Hit a field today that I have been working off and on over the past few years, which has given up quite a few coppers and a seated half dime.

Today, pulled another toasted largie (1823, which seems a semi-key date, tho worthless in dug condition; my 8th copper coin of the year), and a copper charm with some sort of stone.

I don’t know if the stone is a diamond or otherwise precious, and have no idea how to figure it out, but it is cool find something like this that seems likely as old as the largie (it was found about 20 feet away, and most targets here are 1800s or earlier).

Its cool the way rays were carved to radiate out from the stone. Unfortunately, it was a heavy clouded day so I could not see what it looks like in the sun.

Maybe it is not a charm but a small pendant. I can’t conceive of 200 year old charm bracelets, but WDIK?

Same site as recent posts. Found a couple of silvers and coppers since last post, and today a pair of mercs and a 13+ gr 10K class ring. Not bad for this site, 8 silvers this year, and 19 overall, and to think that this was one of my first silver sites. Could have had more.

The ring has a date and initials, so I should be able to return it; if not, $350 in gold, which isn’t a bad days work.

Always nice to get a hat trick. Same site as yesterday. I feel like an idiot for not gridding out this site years ago. I see other guy’s plugs. A detectorist lives adjacent to the site (had a chat with him today).

I’ve got 16 out of this site over the years; probably could have got 30-40 if I started working it hard 10 years ago. I just thought it was more dead than it is.

Just a couple more dimes. These from one of the first sites I ever detected and found silver it. Its been hard hit, but I always seem to find one or two on my first hunt of the year there. You can only hunt it in the early part of the year, before the grass grows in, except for a dead sports field section.

I’d never found a silver in the dead section, until yesterday. I always split my time between the field and dead section, and now maybe this has opened up.

Both silvers were deep whispery tones, typical E-Trac silvers. Was going to lead with the Deus II, but it was chattering like a pinball machine, and the lame headphones didn’t protect my ears from the chill wind, so I swapped the E-Trac in. I’m really disappointed with the Deus II, still 0 silvers, while the E-Trac has a few in well less than half the time.

I’ll still put my 100 hours in with the D II and then decide, but there is so much BS and lies about it by hypsters that all you can do is ignore those clowns and do the science yourself. Its a shame most people don’t know how to think scientifically, logically, and objectively, but you see that all over the world. Too bad.

Thought it was a copper but found a cool piece of history, an 1860 campaign pendant for the the candidacy of John Breckenridge/Joseph Lane for president in 1860. Not much to look at, but clear enough to make out the names.

The middle was apparently a photo/likeness of each candidate made from some sort of iron compound, so it is totally toast.

Here is an unabused look at what the pendant looked like back in the day.

Also found a “heads I win” “tails you lose” coin. Its NC-17 rated; who knew these things existed (I didn’t)? I couldn’t find how far back these go, but given its toasted condition and that it was found near the 1860 pendant, it could be 150+ years old. The oldest I could find online was from the 1960s, but no way a coin that young would be this toasted.

Also found a sterling ring.

Looks like the one the other day. That’s fine, we’ll take it. Same site as well.

I used the Deus II and E-Trac for the same amount of time. Nothing out of the Deus II. In all fairness, the D II had the worse part of the site, and I am still learning it, and it did see the silver fine (it was a typical E-Trac silver where you know what it is before digging, so it was just a matter of running the D II over the spot to test it. Read 95-97, which seems high to me)