Gold Seeker

The tapered bars are "casted" bars poured into a one piece mold, there are also bars that aren't tapered but they are from either 2 piece molds, or gold that has been ran through a press into uniformed thickness and width and then cut into uniform bars.

In 1906 the United States government passed the "National Gold and Silver Stamping Act.", however there isn't a law that actually requires that gold/silver to have a purity/quality mark..but the law does require that any gold/silver that does have a purity/quality mark MUST be fairly accurate and even more accurate since an update in 1981, and any marked gold/silver must also have a "Hallmark/Makers mark" accompanying the purity mark or the purity mark is mute and may not be accurate. Here's a little more info... https://www.stuller.com/articles/view/national-gold-and-silver-marking-act/

I knew how this process works already...but I thoroughly enjoyed the video! There is one bit that is untrue....the reason the gold bars are tapered, he said it was so a man couldn't grip it easily to pick it up.....why would anyone be worried about someone picking it up, it had to be picked up to move it around, the true reason was so that the bar would drop out of the mold easily after the bar was poured and cooled.

Well that explains how the knife got in the field, it's got drunk on it's birthday and passed out in the field!!

Nice half-dime, I think that's a type 3, I think type 2s are "No Drapery"

It was on the Discovery Channel.

You have indeed found an epic place to detect, amazing to find so many gold coins!! If you don't mind saying what country are you finding these coins?

It's a slag ladle, used in steel/metal foundries to haul away the molten slag from steel/metal production, they haul it out of the foundry to dump the slag.

I wonder how big these buckets actually are, 5 gallons or smaller, I don't recall him saying how big they are?

Many of the southeastern states that have gold have gold in saprolite, especially Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and as mentioned the Carolinas.

Not your traditional pick but it's a great pick none the less, see one in person before buying, just so you know what it looks and feels like. https://www.bing.com/search?pc=CBHS&ptag=N3132D041519A9DFA1A1FF2&form=CONBDF&conlogo=CT3210127&q=estwing+paleo+pick

Gold with a high silver content (usually at least 20%) is called "electrum". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrum

I live in South Carolina and all can sodas I have looked at have both imperial and metric on the cans. I was hoping the nugget came from here..but doing a search there doesn't appear to be a Arizona in South Carolina...dang it!!

From my understanding, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if several coins or historic items were found together it's considered a "hoard" then the rest of the coins/treasure if any at the site would excavated, researched, etc. and then be appraised and then museums would bid on them and the finder would get the money, if found on private land and the finder had permission the then the finder and land owner split the money, if no permission was granted then the landowner gets all the money, if found on public land the finder gets all the money. When only one coin or historic item is found it isn't considered a hoard and the finder can sell it themselves and to whomever they please for however much they can get for it.

I'd like to say it was your skill that got rid of the skunk but I think it was the coyote that ate the skunk is why you were successful!

It's definitely an old gyroscope toy, they were very popular from the 1950s and into the 1970s, that one is a earlier one and in the same time frame as the Tootsie Toy car.

Merry Christmas to everyone, stay safe!!

I guess Gary wasn't looking for "Top pocket" finds since he didn't have a top pocket that day! LOLs

If you're good at panning micro-fine gold some of it can be panned out, but there are other ways to capture the gold lost when cutting but it would require smelting the dust or using chemicals, mercury, etc., etc.

As long as you never had a update to 278 then you shouldn't have any issues updating from 268 to the 277 if you can get the update file.

Not being sure if you can go back to a earlier update if you have the newest update, I did some more searching and it seems you can go back...but I still can't find a file for the 277 update and how to go about installing and not have any problems....I found a topic on Treasurenet where others have done so but no one would post the 277 update file but one guy did PM another member with the file it seems, so maybe you can contact him to get the file. Here's a link to the topic, you will have to join if you're not already a member to post and ask him for the file, the member that seems to have access to the 277 file is "67GTA". https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/2-77-or-2-78.643562/ EDIT: It appears that 67GTA is also a member here, he posted back in August about him having issues with going back to the 277 from the 278 update, I didn't read all of the topic to see how he overcame the issues but get in touch with him and see if he can get you the 277 file.

Is there a reason you looking for the 277 update specifically, you can download the latest update...278 which according the their websites includes all previous updates? Here's a link to download the 278 update. https://www.noktadetectors.com/simplex-software-update/ As I wrote above about the current update, they say has all previous updates included as well, so I guess that's why they don't offer the older updates any longer. https://www.noktadetectors.com/?s=software+update+2.77&searchsubmit=

Yes I agree that they should make all updates available, I even searched for that specific update and got an "Error" as a result.

I was thinking it might be outdated but I didn't check the link on their website...however The Nokta USA Service Center has a Facebook page, try see if they can help you. https://www.facebook.com/NoktaServiceandRepairs

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for or if it's still available for downloading. https://noktadetectors.co.za/info-hub/simplex-software-firmware-update-v2.77