a day on the field after long time..

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  1. galba68

    galba68 Well-Known Member

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  3. alde

    alde Always Learning

    Looks like a really good day. Some interesting stuff.
     
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  4. Gavin Richardson

    Gavin Richardson Well-Known Member

    Green coin looks like a Valentinian or Valens SECVRITAS REIPVBLICAE with some good detail.
     
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  5. ominus1

    ominus1 Well-Known Member

    fine haul!
     
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  6. Nicholas Molinari

    Nicholas Molinari Well-Known Member

    How many holes did you have to dig to get those items? The few times I've gone I dug many, many holes. It can be backbreaking labour, but there's also a lot of litter (soda caps, etc) where I dig.
     
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  7. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Awesome haul! Is that a Salonina up near that fibula?
     
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  8. Oldhoopster

    Oldhoopster Member of the ANA since 1982

    @paddyman98. Look at the stuff this guy finds with his metal detector. A lot more interesting than the discolored clad coins you find in NYC ;)
     
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  9. paddyman98

    paddyman98 I'm a professional expert in specializing! Supporter

    True.. But it's great when I find the Gold and silver! :wideyed: Message_1501326891846.jpg IMG_20170703_104510_6800.jpg 20170625_172626.jpg received_10214075069934712.jpeg
     
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  10. galba68

    galba68 Well-Known Member

    oh yes , lordm, its salonina...
     
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  11. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    @galba68 - on one of these sites like this, one fine day, you're going to break open a clod of earth, and something that looks like your avatar is gonna fall out.

    When that happens, you remember I predicted it here, OK? :)

    Sure wish I could be out there with you. I don't go out anymore, but my past detector outings formed some of my happiest and most vivid memories.

    I can easily summon the memory of the smell of wet leaves on a chilly November morning and imagine turning back the sod to see the glint of a long-lost silver coin. Been there. Done that. Remember it fondly.

    *sigh*

    Those moments were magical to me.
     
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  12. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    What a great haul. I can definitely make out Salonina near the top!
     
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  13. galba68

    galba68 Well-Known Member

    beautiful post, lordM...
     
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  14. Nicholas Molinari

    Nicholas Molinari Well-Known Member

    Employ the grandkids as diggers? I'm going to start bringing my daughter out soon. She has the collector gene big time, and she loves looking for treasures (basically shiny quartz at the playground), so it seems like she will love it.
     
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  15. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    No grandkids yet, but that's not a bad idea, when the time comes.

    Then again, the digging and the moment of discovery was what it's all about for me. If I delegated that to someone else, I'd miss the most thrilling part!

    Skip to about the 5:00 mark in the video below if you want to see how even after more than a decade of digging, the discovery of even a common silver coin could still get me all excited. I started detecting as a kid, in 1976, and never really lost my childlike enthusiasm for finding "treasure".

     
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  16. Theodosius

    Theodosius Fine Style Seeker

    This may sound crazy, but that moment of discovery is why I like cleaning coins.

    I love process of starting with a lump of dirt and then seeing what is revealed underneath as it cleans up. Often times it is a junky VG Constantine, but now and then it is something good, like a provincial coin, denarius or antoninianus.

    Buying group lots is also somewhat like this, you can rarely see all the coins in the auction pictures, when they arrive there are the pleasant and sometimes unpleasant surprises to look forward to.

    :)
     
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  17. galba68

    galba68 Well-Known Member

    theodosius, l totaly agree...
     
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  18. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    There's just something about that "magic moment of discovery", whether it's done in a muddy field ... or on your kitchen table ... or wherever.

    The detector finds were all the more exciting to me somehow, though, because I know I am very probably the first person in 100, 200, or even 700 years to see and touch the coin.

    It's like reaching out and shaking hands with someone who was long dead before your grandparents were born.

    And @galba68 just shook hands with some folks from 1,700+ years ago!

    That's really amazing.
     
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  19. Theodosius

    Theodosius Fine Style Seeker

    I would love to do some detecting for ancient stuff but that is not an option where I live. I have looked for pieces of 8 from the 1715 fleet which wrecked near here. All I found was can slaw. :)
     
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  20. ancientone

    ancientone Well-Known Member

    The only ancient objects found in the States are native American.

    normal_Clipboard15d.jpg Projectile point in situ. Early to mid-Archaic, 9000-6000 B.P.
    Type: Kirk
    Period: Early to mid-Archaic, 9000-6000 B.P.
    Size: 1.75"
    Found in Jessamine county, Kentucky. 2011.
     
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  21. Theodosius

    Theodosius Fine Style Seeker

    I'd be thrilled to find some arrow points like that!
     
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