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Usually the thimbles I find are brass or some variation and a lot older. This one gave the same ID as one of those reales I dug, and it came out as you see it. I later used a little Wright's silver polish on it and it brightened up a bit, some tarnish came off. It's cracked in one spot and I don't see any copper or brass. Could be nickel silver. I looked them up and some are sterling, but this one has no purity marks. Victorian era women used to have a belt bag with thimbles, thread, scissors and other stuff in it according to my research. Kinda a quick repair kit for all the buttons that kept popping off, I think by then women were allowed to have them too 🤔

Thanks Chase. I thought I'd already put too many photos up, but this is what I pulled out of the ground today, I was in a "dig it all" mood:

Back from a few days away at a campground, almost got them to let me detect the lake beach and an old farm, but someone made a snap judgement and said "we don't want you digging". 😵 Oh well. Got a few hours in on the river, the tides weren't low at all so I stayed closer to shore. Couldn't get to the area where I found the Brown Bess buttplate, and really didn't find much of interest. I tried a lot of the suggestions I got such as digging negative numbers, one-way positives, and faint signals but pretty much got what I expected from this place: Iron, copper nails and screws, and junk. Went the other way up river and got fishing gear, and old boat copper plate. 😀 It's a beautiful place, I park my cart and walk 10 feet to the water. At high tide there's no beach, most low tides have about 3 feet. Once it was about 6 -10'. During the week I don't have to worry about boaters even in the summer, most of the boaters have weekend cottages. Today I saw a kayaker and one boat, but I wasn't in the river, I was on the landing. Dug a ton of junk but came away with two interesting relics before the deerflies got too troublesome. Nice 1800s silver thimble, a 17/18. It is inscribed "Forget Me Not", a common gift for a woman in the Victorian era. Too bad it's a bit mangled. Got a 15/16, thought oh great, another pull tab, and dug this, it made my day: 1930s Cracker Jack Tootsietoy "Zephyr". 90 years and it still has its paint. You just never know what's out there.

The Equinox goes from 5-40 Khz when in MultiIQ, both the 600 and the 800 do. Single selectable frequencies are limited on the 600, 15 Khz is as high as it goes. With update 3 they added 4 Khz.

Hey VL, Reverse image search (Google Lens) will work great with a coin or token if you take a picture of both sides with the text upright. One side or the other will get a hit. It's much harder to identify stuff that is crooked or upside down. It's hard to determine which way is up sometimes! 🤪 Chinese "Cash" coins are particularly tricky.

Haha you're going to love this. 😁 It's a marijuana grinder top. Can't get you the link, but I found one exactly the same. Device looks like a 6 gun cylinder, you take the top off, fill it and grind your weed. It's called the following in Spanish: CONTENEDOR MOLEDOR HOJAS MARIA MARIHUANA FORMA BARRIL REVOLVER PICADOR RALLADOR BALA BALAS Which Translates to: SHEET GRINDER CONTAINER MARIA MARIJUANA BARREL SHAPE REVOLVER CHOPPER GRATER BULLET BULLETS Yep.

Welcome to the forum! I've only been here a while - a little less than the time I've been metal detecting, but I can tell you that if you have the money the Equinox is a great choice. I first bought a Garrett ACE 400 because I went from online reviews, which are slanted at the very least. It's a great machine, I found lots of stuff with it, but "outgrew" it quickly in favor of a waterproof machine. I have many different places I can detect. My choice then became the difference between the Nokta Simplex+ and the Equinox, as both are waterproof. The dealer told me I'd never regret buying the Equinox 600. He was right. I have since used a Simplex and while it is very good the Equinox is much easier to set up and operate, and is definitely worth the extra $$. I mostly prefer relic hunting but my first trip(s) to a beach netted me 51 coins, a gold ring, a stainless ring and a Tungsten band that I now wear as Trigger Finger relief. 😀 So I'll pass that advice on to you.

Outstanding. What do you use to dig this stuff? Your retrieval rate is fast. I dug 51 coins and 3 rings in Savannah over 4 days - probably about 20 hours, but I'm new, and the beach was crowded. I'm sure most of it is experience and one heckuva great detector, but a 14" hole is a bit of work.

Interesting find! Bravo. 🙂

In the brackish water I hunt, and the beach I went to a few weeks ago (first one), my Carrot is/was useless in the water. Is there one that isn't? The Equinox pinpointer works great, but in shallow water filled holes it would be nice so I don't have to keep scooping or digging. "Duh" update: just saw a vid on how to tune it. 🤦

Wow! Nice haul. Don't recognize any of the coins but duh. Any silver? The only gold ring I've found so far was a 5. So was a lot of other junk. 😵 Good to see some finds!

