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Steve had deleted my previous account because I was too engaging and thought I was a bot....But for my first coin in VA I'm pretty proud of this teeny Seated Half Dime.... So here it is again. Please re-post as I lost all comments and messages. Found with my new Deus 2 and the 11" coil at about 4" deep. There was no missing it and was actually using it in the Diving Program because I was almost directly under power lines and found by adjusting down the Salt Sensitivity I was able to get rid of most of the EMI with the machine still maxed out. Also the Diving program runs a lower weighted frequency set (4 khz to 14 khz) that helps on the deeper silver. Don't be afraid to try it on dry land. This was not the case on another site where there was an electric fence and when it rained the Diving program really felt every pulse of the fence.

Military Relic hunting is probably my favorite type of metal detecting. The thrill of doing the research and then actually finding the long lost camps gives me a felling I just can't explain. But I thought I would share a few pictures and thoughts about a few relics hunts I did this year. I have kind of held off with a public post and will not be able to share any video at this time as we are still doing a bunch of research and don't want to chance giving away the location. Although the main part of this camp location is known, many smaller unit camps have not been located until now. The fact that these camps are located on farm fields only allow us to hunt during certain times of the year, Spring and Fall. Also, many years of hunting deer, elk, rabbits, etc. make it even more challenging sifting through all the generations of modern spent cartridges. First hunt in the Spring of this year was in the infantry camp and we are probably only on the edge with the whole camp still left to hunt. The $2 1/2 gold coin was found 30 minutes into the hunt down by a small creek. Here are a few of my pictures from the 5 hour hunt this Spring. First Hunt this Fall gave up some more good relics. This time in the Dragoons Camp. The $1 gold coin was actually the first signal I dug and was 20 feet from my truck on a freshly graded road. We will be hunting more in the coming weeks until the weather turns and ground is frozen. By November we will have to give it up until Spring. I will be doing a bunch more research through the Winter and hopefully be able to find the location of more camps they used for the few weeks they were camped in this location. I will be giving the landowner $1 gold coin next week in a display case we make up for them. I feel like it's the least I can do for them allowing us to hunt the property.

Out to a local ballfield with the Deus II today that I have been clearing with the Equinox 10x5 lately. Just before packing it up due to the melting taking place in my clothes thanks to the Florida humidity and heat, I got a strong signal that screamed surface. I was really hoping for a ring, expecting a pull tab, and would never have guessed it would be a 1942 nickel resting in the dirt hidden by the grass. It likely was deposited in the last 2 weeks as I have been over that spot recently. You just never know! Update: A member of the forum PMed me and gently informed me that my nickel was not technically a war nickel due to the fact that there was no mint mark above the dome. I love learning something new every day, so the info was greatly appreciated.

It has been a while since posting a find as work has kept me busy. I was out today to a local baseball field where I have found a few other silver dimes on the outfield in left field. These two came out along the outfield fence line on the first base side about 8 feet from the fence. I was using the 10x5 trying to pick through after cleaning the area with the Deus II a month or so back. They were about a foot deep with bouncing TIDs down to around 24 and up to about 35. I knew the second one was silver dime as it sound and acted just like the other one. The large iron in the pics came out of the same area during the previous cleaning process. I recall someone on this forum found a weight on the beach a while back. Well, this is about as strange to find one on a ballfield. Equinox, Park 1, all metal, 5 recovery, 50 tones

Haven't done any detecting in a while because of the heat. Finally got a break and hit an old park. Very noisy hunting because a few inches down is all coke and coal that they used to fill the park and tossed loam over it. Was able to pick this merc out of the mess. Will use another machine next time over and see if I can find others. Of course I'll shamelessly show off my digger 🙂 Been using that pretty much exclusively because grounds are so dry here.

