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  • Cannot Wait To Go Back

    Cannot Wait To Go Back

    I woke up this morning to a cold but sunny November day and had the urge to go out and detect. I knew that I couldn't hit a few of my favorite cellar holes due to it being hunting season in my area.…

  • My Oldest and Coolest Coin

    My Oldest and Coolest Coin

    The day started out cold, but with sunny skies and no breeze the day began to get warm quickly. This is the second time I have hit this Revolutionary War site and had high hopes of goodness. There are…

  • The Find I’ve Always Wanted

    The Find I’ve Always Wanted

    Our club returned to a local farm having previously found a small spread of Roman coins along one field boundary. We suspected a hoard might have been scattered when the adjacent ditch had been deepe…

  • All I Can Say is, WOW!!!

    All I Can Say is, WOW!!!

    This past year, I purchased my first Minelab detector, after the urging of several of my metal detecting friends. Previously, I used a competitor detector. Several friends of mine kept telling me how…

  • Helping Friends

    Helping Friends

    I don't know how much of a treasure story this is but I am proud of my Minelab X-Terra 705. I had a friend of mine call me with an unusual problem. I live in Wilkes Barre, Pa and my friend lives in Ku…

  • Victorian Water Pipe

    Victorian Water Pipe

    We spent Christmas at my daughter's in Colchester. I took my detector hoping to do a bit of beach detecting. A friend of hers asked if I would try to find an old Victorian water pipe which used to fee…

  • Gold in the Sand

    Gold in the Sand

    My new CXT 3030 turned up and I could not wait to get it set up and get down to the beach. Well off I went, the tide was on its way out so I started to detect just above the water mark. I had it in t…

  • German Potato Field Finds

    German Potato Field Finds

    When I was stationed at Ramstein AFB as a medic I befriended a German Ambulance driver named Mr Merkel. On the night shift awaiting emergency calls we talked about Germany history and sites. I told Mr…

  • No Giving Up

    No Giving Up

    I made a deal with myself that I wasn't allowed to leave the beach until I had found either $40 clad or 4 gold/silver rings. I was a bit worried about it actually but within 4 hours I had about 6400 y…