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  • My First Large Cent

    My First Large Cent

    This past weekend some friends from our metal detecting group “SPHRG” Southeastern Pennsylvania Historical Recovery Group which I founded four years ago met in Concord Township, PA. We di…

  • A Portuguese Find in New York

    A Portuguese Find in New York

    I'm new to metal detecting. Being my second week with my E-TRAC I've found a few coins and a couple of old civil war buttons but today I really hit it big. At first I thought it was an old token badg…

  • Surprised Beyond Belief

    Surprised Beyond Belief

    On March 2nd my metal detecting world changed forever! I'm currently in college to become a High School History teacher and got into the hobby because of my love for history. I live in East Central I…

  • A Very Fine Morning

    A Very Fine Morning

    Sunday morning, the sun is rising. A cup of coffee with the wife and kids. And then off to go, a big trip of 5 minutes on the bike :)) A small grassland is trimmed and I have permission to search the…

  • E-TRAC Hits Early 1700's in the States

    E-TRAC Hits Early 1700's in the States

    I went out Saturday, Aug 18th to an area by my house that is known to give up some oldies. I hunted for an hour and found a couple wheats and then hit a nice 1897 Indian. I knew I was in a good spot…

  • 17th Century Silver Bonanza!

    17th Century Silver Bonanza!

    Hi All, At the beginning of March I began searching for a new site that has early structure, but shows no activity on the earliest maps I have access to, (1892). After a bit of scanning, I pulled a l…

  • Battle Site Discovery

    Battle Site Discovery

    Found a cannon ball on the battle site of Prestonpans on a club dig. Buy Minelab GPX 5000 Metal Detector Now…

  • A Lifetime Dream Find

    A Lifetime Dream Find

    I was at DIV XXII on November 18th and at the growl and smooth sound of the GPX 5000, I thought I had a really nice piece of brass or a bullet of some sort. The funny thing was that there honestly we…

  • Glad I Went Back!

    Glad I Went Back!

    It was Tue March 13 and my detecting buddy Dr. Bob met me at 7:30 am for a day of detecting. We hunted an old country school yard first and I found one Barber dime. We then hunted an old country chur…