Got out day before yesterday early morning. A beach hunt totally skunked me, I've been keeping that small local beach clean. 🤣 Decided to hit this place that is incredibly trashy to see if I could find anything. There was a house here from recorded history (1917 topo) to about 2014. The last renters were rough on the place, the property owner evicted them and knocked the house down. I used historic aerials to get an idea of the area the house covered, looks like they had a shed and carport too: This is the spot now that would be facing the house. Tree on the left has a swing on it, about a year ago I dug a lot of older modern coins (no silver) and some interesting relics here. It was an incredibly humid and hot morning so I only spent a couple hours here, the grass cuttings were sticking to my shoes making snowshoes that were difficult to remove 😀 The last people here were very fond of alcohol apparently, the spot is loaded with aluminum bottle caps and other assorted junk. Lots of aluminum cans. I brought the Deus 2 with me as it does a great job ignoring iron, there is a lot of that here too. I used the XY screen in a modified General program, disc at 10. Listening to the tones and watching the graphic was very helpful but I still dug a lot of junk: The large nickel plated brass ring for example was a solid 93. 😀 Ended up with 5 3/4 pennies, 4 Zincolns and 2 copper memorials, oldest was 1974. I had found a bunch of wheats here last year but more modern coins. It's possible that this spot was cherry picked for silver. I searched around where the tree swing was again, and amid a lot of aluminum tones I got a faint but repeatable 91. Dug down about 6-8", and got half a sterling Fede Gimmel ring. Yay. It's the half that doesn't have the sterling Hallmark. This is the second of this kind of ring I've found hunting yards in this area, got a whole one last year which I am giving to the landowner with some other relics in a 3x5" Riker box. These date from the 1920's to the 40's, (before "925") maybe from a local jewelry store long gone. They have a pin holding them together and can be separated to share. Here's an interesting link about these: https://www.jewelryshoppingguide.com/gimmel-rings-guide/ Pretty scant hunt but at least I got silver. 😀 There ya go NC! 🤣

one was a 1937 dime Today on the way to the bank, I had to make a deposit because my pin pointer broke, so I need a new one so I stopped to look for Gold and instead found two silvers, the merc suprized me because i was not looking for silver , I had dug 17 dimes and one was silver and also found a nice sterling ring with what looks like a black onyx stone

It's a 1875 six-pence! Featuring a very youthful looking Queen Victoria.. There've been really high tides over the last few days and I noticed a huge amount of sand had been eroded from a place I call the 'Silver Mine'.. I thought I'd use the Deus II this time rather than the Equinox to see if it could sniff out some deep silver.. It did so in fine style.. Excluding the Chinese coin, this is the oldest coin I've found so far.. It's a bit rough looking but considering the amount of tide changes it has endured I'd say it's a charmer..

I was so excited to be going to the beach camping for 6 days, couldn't wait to get out there! It's a nice RV park right on the coast, with condos on one side and a small hotel on the other. Not a ritzy one. There is also a public access parking lot next to the hotel. That view is from the top of my RV. Every morning I got up at 5 to get out to the beach at 6. There's probably about 40 miles of beach here, I only covered about 2. On the first day I used the Equinox, didn't get much at all. It broke out raining so I had to quit. For the rest of the week I used the Deus 2 with a modified Beach Sensitive program, and did a bit better. I'll make a long story short because every day was the same, go out, get rained on, come back. 🤣 I got out a couple evenings too, because the thunderstorms cleared the beach. By 10:00 it was packed. Here's the total haul: $7.52 in modern coins, some jewelry, most of it junk except for this nice tungsten band with koa wood and abalone inlay. The band under it on the ring stand is stainless with pink CZs. I did get a very tiny silver chain with the religious medal and the wing, and one earring is probably silver. The stud is a CZ. The really small ring is marked 9.15 and 22, two medallions, one chrome and the other gold plated. The toe ring is silver plated zinc or copper and the bottom bit is copper with CZ's. The trash was horrendous but I never dug a single tent stake. Both detectors identified them correctly. Most of it was foil and pull tabs and sighted bottle caps. My most incredible find came on the last morning at low tide, it was about a foot down: A 1944 wheat penny in the best condition I have ever seen! 😀 It's like a kid stole it from the parent's proof collection and lost it, or it was a lucky fishing penny. 😀 Got a couple Matchbox cars, one from 2007 and the other 1993. All in all it was pretty disappointing, but I blame that on economics and bad weather. 🙂 I did meet a few detectorists out there, one guy that was just gridding the entrances and then started following me around for the first two mornings, but he didn't want to talk 😀 Another guy was out training his son with a White's Coinmaster, he found absolutely nothing but pull tabs and bottle caps, so he asked me what to upgrade to so he could get near the surf. I told him to get an Equinox or a Legend. The third one was funny, a guy I met on the beach a year ago swinging a Sovereign, this time he had an Equinox 800 and a 15" coil. He only had a hand scoop so I helped him dig a great signal that turned out to be a vaping device 🙄 One of my friends was watching us on the live beach camera and got this screen shot: I don't think he got much either.

