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  1. Geologyhound

    Mining for lead

    These are finds from two days of hunting at the same site. I had never found a Civil War bullet and always wanted to. I thought perhaps I might someday find one or two, but I never imagined I would find this many. With all the iron grunts, I was using the Tekkna program with the 11x13 on my...
  2. Geologyhound

    Mining for lead

    These are finds from two days of hunting at the same site. I had never found a Civil War bullet and always wanted to. I thought perhaps I might someday find one or two, but I never imagined I would find this many. With all the iron grunts, I was using the Tekkna program with the 11x13 on my...
  3. Geologyhound

    My best coin ever!

    I recently obtained permission for my club to hunt a sizable piece of property with historical group usage going back over 100 years. Over 40 of us showed up on the designated day. I heard several people say their first signal of the day was a silver dime! By the afternoon, I was getting a...
  4. Geologyhound

    Age of Armed Forces Signal Corps pin and other mysteries?

    I found this US armed forces Signal Corps pin perhaps 30 feet from where I historically found an 1890s barber dime. I can’t find any information online to indicate the age, so any help would be appreciated. All the modern ones appear to have a smooth background, are domed, or don’t have a...
  5. Geologyhound

    An odd mixture of items and help requested from Civil War ammunition buffs

    I went out to a “new to me site” over the weekend and found a bit of an eclectic mixture of items. All these years of hunting and I have never found a silver quarter outside of a seeded hunt. So I am very pleased with the 47 Washington. This place apparently gets brush hogged occasionally and...
  6. Geologyhound

    An odd mixture of items and help requested from Civil War ammunition buffs

    I went out to a “new to me site” over the weekend and found a bit of an eclectic mixture of items. All these years of hunting and I have never found a silver quarter outside of a seeded hunt. So I am very pleased with the 47 Washington. This place apparently gets brush hogged occasionally and...
  7. Geologyhound

    Any ideas what this is?

    I was going through my “not obvious trash but not obvious treasure“ pouch and pulled out both of these. After a little cleaning, I can tell the item on the left is a lamp wick holder. It says EF Jones patent May 4–55 Reissued Jan 11 59. The first year may actually be a 57. According to the...
  8. Geologyhound

    My first 20 cent piece!

    Now why oh why couldn’t it have been American? The color gave me a start for a second. Definitely not the standard run-of-the-mill US clad corrosion…
  9. Geologyhound

    Defense Plant Corp. tag

    I have been digging zinc pennies at this site because I have found several IHPs, and was rewarded with another IHP - 1888. I certainly took a close look at the last eight. Unfortunately I can’t see any trace of a 7 under it. So it is not one of the valuable error coins from that year. ☹️...
  10. Geologyhound

    Correct charger base?

    I purchased my D2 about a year ago and have just left the charge mains and USB base either plugged into the wall or next to that outlet. I went to charge my detector the other day and found one of my family members had taken the USB base! I vaguely recall the original instructions mentioning...
  11. Geologyhound

    First hunt of 2024, first firearm!

    Reading about the success of so many forum members on their first 2024 hunt made me itch to get out myself. So, I took an afternoon before the storm front moved in to go hunt the site where I found three 100+ year old coins and a token during my last couple outings. With my 11x13, I moved...
  12. Geologyhound

    Some finds I recently cleaned

    I know cleaning/not cleaning and method of cleaning may be controversial. I do not post this with the intention of discussing whether or not to clean, nor the merits of any particular method. I simply wish to show some results. I recently found some old coins and a token. The Indian head...
  13. Geologyhound

    Token reference compendium

    Given the large variety of tokens historically minted, identifying an old token can sometimes be a nearly impossible task. As such, I thought I would start a thread where people can post information on various regional, local, or state references for token identification. I will start off with...
  14. Geologyhound

    Two Afternoon Hunts - Three Coin Denominations 100+ Years Old!

    Went out for an afternoon hunt, and dug what I thought was a quarter as light was fading. When I started washing my finds, one “quarter“ was not like the others. It was a little larger and had a large number five on one side. There is writing on the other side but I can’t make out what. It...
  15. Geologyhound

    My first day with the 11 x 13.

    My family got me the 11 x 13 coil as a joint birthday/Christmas gift. Today was the first chance I’ve had to get out and use it. I started at a local beach just to experiment with the pinpointing in an easy to dig environment. I have heard the pinpointing on the 11 x 13 can be a little less...
  16. Geologyhound

    11x13 coil ears question

    On the regular 9 inch coil (first picture over the sink) the coil ears have two notches which fit the notched insert on the side of the thumb screw. On the 11 X 13 coil, the coil ears have no notches (second picture over white background), but the insert is still notched and doesn’t quite fit...
  17. Geologyhound

    Have a happy Thanksgiving!

    However you like to spend it, have a very happy Thanksgiving!
  18. Geologyhound

    My first gold nugget from Ohio?!

    That’s OK, it wasn’t what I was expecting either… 🤣🤣 Sealter’s (?) Gold Nugget. I can’t find it on the Internet, so I am uncertain exactly what it was for. There have been some… interesting… suggestions for some similar foil wraps I have found at the same site.
  19. Geologyhound

    My oldest coin to date!

    I know it may not be much by some standards, but 1882 beats my oldest coin by about two years. So I am happy to have it! Now to supplant it with something even older… Found it at an old school house about 5 inches down along the edge of a bowl shaped depression from an old tree. It was a...
  20. Geologyhound

    Pumpkin carving

    This is not necessarily a hobby per se so much as a yearly tradition… I did the zebra this year, my son did Phineas and Ferb‘s Perry the platypus, and my daughter and I worked on Stitch from Lilo and Stitch.
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