Two In The Hole - Again! Coins, Relics (update)

[F350Platinum]

6 hours ago, strick said:

I need to start checking the deus forum more often just seeing your post. Nice work as usual 350 very pretty places you are hunting. I've only ever found one shield Nickel and it looked just like yours ? After seated's  SLQ are my favorite coins.. thanks for posting.

strick 

Thanks Strick!

I always hit the newspaper icon and scroll through looking for new posts relevant to all my interests, I know some just read individual forums. Coins, relics and jewelry are probably more popular. Actually thought ya might miss it with your new love and all ?, but the D2 has been getting bashed some so I thought I'd throw it there.

The more I think about it, the shield nickel may be my second, but it was what I call the "thank you for coming" find you get sometimes walking back to your vehicle, in this case about a mile away. The main gates are rarely open here so we have to come in through another permission next to it. I thought we should follow where and old road was, Chase got a Mercury dime on it. Research is starting to make random finds like these more frequent.

SLQ's evaded me my first two years, the only one I ever saw was one Chase nailed in tree roots at the steamboat landing (now known as the Poison Ivy Palace) next to my house. Another place to find coins is by searching the "Turn Zone" in fields. Back then turning your animals was a stressful ordeal. It's also where the hunters stand, I've found everything from Spanish silver to King George cents to modern coins there. Hills were stressful too, it pays to hunt both the bottom and top of them.

[F350Platinum]

Quick update, I went back to the first farm a few days ago to look for the farmers' ring, after 5.5 miles of scouting the rest of this 100 acres and searching the spot he told me his ring was, I only got a few coins. Again the best find came from where a road passed through the farm in the late 1800s, many of these roads are gone now.

Pretty toasted 1876 IHP. Went back to the house and dug some more wheats from the front yard:

Tiny brass plate with "My Diary" stamped on it was the only other really interesting find. ?

Planning on coming back again to look for that ring, I have to be careful because the spot is planted with winter wheat.

[strick]

9 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Thanks Strick! . Actually thought ya might miss it with your new love and all ?, but the D2 has been getting bashed some so I thought I'd throw it there.

Lol  yea been spending too much time on the manticore forum. I remember my first true love the ctx 3030. Nothing was as good or better then it. I could not see how anyone could find fault with it. Yea it was a little heavy...maybe a little slow but I could pull stuff out of the nail beds it seemed just as well as my buddy with his deus 1. After hunting with me for over a year...he couldn’t take it any longer and bought a ctx for himself. He was so much into the deus I don’t think he ever really learned all the controls on the ctx but I had set it up for him to just turn on and go (he had done the same for me with my deus) He takes his grand daughter coin hunting with it. But he still is a Deus guy #1

Sometimes a guy will make a post titled X detector finds this or Y detector finds that. When the truth of the matter is most likely any modern detector would have found it just as easily...because we all know it’s not what your using but how your using it and more importantly then anything where you are hunting that really matters. Like Steve says all of the modern vlfs are so close in technology it’s like splitting hairs. I’d. Say with gold nugget hunting it’s little different as the machines are different technologically speaking

But yea detector bashing gets old quick. I spend about 2 seconds on a couple of the face book pages and have to leave it’s so bad.  The xp deus 2 is a great machine one of the best out there,  We all like watching your exploits Bob your onto some really cool spots with lots of old history so keep posting buddy ?

Strick 

[Daniel Tn]

Yes the bashing is horrid on the Facebook groups.  I answered a question last night regarding the D2 and Manticore.  All I said was that IMO, the two compliment one another but if I had to choose only one, it would be the D2.  The amount of hate that comment brought on was astonishing.

[F350Platinum]

1 minute ago, Daniel Tn said:

Yes the bashing is horrid on the Facebook groups.  I answered a question last night regarding the D2 and Manticore.  All I said was that IMO, the two compliment one another but if I had to choose only one, it would be the D2.  The amount of hate that comment brought on was astonishing. 

Well not here, thankfully. ? Mebbe half a handful of bashers, the rest have poignant and well considered remarks ?

Patience my friend, the update is coming that will catapult the D2 to other-worldly status ?

[Chase Goldman]

1 hour ago, Daniel Tn said:

Yes the bashing is horrid on the Facebook groups.  I answered a question last night regarding the D2 and Manticore.  All I said was that IMO, the two compliment one another but if I had to choose only one, it would be the D2.  The amount of hate that comment brought on was astonishing.

I can understand blowback because I can’t understand why you would even consider keeping the Manticore.    jk

Strick is right, anyone who thinks the D2, Manticore, Legend, or Equinox is head and shoulders above the others or does it all is either lying or delusional.  They all have their strengths and weaknesses and are all top end performers and that is why many of us own detectors with overlapping but complimentary capabilities.  Even the Apex, Vanquish, and Simplex hold their own because they either have some of the DNA of these other higher end detectors, have versatility, and/or simply have higher end/faster signal processing than what we’re considered the classics or flagships of the past such as the Deus, F75, T2, AT series, and Whites MXT and Spectras.  CTX 3030 still does some things better than the Manticore (while the Manticore does a lot of things better than the 3030).  The whole fallacy that a detector’s worth or performance is proven by a detectorist’s latest and greatest find is pervasive on these Social Media Groups and in a lot of other forums.  I call it the Magic Wand effect and it biases peoples’ perspectives such that more important elements to successful detecting such as gaining experience, learning to use whatever machine you have to it’s fullest extent, and researching and gaining access to killer sites, get ignored.  The social media singular focus on the toy/tool and the edited end eye candy result (pics of only the killer finds and not the trash and “mundane” stuff) is really doing a disservice to newer members of the hobby.

 

 

[GB_Amateur]

On 2/19/2023 at 5:55 AM, F350Platinum said:

Pretty toasted 1876 IHP.

I bet I got you itching to hear my comments on this one,... well, not like the poison ivy you're soon to encounter.  ?  Seems like I'm in "you snooze, you lose" mode these last couple of days.  It's hard to keep up reading here with so many posts to fight through.

That's a fairly low mintage, scarce date there.  (Too bad its condition looks like my typical Zincoln.  ?)  During the Civil War people were hoarding coins, even cents.  Particularly when the mint switched from 88% Cu 12% Ni to 95% Cu (remainder tin and zinc) they started cranking out the IHC's in high numbers to try and fend off the shortage.  Then when the war ended they backed off.  Those relatively low mintages (still some over 10 million and most in the high single digit millions) possibly combined with likely few being put away (even a cent was worth something then), there's a 13 year period -- 1866-1878 -- in which all carry premium value if in decent shape.  So a nice find from a scarcity standpoint, for sure.

[F350Platinum]

26 minutes ago, GB_Amateur said:

I bet I got you itching to hear my comments on this one...

? Yes, especially when I looked it up and saw it was low mintage. Found it looking for the landowner's gold ring, there was an old road that ran through the place according to an 1891 topo map. ? going to hunt the rest of the property that road ran through, been finding these old roads to be very productive. Thanks GB. ? I was sad it came up toasted.