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4 minutes ago, ROCKINGCM said:

It has been a while for sure and I don’t always post my finds.   This one was kinda epic for me because I was just looking for spare change.  Went back this afternoon and nothing but modern junk.  I do really enjoy your posts.  😀

😀 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. 🙂👍

7 minutes ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Nice cut silver. Now you know what the cross is for 😄 That large cent is toast. If it a braided hair, your soil must be super toxic to copper. They usually hold up the best from all the different types of large cents in my area. The silver is worth all the hunting you did that day.

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. 🙂

1 hour ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Thanks F350! Your Relic Reaper program was the best of the lot for revealing iron with minmal falsing. It inspired my wide open Fast Full Tones program which acts very similar with iron. I can hear it all, but with the Iron Volume at 3 it doesn't overpower the good targets and reveals itself on the 90° turn. Most of the iron I only dug to verify or because it sounded like something interesting like a lock or spike.

I was also testing wide open vs notched programs. I found that using a low Disc (0-6.8) with low Notch (10-30) with Pitch audio helped to find good targets in the vast iron debris and switching to wide open (very low Disc and no Notch) with Full Tones and slowing down helped to hear the deep whispers and that seems to work really well. The D2's audio is amazingly descriptive.

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. 🤔

2 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Congrats on more goodies and I love the Indian! I was going to ask you about the round thing. I found one just like it at the site I recently hunted and thought the same thing but can't think of what kind of instrument it came from, but it must have been fairly popular if you found one in Virginia and found one in Colorado.

At first I thought of this:

But I think it has 13 reeds, not 12. 🤔

25 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

And last but not least , you're  a great inspiration for all of us  "junk janitors" of the hobby...👍 

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. 🤔

22 hours ago, SwiftSword said:

Well, I pulled the trigger. It'll be here on Saturday. 
I have the 9" coil right now but want to branch out into fields and pastures this spring. The extras coverage and thst little bit of extra depth will hopefully lead to good things. 

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. 🙂

7 hours ago, CPT_GhostLight said:

Wow again, F350, that cut 2 Reale is in great shape! A Button and Largey and Spanish Silver, oh my! Congrats again!

 

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! 🏆

17 minutes ago, moiloon said:

just thought id post to say thanks, got my creative headphones, paired up in aptx-ll straight away, im grateful immensely for your advice

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

4 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Another nice hunt for you even though you think otherwise.

Wish I could get out there and find some of those nice items, but all I can do is work on projects around here and then it's to late to get out there.

Next month I head back to the Gulf area for more work, so I don't know when I will ever get back to detecting.

Good luck on your next outing and look for the old outhouses and follow the path to the house and barn.

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.

6 hours ago, Jim Hemmingway said:

I think you are doing well F350. Yes, we experience both productive and not-so-productive field excursions, but nonetheless, I feel that your persistence, enterprise, and effort in the field will pay dividends over the long haul. 

All the very best next time out. 🙂 

Jim.

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.

6 minutes ago, Doc Bach said:

That's a handsome Pistareen.

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. 

5 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

Not much ?👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️

My last hunt got me a pull tab , a screw and a blob of weld slag.......THAT's not much 🙄

You did just fine , might be getting "super spectacular site spoiled" there 350.... 🤔

Terrible situation !  

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. 🙄

26 minutes ago, jim tn said:

Anytime you get a "piece" of silver, its a good day in my book. And a large cent is a great added bonus. Good hunting! HH Jim Tn

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.

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

2 minutes ago, moiloon said:

could I also ask, which earbus your using, and recomendations, as i may aswll buy a set of those also, small enough to put in my kit, and possiblly better than over ear during warm weather

kindest regards

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. 🙂

1 minute ago, rvpopeye said:

  Hey , don't laugh at me !    I KNOW I could find stuff like that too ...post GPS plz..😎

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... 😀

22 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

Well , there ya go , you went and did it again !🙄 WTG !

Those permission farms are never going to stop giving up treasures !

 

I'm digging again tonight !      But still just snow .......

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! 👍

1 hour ago, GB_Amateur said:

The coin books I looked through implied this procedure was something done in the British Colonies and eventually the early years of the USA itself

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

1 hour ago, GB_Amateur said:

But maybe anything available (such as a sharp knife for cutting, as if you were slicing bread -- your understanding) would work.  I doubt there was a cut coin inspector who reviewed the work and authorized it.    The coin books I looked through implied this procedure was something done in the British Colonies and eventually the early years of the USA itself, not a practice performed in the Spanish possessions or homeland.  So we USA coin collectors have no one to blame but our barbaric ancestors and 'founding fathers' for butchering these otherwise pieces of art... 🤔

 

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!