Menu
What's new
Find's Treasure Forums

Welcome to Find's Treasure Forums, Guests!

You are viewing this forums as a guest which limits you to read only status.

Only registered members may post stories, questions, classifieds, reply to other posts, contact other members using built in messaging and use many other features found on these forums.

Why not register and join us today? It's free! (We don't share your email addresses with anyone.) We keep email addresses of our users to protect them and others from bad people posting things they shouldn't.

Click here to register!

Need Support Help?

Cannot log in?, click here to have new password emailed to you

What was your favorite or best find of the year?

GKMan

GKMan

Well-known member
Since there isnt much else to talk about right now.
Most of you probably know about my 1793 Liberty Cap that I found, obviously that's the top of my list for favorite and best finds.
But a close runner up would be that 3500 to 5000 year old copper adze or the rare 1840s New York Militia eagle belt plate.
My notable mentions would be the 2 reale spanish silver and the four british copper coin pocket spill.

whoops I put this in the wrong forum, I meant it for the CTX, but along with me every hunt was my Uniprobe...
 
GK you definetately have me beat. It would be incredibly rare to find either of your top two or three out here.

Out in the PNWn (Oregon) we don't have near the history of coinage as the East side does.

Finding my 1891 Seated Dime has to be my best find of the year. Not my oldest coin to date, but certainly my favorite.

Second up would be the 54 cal musket ball I found @ 7" deep in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon in a curb strip. Perfectly round, so I would bet it was dropped. Has that nice white/tan oxide found on many of the Civil War bullets dug out East.

I was hoping for any Barber coin this year, but they still seem to hide really well from me.
 
How did that little bugger make it all the way out to Oregon? I understand the difference in age due to region but at the least we can say that there are rare coins from all different periods of history so you have a chance of digging up a 1955 double die, or a three legged buffalo. Are any copper Indian artifacts dug up out there?
 
The musket ball was probably not too rare, as folks that started moving out this way in the 1840's most likely had this kind of gun/ammo just to make a kill for dinner and pelts.

1840 is probably the first real year money may have traveled out here to Oregon in someones pocket. Now, over the years older coins were still in circulation, so it is tangable to think that even in 1890 when population was greater, someone could easily have dropped an 1820's coin here or there.

Not sure about the copper indian artifacts, but zillions of arrowheads have been found out here. I live less than a mile from where the last tribe lived that inhabited our area.
I'd love to get permission from the property owner to screen his field for artifacts.



Back to the original topic, lets hear of all those great personal "best/favorite finds of 2013".
 
Gotta be my very nice condition 1789 GW Eagle and Star button.

Time to switch into research mode for the winter for many of us on here.

Have a safe and happy holiday season!
 
that's awesome I don't remember seeing that. Could you post a link to that thread or a picture ?
 
It's going to be tough for us to top these finds next year
 
[attachment 280807 SUPERDIAMONDRINGDAY062T.jpg]It would be the weekend I got three gold rings, one $10,000 dollar diamond ring I posted awhile back, also a mans gold ring about three quarter ounce, and a 18K dinner ring worth $2500.00. And my new friendship with Peggy H. A fellow-ett detectorist.
 
OMG Gary Shut the ..........................door. That ring with the blue stones is staggering! I'm going to look up your old post to find the story on that one. That's just crazy. How could anyone lose something like that?

How long did it take for you to stop shaking after that find?:drool:
 
Boy oh boy Gene.. Makes me want to head to the beach.. Or at least southern California... Last time I was on the beach in California there was a Tsunami warning... We were at a restaurant along the beach in Santa Cruz and all of these birds were acting really strange in the manner that they flocking. This woman at the restaurant said something like " I have lived here forty years and never seen them do that" We found out later that the Tsunami warning was on at the time. You know what they say about animal being able to sense things like that...
 
Got a 9 silver spill in a pounded park this year, that had me excited that's for sure, Not one seated this year....darn.. but tons of barbers, only hunted for 5 months this year. 213 silvers total
 
Mine was my 18K 3re 1/4 Diamonds the best CCCC I ever found worth $2000 Bucks witch I wear proudly,
I found the Diamond Ring at a public park, Mickfin
 
That is one heck of a pocket spill pgmhole...Awesome ring Mickfin.. Someone shed at least a couple tears over losing that.
 
Yes that's a very nice ring Mick got, I have detected with him several times, he didn't notice but I walk behind him 30 yards detecting hoping it would fall off his finger, but no such luck. Lol
 
Ssssshhhhh, don't let him know.
 
Wouldn't really matter, Mick's arm is as strong as my leg so getting that ring off would be impossible, anyway he's is a super nice guy, and a lot of fun to detect with. He did let me hold the ring once, evil thoughts went through my mind, but I figured he could out run me too. Lol
 
I have to get back out there someday, damn Californians are all so friendly compared to us New Yorkers though
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top