Critterhunter
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I've got a few pictures to show below. The first one with the thimble, button, and broken ring in it is from last fall and winter. The sterling button I believe is from World War II but haven't really researched it. The thimble is very old and shows houses, water wheels, and is monogrammed. It has a Hallmark inside and I'm going to have to research it, as these thimbles can be very collectible to the right people. I believe that makes three sterling thimbles for me, maybe four. The ring was found on a beach very deep at like perhaps 11" from memory, yet gave me a very strong silver coin signal. A friend of mine who is a gold smith went to clean it and the ring broke apart. No matter, the stone isn't real he says. I'm very impressed at how the GT hit that thin ring that deep. This was in an area where the first 4 or 5" was sand and the next 5 to 6" was mucky sludge and very wet, right at the edge of the water on a lake. If it can hit a thin ring like this that deep then imagine what it can do on a silver dime. I think I was using the stock 10" coil at the time.
The next picture shows most of my silver finds from this year and a buffalo nickle, though I've found a few more of those and a V or two I think this year as well. I've also got a few indians and such this year that isn't on display in the picture. A rosie and a merc are left out of the picture, as they both have jobs right now. The rosie I use to test sensitivity when I first get to a site by burying it. The merc is hooked up to my precise depth calibration air test machine (say that ten times real fast). Mainly I use that to precisely measure depths of various coils while air testing, as it holds the target at true depth so I can precisely measure performance. That little star shaped silver thing at the top right was found with the 15x12 and was fairly deep, like I think 6 or 7", and read like a penny (176). That's pretty good depth and sensitivity for something that small and it locked on nice and good any direction. Score another one for yet another target my Explorers missed at a spot around a big tree I've gridded the tar out of in the past. I forgot to grab the tiny little sterling silver cuff link I found earlier this year as well to post. Very tiny. Not positive it is a cuff link but it is marked sterling. Looks more like a inline spinner on a fishing lure, and I think they made some of those out of silver back in the day.
The next one is of my 1855 seated quarter. The picture doesn't do it justice. It shows no wear at all. It does have a nick right at the left corner, and I think one on the back side near the same spot. I believe that was due to it being used as a screwdriver or to set gun sites when it was dropped, probably right the year it was minted by the lack of wear. The nick(s) don't look nearly as bad in person, and that discoloration on the right side is not nicks or anything. Just some tarnish. You can see a few scratches on the back but again they don't show nearly as bad in person even if you look under a loop. The nick on the front side also isn't nearly as deep or wide as it looks like in the picture. I guess cameras don't just make people look fat, they also bring out every little flaw and make it look worse than it is.
A few of those "scratches" may be towel fuzz, because I had them laying on a towel for a few pics.
The next one is of my 1858 silver 3 cent piece. Again, the camera doesn't do it justice. Despite the blurring of the photos this coin is sharp and shows no wear at all. I also can't see any scratches on it at all. It does have slight discoloration at the one edge.
The older book I looked at when I found these coins I believe put the seated quarter by grade at about $1350. Of course with the nick(s) in the side of it and a few scratches it won't fetch that, but I would expect a decent a decent buck for it by the right buyer. Again, those few scratches that are real (some might be towel lint) don't look nearly this bad even under a loop. The 3 cent piece I believe was something like $360 to $390 by the way I graded it also in that older book, so I'd expect slightly higher current prices and this coin might fetch very near that to the right person. It has slight discoloration at one edge. The writing that looks worn is not. It's simple camera blur. She's sharp as a tack! In fact, I took it to a coin dealer and he said it looked "too perfect" and must be a die cast fake. Little did he know that this came out of the ground about in the same hole that a friend just dug two large cents out of! Both of these coins if I can get some better pictures of I may sell on Ebay. I could use the money right now and so long as I have a picture of my trophy I don't need the real thing sitting around doing nothing.
