Florida-Hunter
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Hello, I'm new to the forum here, but I'd like to introduce myself with a quick background about who I am and my treasure hunting past. My name is Erik, and I live in Florida. I first received a no name detector when I was about 13 years old, passed down from my uncle...No discrimination capability, low quality.... but I used it a lot.... This quickly led me to getting a Garret metal detector as a present from my parents when I was maybe 14, can't remember the model, but it was a mid range detector maybe a $350.00 range detector. I used that Garrett all the time - through out High School and into my days in College, untill about my sophomore year when it broke. I sent it back to the Garrett company and they fixed it.....It worked great for about eight more months and then broke again. This time I put it to rest. Well, years and years went by and I'm now 37 and just bought a new Whites MXT! So I am now officially back in the search and recovery racket! I always wanted a White Detector..... Everyone who I talked to in the metal detecting field over the years told me that White's are the best! So far I have only had the detector for a few days and I love it!
I've added a few photos with this post......
1) The photo with "White's" in the background is the stuff I've found over the last three day period since I bought the MXT. Lots of clad coinage, my first key found with this detector, and a few garden hose links, etc. I searched a church, a now defunct golf driving range, and two parks, and an over grown, defunct parking lot.
2) Most of the silver coins I've found with the Garrett. Unfortunately it's all only newer silver coins, except maybe the merc. dimes..... Never found any silver coins older than 1920's There is a few other silver items in there as well. I've found more than this, but I've misplaced some items over the years. Wish I could find older silver, but the area where I live was founded just around the turn of the last century, and it didn't start booming till 1920's.
3) The other photo is of interesting items I've found.... two trade tokens, a good luck coin, a play nickel, some sort of a homemade Islamic charm, and the yellow diamond shaped item is a pin with baked enamel front.....If anyone knows what this button was used for, please let me know.... I've been wondering about it for years. Actually found it in Colorado next to a very old crumbling farm house.
I used to have several gold jewelry items, a few gold rings, a gold chain, and a big 14k gold charm of an uzi machine gun that I found at the beach....It weighed 2/3rds of an ounce.... But I sold all that stuff many years ago.
I plan to try my luck at my first older location I've been researching later this week. It's about an hour drive from here, but it may prove to be a great place to search. It's actually an old town that boomed for about 10 years then was abandoned and since has been built over by a new town. There seems to be many open grassy, fielded areas to search where the town used to be.....maybe it's been searched to death already, but I'll try my luck anyway......If I find anything worth while, I will post it on here.
I've added a few photos with this post......
1) The photo with "White's" in the background is the stuff I've found over the last three day period since I bought the MXT. Lots of clad coinage, my first key found with this detector, and a few garden hose links, etc. I searched a church, a now defunct golf driving range, and two parks, and an over grown, defunct parking lot.
2) Most of the silver coins I've found with the Garrett. Unfortunately it's all only newer silver coins, except maybe the merc. dimes..... Never found any silver coins older than 1920's There is a few other silver items in there as well. I've found more than this, but I've misplaced some items over the years. Wish I could find older silver, but the area where I live was founded just around the turn of the last century, and it didn't start booming till 1920's.
3) The other photo is of interesting items I've found.... two trade tokens, a good luck coin, a play nickel, some sort of a homemade Islamic charm, and the yellow diamond shaped item is a pin with baked enamel front.....If anyone knows what this button was used for, please let me know.... I've been wondering about it for years. Actually found it in Colorado next to a very old crumbling farm house.
I used to have several gold jewelry items, a few gold rings, a gold chain, and a big 14k gold charm of an uzi machine gun that I found at the beach....It weighed 2/3rds of an ounce.... But I sold all that stuff many years ago.
I plan to try my luck at my first older location I've been researching later this week. It's about an hour drive from here, but it may prove to be a great place to search. It's actually an old town that boomed for about 10 years then was abandoned and since has been built over by a new town. There seems to be many open grassy, fielded areas to search where the town used to be.....maybe it's been searched to death already, but I'll try my luck anyway......If I find anything worth while, I will post it on here.
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