Gold Seeker

They maybe still available, another new start up company in Canada it seems bought out Angus Mackirk in 2015, here's the site I found. https://brokenback.ca/about-us/

Kudos to you for a job well done, great detecting outside the box, if you hadn't looked where she said she hadn't gone that ring would of never been found!!

I do believe you're on to something and it just has to be connected to Oak Island, BUT I wouldn't put it in your "Top Pocket" it will just rip your pocket off your shirt!!

My opinion for what it's worth, let say you're out swinging your detector and you see a gold/silver coin/jewelry just laying on the ground....you found it while metal detecting..right, so as others have said you detected a metal necklace with your eyes so you indeed found it metal detecting, the detector you used was your eyes, case closed!!! Sorta a similar story, many years ago I went into a local bar on a Saturday around lunchtime to see if anyone was up for playing some pool/billiards no one was interested at the moment so I took a seat at the bar, placed my order and happen to look down and saw a ring on the floor, it was a very old art deco lady's gold diamond ring, I told the bartender I had found something on the floor, gave him my number and that if anyone came back that had lost something important to them have them give me a call... about 3 hours later a lady called me and said she had lost her great grandmother's ring that had been past down to her...she described it exactly....they were from out of town and just visiting relatives and leaving the next morning so we setup a meeting at a local restaurant they had planned on being at later that night, I returned the ring to her and her husband...they offered a reward but I refused but they wouldn't let me leave unless they could buy me dinner, we had a good meal and I wished them safe travels going home, I slept well that night with a full belly and a good feeling that she had her great grandmother's ring back!! Back then I didn't own a metal detector but I found that ring metal detecting with my eyes, so I can say I found it metal detecting and I don't care if it was cheating!!

That was my first thought as well, and no matter the cost......TESTED???? EEEEEEEWW!!!

I would bet they would find a lot more of what they're looking for if they would get that coil closer to the ground and slow down their swing speed, we all know you need to scrub the ground to get more depth and slow is the way to go when swinging the coil!! LOL

When you say western N.C. where do you mean, not exactly but where in general? Most of the gold in N.C. is in the central portion, the more eastward you go the gold dries up, and this is somewhat true to a point with going westward, also most of the gold is fine gold and not detectable, granted there have been detectable size nuggets found in N.C. but they are far and few between. I don't want to burst your bubble but just wanted you to be realistic in your hopes of finding detectable gold in N.C. I go mainly to N.C. when I get a chance to hunt for gold and I would rather use a dredge or a sluice than a metal detector, I do take my detectors with me but use them mostly for relics, coins, etc., but sometimes to find black sands deposits in known gold bearing streams.

Congratulations on the silver ring, but just as cool is now you have an excavator to help dig signals in the future!!!

A relic indeed, the last time I saw one of those was on a rerun of Star Trek, beam me up Scotty!!

I believe he was intending that response to be in another topic, and couldn't delete it here.

These types of buttons were in use from WWI, WWII and onwards, I would guess WWII or Vietnam, era

Being that there were 2 bowls in the "sealed" container, it's very possible that IF there are ashes in the bowls that it could be a couple interned together!! The question of what is in the bowls needs to be answered, IMHO!!

OOH, I see what you're doing Peg, you take Lila out there and she sniffs out all the gold and then you pretend to find it with the Gold Monster....I bet you make her dig the gold up and then lick it clean so you can take photos of them as well !!!!

Now that's one hell of a pocket spill!! The only problem now is the price of old Chinese coins has been affected to be even worse than they were before!!

Gerry, that's for sure the most unusual nugget ever!!! What did it actually weigh?

Thanks for posting, I'm always interested in history, history of gold prospecting is a added bonus! Since that video "First Contact" was just a preview I had to see the rest so after much searching I found a site that has the entire video in 2 parts that free to watch, I haven't found the second and third part of the trilogy ("Joe Leahy's Neighbours" and "Black Harvest")to watch for free yet but still looking. If you have watched the preview posted you can skip ahead about 9+ minutes because the preview is the first of the whole video, once the first part plays and finishes..just wait and the second part will load and play automatically. https://archive.org/details/firstcontact_201602/firstcontactreel1.mov

War nickels have 35% silver, silver dimes have 90% silver, 10% copper. 1942 P nickel DESIGNER: Felix Schlag EDGE: Plain DIAMETER: 21.20 millimeters WEIGHT: 5.00 grams MINTAGE: 57,873,000 MINT: Philadelphia METAL: 56% Copper, 35% Silver, 9% Manganese

You can find some of the episodes on YouTube here in the USA. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Legend+Of+Croc+Gold&qpvt=Legend+Of+Croc+Gold&FORM=VDRE

Can you get an actual measurement on the lead ball? Yes PLEASE tell us there's a D mint mark on the back of that Merc!!!

The token is definitely a "tax token" not a redeemable cash token. Here's a couple of links on the history/origins of tax tokens, the second link is especially for Illinois. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_tax_token https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3A%2F%2Fjcns.org%2Farticals_files%2FILLINOIS%20LOCAL.doc

Here's a site that give the actual melt value of US coins. https://www.coinflation.com/ The same site for Canadian coins. https://www.coinflation.com/canada/

I edited both of my posts above because I saw I mistakenly referred to the big button as a "Boston Central Guard" button when it should of said "Boston City Guard" button.

Check with Norcal6er because it appears he has or had the very same buttons! I have been doing some more research and I found a button almost identical as the big button and it says it is a Boston City Guard button...it the second one down at this link, the back mark is different but it very likely around the same date line of late 1850s to 1860s. http://relicman.com/buttons/Button4811-Massachusetts-BostonCityGuard-000.html The small button is a Navy eagle button, there are many of them on eBay, pretty sure it a CW button as well but haven't found any site that confirms that.

I saw both of these buttons posted on Treasurenet back in 2012, OP was thinking the big button was a Coast Guard button. No one ever ID either button but CannonballGuy thought it maybe a version of a Boston City Guard button from the CW, he also stated that he found a photo of the big button in the "Albert button-book in the "Unclassified and Unidentified" section as Button #UU-18". http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/what/310191-coast-guard-button.html Since you stated you obtained them years back, was that you who posted them on Treasurenet, are you NorCal 6er" on Treasurenet?

What is the mint mark on that 1923 penny, hard to tell from your photo, it looks like a D or is it an S? That being said if it's a D then I would get it checked out, it could be a very rare coin, I can't find any listings of a 1923 D penny nor any photos, plenty of S mints marks out there.