Same deal with the bucks I've killed deer hunting. To me a skull cap (top of skull with antlers on it) is just as good as a mount, and since a skull cap is free to make that's what I always hang on the wall. I take enough pictures of my deer before skinning them that I figure why waste hundreds of dollars to have somebody stuff the head. I can blow up a picture of the whole deer and frame that on the wall beside the skull cap.
I'm pretty happy with my GT, as you can tell! Keep in mind this doesn't even show all my finds, including silver ones, since I've got the GT. Some of that stuff I didn't grab for the pictures, some of it is buried in my coin garden, and some (like indians and such) is taking olive oil baths since the day I found them.
The next picture shows most of my silver finds from this year and a buffalo nickle, though I've found a few more of those and a V or two I think this year as well. I've also got a few indians and such this year that isn't on display in the picture. A rosie and a merc are left out of the picture, as they both have jobs right now. The rosie I use to test sensitivity when I first get to a site by burying it. The merc is hooked up to my precise depth calibration air test machine (say that ten times real fast). Mainly I use that to precisely measure depths of various coils while air testing, as it holds the target at true depth so I can precisely measure performance. That little star shaped silver thing at the top right was found with the 15x12 and was fairly deep, like I think 6 or 7", and read like a penny (176). That's pretty good depth and sensitivity for something that small and it locked on nice and good any direction. Score another one for yet another target my Explorers missed at a spot around a big tree I've gridded the tar out of in the past. I forgot to grab the tiny little sterling silver cuff link I found earlier this year as well to post. Very tiny. Not positive it is a cuff link but it is marked sterling. Looks more like a inline spinner on a fishing lure, and I think they made some of those out of silver back in the day.
The next one is of my 1855 seated quarter. The picture doesn't do it justice. It shows no wear at all. It does have a nick right at the left corner, and I think one on the back side near the same spot. I believe that was due to it being used as a screwdriver or to set gun sites when it was dropped, probably right the year it was minted by the lack of wear. The nick(s) don't look nearly as bad in person, and that discoloration on the right side is not nicks or anything. Just some tarnish. You can see a few scratches on the back but again they don't show nearly as bad in person even if you look under a loop. The nick on the front side also isn't nearly as deep or wide as it looks like in the picture. I guess cameras don't just make people look fat, they also bring out every little flaw and make it look worse than it is.
A few of those "scratches" may be towel fuzz, because I had them laying on a towel for a few pics.The next one is of my 1858 silver 3 cent piece. Again, the camera doesn't do it justice. Despite the blurring of the photos this coin is sharp and shows no wear at all. I also can't see any scratches on it at all. It does have slight discoloration at the one edge.
The older book I looked at when I found these coins I believe put the seated quarter by grade at about $1350. Of course with the nick(s) in the side of it and a few scratches it won't fetch that, but I would expect a decent a decent buck for it by the right buyer. Again, those few scratches that are real (some might be towel lint) don't look nearly this bad even under a loop. The 3 cent piece I believe was something like $360 to $390 by the way I graded it also in that older book, so I'd expect slightly higher current prices and this coin might fetch very near that to the right person. It has slight discoloration at one edge. The writing that looks worn is not. It's simple camera blur. She's sharp as a tack! In fact, I took it to a coin dealer and he said it looked "too perfect" and must be a die cast fake. Little did he know that this came out of the ground about in the same hole that a friend just dug two large cents out of! Both of these coins if I can get some better pictures of I may sell on Ebay. I could use the money right now and so long as I have a picture of my trophy I don't need the real thing sitting around doing nothing.
Same deal with the bucks I've killed deer hunting. To me a skull cap (top of skull with antlers on it) is just as good as a mount, and since a skull cap is free to make that's what I always hang on the wall. I take enough pictures of my deer before skinning them that I figure why waste hundreds of dollars to have somebody stuff the head. I can blow up a picture of the whole deer and frame that on the wall beside the skull cap.
I'm pretty happy with my GT, as you can tell! Keep in mind this doesn't even show all my finds, including silver ones, since I've got the GT. Some of that stuff I didn't grab for the pictures, some of it is buried in my coin garden, and some (like indians and such) is taking olive oil baths since the day I found them.
