Metal detectors

LOL... a SHOVEL??? My wife ASKED for the Metal Detector! LOL, were you getting your wife to shovel the snow???

 

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LOL !!!!

 

OK. You win. I hate goin to the beach anyways. Get sand everywhere.

 

LOL, me too. My wife drags me to the beach...

 

I live in an area with a lot of historical sites that are strictly forbidden to go metal detecting in. Even the State Parks forbid this. But I always venture out into the woods always searching for old sites. The picture that is with my id digging it, is an old well that I found deep in the woods that I will soon check out.

 

By far the best detector on the market is the xp deus closely followed by the minelab etrac. I found a roman hoard of 3500 coins 2 ft deep with it and lots of other treats !!
Deus is the best for busy sites with lots of trash ....

 

Dang...what kind of procedure did you have to follow with the gov? Are there places you are not allowed to detect?

 

Yes metal detecting is forbidden in greece and also if they catch you digging by your hands in ancient areas they will arrest you.I am sure it is forbidden in greece,italy,egypt.Also in these countries is foridden to buy or sell ancient coins and artifacts.

 

My friend all places in greece are ancients so you will never take permission to detect.They afraid that if you find ancient coins you will sell them aboard.If somebody inform police you have an ancient coin in your home they will capture you.

 

During roman rule greek used their own coins in the same time with roman coins.It was something like usd and euros in that era.They had their currency converter.

 

He he .If i was in her shoes i would detect all the time.

 

Only scheduled monuments, ie burial mounds, villa sites, settlements etc, but loads of available land close to these .... We are very lucky.

 

I'm sure my customers in Italy don't worry too much about this....

 

My family is from near Catania, Sicily and over there, many years ago, people would hide their silver and gold coins in the walls of their homes. And in Italy many homes are hundreds of years old. My grandmothers house is over 700 years old.

When people do remodeling work or demo work they sometimes find silver coins and a few gold coins hidden in the walls. Not too long ago a contractor near Napoli found several thousand crown sized silver 1735-1855 piastras in the walls of a house he was working on.

I wish I would have had a metal detector back then to check my Nonna's walls.

 

For the most part, Roman silver and gold were used where they were needed across the empire including the parts of the empire that were once what we call Greece (a much larger area than the modern country using that name). Many cities in the Roman Provinces issued their own local coinage in bronze (a few issued precious metals) which were for local use only. Very few of these were in what is now Greece. Special cities sometimes were allowed to issue coins of the old Greek styles without a Roman ruler's portrait. Later in the Empire, there were Roman mints in many cities including Thessalonika in Greece and the same types of coins were made and used everywhere in the Empire. That means your question needs to be defined as to where and when before it can be answered.

 

If she uses it to dig a hole in the back yard I'd start running. Fast.

 

The Blisstool will take on any detector. The only thing it doesn't have is visual id. But if there is something metal in the ground it will find it. Excellent for so called searched out sites. And for a cache of coins it would detect it at great debts. I challenge any machine made today.

 

I like, and use, Garrett detectors but I do think Minelab is a better detector. I've been hunting around here in Florida for over 40 years and the best I've found is mid-1800's silver coins. A friend of mine got to hunt down by Vero Beach after the big hurricane season of 2004 (of course I had to work that day), and came up with 17 coins from the 1715 Spanish fleet that went down in that area. For the most part they were 1 or 2 AR Reales, but then this guy was found:


A gold 1714 Eight Escudo coin. Needless to say I was not happy I couldn't go that day.

 

i wish i was there too

 

Wow, I bet there is more there. You need a Blisstool , "LOL". If you ever wanted to check out these machines, there is a US. rep down in florida.