Metal detector finds

Always nice to get a half. Had a few pleasant surprises.

 

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12 gram bracelet stamped 925. Going to get it tested to verify.

 

It snowed, and I wasn't going to go.
I go out and the first spot was OK but there was a lot more snow than what I got. I wait a few hours for it to melt and I head back out. The next spot was decent, but there's still a lot of snow and I am thinking of waiting till next week. But I go to the next spot and get my 2nd large Eisenhower dollar coin, and then another small dollar coin there. I go to the next spot I get another dollar coin. I go to the next spot, and it was the least amount of money but I found a silver ring. I go to the next spot and I get the Kennedy half. Plus the monster bracelet from yesterday.

 

First spot today brand new fence, chain, lock, gates. It's like a prison.

 

Awesome score Mike!!!! My phone broke and I just got this new one.i m dieing to find a half dollar lol. So they continue to lock down all your spots? Man that really stinks. You can look at it like well,i have to find more spots lol.But no matter what your hitting good buddy!!

 

I found this beside the curb at a gas station,along with about $4.00 in change.i haven't weighed it yet but it's got a little heft to it.#3 silver ring.

 

I had hit 3 halves in a row on 3 hunts. The 1982 was low mintage (10.8M).
But I can go 6 months without getting another one.
That's a nice ring. Looks like 5-7 grams.
The biggest rings I have pulled were 9 (homemade) and 7.
The larger ones I find are 4 grams. Most of them are 2 grams.
That stone is prob a gram. Plus that silver looks pretty solid, so it should weigh big. IDK what the stone is, black onyx? GF makes jewelry says it's hard to tell from the light but if it is black it's prob "jet onyx".

 

Sweet!! It's been raining real bad here but it stopped for like 5 hours and I went. The gas station is right beside my house and there's an air machine and a pay phone right on the edge of a median of grass. The ring was 5in down right behind the air machine lol.

 

First half I got was on a median of grass in Colorado.

 

I forgot about this. Do you know what this means, I'm looking now.

 

Person's initials and year. TH-75 Just a guess. Birth year perhaps.

 

Sounds good to me!

 

This was OK considering the amount of gas I used and the scroungy sites I hit.
I'm looking at cutting my number of hunts in half.

 

Same here Fonz. I love detecting but am terrible at finding anything of value. Michael and some of the others have such phenomenal success though it makes me want to continue in the past time.Course, I suspect the quality of the detector has something to do with it but it still requires a lot of skill to pull and dig only quality items. That's where I fall short in addition to not having a whole lot of cash tied up in detectors. I do envy some of the finds folks seem to enjoy with regularity regardless. Congrats on finding your grandfather's wheat too. It WAS cool that it was likely his.

 

found a great spot today!! First half dollar! What a great feeling,even though it's just a half.

 

My rig costed me $34.00,it's the time it took me to learn all the sounds that made the difference. At first I would dig lots of trash,but as I learn the machine I can now only dig mostly good stuff. But of course bured pop cans and fittings still give me trouble lol. Mike's a beast at this and paddyman too. I wouldn't do half as good had it not been for the help I've gotten on here. But it's worth the time believe me.

 

Nice half. They are tough to find because they are so big.
Too bad all the nickels are eluding your detector, because they are there.
I am closing in on 2000.

 

I don't have any idea why it doesn't pick them up. I've gotten lucky finding the ones I have. I've tried to set it low,but it's just not worth all the trash lol.

 

On mine there are several settings. I put it on tone and put the discrimination up high. Because all metal rings constantly and there's nothing there.
I get good tones on silver (gold), reg. coins and copper cents, I get a garbage tone on zincs. So if it's buried I won't always dig it. And I get a low tone on nickels. So it is usually a pencil eraser, pop top or nickel. But the nickel is more solid.
I have gotten low tones or crappy tones on rings that turned out to be silver or gold.
But usually it's a high solid tone. The dollar coins and halves give a very good tone.
So it is usually the metal bar or the coin. I have gotten some weak tones on those,
if the coin is rusted or standing on edge.

 

This is the other silver I hadn't posted because it was at my mother's house. I came down for the holidays so....