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I found this at 8 inches in what is now a hay field. It dates to the 1880's. It is completely intact!

Patrick Difford

Found by JoeyC

This is a 1923D Liberty Silver (PEACE) dollar! I found it in my driveway about 8 inches deep! Ive been detecting for about one year now! this is my best find so far! I found it 02/20/2005

Found by Rob
Rob says From the marks on the end of this necklace I found, I figured it to be 18k French gold. If my math is right, 24 ounces =6,792 ??

Found by Richard O'Reilly in NH

Found by Richard O'Reilly in NH

Found by Leslie Sarkany in Nova Scotia

Found by Leslie Sarkany in Nova Scotia

Found by Leslie Sarkany in Nova Scotia

Found by Leslie Sarkany in Nova Scotia

This is a tenth of an ounce 1985 Chinese Panda coin. Found in Sisters,Oregon in a vacant lot. Found by Ken D.

These items were found in S America by Ed Krajewski. The cross is solid gold but does not have any caret markings.

This is a 1796 8 reale “Pillar Dollar” that Steve Pearsall found behind a local school. The first school was built there about 1924 but burned down in 1946. It was rebuilt then and expanded a few times and is in use to this day. Now the interesting thing about this site is that it is in the town center across the street from the “Old Meeting House” which was built in 1750 and is still in use today. It looks like the coin was lost before it had been in circulation for too long. I figure that someone lost it cutting across what was then an empty field on the way to the Old Meeting House.

This is a relic Steve Pearsall found at his sister’s house in Connecticut. She lives in an old house that a doctor lived in during the late 1800’s. I found this quack medical device called “J.C. Boyd’s Galvanic Battery”. This device was supposed to be worn as a pendant around one’s neck. As you can see it is composed of a bunch of little disks. These disks are made of bronze, copper, and silver. Supposedly galvanic electricity was produced by this device and that purified the blood and cured just about any disease you could get. It is about the size of a half dollar.

All the above coins were found by one of our French readers while detecting in France they were found by Laurent

Here's some cannon ball fragments,shot bullets,buckles, and a nice grape shot ,heeltap, peice of pocketknife,and pewter pouring cup with some other stuff(including more square nails than I care to mention) I found this evening.Not bad for 2 hours of hunting. Where I found this has been hunted hard but because it was in a group of Cedars and full of square nails most people probably used too much discrimination.I've learned through trial and error that cedars in Murfreesboro screw up what would be normally good signals.I hunted this place the first time but got so many iron signals ,like what would normally be fence wire, I passed over it and went with the cleaner woods that would make easier hunting.After walking over a gazillion old dig holes and not finding nothing I figured digging some horseshoes would be better than digging nothing at all.The first few signals I dug were square nails but then I dug the cannitster shot and it rang up the same as the square nails. After that I dug every signal and found all the other stuff. I cant wait to get back out there tomorrow.
morg396@aol.com

Found this in Beltbuckle TN morg396@aol.com

I always read Mark Parker's section of W&E first. He helped me ID an item from the 1876 Centennial as possibly being of the Centennial Art Gallery Exhibition hall, (C.A.G.E.) it has a bust of George Washington on it as well as a depiction of the hall. Lately I've been interested in finding the value of a brass padlock that came out of a yard of a Victorian home where a tennis court now stands. Many nice finds including Indian cents, Barber dimes an enameled brass pin and two nice sterling pins that are (larger than a half dollar) came out of the yard. The rooster is made of sterling plate that was cut and soldered. I'm always sad when I see a well kept ornate antique home that is going to disappear for the sake of "progress". Here's a sample of what I found back there with my old Whites 6000 Di Pro I used to use. Keeping a log is one of the best tools you can have for you detecting needs. This has allowed me to keep track of productive sites and the hunt conditions. Some just like to tally finds, I stopped counting silver coins at 600. But you get the idea. The moist soil has always been the detectorist's best friend when it come to yards and parks. The ability to retrieve an object with a probe or small cut and pinpointer has opened up new venues for me. I will gladly demonstrate for a property owner my technique. Don't for get to take along a heavy piece of plastic sheet or a towel to place soil on for those deeper finds. Hope this helps those new to the greatest hobby/tool for reaching back to touch the past. Bruce Morris Metal Detecting nut

I found a Spanish Cob on the shore of Lake Erie this past Sunday ... It dates between 1655-1705 so I am told JIM

Here is a pic of an old slavetag I found also on the same property. Some "expert" online emailed me and told me it was a fake because it was folded in the back and that there were no known tags like this. however, I know I didn't dig 8 inches in clay on a slave-built site and pull up a fake! I researched it and there were some tags that were made in haste to replace a lost one or if there were no normal tag blanks available. Anyway, it's a cool find. Michael

This US Civil War buckle was found by Piratesinn (Jeff)

This ring was found by Jim Hunter01812

These fine coins were found all in the same area and all three were a first by bottldigr@aol.com

Finds from the Port Hudson LA area by Formatr@aol.com

This 1850 Half Dime found by Dee (dellaclair@aol.com)

RAYMOND FRENCH FOUND A 1740 colonial half Penny in about good condition

These gold coins was found by Wonrat@aol.com
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This Silver 1853 3Cent Piece was found by Michael Quinn at an Old Farm House