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😀 Believe it or not I don't always post either, but I get out detecting so much that I find a lot of stuff. Got a ridiculous amount of land to cover now. I'm glad to see you posting something spectacular, I've only found 3 seateds so far. One dime and two halves, all in the same field but totally at random on different hunts. Great luck! 🍀

2 coins and silver? 😀 Seems familiar... 🤔 🤣 That's not bad at all for a short hunt, although usually my trash isn't more than a handful, it numbers many more holes than 9, and there ain't no 19th hole where I'm digging. 😀 33% success rate. 🏆 Great job RVP, so glad you're getting out there. 🙂👍

Thanks! I love finding cut coins, added two more this year so far, and now have one I don't think I'll ever beat (1607). Either they use some rough chemicals or the clay/marl is corrosive on its own, even silver takes a beating here, lots of black stain. I'm lucky to get any details, but now and again I get a good one. The only thing I've seen come out of the ground pristine for the most part is 10k or better gold. One of these days I hope to find a gold coin, I dig almost all low conductors. The 100+ year old 14k ring I dug just needed a slight polishing. A 10k got more gold the more I polished it.

Yikes, when you post you post. It's been a while man, great to see ya back! Like the background for the coins too. 🙂

Yeah some times those big shallow chunks can really wake ya up 🤣 I turn iron volume down a notch sometimes myself, and generally have the audio level at 8 until it gets windy. The backphones are fine but they don't really sit well over my ears. Been pushing up the reactivity a bit as well, 1.5 seems to be well within Chase's mention of "diminishing returns". I've also noticed as the soil dries out that lowering sensitivity to 95 is better, but it still feels like I'm missing deeper stuff if I'm not hearing some chatter. 🤔

At first I thought of this: But I think it has 13 reeds, not 12. 🤔

Thanks RVP, I'd much rather Pinpoint than Pontificate. 🤣 Here's all the junk I janitored yesterday: I think that large round thing with the reeds is from some kind of instrument, and the 3 ringers are not minies but some kind of 52 caliber bullet from back in the day. 🤔

It's been doing good for me so far. You'd think it counterintuitive to use a large coil for relic hunting, but I'm enjoying it immensely, and don't feel that I'm missing anything. 🙂

Thanks Cap'n, even returning to my original permissions has been doing me a good turn. Went back today and didn't get much again, it was cloudy and colder and rained, so I took my wife out to dinner. 😀 At least I got a coin, some jewelry, and a button. The barrel tap is pretty cool too.

Wow Cap'n, nice hunt. 👍 I'd call that place "The Land Where Time Moved On", but albeit desolate, here we are. Beautiful photos and great story. Love that you found a Merc in all that nothing! They do like to hide under bushes tho. 🤔 Many of your bits are cool as well, especially the jewelry and the old marine band harmonica which looks like false teeth 😀 that hair piece is a work of art! No need to bribe me with the Spanish, guess I've been doing ok in that category 😎 Relic Reaper is for those that went to leave iron behind but hear it all. In coming up with the Reaper, I wanted something that would pretty much bypass iron by letting me decide. All I ever seem to read are complaints about iron falsing, but after fiddling a bit with what made sense to me, opening up discrimination and not notching anything stood out as a way to let the chips fall where they should. I noticed Silver Slayer was very good at that, so I expanded the theme but eliminated the notch. I don't have that problem anymore, eliminating one of the two abundant materials in most of my sites. A slight turn to a 90 degree will almost always cause that audible "dive". Guess it works well in PWM too, I try that from time to time but switch back to square. I'll be trying it in Culpeper in a week or so, we'll see how it works there. If I dug the iron I pass on, I'd have quite the collection of horse and ox shoes, but also enough plow parts to build a destroyer. 😀 While we don't have a lot of rocks here, I believe the clay and marl are enough to snap the toughest stuff. That and in some cases over 400 years of farming. Great post! 🏆

You're welcome. 🙂 Looking forward to your adventures!

Thanks VL, sorry you are in a situation where there's nothing you can put off to get some detecting in. 😪 Retirement was the key for me. One of the great things about these large places is that so many have their eyes on the prize, and they don't bother to put in the effort to do some long range scouting. I've found many hotspots this way, and surely will find more. You can walk right through one or around it, I've seen it happen. Sometimes comically so. 🤣 I really want to get the message out there that stuff doesn't magically appear (well not always), you have to sometimes put in significant effort.

