coin I ever seem to find: Next row is part of a drawer pull (I think), a large flat piece of lead with an iron shank which may have been a button, it is convex. A small flattened buck ball, below it a small broken Tombac, brass D buckle, a spark plug ring, and a garage key. Above the D buckle is the coolest token I have ever found, they're pretty common according to Numista: Maybe a bus or other conveyance (carriage) traveled this old road? The last object is a crown shaped knob with threads inside, I dug another but it was totally corroded. This one looked good enough. Best way I can think of to make a miserable day good! 😀

Do you have a photo of yours? I could "lens" it. 🙂

I tried to offer it to the landowner but he didn't want it. 😀 My "tapping" days are over but it is a nice one, about the third one I've found. It goes in the "stuff that won't fit in a Riker case" box. 🙂

This is what I could find: http://www.xp-detectors.co.uk/xp-deus-classroom/xp-deus-advanced-settings/xp-deus-charging-and-battery-care/ They don't recommend leaving the charger plugged in all the time, but I'm thinking that the coil LED flashes all the time, indicating it is always slowly discharging the battery. As for the remote, it seems kind of silly to have to unplug it after 3 hours. 😵 There's an awful lot of battery voodoo out there, the XP power supply is supposed to be both a regulator and trickle charger. 🤪 I leave my other detector plugged in all the time, but I use it a lot. Guess I'll be more careful with the Deus, but will always leave it charging for more than 3 hours.

The coil LED will come on and go off every 4 seconds when charged. WS6 and remote both have battery indicators that flash in "full" state when fully charged. 🙂 While charging they flash incrementally.

Haha RVP, I know the feeling sometimes. I'm so scared to forget stuff it takes a while to get out the door. I'm trying to remember to keep spare stuff in my truck, but we use it for everything. Just spent over $200 for diesel and gas for my mower. 😵 I'm hoping my posts are entertaining to a degree. 🤔

It's all about location, I wouldn't be a detectorist if I didn't find colonial stuff and musket balls in my yard. 😀 The cut pistareens I found in the farm out front just hammered the nails in the coffin. 🤣 County was established in 1643 or somewhere there, it doesn't get much earlier than that but to the dismay of myself and Chase it's been a frugal economy for near 400 years 😁 Farmers here are all millionaires but you'd never know it. Best part is the county has a DuPont trust to discourage "progress". 🙂 Ya have to get a permit to get a permit 🤪 Use all the resources available to ya and charm the socks off the landowners, and the worm will turn. Public lands, while replenished, rarely contain the really old stuff. Someone else is sitting on it

Finding the buttons and other really old objects is incentive enough. 😀 I'm looking for something the owner lost a few years ago, it will have a post of its own if I'm able to find it. It isn't going to be easy. Just something special to him. 🙂

Guess I'm kinda lazy, but there are lots of cool iron (cast zinc?) relics to be found out there, I hear them all the time. I've got lots of places to go back to for them. 👍

This one was hiding in the description page for Valens' post: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N1FY63W It only weighs 2 pounds, and has a high 5 star rating percentage. It's PD so you can even strap it to your Equinox, though I would opt for a much lighter PD option. 😀

That would be a long trip for these sort of relics 😀 this little spot gave up quite a few. What surprised me was the lack of nails everywhere, or I've tuned them out. Interesting mix of 1700s to early 20th Century. There's gotta be some silver here somewhere... Might be too much to hope for gold. 🤔 Just got started. This building wasn't on any topo, but the earliest map I can find for this area is 1917, and the earliest aerial is 1967. They moved the main road possibly because of erosion, there was only a small opening to the "field of bees". That was weird. I kept hearing a buzz in my ears, I'm glad I had the WS6 on. I'm very lucky they weren't in a stinging mood, there were thousands. 😬

😀 I must be an annoying person sometimes, any time anyone says something like "Coffee?" I say: "Yes it is." 🤣 Even made up one of my own, at the hardware store when they say "Would you like a bag?" "Nah, I'll eat it here" 😀

As soon as I can I'm going to use the Equinox here, the Deus is great, but I still love that detector. 🙂