I got out with Ozzie for an early morning hunt July 4th. I saw a great-horned owl on my way to the park, and figured that was a good omen. Proceeded to dig nothing except modern trash, modern coins, and fishing lead of all types. We were in a section of the park that has a disc-golf course on it. it is a pretty famous course, so there are a LOT of golfers on the weekends. It adds one more element to paying attention to your surroundings. Most golfers are very reluctant to throw a disc unless they know you see them, so it leads to plenty of pauses....every once in a while, you do see a really skilled throw, so not a terrible deal. I got to the point where I knew I had to quit for the day...just wanted to hit a smallish area around an old tree that Ozzie has gotten some Barbers out of in a prior hunt. Old trees are my favorite spots...less chance of people re-grading areas, throwing more soil on top, etc. Got a really nice high signal, but hard to pinpoint. turned out to be a nice grade Mercury dime, vertical but only 6 inches deep. Went about 20 feet further, got a lower signal, more broken but not many grunts. Got the wonderful lowest pinpoint tone range, and figured large deep copper. At full pinpointer depth plus a little, out comes Ms. Draped Bust Liberty. Still working on the date, but can see the 179?. Isnt a 6 so has to be 7, 8, or 9. I wish i had sandy soil, but large cents are still way cool, even when they come out toasty. Heading back there again soon.

Went looking for 1800s festival location but the terrain was too rugged in the heat so I gave up for today and went to a creekside location where I always have a good time. It’s a location with a few foundations that is packed with iron but has provided many nice finds over the years. I was rewarded with this fine 1901 Barber quarter. No mint mark but in very fine condition. Might go back today. I was using sensitive FT and X-Y screen reactivity 4

Got the Deus 2 all set to go in the water at this campground, I did some research and the nautical maps say that the water is 1-3 feet deep in most places near the shore. Sadly that wasn't the case here. I walked down one of the ramps and found it was neck deep, I am 6'1. I used my 6' scoop to measure depth off the seawall, and found it to be at least 5' deep everywhere. That means I can't use my scoop without a weight belt, physics won't allow. 🤬 I did manage to hunt the small beach they have, but found nothing but pull tabs, beer can pieces and one shotgun shell. It was only about 3' deep to the seawall. If you're new to water hunting, here's a tip. Pinpoint with the D2, hold the coil in place and put your scoop (carefully) behind it pointed toward the coil center. I have got most targets in one scoop doing this. It's also great when its deep and you can't see the bottom. Time to shift gears. I went back to my RV, swapped my scoop for my Ranger shovel, grabbed my pinpointer and went to the old farmhouse site. This is the foundation area. There is so much steel, copper tubing and aluminum trash here it is very difficult. The D2 may be great in iron, but in General and Relic program it struggles with IDs, I did listen to the tones in General and after a while learned what was trash and what wasn't. Relic was no use at all except to sometimes confirm a target was iron. Most of the 90 TIDs were aluminum or steel, even some copper tubing. On a good note, the D2 does separate very well. Dug all these in places I went over with the Equinox last year with the 11" coil. 😀 My take for the day was only .60, I dropped one of the pennies down the sink. 🤬 No silver. I totally pillaged this place last year with the Equinox. Going to bring the Equinox with the 10x5 that I bought after I was here last year, I'll see if I find more. I have a secret weapon to try out if that doesn't work. 😁 I dug a ton of trash, but there are strategically placed trash cans all over this campground. 🤣

