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Kinda surprised that red dirt wasn't concrete for you. 😀 It's been butter here for the last month, really since October of last year. The past week has been so dry my shovel hardly gets down 4". Rain this week will help!

Welcome David. What detector do you have, and where are you looking to go with it?

You "Euros" have such great history to find. 🙂 That's quite a haul! Guess that coil is quite a beast. Congratulations!

Gotta say it's not so much luck as location. My area was settled in the mid 1600s and has remained a traditional rural farm area. I got lucky at first to have all this land out my front door - about 400 acres - but now I'm researching and using maps and aerial photography to find locations in my permissions to zero in on. There is a lot of river to cover as well when I get a permit for that. I could just walk around and still find stuff, but the large amount comes from setting up a grid search. Welcome to the forum! 🙂

Today was a cold one. 43 and pretty high wind. Decided to just hack around, scouted a really old abandoned house down the road. It was too close to the main drag and I only found some junk and a penny, so I moved on. Went back to where I found the beautiful old breastplate. I haven't grid searched this area yet but will eventually. It has been dry here for over a week so the ground is getting like concrete. It's going to rain the rest of the week, however. Wasn't really finding much, lots of can slaw, junk iron and a couple of buttons. The field is huge, about 100 acres, but I was just covering about 2 where a house was until about 1967. Took a look around and saw this tall old tree off in the distance. When Chase G was here, he mentioned looking around what I think he called a "signal tree". I walked down toward it hearing nothing in my headphones even in all metal. Got to the tree and wham - a 21-22. Kinda shocked me! I figured well great, at least I'm gonna get an old penny... Nope. 1785 Half Real, Mexico mint. All mine (I now have 4 of these) were minted in Mexico. Mint mark is the M with a circle over it on the reverse.Signal Trees are a good place to look on a farm. When it's hot people will rest there, pull their handkerchief out of their pocket and drop their money. 😀 Make sure the tree throws shade on the farm during the hotter time of the day. Not a big haul, but a satisfying one. Heck I woulda been happy with the buttons. 1991 Zincoln.

Do you keep a spray bottle with you for silver and gold coins? Now that you are finding these stunners, you should. I use this kinda as a joke but I learned early not to rub silvers and gold from them... For 5 bucks it could save a very valuable coin. 😀

Still killing it!!! Congratulations. Coin is a beautiful one real, Segovia mint. I have a half real from 1778 but the only thing you can really make out is the date. You win! 😃 I have two others that are rubbed so clear there are hardly any identifying marks. Gotta say the soil there is much better for buttons and coins, I rarely find any gilt buttons with any gold on them. persistence pays off. Great finds.

Love those composite diggers. I tried one (they sell them 2 for $10 on Amazon), and while they are great for sand/loam, they're kinda light for clay. If I could put something like sand in the handle it might be better. Haven't tried one at the beach yet but I'm sure it will be good for finding targets in the scoop.

Thanks! I know this isn't very impressive. I have some places in reserve, last two were never gone over by anyone due to the farm being there. Two are deep in the woods. One is really hard to get to. Thinking of checking out this old farmhouse at the end of my road. There is one more in the immediate area where I found that old brass plate but there is not a lot of iron there, they may have done a really good job cleaning it up. It was a big house taken down in the 70s. Off to the shore in a little while, going to try my hand at beach detecting.

Finished grid searching the farmhouse today. Last couple of days I spent working on my RV. Found some interesting stuff, more of those brass beads or rollers (they are indented but not hollow), an odd button that looks like a center-fire cartridge end but isn't. It has a stamp but it's very corroded. Has a single shank in back, may not even be a button. 4 aluminum buttons, one had traces of blue paint, the other 3 are like the others I dug, 6 total. Surprised I didn't find the shirt. A small octagonal tag that reads "E. F. & BRO." Next is a bronze pin, I have no idea what it is for. Gold plated pocket watch plate, reads "patent pinion". Another pewter foot and a small box keyhole. Got 1 more corroded Indian head, an 187-something. A 1940 wheat, and a 1925. This makes 6 wheat pennies, 8 IHPs, one Trime, and one mercury dime at this site. I went back to where I found the silver but found nothing. Best coin haul ever for me, not the last I hope. Got "something" gold anyway! (plated) 😁

I'm just a "noob with a stick", but that's pretty much what I do. Many of my best buttons are 7-23. Even found some 3s. Concave Tombacs with iron shanks exhibit the 3-8 behavior particularly. The "discrimination" I go through is first to try and get a repeatable signal, sometimes lift the coil a foot above the target, but mostly do a complete 360. If the signal acts a certain way I will dig it. I've learned to distinguish between aluminum "all over the place" and other metals. I also use 4 and 5 khz, which often makes iron iron. I run the detector in all metal almost all the time. Another bit would be after I've been in a certain area for a while I pretty much know what I'm gonna get.

