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Thanks, but they could also be knife cuts from cutting Spanish 1 real coins. I've found a large cent that was used for that. 🙂 Welcome to the forum!

I'm still waiting for it, it would be nice if it came out in time for Christmas, that would sell more than afterward in the beginning of a new year when everyone is broke - from Christmas. 🤔 I can't imagine the marketing vs. production "infinite wisdom" that results in this sort of disappointment from any of the major players. It started for me with the Apex. 😵 I will get it if it shows up, probably first line if I can - better to drop only $400 on a coil than $1500 on another detector that won't really give me any or much of an advantage where I do most of my hunting. It seems silly to read comments from those who don't have a Deus 2 anymore 😏 I was lucky enough to be one of the first to get the 11x13, and really don't look back much. I rarely use the 9", and almost never use the 11". I don't know the science and don't care, ellipticals just work for me. I'll just keep on finding all kinds of great stuff with the Deus, I couldn't be more pleased. 🙂

No disrespect noted! 🙂 I get what you and JCR mean, and take it seriously. I don't really have much to add to what Chase wrote, but it does remind me I need to return his probe to him. 😬 I borrowed it for a cellar hole but decided not to pursue it. With all the places I have to hunt, time is the essence. The large farm in front of my house has a couple of spots I've "hunted out", and they are going to be developed soon, if I get a chance between the new places I got this year I'll take the challenge and dig the larger iron signals. 🙂 I have found some incredible stuff out there from old tombac buttons to Spanish silver, even a few days ago I got a small amount of stuff. Yep, 3 tombacs, and I think I found the other half of the circular object with the square hole a few years ago 🤔 Thus far anytime I dug big iron in this or any field it is just that - big iron, usually broken plow stuff. Even dug some rebar that might have caused the land to have to be re-surveyed for the two small lots that sold 😏 I thought I was doing the farmer a favor. If I find vertical rebar now I leave it. A problem other than what Chase so eloquently described is the storage of large iron objects, I'm already stretching the patience of my wife with a 12 pound cannonball, and an old sword in the scabbard I found on the steamboat landing below (minus the hilt). Collecting large objects is kinda verboten. As it is once a month or so I have to take the garage trash to the dump, and the bag is pretty heavy with all the lead and small bits I put there. So sooner or later you might see a post about an iron dig!

I guess if you have both you're golden! All I do is hunt in iron infested areas, even my local beaches. 🤣 If gold was there I got it. I've considered buying a Manticore for its lack of fiddly stuff, but is the jury still out on its waterproof rating? One thing you can count on with the D2, no worry about water intrusion, ever - and I've personally never knocked the remote off, but I was quick to get a better mount. 🙂 My other problem is like the good ol' days with my Equinox 600, I completely dislike wearing over-ear headphones, and all the stuff I'd have to use to get situational awareness is as bad as the D2's waveguide. 😏 I really wish the major players would have a drink at Detectival and agree on a standard. 🙄 Preferably bone conduction for me. 😏 I find the 11x13" way more accurate with ID and separation than either of the others, I'll only spend more when (if) they come out with a 9" elliptical like Coiltek did for the Equinox, it was a gift from heaven. I still use it when I need it. Maybe I don't have a dog in this fight, but honestly I am very happy with the Deus 2, and I don't think I'm missing much where I am. 🙂 Or really missing spending another $1500.

I think you did well Cap'n, you got some coins, even Spanish, and certainly near as many buttons as me. 👍 You even showed me I really don't need a Manticore, although I like it for the same reasons you do. 😏 I'm convinced the 13x11" is the ticket for retrieving the most in the least amount of time. I'm still not over beach hunting 🤣 It's a heavy sucker but I "short stick" it so it swings almost weightless on the SteveG/RCDIGS rig. Full arm extension. Fun is fun, and this is fun! Hopefully I get those other large farms. 🤞 There's more out there.

I've been thinking about that JCR, it might take an entire trip to dig all the iron in that spot 😬 Chase and I joke (but it's not really a joke) about sometimes encountering a "car door" signal - in essence a really huge ferrous item - and there's one there 😵 This little part of the farm seems to be a trading spot, or maybe a small traveling shop stop. Finds range from the mid 1700's to the late 1800's, all in a spot about the size of a soccer field. The other spot is a bit larger and harder to navigate as it's close to the farmhouse, and the finds there are almost all mid 18th century.