Tough morning today, got out only for a half hour before some thunderstorms rolled in. The deer flies were ravenous, it must be getting close to the end of them for the summer. 😵 It was another day for the Equinox. I started out in the tent sites and found a few coins and the first key of the day, this solid brass modern Fossil skeleton key. These keys come with purses from Fossil. Had to leave because lightning was cracking all over the place, I could hear it in my headphones. Next place I went was this field, I got some interesting brass objects and one Indian head penny (I think) it's penny sized and so corroded it's hard to discern anything. It rained a bit then the sun came out. Here's the take today, 32 coins, $2.30, and some keys. After hunting this field I went back to the tent sites and got a lot more coins. Here's a really good point to make for having a detectorist visit a campground and giving them carte blanche. The two .35 Remington cartridges were about 5" down right next to a fire pit. Should anyone have moved the ring over these bullets and started a fire, I can only imagine the explosion. 😬 Here's some info on this ammunition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.35_Remington And here is a picture of the semiautomatic Remington Model 8 they were used in: It could also have been used in this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Model_336 Seriously powerful rifles. I found one casing that had a hole in the side and no bullet but the primer was still there. Got a really big solid brass ring, and this interesting object I hope someone can identify: There is also an aluminum cap for something with text on it but it I can't read it at the moment. Before this place became a campground it was a major hunting lodge, and possibly a military drill area.

People come up to me and ask me what I've found over the years. My usual response is: "Well, I haven't found a gold coin or a silver dollar." Well, as of yesterday, I can cut that statement in half. I found an 1880 silver dollar. After 20 years of detecting, I finally found one. My knees buckled and my legs shook and I would imagine my heart rate was off the charts. was about 6 inches deep and 3 feet from a road that was a major east west road and trading posts back in the 1800's. It was also known as the Honey Moon trail because newly Weds would take it to Niagara Falls by carriage. Found with a NOX 800, all metal mode, max sensitivity, FE 6 Park 1

Today was the kind of day you hope for detecting. Breezy and in the 70s this morning, never got above 82. There is a pond in the remote area of this park next to the farmhouse site. I wanted to hunt this area again with the Equinox and the 10x5 coil that I didn't have last year. This small spot produced a bunch of modern coins in the fire pit, one of them was melted somewhat, but it I think it's negotiable. This spot must have been a target area, there are hundreds of bullets here, all giving a a 15-17 or 19-21 ID. 😵 Had to restrict myself to 23 and above here. Next I went to this spot east of the farmhouse, I found an Indian head or two and a large cent (smooth) here last year. I dug one IHP, a bunch of newer coins, and a very old medal in 3 pieces, all joined by rings that fell off - they were rust. After finishing up that field I hit the tent campsites which are all empty. Hoped I'd find some jewelry and ended up with a sterling wave toe ring and a bunch of modern coins - they just kept popping. 🥳 Here's the loot, 29 coins, I thought the IHP was an 1867 but it may be a 1907. Again I got at least 1 of everything, and a 1975 Canadian penny. Zincolns on the bottom. $3.00 in spendy change, the IHP goes on display. Also got a rose bush tag. I never knew they had serial numbers. 😀 The medal on the right is 3 pieces, the bottom piece is turned upside down to display "1667" I think. It had something on the other side as well, looks like maybe a cannon. Each piece has some sort of scene cast on both sides, but they have so much bronze disease it's going to take some work and maybe some chemicals. It was 10"+ down, and each piece was a 25 ID. Here's the IHP: Your guess is as good as mine. 😵 Last is the toe ring, it's really small. Matches other wave rings I've found. It doesn't have a hallmark, that's the reason for the question mark on the title but I'm pretty sure it's sterling. I think the Equinox is king here, but I'll try the Deus again, I've extended my stay 3 more days. 🙂 I'm also going to give a third detector a go... 🤔

