Dcraun

Can I play again? Here is my oldest US coin. It's a 1798 Draped bust large cent. I also included a picture of my shovel marking where it was found. Notice the cut limestone blocks all that's left of an old structure.

Thanks for the tip I will remember that

My oldest object with a date on it found in the United States is a 1689 cob minted in Lima Peru

The bullet in question is on the far left. Far right is a standard three ringer the one in the middle is a 69 caliber. The rings are way more pronounced and the skirt is very thick. It weighs a full gram more than the 69 caliber. First one I've ever dug like this any help would be appreciated.

Two Connecticut buttons found about 3 ft from each other. D2 using sensitive full tones

Yes I'm very happy with V2. 90% of the time if conditions allow I run sensitive full tones, high square, offset 10, notch 07-40 , discrimination 6.8, reactivity 1.5 or 2. Those are my go to relic settings I have found these settings make it very easy to identify aluminum. A VDI of 74 that is aluminum has a hollow wind chime type of sound where as a brass button with a VDI of 74 has a solid bell sound.

Took the D2 out to a small Confederate camp using the general program because the ground is saturated. Three tone, notch 07-40, tone break at 68. I had dug several bullets all ringing up as 82 when I got a solid 84. Out came this cut 1730's Spanish silver. you can see the beginning of a 3 for the third digit in the date

Found this on a brand new permission. I have Dug scabbard tips before but never anywhere near this condition. I doubt the ground has ever been fertilized. Nearby I also found a piece of lead Sabot with clear rifling marks.

Yesterday was my 1st time detecting without the control box. I was on a very wet Virginia farm field so I went with program 1 general. Disc 6.4, 3 tone, tone break at 68, high square and notch 07-40. I found it very enjoyable to just focus on the tone and not worry about VDI numbers. This was a fairly clean field and I'm not ready to go blind in a trashy one yet. Finds include a 1860 IHC , carved bullet, 69 caliber bullet, and various other bullets and melted lead.

Here's a picture of a slightly more modern one this one was minted around 1870

I don't have a picture of the other side. Unfortunately the land owner keeps everything at this site

I found this coin on top of a hill in an area where I have found lots of relics. Both Confederate and Union items have turned up in this general area. The coin looks to be made around the mid 1800s . I would like to think it was carried by a soldier but I'll never know. The obverse side where the state, lodge# and individuals name would have been has been intentionally wiped clean the rim around the edge is still intact so I don't think it's normal wear. Maybe he was trying to hide his identity.

Great plate!

I think it's just cut glass it doesn't light up under a black light very bright

Rang up 63-64

They say you have to dig a thousand pull tabs to find a gold ring. Today I reset the counter back to zero again with this chunky 10k.

Personally I would much rather see a PI coil over a two boxsetup. I may be a bit biased though as I live near Culpeper Virginia and already own a whites TM 808 that I have never used once. Actually I was looking for mortar shells on Monday and completely forgot I even owned the White's machine until I saw the post about the two box machine on here. I'm not as young as I used to be and if I dug a 5-ft deep hole expecting to find a mortar shell only to find a horseshoe I think that would ruin me for the rest of the day possibly the week lol.

Dug up this Connecticut button today I gave it to the landowner so no pictures of it cleaned up sorry but thought you guys might still like to see it.

The river is extremely low near the house so I took the kayak out to a place where a bridge used to cross the river but was burnt during the Civil war. I turned up some Civil war bullets both Yankee and Confederate a homemade fishing sinker some iron relics and two handguns! You never know what's in the river I guess.

Thank you that's exactly what I was looking for just something to get started I will adjust based on environmental conditions. I appreciate you telling me to adjust salt sensitivity first 👍

Hello everyone, I've got a lot of hours on my D2 relic hunting here in Rockingham county Virginia. Next week I'm heading to the east coast for a dedicated metal detecting vacation on the beach. Does anyone care to share their settings to get me started off right? Detecting and fishing is all I've got planned for the entire week. I would like to detect the wet during the heat of the day and the dry sand at night. Salt sensitivity maybe the only setting that I've never fiddled with. Thanks for the advice guys I'll post pics if anything turns up!

There's a thin piece on each end that looks like these could have been chained together in a strip and then broken off as needed

I found this iron bar in a Confederate camp in Rockingham county Virginia when it first came out of the ground I could barely make out the x marks on it through the rust after soaking in electrolysis overnight this is what I found. Could this possibly be a CSA made iron ingot there are several Old Stone furnaces in the area that supplied iron to the South during the Civil war. But they produced pig iron not such a well refined bar to the best of my knowledge. What do you guys think?

From my experience, if there is a iron presence in the ground you will have better luck leaving discrimination at 6.8 and notching from 7-40. This has worked very well for me. For some reason the D2 seems to be more sensitive to co-mingled targets this way. Try it in a spot that you have already covered. You will uncover non-ferrous in very close proximity to iron that you passed over with discrimination set to 40. If you have good soft digging conditions I would investigate any solid vdi number under 08 that gives you a crisp and clear high tone as well. This is coming from a relic Hunter and not a coin shooter. You will dig a little more iron this way but more than make up for it with good finds. If you give this a try on ground that you've already searched with your discrimination set high I would be interested in your feedback and thoughts.

I found this lead pendant today at the edge of a civil war camp that I have been hunting for years. It had me stumped for a while because the letters and image are reversed. I used my phone to reverse the image to make it legible and I noticed it said "Warranted Superior" I know Warranted Superior has been making hand saws since the 1840's or even earlier. I wonder if some soldier got bored at camp melted some lead and poured it into The medallion of a saw they had laying around and then decided to make a pendant out of it?