Thanks Jim, I'm not complaining, it was a relief to get anything after 3 hours of absolutely nothing. 😀 It was also great to find a large cent with identifiable marks on it, and I never tire of digging buttons. 🙂 Yesterday I wasn't feeling all that great due to being house bound with bad weather, I have a bit of a heart condition that affects me more when inactive. I stayed in that spot hoping that the pocket hole these "sharp shins" often make was larger, even dug some nearby iron to eliminate masking. With over 400 years of history occurring in this farm, I know I will again find something spectacular. 👍 just gotta get my coil over it.

Thanks, it's been quite a while since I found a cut 1 Reale, this 2 is my first I think. I have a few bits in my collection now. 🙂 I'd really like to find a whole one.

Yeah, it sucks to be me 😎 thanks RVP. 🙂 Seriously though, it's hard to keep the adrenaline up enough to walk all that and get nothing, I wasn't feeling all that great today. Thankfully I got a great hit as soon as I got out in the second field, so it was all worth it. I would have been happy with the button! Just probably wouldn't have posted it. 🙄

Thanks Jim, not many finds up here, thought I'd go out and get some. 🤣 5 miles of walking for 3 things is a bit rough.

Beautiful day here in sunny VA, I was excited to get out early this morning to go to a place I haven't been to. Today I used the Deus 2 and 13", but now I have lowers for all the coils so I brought the 9" with me. Little ol' 40 acre farm across from one I have hunted and didn't get much. Followed all the hunting tricks I could, this field must have been cleared and managed by mechanized farm equipment, there was absolutely no sign of anything colonial or even Victorian. Stayed there 3 hours and walked 3 miles, got nothing but some junk and a 22-250 bullet shell. I thanked the farmer for his generosity and left. 🙂 Next up the really big farm, I have to park about a half mile or more from where the farmhouse stood near an old barn and silos. These two fields are side by side, part of the same plantation, and I have permission to both. The big one isn't too far from here but the house and barns are. Well I never got there - again. 🤣 The minute I set foot in this field I got a great target, and I stayed in that area for the rest of the day. Got a lot of trash today from both places, even some iron, as the ground is drying out despite the rain, and iron tends to false more or so it seems. 🤔 Guess I made ya wait long enough for the haul, only got 3 things today, after walking 2.3 more miles over 3 hours. My first target was the Pistareen, a 1/4 cut silver 1720s-1740s 2 Reale: Here's the reverse: You can see the "II". It was an 85, thought it was a penny. This is what the whole coin looks like: Walked along the line between the fields, got a 95 which shocked me, and dig this 1852-ish 🤔 large cent. Here the reverse, certainly enough details on this one but it's not round: Here's this one: I wish it was that nice 🙄 Got a fat flat button last. Keeping the silver streak alive, and this is the first 2 Reale bit I've found.

Worse, they'd have to be available from a UK dealer or online store.

The earbuds I have aren't made anymore, they were discontinued. I don't like putting things in my ears anyway. 😀 Sorry but I don't have a current recommendation, someone else might have one. 🙂

I am going to do a "Farm Hunting 101" post soon, but I won't diagram my permissions 🤣 I think I wrote in my post about using apps and websites that at best you'd end up in jail if you find the place... 😀

Thanks RVP, I know, y'all are getting a heap. Used to live near Worcester. Can't say I miss it. 🙄 Despite it being the second warmest winter on record here, it's giving us a little kick today on its way out. We have had snow in April here too. Getting the high winds and the 40s and 30s. Bright side is it'll be in the 60s later this week, so back to the fields I go, racing the farmers now.

This is really nice, and I intend to put all my settings in it before updating the D2... Hopefully 🤣 Thanks y'all! 👍

Here's a quick screenshot from this article done in 2001 regarding coin cutting: And here is the link to that PDF again, we discussed this a long time ago. 😀 https://www.academia.edu/31971759/THE_COLONIAL_NEWSLETTER_When_Cross_Pistareens_Cut_Their_Way_Through_the_Tobacco_Colonies

Thanks GB. 🙂 I've been looking for methods of cutting coins in colonial times, haven't found much other than mentions of "sturdy shears" or "chisel" as a regular method of coin cutting. It was most interesting to find that the "tobacco" colonies were mostly cutting coins. I did happen to stumble upon a massive account of colonial coins that may interest you: http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan48359 It's huge, it describes all of the currencies used in colonial times.

You usually don't find most of the parts of a watch in a farm especially. Nice! I have an old Howard watch some somewhere, I think mine is gold filled. Thanks for posting!