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    Three Centuries of Silver Reale, Seated, Barber & more

    Got out for a hunt yesterday morning and came away, much to my surprise, with 3 centuries of silver. I've found half reales before, but it was a surprise in this particular location. Can't tell for sure if the date is 1785 or 1786. The 1858 Seated Half Dime was a first for me. The Barber...
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    Large Cent, No Stars Seated Dime, SLQ

    Went on a club hunt yesterday and did ok. Came up with a bucket list item, an 1837 No Stars Seated Dime. The only made the No Stars obverse type for 2 years so it's quite rare as a type. I would have been happy if I only found one of the coins I found, but finding these three made for a good...
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    Holy Bat Wings...and a silver buckle too.

    Got out to do some land hunting for the first time and came up with a couple of bat wing buckles, a hallmarked silver buckle, an old railroad tag and a cut colonial copper. Don't know much about the buckles, but it's my first hallmarked silver buckle. I've seen the bat wings turn up, but don't...
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    Winter Gold

    I'm not normally a beach hunter, but certainly have cabin fever like anyone else up north. The ground froze up just after I tried a new spot that turned up 6 large cents the first day there. Can't wait to get back there. A couple of weeks ago we had a warm day so I figured I would head off to a...
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    New spot...6 Large Cents today and some silver too.

    Got permission to detect a farm today that's been in the same family since the 1790's. Found one small area that was hot with large cents and pulled 6. 1817, 1822, 1827, 1831, one matron head with no date and one classic head with no date. Also found a little silver. I hunted about an acre or so...
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    First time out 84 Grams+ of Silver

    We had a quick break in the cold and it actually broke 40 degrees. It had rained the night before and combined with the warm temperature, it melted the snow. I was itching to go out so I thought I'd try a baseball field I never hunted, but assumed it had been hunted many times. Got there and...
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    11 Silver including 4 coin pocket dump, Early Copper, IH & more

    Went out for a number of short hunts during the week. First time was with my XLT as the CTX was out for repair. CTX came back the second day and went to the same spot and found 4 silver dimes, 3 or which were in a small area I hunted the day before with the XLT. While hunting the same spot with...
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    Before you buy a Minelab - UPDATE

    UPDATE. Got my CTX back on Monday, went out a couple of times this week with it and found 3 silver quarters, 6 silver dimes and a sterling religious medal and chain. Total turn around time was less than 2 weeks. Detector now works perfect. Although my experience at the beginning, being on hold...
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    1802 Large Cent - cleaned up nice

    Many large cents that come out of the ground are very corroded. There's nothing you can to if the metal is no longer left on the coin. Many times the details are not much more than a crust on the coin. Clean it up and you have zero details left. On occasion you get one that does clean up well...
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    BEFORE you buy a Minelab

    Before you buy a Minelab you might want to try and call their customer service at 630-401-8150. After you do you might NOT want to buy a Minelab product. Tried calling this morning and gave up after more than 10 minutes on hold. Just tried back and I've now been on hold for more than 15 minutes...
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    Nice 1820/19 Large cent & More

    Got permission to hunt a house built in 1740 and found a corroded large cent which wasn't even worth showing. I'm a real estate broker and while doing an open house there for other brokers I asked one of them if he could get me permission to detect a house he was selling. He called while he was...
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    Colonials, silver and more!

    Went to a club hunt in Dutchess County on Saturday and pulled up a 1787 Connecticut along with a SLQ, silver ring and bar. I know of at least 2 other colonials coming out of the hunt. I tried another spot on Sunday and only came up with one coin in 2 hours, a 174? George II Hibernia Half Pence...
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    Early Coppers, Silver, Buttons and More

    I haven't posted for a while so I thought I would put up some stuff I found recently with my 3030. The 1830 large cent, the Barber quarter and a couple of the Indians came out of a spot I worked hard over the summer, but it just goes to show, there is no such thing as hunted out. The nicer of...
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    Military type medals and a Louis XVI Copper

    Found a new spot today I thought I would try out for a few hours. Tough hunting in woods and weeds, but came up with an assortment of unusual finds. First is a medal given by the Japanese Navy to US Navy seamen in 1908. I found a little about it online and I've also added a photo of an original...
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    Another large copper

    Happy 4th of July! Went out this morning for a little over an hour before the mosquitoes prepared and organized attack and drove me away. Did manage to pull an 1852 Large Cent out of one of the areas I've been hunting recently. It blasted out a 12/47 on my CTX3030. As most earlier coppers in...
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    Best Month Ever! Amazing group of coins!

    I think that in 34 years of metal detecting I had my best month. It could be the new CTX 3030 works better or it could be that I've really been searching out good spots and just plain old swinging the loop more. Most of the coins came out of 3 different spots and several were firsts for me. I...
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    What a Month! Amazing group of coins!

    I think that in 34 years of metal detecting I had my best month. It could be the new CTX 3030 works better or it could be that I've really been searching out good spots and just plain old swinging the loop more. Most of the coins came out of 3 different spots and several were firsts for me. I...
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    Still more silver - Seated Dime

    After finding 2 half reales and a colonial yesterday I went back to look again. Although it took me close to 2 hours and hiking about a mile back into the woods, I ended up popping an 1876 Seated Dime. It's not in great shape and was stuck under a bunch of roots, but it is a piece of silver and...
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    2 Half Reals & Counterfeit Half Pence

    A few weeks ago I was off in the woods and found an old flat button. Since then I was hunting two other spots where I pulled out 3 large cents, a 2 real, 1/2 real, 2 seated quarters, a seated half and 3 Indians. Needless to say, I was on a roll. This morning I went back to the woods where I...
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    Another Seated Quarter & 1/2 Real

    After finding a seated half dollar and quarter on Saturday I couldn't wait to get back to this new spot on Sunday. It was certainly worth doing as I came up with an 1876-S Seated Quarter, a better date Indian cent of 1873 and a well worn 1/2 real. I spent close to 3 hours here on Sunday after...
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