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  • 1774 Two Reale on Baseball Field

    1774 Two Reale on Baseball Field

    Found this on a baseball field I've hunted many times before. I've found many Rosie's and some silver Washington quarters on this ball field but was stunned when I pulled this 2 reale out of the grou…

  • Best Hunt Of My Life

    Best Hunt Of My Life

    My best day of metal detecting started just like most others: hunting one of my old stand-bys. Today’s stand-by was a university campus, originally constructed in the 1890s. My first two hours…

  • 1863 Civil War Token

    1863 Civil War Token

    I found this Civil War token at an old elementary school. It rang up as an Indian Head penny signal of 11-36 and I didn't know what it was until I got home. I was surprised as I never had one of these…

  • 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 (denar…

  • Diamond Ring Reunited with Owner

    Diamond Ring Reunited with Owner

    I received a call from a young man that’s in the Armed Forces. He stated that his girlfriend had lost a family heirloom in his father's back yard in Oct. 2010. It was her grandmother's gold and…

  • 1865 Civil War Camp

    1865 Civil War Camp

    Hi all, Christmas eve 2012 I went out for a couple of hours to a pounded CW site close to home. I had been over the area before with little results. Well armed with the E-TRAC in TTF mode I started f…

  • What a Great Day

    What a Great Day

    The year is 1921. The city, Ottawa, Ontario. The place, The Royal Canadian Mint. Someone says "Dump the coins!" and almost 3.5 million silver Canadian 5 Cent pieces are melted down. The government ha…

  • Persistance and an E-TRAC

    Persistance and an E-TRAC

    I live in Scotland in an area where the landscape has been seriously altered as a result of a century of Coal Mining and because “good” finds are few and far between. I am very passionate…