I'm at a campground I metal detected last year, checked to ensure I was still allowed. This place has so many different areas, tot lot and volleyball court, an old farmhouse site with lots of relics from the 1800s, and a huge waterfront. This morning I went to the tot lot , Cornhole and volleyball court. I brought the Equinox and used it in the usual Park 1 settings. It was outrageously hot and muggy this morning. Searched the tot lot and surrounding area, I was hoping for an earring, but just got a lot of change. I was surprised by a 1946 wheat! Then I searched the Cornhole area, got a couple more coins. Here I was hoping someone would have thrown a ring or something. Last was the volleyball court, there is far less sand this year than last. I won't dig much past the sand as I don't want to leave muddy patches behind, so I left a lot of targets behind. I had my Ranger shovel but only used a composite trowel. My first find was a toy motorcycle, and not much after that except for a strong 5, I got a bead or slide that may be gold. Ended my 3 hour hunt with $2.01 in usable modern coins, including the wheat. Got one of everything, the Zincolns are on the bottom. 😀 Not too much trash, I picked stuff up as well so they would see that I do a good job. Later in the day we had to bug out of the campground for a couple hours due to a tornado warning. 😬 Luckily there was no damage when we got back. Some trees were down on the road in. Going to try the water tomorrow with the Deus 2. I'm glad I have more than one detector now! 😀

It rang up a very strong 99 on the Deus II because it was snuggled into the grass just below the first 1/8" of soil on a baseball field. I live in the Tampa area, so it makes sense to be here. I think it's aluminum, but it seems even too light for that. 🤔 Fun to find, but sure wish it had more density!

I work for a resort that has 1400 acres and two youth camps. The resort was started back in 1909 so I’ve found some silver here over the past three years that I’ve been working here. However it’s been pretty slow for the past year as I’ve cleaned out most of the grassy areas with my equinox. This weekend is the first time I’ve had the D2 in the older youth camp which dates to the 1930s. Yesterday I hit two mercs, a 1920 and a 1926 just inches apart. Today I went back and got my third (and nicest) walking liberty half for the year. The areas where these coins were found had been hit with my nox multiple times. Is it the deus or did I just miss these three with the nox? I don’t know, but I’m definitely going to hit more of the non-wooded areas with the deus II. I hadn’t taken the deus to these areas before today because I had hit these areas so many times with my nox that I didn’t think I’d find much. Hmmm, I might need to re-think this. LOL!

Today I went back to the same beach I went to yesterday, but brought the Deus 2 with me. I thought it would be a great place to test whether the D2 could find deeper targets than the Equinox after a great hunt yesterday, I pretty much found all the Equinox could find. I also wanted to be sure I didn't miss a possible 3d ring in case there was an engagement band on its side or something 🤔 😀 Today was hot again but a fairly strong breeze out of the northwest made it a bit more pleasant. Got there early, no one there. The D2 with the 9" coil in Beach sensitive does hit targets deeper than the 600 with the 10x5, every bottle cap (a ~67) was at least 12" down, as was the sinker. Most of the other trash was right near the top, yesterday and today I dug just about everything but targets that were over 2 feet deep which were probably large iron. The glass was on the surface. I really didn't expect to find anything at all but the day wasn't a skunk, in the last half hour when I got to the other end I found that there must have been some activity there after I left. I ended up with a deep old nickel so badly corroded it's not negotiable (nor does it have a date) and some very new items: A pair of Foster Grants, and .56 in modern coins. 😀 I was glad to have got one much older coin, don't know why I missed that one with the Equinox, it wasn't especially deep and it was a nickel signal. I didn't hear the bottle caps yesterday at all. They were very clear with the D2. The takeaway for me is that the D2 definitely goes quite a bit deeper in Beach Sensitive than the Equinox in Beach 1 with sensitivity turned up. Some kids showed up to swim so it was time to go. I may return tomorrow with the D2 ready to go in the water. 🙂

