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  • Old Coin For Austalia

    Old Coin For Austalia

    Hello my name is Jordan. I'm 13 and I've been metal detecting for 3 years now and this is my 1881 coin found in Camden, NSW. This is now my best find but not my oldest, my oldest is an 1879 sixpence…

  • Day Three and the E-TRAC Pays For Itself!

    Day Three and the E-TRAC Pays For Itself!

    This whole mess of metal detecting started when my friend got his first Bounty Hunter and showed me how it worked in the front yard of my house. I was instantly intrigued and thought it was very inte…

  • Iron... The E-TRAC Laughs at Iron!

    Iron... The E-TRAC Laughs at Iron!

    This has been one of the best weeks of detecting I have ever had. I went back to an old site that once had a Church on it. This site is so loaded with iron it is almost impossible to hunt in anything…

  • Rare Sword Belt Returned!

    Rare Sword Belt Returned!

    I recovered a sword belt plate this spring from the Schoharie valley in upstate New York after the floods with my White’s VX3. The plate was rare from the Holland society which was founded in N…

  • BeachHunter 300 Finds Couples Lost Ring

    BeachHunter 300 Finds Couples Lost Ring

    Returning home to France from vacation, we stopped on the coast of Italy. I decided to take my BHID 300 with me in case I had a chance to do some detecting. We were in a town called Sanremo near the…

  • Finding the Deep, Heavy Rings!

    Finding the Deep, Heavy Rings!

    I am new to Minelab but no stranger to metal detecting, having used other brands for more than 10 years. Earlier this year I decided to try beach detecting due to the high cost of gold and invested i…

  • Golden Vespasianus

    Golden Vespasianus

    Hello everyone. I have done a wonderful find with my CTX3030. I really did not know what came over me. What a rush.A Gold (aureus) Vespasian 69-79 after CHR. Before and afterwards lots of silver (den…

  • Accidental Discovery

    Accidental Discovery

    On June 6, 2011, I went to the beach in Ventura California for a quick hunt in the wet sand with my E-TRAC. For an hour I worked on a beach cut that gave me a few corroded coins, pull tabs and a corr…