• Best Metal Detectors for Coins in 2026: 6 Expert Picks (Post)

    Back in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, finding the best metal detector for us usually meant talking to someone we knew, listening to people in our detecting club, or reading advertisements and reviews ...

  • 1907-2 1/2 Gold Dollar Piece (Post)

    The pictured gold coin was found on the Connecticut/Rhode Island shoreline in 2001. Sandy entered her coin find at the Best of Northeast Treasure show in Keene, NH. She w ...

  • Saxon Gold (Post)

    This dig started when Dan kindly invited me (Dean) and Scott for a day out detecting on one of his farms. Like any day out detecting we didn't know what was going to unfold. We arrived at the farm a ...

  • The Nokta Legend 2: What's Actually Different — And What Real Detectorists Are Saying (Post)

    When the original Nokta Legend hit the market, it didn't just compete — it disrupted. Here was a simultaneous multi-frequency detector that, in independent testing, matched signals with machin ...

  • Introducing the Nokta Legend 2 (Post)

    A New Era in Treasure Hunting [Updated 2/19/26] The Legend 2 is NOW AVAILABLE! Shop Here.  Nokta has unleashed the Legend 2 metal detector—a powerhouse engineered to redefine what’s ...

  • 2 Rare Saxon Coins (Post)

    Myself and my club members went onto new permission and after finding many 303s and lead people were getting a bit despondent and moving to different fields, but I stayed and hit a flat patch of pas ...

  • 2 Hunts = 2 Civil War Tokens (Post)

    I went to my brother's house for another cookout today, and his kids wanted to detect some. After we ate some grub we hit the yard swinging. I only had about 25 min. to hunt. It was getting dark and ...

  • 2 Weeks of Good Luck (Post)

    I have been detecting since I was 12 years old back in 1972. About a year and a half ago, I upgraded to an X-TERRA 705 Gold Pack after it was recommended by my brother. Now there are 5 X-TERRA 705s ...

  • Minelab Kicks XP's Butt! (Post)

    When I first got my E-TRAC, I had little hope, considering all the other detectors I had seen used. I purchased the E-TRAC near this last Christmas and was very anxious to see how it would perform i ...

  • My 2 Cents on the Coinmaster GT (Post)

    I recently came into possession of a White’s Coinmaster GT. I have a favorite spot that I thought had been cleared of any and all targets a long time ago, by myself and a buddy of mine. We go ...

  • 2 Identical Rings (Post)

    I found one of these silver rings about a month ago at our local city school yard. My wife and I went metal detecting again today to the same school and she found an identical one! What are the chanc ...

  • 29 Grams of Gold in 2 Days! (Post)

    On 3 different hunting excursions. The first one I came away with was a 5.7 gram 14k gold ring. The next day with my buddy I hit pay dirt. A 14k gold 10.8 gram medallion, a 14k gold 6.5 gram ring an ...