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I got mine from Gerry right here on this site, I highly recommend him, excellent communication and quick delivery.

Unlock Häagen-Dazs, I’ve watch a good amount of his videos, sometimes skipping through the longer ones.  He finds tons of gold and silver jewelry and coins and relics.

I try to learn something from all these YouTubers.  Merrill digs just about everything, that’s why he finds so much Gold, at least it’s a lot to me.

I'm liking the Manticore, it was difficult switching from the nox 800 to this machine with 100 tones.  I don’t even know how many hours I have on it, probably between 30-40?

Just starting to get better, finding coins on their side, learning the vdi and the 2 D screen, digging less trash, can slaw, iron and stuff.

For some reason I’m really finding lots of nickles?  These are areas I’ve hit with the 800 pretty hard.

I'm playing around with the low and high conductor program’s running it enhanced with 5 tones.

It does have great recovery speed, and seems to pick up small targets deeper than the Nox.

Gerry from Idaho hooked me up with a Manticore today.

Gerry sent me a e-mail asking if I was ready for a Manticore if he got a bigger shipment in next week?

I said hell yeah.

Then I got a call from Gerry saying he could get one shipped out today.

I can’t speak enough of Gerry’s professionalism, promptness, and integrity and kindness.

I really wasn’t expecting to get one till maybe March.

Thank you Gerry…….

Today 2 wheats one toasted.

36 minutes ago, rvpopeye said:

Nice merc , but the vegetation looks even better right now !

Unfrozen ground envy I guess.....

Is the sea turtle silver ?

 

Thanks, in  NC we can basically hunt year round, at least in this area.  Ground really doesn’t freeze.  But it does get cold in January, February.  

The sea turtle was coming up a 12 on the Nox 800 in the Tot lot.  I don’t see any markings on it thou, I was hoping it was gold with those numbers.

Todays hunt

5 hours ago, Badger-NH said:

Well I'm certainly no authority on Minie Balls. I see no evidence of a conical base but it is pretty mangled. The caliber might be too small. Plus, most dug Minie Balls are white from being in the ground for well over a century.

Maybe one of the bullet experts out there can chime in.

 

If I didn’t see those rings on it, it would be in a trash can somewhere most certainly.

since I found a bust capped dime that’s worn to crap, and a large cent, that’s worn to nothing also, in this same park,  it does seem like a possibility.  
 

It is mangled, looks like it’s a piece of an older bullet.  

No, I’m not positive, my buddy I hunt with said that’s what it looked like.

here’s a few pictures, let me know your thoughts. Thanks 

This is the same park I found the large cent, bust capped dime, 6 wheaties and the stuff above.  Just when I thought it’s hunted out, I found the Merc, wheatie and that 2 ringer.

I’m looking forward to hunting these areas again with the Manticore.  I’ve spent most of my time at this park, walking different ways, swinging slower, different coils, frequencies, different weather, different machines, lower and higher recovery speed, trying to maximize depth.  

6 hours ago, Northeast said:

Definitely meant to be 1789 - 1797

But it does look like a 2.  Maybe damaged a bit?  If it really is a 2 then it’s a misprint and maybe more valuable?  
 

I cleaned it up a bit, and that’s not a two it’s a one.  But darn I thought I had some super rare miss print.  But still cool, I never new of these coins.  I just ordered a coin book to put my finds in.

I had a good week thou, also found a two ringer confederate minie ball, a Merc and wheatie. 

I’ve never found a coin like this, any help is greatly appreciated.

bicentennial. Dates look like 1789-2797?

Competition always forces companies to make better products.  I don’t want Nokta to go out of business.  We’ll see how it gos.

Calabash digger just posted this video.  He says the 11-13 has extra  coverage at depth, over the 11 inch coil.

I’m getting amazing results with Wim Hof breathing technique’s (ice man). This alone decreases overall inflammation better than IBUPROFEN and Tylenol together.  Decrease’s carbon dioxide, increases PH levels in the blood and body.

If you’re feeling a little frisky try cold showers with the breathing technique’s.  Or submersion ice baths.

I have two friends that do these techniques.

I have been suffering from Iron overload for about 6 months. And high ferritin levels.

Modern medicine calls it Hemochromatosis.  After some blood work, and a root cause blood work what happened is, my copper levels bottomed out.  Copper regulates iron absorption.  Then since the liver doesn’t have copper it starts grabbing magnesium and zinc in it’s place and those two were also bottomed out.

it has been very painful, the iron gets stored in your muscles, joints, and organs.

