If you have an old clothesline coins will be there.

I forgot about this. Apparently pre-civil war. Found here in Faribault.

Cool
First find. My first find was also a dime. My best finds so far were 3 gold rings.

Metal detecting is addicting. If I ever find a CSA belt buckle, I'd die standing up.

You are in TN. You had best write your will. It could happen.

There were a bunch of civil war battles fought in Virginia too if you ever come this way.

A buddy of mine is ate up with the hobby.
He found a class ring with the date 1940, the name of the high school, and the guys initials on it. He called the high school to see if he could track the guy down to return it to him. They looked in the school records for that year and found only one student with those initials. He never moved away from that town and got his class ring back.
How cool is that?!

That is what we do. If we can get it back to the owner or survivors, we try to do so. One guy found a ring worth over $30,000 and found the owner and gave it back.

I buy gold class rings at auction and never once thought about returning it to the original owner LOL. Guess I have no moral compass.

The original owners probably sold those. Or their kids. Totally different situation.

My wifes uncle detected. He had a theory. He would find the biggest tree on a homestead and detect under it. Besause " thats where the hayseeds would sit when resting during hay baling season. ". He found some stuff.
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Found this on the beach in Florida. First silver of 2022. Anyone in Englewood Florida want to take my wife and I detecting drop me a PM.

Silver or stainless?

Mark. It's 925 silver from Italy. Detecting with the Equinox 800.

My first find was a pull tab🙄 with my old Garrett 350. That is what my son now uses. About a month ago I picked up a sweet Minelab Equinox 800. Took about three outings to get up to speed won it and I’m still digging junk but it’s been a lot more fun and much more accurate as far as I’d gores than the old ace 350. Bought mine from Bart at BIGBOYSHOBBIES.COM. Came with the stock 11” coil and a 15” coil. I also grabbed a sand scoop(was desperately needed for beach detecting) and a 6” coil(my son loves to find something of value so we hit the high school bleachers about twice a year so he can dig a lot of clad coins).

Nice! Metal detecting used to be my no.1 summer hobby,here in upper Michigan my target areas were old homesteads and logging camps.Ive got enough artifacts to start a small museum lol,coins,silverware,horseshoes,axe heads,buckles,bottles,I made a plaque and mounted a 4' hand saw with a metal handle and hung it in our living room,I found it next to what I figured to be the blacksmith shop,judging from all the broken chain and split axe heads I found around it.Its a fascinating hobby.

Detecting is addictive.

I've mentioned this before but one of my best finds was a septic tank. I know that sounds silly, but they are/were lifelong family friends, an 80 year old lady and her daughter living in the house and they couldn't use the downstairs bathroom. The line was backed up, wouldn't flush. The old man had passed away, nobody had a clue where the tank was located.

Old tile pipes, and a concrete tank across their driveway. Your guess is as good as mine as to what that would have cost them if they had to dig all of that stuff up.

Anyway, not sure why, but I found the lid to the tank. Didn't have a clue what we were digging up, but it sounded good on my machine, something out of place. They had it pumped down, and the lady was happy.

Back before season I found the local veterinarian's key ring, he'd lost it 2 or 3 years ago. Had keys to his house, truck, the office, post office box and all on it. He'd asked me to look for them, he's one of my landowners.

Just pickin on him, I told him that I took the truck for a spin, walked through the house, checked on the office, checked the mail, everything looked ok. lol

But that was a good find too.

I toss the horseshoes in the scrap pile. No value at all. The exception was the round shoe. I kept that one.

I could hit the horse pasture and I'm sure I could find a ton of shoes. A buddy of mine takes ever old shoe he can get he welds and makes art.. the kids have thier names above thier doors at the house made of old shoes, my wife has Christmas tree made of old shoes, pumpkins made of old shoes snowman you name it she probably has it for the season. I did message my buddy that runs the local hatchery down the road it's state owned asked if I would get in trouble if I dected there he said ya, I figured I could load a tackle box with old lures and hooks.

Off 3 days this next coming week, plan on going to the farm about 20 years ago a tornado blew through and I figured stuff was scattered every where might find a ton of junk but might find a family heirloom also you never know... Need to find some spots with some history, just so I can find something cool for a change. Im running an Garrett ace 400... I didn't want to spend a ton of money because I didn't know how much I would use it, also didn't want to buy something super cheap and be a waste of my money and time. According to the reviews I read I bought what I was looking for.