Doesn't anyone like to show their finds?

[markt]

woops!

 

[Old Katz]

Personally I have found nothing but clad, nothing to jump up and down about.
I did find a 1940 nickel but you all know what they look like. When I find something really
good, I'll post.
Katz

 

[tony (Orlando FL)]

Hardly worth a thing compared to what others are digging, this is why I rarely post finds unless its way different or cool.

Oldest coin is a 1887 IH, a 1906 ih, several wheats, a rosie and other junk.

The F70 does well in places that have been detected to death. These were all found with the small coil, some as deep as 9+ inches with ease.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

That is a clean looking HI. I found a 1887 HI this year also, but not that good looking. Fl. soil gives up some clean coins. The acid in WV. soil is a killer to coins.
It is always nice to see what others have found. Really.

 

[Danny-n-WV]

After reading and looking at your finds I can't wait to get started searching. That is one nice looking piece of wrist jewelry.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

n/t

 

[Danny-n-WV]

I live in the southern coal fields of Logan County.

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

I live in the southern coal fields of Logan County.

I'm near Fairmont. Thought I could help you. Little too far to travel.

 

[Danny-n-WV]

I live in the southern coal fields of Logan County.

I'm near Fairmont. Thought I could help you. Little too far to travel.

Yes it sure is a good distance. Haven't gotten my detector yet(FisherF70) but its on the ups truck headed this way. So I'll be reading your posts and I'm sure asking questions.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

okay I,m new to forum but not detecting, although almost all of my experiance is in gold prospecting so anyways about 2 weeks ago I traded 1 of my goldbug2s to richard@ backwoods for a F5, by the way super guy to deal with,thanks richard and this is for you to buddy ! so as I am still up in spokane, gettin ready to head for quartszite for winter, I 've been playin around with it learnin how it works( little bit different than the machines I'm used to) but I gotta say I think it is an excellent machine, I mean really, for the price it's one of the best values I have received on anything lately!.So I went lookin at old maps and decided to head down spokane river to where I figured I was in vicinity of original fur trading post(hard to do!) and after spending most of 2 days tryin to imagine where old trails would have been by lay of land and detecting same, I finally cut back down towards river about noon sunday and had barely started on 3rd little cove when wham!! I get an 84, using all metal but the volume is pretty weak, so I start diggin( still diggin everything) so right at 11" up comes this! I don't think it is real old but it is 64.6 grams sterling silver w/ 3 oblong black onyx stones.
So to put it mildly I'm pretty happy! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean That's awesome, it's like almost 2 oz's of silver!

Just curious, you said your hunting in all metal, did you switch to disc to see how it read ( I guess you don't need to if the TID showed it at 84 huh ?) ?

 

[Cal_Cobra]

thanks, but two things mystify me about this, I am no judge of jewelry but I just don't get the feeling that this is REAL old I don't know anything about markings on it,so just a feeling now, but surely 11" of dirt strata goes back some ways? and if it got deep because of river action how come all the stones are still in it? any idea's?

What are all the marks on it ? It may well be older, especially being that deep.

 

[EZrider]

Big thumbs up! Nice finds!

 

[markt]

looks like.......sterling.....then under that S.Y.

 

[markt]

yeah, I'm hunting in all metal then when I get a signal I'll switch to disc. and experimenting with all info I can get from detector before digging, I'm still trying to understand everything it's telling me, and trying to see if I can apply the different bits of info in different ways, some not necessarily,the way fisher says they work, you know? I also have discovered that some controls on F5 are interactive with each other, I mean like if you turn this up then you have to turn that down, I'm taking notes and thinking of doing a writeup on machine really works, just for general info and expanding the knowledge base on this machine. I have come to realize that maybe I have a little different take on things because of very narrow prior experience and targets I was always looking for, also almost all my time has been in some of the worst ground you could possibly try to detect in, so over the years I have developed probably quite different ways of approaching things, I don't know maybe I have something to offer that would be useful to others maybe not

 

[markt]

tried to reply to cal cobra but I think it went to bottom of post