I've read a lot of reviews and musings on this forum, the top two seem to be the Garrett Propointer AT, and the Fisher F-pulse. I have two Propointers. I'm interested in the F-pulse.

Certainly what I wrote isn't gospel 😀 but it is a fact that non-Minelab devices (I have 4 or 5) can take up to two minutes or more to pair. I've never seen it be immediate, and I have timed it. Can't mention any Minelab devices because I don't have any. On a rare occasion or two I have initialzed both the Equinox and the headphones before attempting to pair them. I turn the Equinox on first because I want it to pass its WiFi search before pairing a non-Minelab device. I agree that the happy bootup sounds it makes can be a bit of a shock.

Just an aside, every device I have ever paired to my Equinox 600 took at least two to a few minutes. Patience is a virtue, and I always turn on the device before the detector afterward. You should also make sure Bluetooth is off on your phone.

I've never detected without one, except when the battery died 😀 keeps the holes smaller.

What are the coins? Is the Jefferson old? Not a fan of those copper washers, always a great signal. 😵 The drawer pull is cool, I can almost hear the ring tapping on an old mahogany desk.

I swear, they must have sprinkled grommets everywhere in the past. 😀 Wonder what the significance is. Dug a whole line of IHP's near a shallow well, much truth to RR's post. Think I got 6 or 7.

All great suggestions. Nokta does seem to be a rising star. I'd want waterproof which is why I'm reluctant with the Apex. The Equinox is doing just fine, and lots of people are giving me great tips. The Coiltek 10x5 has been preordered, got on Gerry's list.

That would be interesting! The Nokta worked great here, haven't tried it on the water, but I dug some buttons and wheats. Isn't the Tarsacci sound kind of "bitty" like the Simplex? When the tide is low there's a lot of "beach", you're welcome anytime that I'm not camping 😀 Some of it is kinda hard to get to but the water is getting warm. Almost walked across the river to that curved spit, but that's when I found the flintlock buttplate. Been thinking of a backup, maybe the Apex?

Great presentation Chase. I know I'm a long way from real experience, but I've been reading lots of the real-results posts regarding all detectors for some time now, and I was afraid to remark that the GPX is a real monster when it comes to locating the good stuff. Other posters like @schoolofhardNox always come back with the haul of the day. Right now the Equinox is doing great for me. Maybe someday I'll be worthy of one! 😀

I've mentioned what I do a few times, but I think I'm going to random search from now on, leave some mystery. I was using 6 6' fiberglass driveway markers with white tape attached as flags, 3 on one side of the field and 3 on the other, spaced about 6' apart since that's about my swing arc. I moved 2 poles each pass, the objective being when I got tired I'd only have to move the two nearest my cart and wouldn't have to go back across the field. In perspective they look like sights on a gun and kept me on track. The flags help when the poles are in the sun. Each place I did this I wiped it out to the point that subsequent searches got me nothing but the trash I skipped before. 😵 I used Tect-O-Trak to monitor my coverage and finds, it looked pretty good. I believe it's called "strip mining"

Have heart Cap'n, I had a skunk day today as well but I expected it. The field behind my house got bush hogged a couple days ago, it was a bad day here but I managed to get out for a little while after all the tornado risk vanished. A neighborhood not too far away got trashed by one. No warnings at all from NWS! While I have found some buttons in my yard, I didn't expect much further back. It's about 2 acres, couldn't hit the whole place so I just randomly walked around. It's just great to get outside, and even if ya got trash ya got something. Hope your next hunt is a great one!

Thanks Joe. We're definitely not too far apart if you have a boat! I have to laugh when someone tells me on the phone, "your nearest branch is in California Maryland" 😀 it would be almost a 3 hour drive unless I can cross the Potomac in a boat and get a cab. I'm way up one of the rivers here, the area was settled in the 1600s by folks that left Maryland under Lord Baltimore. The engraving on the flintlock buttplate tells me it was a "trade" Brown Bess, not military. I'm going to go back to that spot and dig iron to see if I can get any other parts, but iron doesn't do well here, nor does copper. That buttplate had been in the river for over 200 years though! It was too dangerous to go out today, a tornado tore up a neighborhood not too far away.

Nice finds, RR. Bet that bell about blew your head off! Always gets me when a large target sounds off in 50 tones.

Thanks for the tips, I'll try em. Also going to dig iron near where I found the buttplate, might find the action and barrel.