Revisited this place yesterday with hopes of finding more, and wasn't disappointed. It was a nicer day than last week but recent rain and the increase in humidity made walking and digging kinda muddy, it didn't take long to have my boots become a couple pounds heavier with mud. Luckily it dried up later so I was able to switch to lighter shoes. There are 2 places here that have (had) relics, mostly buttons and buckles and the like, all mid conductors so we think it has been cherry picked, although a few high conductors were found. The best one was that I found the other piece of that cast silver plate, and it reinforces my thought that it's a flintlock butt cap: The elongated part at the top indicates a back strap, maybe I'll find that as well. This is about as close to the concept that I could find: We pretty much wiped out the first spot and found that the other place had much older relics, mostly Tombac buttons. Here's what I got in total: A large D buckle, a few brass buttons and some tombacs, half of a spectacle buckle, an interesting tombac saddle decoration, part of a thimble. The smallest button looks more like a coin because I can't find evidence of a shank, but I don't think copper coins that small made it to America. Trash was the same old same old: And if course the best for last, got a loud 87 and dug this not too deep, a lucky find! Probably the best Civil War era Virginia button I've ever found. This is how it looked after spraying it off a bit with water.

Great find compass, my wife loves David Yurman, and I'm always hoping I'll find it, but we don't go to many high end beaches where that would be possible. 🤔 Congrats! Good on Gold Seeker for the ID. 🍀

Nice going mn, Always fun to find an unexpected spot that produces a lot of finds. The people that brave the waves have my respect 👍

I used to train in the Army on the use of claymores, glad I never used one f'real. 😬 Good on you George, that was a hell of a war, I volunteered in '81, and loved the Vets in my unit. 🤔 Thinking about lurkers does cause one to pause tho, and the more I see it the less info I'll give. 🤬 Had another suggestion that it might be a Trimemunk, but I've never seen one here. 🤔

Thanks Ghound, The landowner asked me for anything I don't want, things that won't fit in a display case. I felt I had to reassure him that when I have a good representative sample of the place, I'll make up a nice Riker display case for him. Since I didn't find much the first half of the day, I didn't get enough to do that even for myself! 😅 I have another larger half of the farm to go, hotspots to return to, and then the yard which will be most difficult as it is well maintained. He told me that there was a central path through it with an area for hitching posts. I've found that often I do better in fine lawns with a plug shovel but I don't want to scare him, I've already said that if I do any damage at all it will be gone in the spring.

Thanks Saker, Luckily it's only about 15 minutes away from me and I'm retired, so I can go there anytime. 🙂 Almost half of the farm is pretty devoid of any targets, the other half showed promise (large cent, bag seal) but I ran out of time. No worries, there will be more. 🙂

I'm getting a little antsy about posting lately, luckily it's hunting season now and by the time people who see me out there get done with that, the new crops will be going in. 😅 I guess that hobby has a stronger attraction... 🤷‍♂️ I've noticed that a small remote beach I hunt got very popular this year, some people came from another state and according to locals "tore the place up". I've also noticed an increase in detectorists coming from a long way away at another. Some could be lurkers here that prey on others' success. 🤔 It would have to be here because I'm not on any other forum and have no other social media account related to metal detecting. It's not "all about me", but I might be part of the problem. It's a shame that such a fun and possibly rewarding hobby carries with it an amount of emotional blackmail, envy, greed, and downright piracy, but no one ever said we live in a perfect world. 😏 All I can do is try not to encourage it. I've heard from a landowner that someone showed up right after I left one day without permission from him. He said there's not much he can do about that. 🙄 I don't blame him for avoiding confrontation, it's really not worth it.

Thanks Colonel, I have a group of detecting friends that have suggested I do a bad day post. 🤣 I'm holding off for a really amusing one. I have had some days this year that I really thought I wouldn't find a thing, but not giving up until I did was probably the reason something turned up. 🫡 I think it's mostly what I call the "Law of Large Acreage" that helps. 😏

Every now and again when I'm out detecting I get a shiver when I think of finding a piece of jewelry with all or part of the owner attached... 😬 So far I've found one funerary urn and did the right thing. I generally don't go deep in ravines or hunt too close to cemeteries. I also avoid woods for the most part, especially if they have any sort of odor... I do have bad days, but this year for some reason I haven't had many. 🤔 I generally won't post if I don't find anything, or can't think of any interesting reason to. 🙂

Thanks RVP, I'm 2 for 2 on partial Trimes, I've found 4 now, but the last two were partially eaten by those pesky Trime Squirrels. 🙄 That means I've found 3.5 of them, if I do the math with estimated fractions. As for finding the fine places to find finds, I'll drive by a place, get a strong feeling I should detect it, and eventually an opportunity to ask arises. I wait for that, I try not to be impulsive. Sometimes I'm talking to someone about metal detecting and they will talk about this or that property they have, and I'll seize the opportunity if it seems like they'd let me do it. It's all luck really, then work. 🍀

Thanks, I'm retired, don't have a lot of obligations, and am fortunate to live in one of the oldest English-settled parts of America. I'm one of those people that always needs something to do. Got to thinking I hope I don't put others off of posting their stuff, sometimes if a person posts finds I'll wait a while to post mine. The whole premise is to show that persistence pays off and encourage others to get out there. 🙂

One thing I've learned over the last 4 years is a new permission always looks better initially than it really is, from merely the excitement over the unknown. 🤔 I've been surprised a few times, especially by some places I thought less of, and particularly the ones that I heard had been metal detected heavily in the past. I keep my expectations low and enjoy the surprises. 🙂 The house is really old, so the yard probably has a ton of construction bits in it like mine did. Man that stuff sounds good!