Beautiful "spring" day today! It got up to 83 but there was a strong breeze blowing all day and it was dry, so it wasn't too bad. First field I went to was the small house, I used the Equinox there and got nothing but a bucketful of aluminum and one small brass plug. Still haven't found what I'm looking for there. 🤬 Went back across the highway, took a break and then went into the big field, the corn is already pretty high, it grew a lot the last couple days. Took out the Deus 2 and headed into the field, not 100' from where I parked I dug a fat IHP, but can't get a date off it. 😵 My only coin today. 🙄 Hacked around where I had been, really didn't find anything, so I went along the old road to the old site where a building was, I figured at least I'd get a few relics, and it worked out ok. 🙂 Dug a Skeleton key end, below it a plate for one. Left is a stocking snap with something stamped in it but I can't read it. A large brass ring, a small piece of stamped broken jewelry that looks like a wing: A bent copper screw, two pieces of unidentifiable brass that may be flatware or tools. I got the most interesting tiny button I've ever found, you can see how small it is next to the small ring which may be a spark plug ring . that's a lot of detail for a small brass button. Dug a broken Tombac and one of my most interesting finds, what may be a derringer butt plate. It was broken but I found both pieces about a foot apart. The other was this ancient faucet: It has a hook for hanging a bucket. Heavy brass. Quite an assortment of stuff, I probably won't go back to this farm until fall after they harvest the corn.

Did a woods hunt, probably last till fall as stuff is growing in fast and snagged an old Chinese coin, guessing 1800's. Put in another hour or so at a school yard and found a lot of nickels others skipped over and a pretty nice 925 silver ring. Machine still runs good, forgot how easy it was to use.

The corn isn't getting any lower at my new permission, invited Chase down for a hunt. He has a long drive to get here so I got there about 2 hours before him. Today I brought both the Equinox and the Deus, but the Deus stayed in the truck. Crossing the field I dug a button that matches one Chase dug in another spot far away, and a newer memorial. I went behind the house (which was the front in the 40s and earlier) and started searching where I left off a couple days ago. It rained since then, almost 2". Today was going to be muggy and hot, and it sure didn't disappoint. This is where the old road goes the other way from my last post. That's Chase way out there. I thought he would be able to find some stuff if he went up the road, I hadn't searched there and was just going back and forth behind the house. My bad, there wasn't much out there. Meantime I dug a few more coins, the trash was plentiful. All the usual suspects, you pretty much should dig any good signal in this farm if you want the wide variety of possibilities. Having found large cents here, and the age of the farm (Victorian era) there should be some silver coins here! Among the trash was this curious locking buckle: It locks. Also dug what I think may be an old can opener that was broken off something: I later pointed Chase to a large iron patch I found, he had his Deus 2. I was getting a headache from all the iron (I always run in all metal), so I went back to to where I was digging the coins. Here are the finds, we also searched a spot where a house was but it's now long gone. Big brass D buckle, an adjusting wheel of some sort, a waffle stamped piece of copper (no idea🤔), a fancy nickel plated rein guide, a really nice wave pattern button like one Chase dug previously, it says "TREBLE LONDON" on the back: a small brass legging button with thread still in it, a small aluminum button. Coins are an 1888 and 1889 IHP, 1940 something wheat, 1976 memorial and a 1997 dime. My favorite find of the day was this 1903 Barber Quarter! It's a little beat up but looks ok otherwise. I finally got one. 😀 All I need to find now is an SLQ. Maybe I'll find one here, this place has never been hunted. Chase did pretty good too, especially in the iron patch. it's always fun to have someone along on these hunts, I tend to annoy myself after a while🤪

This grassy area has given up many Barber dimes and now add another to the collection.😀1908s Barber Dime. 6 inches deep, ID 85-86, park program on the Deus2. Glad it wasn’t a pesky Rosie I’ve only dug up 2 of them at this area and only silver coin from the 40s was a Mercury Dime. Ground was soft a month ago now it’s hard diggin and temperature today was around 93 degrees I quit after 2 and a half hours. Gonna have to get out a little earlier. Bottom pic is where some of the silver coins may have come from. Denny