Theres only two ways to get the iron out.  Phlebotomy’s and chelation IVs.  Supplement copper, magnesium, B-9 folate, cod liver oil and some other stuff. A ancestral diet is best, I’d say eat your high copper foods, liver, oysters, and other stuff.  But in my condition they are also high in iron.

A guy named Morley Robbins has a root cause protocol that is excellent.

I’ve gotten a little better, got my appetite back, sleeping better, but there’s no quick fix.

It might take a year of weekly phlebotomy’s and constant bloodwork.  It’s all out of pocket.  My doctor doesn’t take insurance, plus I don’t have it.  She’s into functional/holistic medicine.

I own a small painting company.  The cost of insurance was way to high.

Since Covid it really destroyed my business, had to claim bankruptcy.  Still have the business just doing everything myself which is taxing on my body to say the least.

But I’m in a lower tax bracket so I qualify for some help with affordable insurance.  I can sign up in November.  Even if I don’t use it, it’s good to have Incase I get hurt on a job.

Sweet finds, I’m not that familiar with the D2, but I hear a lot of great things about her.  What frequency were you running?  Nice hunting……

And just like that, I’m on the list.  Thanks Gerry. 👍

That Calvary button is sweet!

Nice finds.

Right now if I was going to spend that money I think I’d get a Tarsacci.  MDT 8000.

Not saying the manticore won’t be a excellent detector, I’d like to see some of them out in the field, live digs and such first.

3 hours ago, Doc Bach said:

All very good comments and theories by everyone.Yet another fairly common situation that can occur in parks etcetera is that trees some that may be decades old and others centuries old that can actually predate the park itself are removed for safety reasons etc but more commonly die from over watering and or become uprooted during storms.It goes without saying that when this occurs many coins relics and so forth become available to detection.The bottom line is that your hard work and perseverance paid off Troy and you were rewarded handsomely that is a great piece of silver!

All the glory gos to the people on this site that have shared their wisdom and experience with us.  I’m a amateur at best, but I read a lot what you guys and gals are doing out in the field.  I just started this hobby  May 2022.  
 

I’ve watched tons of videos and do the best I can research wise with historical maps, but I really think I’ve been lucky.  Right place at the right time.  Lots of days turn out to be big nothing burgers, or detecting in the rain and end up with two soaking feet covered in mud, some trash and a couple modern coins if I’m lucky.

I thank all of you for sharing your experience with us, what worked and what doesn’t, what to look for, Where to look.  How you detect, using different frequency and what not.  All I do is go out and apply what all of you said.  Thanks.

May Lady Luck bless you all with some fantastic treasures.

Found this button couple days before the quarter.  Not sure how old it is, but was coming up a solid 15 on the Nox 800.  Pretty sure I saw one cent on the penny but it’s in bad shape, and the bullet seems fairly recent.

15 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said:

Great find!  Condition looks to be Extremely Fine, except for that obverse ding around 3-4 O'Clock.  This appears to be a strongly struck coin.  First year of that design.  You may never again find another one with condition this nice, but I hope you do.

I doubt they intentionally passed over this.  More likely they just didn't get the coil over it.  Either that or it was masked or on edge and they didn't get a good signal for one of those reasons.  Regardless, their loss is your gain.  😄

They might of been picking up iron with a large coil and just thought it was falsing.   I dig iffy signals in these areas, that’s the only reason I found a large cent a couple weeks ago.  I’ll be out there this weekend, that’s for sure.

1 hour ago, F350Platinum said:

Wow, your soil is nice to a coin that old. Really nice shape, it must have been dropped that long ago. 👍 Great find, hope you find more!

Found this capped bust dime at a park 2 miles from this one.

Same thing, about 4 inches down in a well hunted area.

Worn to crap.

Found today at another beat up park.  This was only 4 inches down.  Was my second dig.  I can’t believe this was missed.  Possibly, the other detectorist thought it was a modern coin that’s why it was left.  There’s a ton of old circular dead grass plugs all around this area.  Lots of iron and nails.  
 

This is in amazing condition being 184 years old, and a first for me.

Thanks for looking.

I keep the Nox 800 and the Legend in the trunk of my car except when they need cleaning and charging.

The legend is my backup, Nox is my primary detector.

Have the Vanquish 540 at the compound if something happens to those.

Found Saint Christopher pendant yesterday. Obviously the circle part is junk, but the Saint Christopher part is sterling.  So I got that going for me, which is nice.

You just never know what, or where you’ll find some cool stuff. Keep poppin.