If anyone wants my help with this, y'all can PM me with specs on how you want it done. I can take what wheats and IHPs I have and check 'em. Of course since I have a 600, the settings would not be exactly the same. 🤔😀

One thing for sure, farmers consume quite a lot of beverages on the job. I understand the beavertails, it's an unfortunate reality, but not the tabs that are supposed to stay on the can! Dug quite a few of those today. 😵

Most likely, and the reason for the hole. Who wouldn't want to wear one? 🤔🤣

That's the "when it works" caveat. 😀 I use it with GPS Locker Pro which makes it a bit more accurate. Once yesterday and once today it started messing up. A restart of both fixes it. I always make the search area a lot larger than what I actually search too. Sometimes I get bored and go outside the box if you will. Did that today and found a button.

I wear gloves most of the time, have to take them off to use the phone. I have a great leather folio case for the Galaxy, No matter what I do it seems to keep the phone together. Tect-O-Trak has been really good for my grid searches, at least when it works well. Shows coverage and find locations, all re-visitable by GPS. Details omitted but this shows what I did the last two days.

Well, GB is your best bet, and somea the other members that do a lot of testing. IHPs are weird, I get a symphony at first when I find one, but the 20-22 usually indicates my success. Heard it a lot today. A couple were 18-19. I dug a few spikes today until I started using 4khz to check. It seemed to work on other trash too, but because of the Trime I went after any and all pull tabs. 😵

I am, believe me. Only found three that are early 1860s. There wasn't much war here except for 1812, but many of the residents have veterans in their families.

Glad you asked. I keep a record in Tect-O-Trak, photo, description, and ID. Sadly no depth. Might start doing that. 🤔 Unfortunately it's not that simple, though. IDs on the Equinox for Indian heads run from 16-23, the majority are 20-22. I've found that they go all over the place at first, but most of my measurements are taken out of ground when recording the find. Mangled salt-eaten Indians are 15. Depth varies, I've been finding most of them 4-8", but a couple were really deep, like 12". Wheat Pennies run from 20-24, and are usually a strong solid tone. Haven't found any in the river, I assume they don't survive the brackish water with farm runoff.

Thanks Chris. I'll be taking a couple of days off to get my RV in shape for the season. I'm trying to beat the farmers - I've been out every day it was warm enough since last August. Really kicked in when I retired in October, and got my first permission. I'm doing the display case thing for now. Photo below is 7 months of work in this area minus the stuff that won't fit. Finds run from the mid 1600s to late 1900. I expect the farmers to be out here this week, it's going to rain all next week. May hit the farmhouse one more time before it rains. But after that it's off to the beach! 😀 Uh, yes, I plan to bring the Equinox with me. 😈

Warm enough to hunt in a T-shirt today. Farmhouse Grid search day 2. Dug a couple of buckles and what I thought were cufflinks, but yeah that's just a rivet. 😵 Little gear or saw blade, some sort of brass bead but it's not hollow. Really fancy spoon handle says Sterling on the bent piece. The large rectangle may be silver, it sure sounds like it and it's heavy. Two more of those aluminum buttons flanking a really heavy colonial brass button that appears to have been silverplated, it has a backmark but it's obliterated. I think I found the clothesline, kept turning up Indian Head after Indian head, and then one wheat penny. Dates: 1864, 18?5 (who would drill a coin through the date), 1887, 1890, 1901, 1907. The wheat is 1910. I really like the green color Indian heads have when they come out of the ground. Spoon reverse in the second photo. Fancy!

I'll take it! 😀 Seriously though, even tho it's a "type 2" it's only worth about $40 Max. Now, an 1867... That would be a different story!

Awesome find Joe. My wife loves it! 😀 Looks like you got a chunk 'o' change too. Anything old?

I think the reason many Equinox users don't find Trimes is the VDI they give. This occurred to me today while I was working the site, the Trime was a 16/17, much like a half Real, which is 17/18. Guess what other object falls into 16-18? Pop tops. 😵 I imagine anyone with any detector would blow the ID off after digging so many. For some reason I dug about 10 of them today. 🤔 😀

My 600 gives a ferrous tone, usually -7, when I lift it or put it down fast. If sensitivity is too high (over 20) and I haven't ground balanced it will also "read" ground contours in the farm. I run it hot so it doesn't bother me anymore.