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Silver, wheats, misc relics from old farm

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Goes4ever

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went door knocking yesterday with 2 buddies and we hit up a couple farms. Ground was dry so we looked for places that were abandoned or so bad they should have been......lol

anyhow I managed to get 2 mercury dimes 1942, 44.......several wheats, oldest was 1914

copper ring, seems like I find these a lot at old farms, not sure why?

my first dated suspender piece. I have found a lot of these but this is my first dated one.

Small religious pendant, and the badge from New york I have no idea about that one, if anyone has any info please let me know. I found on google that the Consolidated Safety Valve Co. started in 1866 and that is all I know.

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Nice finds Terry. Relics are a fun addition to silver. I found one of those Miraculous Metals last week. I'll try and get some pictures up tonight. Thanks for the pictures.

NebTrac
 
Sweet finds Terry. Do you hit the same sites over and over or are you still finding new ones? I remember you saying one time it would be a "one and done" situation. Based on your answer, I have a follow up question.
HH, Dan
 
well yesterday was interesting, first stop was an old farm and the lady gave us permission we weren't there 10 minutes and she came out and said she decided that she did not want us there because she rented the farm, so we packed up and headed down the road. Found a one room school house called got permission and I found one merc and 3 wheats there but my 2 buddies were not finding anything and suggested we move on........ok no problem. We locate another farm and the farmer gives us the ok to detect. An hour goes by and we are all getting keepers and he comes out and says we will have to leave. He says his wife came home and she was mad at him for giving us permission and was cursing at him, so we had to go!

I am thinking who wears the pants in this household :rofl:........anyhow we thank him and move on...........so yesterday we did not have a chance to really work any of the 3 sites hard at all, the longest we were anywhere was 1 hour!

but normally when I knock doors I hunt there one day and that is it, I figure if the home owner is kind enough to let me hunt I am not going to ask to come back a second time UNLESS the yard is just amazing and I could not cover a lot of it....like the farm I did last weekend
 
You do very well, Terry, considering your limited hunt time for a given site. I can see how you could be stuck between a rock and a hard place in going back to hunt private lands more than once (i.e. asking for permission more than once). I have no experience in hunting like this....almost all of my hunts are at public places (parks, beaches, etc.). And many times, my best (and most) finds at these sites will happen after I've been hunting them multiple times.....yes, most of these sites are much larger than an old homestead, and I could never cover all the ground in one day at places like I hunt, but there are always "hot spots" at these sites that just require numerous return trips to get more oldies. I'd say more than 70% of my finds over the years are from return trips (numerous times) to the same sites. When I find at least one wheat or silver from a site, I'm making a return trip. I remember this one park I went to back in '07....my first trip there I got skunked.....I was determined to find an old coin there, so I decided to go back.....my second trip....I scored a merc and a few wheats.....went back a third time, and found a few more silvers, and around 10 wheats.....I kept going back, and ended up with over 30 silver coins and 150 wheats from this park....I am becoming much more persistent in making return trips to sites now, sometimes just to prove to myself that there are still old coins/relics to be recovered.

Sorry for the rambling on.....I thought your comment was very interesting, and it shows what some folks have to go through in order to hunt in our respective areas. Most of the time, all we see on these forums are the finds, without knowing what each of us has to go through to attain them.

Keep those oldies coming!! :thumbup:

HH,
CAPTN SE
Dan
 
Fantastic finds,love the metal and the pendant.

LabradorBob
 
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That is a tag off of a safety relief valve numbered 4445. The valve was set to open at 125 PSI and close when the pressure in the component it was protecting dropped to 120 PSI.
 
My folow-up question..... Terry I am in the same boat sometimes. There has been many places that I did the one and done deal. I used to first hunt a place with my standard program in conductive multi. I revisted some of those spots with T.T.F. smooth sounds. I got a couple of keepers that I had missed before. I have yet to do the reverse. Hunt in ferrous then go back in conduct to see if I missed much. I am still trying to make a call on my new "go to--one and done program". Most of the places that I hunt are loaded up with iron,so I am leaning toward ferrous. So....Are you leaning that way too? Do you feel that you do a little better with ferrous than conductive sounds?
A few posts back I posted my finds and I had five coppers and some indian heads and a barber quarter. (two days of hunting) I found those using ferrous TT/smooth. The last time I was there, I was with FooserPaul. It was in the spring and the two of us in three hrs of detecting, got ZERO keepers. It is a big place and we could have just missed them, but....... We were both in conductive multi. I am starting to think that hunting old historic iron infested spots, Ferrous is the way to go. Any thoughts? I already know how you feel about TTF, but wanted some current input. HH, Dan
 
Terry, you have been knocking the ball out of the park all year long. I like seeing the relics and coins you pull out of those private yards. This hunt is no exception. Congrats on the two Mercury dimes and the relics. Very cool.
 
Congratulations on the great assortment of nice finds! Considering the amount of time you were able to spend at each location, you did great! Thanks for sharing the photos and details of your hunt.
 
DAN03USMC said:
My folow-up question..... Terry I am in the same boat sometimes. There has been many places that I did the one and done deal. I used to first hunt a place with my standard program in conductive multi. I revisted some of those spots with T.T.F. smooth sounds. I got a couple of keepers that I had missed before. I have yet to do the reverse. Hunt in ferrous then go back in conduct to see if I missed much. I am still trying to make a call on my new "go to--one and done program". Most of the places that I hunt are loaded up with iron,so I am leaning toward ferrous. So....Are you leaning that way too? Do you feel that you do a little better with ferrous than conductive sounds?
A few posts back I posted my finds and I had five coppers and some indian heads and a barber quarter. (two days of hunting) I found those using ferrous TT/smooth. The last time I was there, I was with FooserPaul. It was in the spring and the two of us in three hrs of detecting, got ZERO keepers. It is a big place and we could have just missed them, but....... We were both in conductive multi. I am starting to think that hunting old historic iron infested spots, Ferrous is the way to go. Any thoughts? I already know how you feel about TTF, but wanted some current input. HH, Dan
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well what I do when I get to a site is just test the waters always first in conductive mode, and if I am hearing the threshold blank out more than 4 times per swing I flip it into two tone ferrous. Some farm yards are fairly clean and some are just iron junkyards.

Another thing I do is hunt half the yard in conductive, and half in TTF....example....I will start at the end of the sidewalk by road and mailbox and walk towards the house in conductive. And when I am about 15-20 feet from the front of the house the iron is greatly increasing and my threshold is about gone, I just flip it into TTF and slowly creep towards house. I reach the house, turn around and slowly creep back towards road again in TTF until I reach 15-20 feet AWAY from house then I flip it back into conductive. This takes like 3 seconds to change back and forth and so far has been a good method for me to work a farm on a one time limited trip
 
Hmm. so it sounds to me that your "go to" is conductive UNLESS there is alot of iron falsing. I am going on a trip today to locate another old homesite. If I find it.......I will flip back and forth from conductive multi and TTF and see which is better. (before I dig) I will report back later Thanks for the help. I am sure there are alot of lurkers out there that are grateful as well.
 
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