I have too, it started in my yard 🤯

Thanks Joe, Well you can always move here if you want to drive a half hour one way for groceries, take your own trash to the dump, and drive an hour or two for anything else! 🤣 It's a metal detecting paradise.

Yes indeed I am using modified relic. It hasn't missed anything that I know of 😅 I'm blessed with such nice landowners!

Thanks Earl, It's a Deus 2, I have 2 of them, one for water and one for land. I also have 2 WS6 modules, and all 3 coils. Pretty much every accessory! 😅 Not only am I in Virginia, that was my mother's name also. 🙂 My oldest find is a 1607 King James I sixpence, I found it with a buckle and a few buttons near the Potomac River that Captain John Smith explored in 1607/8. He also founded Jamestown, not too far away. That is about as old as it gets unless one travels further south to the Spanish settlements. The Northern peninsula of Virginia is sparsely populated, and is still mostly farms. I have found Spanish silver in from of my house. There are finds everywhere here. Welcome to the forum.🍀

Thanks, I'm going to be finding a lot more, this was my first trip to find out where best to look. They are going to let me hunt the yard too, but I didn't have my "do no harm" tools with me this time. The lawn is magnificent. I've hit silver and clad dimes at over a foot at the beach with my settings, but here on this peninsula pretty much nothing but the heaviest stuff makes it past the first 6-8". Under the topsoil is a layer of gray clay, and after that, beach sand. We have red clay in some spots too, impenetrable stuff when dry. It's a good thing the smaller lighter coins don't go far! The Trime wasn't more than 3" down, but was a loud 75. Here's a photo of the place at an erosion spot: It's just like the sand at the bottom of the Potomac. Anything that might make it past about a foot is gone. Here deep silver is a myth. 🙂

Y'all are probably going to get sick of me this year, I'm sorry but someone has to do it. 🙄 This darn Deus 2 just keeps finding all this old stuff, I should probably consider selling it 😏 what could be wrong? 🤔 Over the summer I stopped by this really old house (1780's) I've been driving by for a couple years now on my way to a small beach, one day I saw workmen there and dropped in to ask if I could detect the farm when it was cleared. It's owned by a gracious older couple who have kept the place nice for a long time. I've pretty much been given Carte Blanche to remove all this pesky old junk. I wish I could show y'all a photo of the place, but this will have to do. The farm is about 35 acres, and may have never been detected, at least not legally. For the first 3 hours I searched the field on the Southern side of the house, just crisscrossing in a scouting pattern, didn't get much at all, and I was starting to think the place might have been hit hard. Got one buckle bit, a broken Tombac, and a musket ball. It wasn't until I got closer to the house that it became a find-a-rama, I'm not gridding it, just doing diagonal crossings. Here's most of the stuff I got: A Dad, Mom, and baby D buckle, a small bell looking thing filled with lead, horse tack, buttons dating to the late 1700s including a really nice Tombac, a mangled but fancy buckle, lock slide, buckle bits and a nice bag seal. Here are some other large doodads from this hunt: Part of an old barrel tap that probably looked like this: I have no idea what the second thing down might be but it's brass and seems to have some wood in it. A nickel plated faucet handle, and a piece of mechanical stuff. But you know me, I save the best for last: One of the buttons was really fancy. At one point I got a blasting 94, and again said "say it isn't so". Dug this Braided hair large cent at about 10" down, took quite a while to get it, despite the recent rain that softened things up a bit: Tough to get a read on the date. Got a first for me, a crotal bell with intact ringer inside: It's a small one, but sounds great! My best find of the day is this though, got silver: About 7/8 of an 1853 Trime. Trash was about normal for a first trip, I'm grateful for the D2's accuracy, but if you want certain buttons you're going to have to dig lead and some aluminum. One of the objects in the above pic might be a lead backed plate but sadly it had no decoration or text on it. 😢 Can't wait to go back! The owner said "have fun!"

🤔 Brilliant assessment. 🙂 I'm gonna go with that! 😅 Thanks Ghound.