Today was a cloudy and cool day, with a low offshore throwing intermittent mist and rain at us. 😵 I want to search my new permission some more, so I set out regardless of the mist. It probably rained about 4 times today, luckily I was near a tree every time so I stayed pretty dry. It's going to rain every day for the next 3 and the corn isn't getting any shorter. Today I used the Equinox 600 with the 10x5. I still can't tell if I find any more with the Deus than the Equinox, as you'll see. First I went to the field next to the smaller house, searched there for about 3 hours, only found what might be a brass or copper wedding band: I don't see an inscription inside so it's probably not a "posy" ring. This field was full of can slaw and other aluminum. 😵 I went back across the highway to the main house, and started really finding things "behind" it, before the mid 1940s it faced a road that is now gone. Since then the landowner has added backyard stuff where the front used to be and surrounded it with cedars and other trees. This is a view down the old road going east. It doesn't look like a road but it is. Got a pretty good bunch of coins and relics along this road directly behind the house. It used to be the front yard so it made sense to follow the rows two at a time. From left to right: the ring, a "Lincoln locket", thought it was a penny at first: it's stamped, looks like it had a back that I didn't find. Next is an IHP that I can't get a date off of, a 1998 Zincoln that was hit by a lawnmower, a very corroded 1980 memorial, a 1944 wheat, an 1837 Matron Large cent: It was at least 10" down, and gave a 31 ID. The one I dug last time with the Deus 2 was a 93. a 1908 "V" nickel, the only Barber coin I ever seem to find: Next row is part of a drawer pull (I think), a large flat piece of lead with an iron shank which may have been a button, it is convex. A small flattened buck ball, below it a small broken Tombac, brass D buckle, a spark plug ring, and a garage key. Above the D buckle is the coolest token I have ever found, they're pretty common according to Numista: Maybe a bus or other conveyance (carriage) traveled this old road? The last object is a crown shaped knob with threads inside, I dug another but it was totally corroded. This one looked good enough. Best way I can think of to make a miserable day good! 😀

Today Chase came down to hunt a new permission with me, a turn-of-the-century farm not too far away. The farm has 3 houses on it, two Victorian and one modern. The landowner is a person my wife has been friends with for years, he catered our wedding. Near as I can tell this place has never been hunted. The main field is about 67 acres and surrounds the large house, there is another of about 30 acres across the highway with a smaller Victorian house and the modern one. I'm looking for something for the owner but he is allowing me to keep everything else. 🙂 I brought my Equinox and the Deus 2, the EMI was pretty rough near the highway where we started so I ended up using the Deus all day. I was using my modified General program, which Chase introduced "Full tones" to, I was running it with 5. It became quite a bit easier to distinguish some targets but the objective today was to dig anything that gave consistent good tone, be it aluminum and even falsing iron. I dug a horrendous amount of trash. 😵 This is just the aluminum: I split it into two photos. 🤬 Some big falsing iron and the usual suspects, bullets, shotgun shell ends, junk copper and an old Schrader valve. While searching the large field on our way to a remote barn we came upon a spot that gave up some pretty good finds! It was a house or a tavern, there was brick and pottery, and lots of brass. I dug these large pieces Top is a barrel tap, next what may be a rifle buttstock plate, a musket ball, a large brass foot of some sort, an ox knob, and what I think is a brass insert for a glass door knob. Heavy stuff! We went way back in the field to find a barn, found the spot but nothing else except for a swarm of bees in a nearby hollow. We decided to go back to the productive spot. There I found some interesting smaller items: A small broken horseshoe charm, it was gold plated. A 1920s lipstick tube, "Kissproof". A broken button with what looks like grapes on it, very old. A small bracelet piece with a flower design on it and a few links. One flat breech button, and a large token that says "Leonard Refrigerators" on it from about the 30s: Not sure what the object is, but it's the punchline of my corny title. 😀 Chase had to leave so I came back later for a bit, and got my find of the day along with the Tombac in the finds photo: 1831 Matron Large cent, in fairly good shape. 🙂