At first glance, it looks like an ordinary coin. 350 years ago, you could maybe use it to dine in a restaurant, sip a good ale, but no more. Now you can more or less buy a whole farm. This story took place in 2014. The name of the lucky detectorist is John Stoner. Near the village of Kings Klipstoun in Nottinghamshire (England), he found a rare silver coin from the 17th century,...
Sometimes you start missing detecting so much that you are ready to go wander through any terrain and enjoy every response of your detector. And so it was with one Detectorist, in August. So one sunny afternoon, after he had called his friends, he went out of town to detect on a field. He chose this excact field because it was the first he saw, and it was harvested and plowed. However,...
I’ve never seen any of the Golden Mask detectors, neither in the fields nor in the hands of a digger. Over here it is not popular, and not very interesting manufacturer for digger. However, as long as the coins are in the fields and diggers find expensive things, many are trying to find new ways of finding more expensive and interesting finds, and therefore more and more people are starting to look...
The amateur metal detectorist Isaac Jones got a metal detector for Christmas, and he went detecting with his new metal detector nearby the Yuba River, near Nevada City. It was his absolute first time using a detector, and at the start of his detecting, he found some of the usual stuff you find—coins, trash and bullet shells. But after about a kilometer of detecting, he found an unusual item. From the ground he...
To this day i haven’t written so much about the Minelab E-Trac here. We have kind-of undeservedly passed by this detector, which is not good. We hope to fix that very soon.? The internet contains a lot of unnecessary information, and therefore it sometimes is very difficult to find something useful for a E-Trac user, especially for those just starting out. I will try, in the new season 2017, to change this...
I remember when I was just starting metal detecting, I did not consider a pinpointer for a necessary gadget to have. I had a metal detector with the standard mono coil, and therefore i did not dig any deep holes. Therefore i often found the target pretty quickly. “And why do we need this pinpointer?” – I thought then. I kept on thinking so until a friend of mine gave me...
Luke Sansom, an amateur detectorist, was searching near Chester when he unearthed this relic. The roman pendant is made out of silver, and the stone in it is a carnelian gemstone. It portrays a gladiator holding a shield against an animal that loos like a big cat. The detectorist passed on the find to the British Museum to be valued. Mr Sansom has had this hobby for about ten years, when finally found...
Hope Zahornacky was metal detecting in her backyard when she got a surprise: a hand grenade. After having detetected for a good five years, Hope Zahornacky found one of her most “exciting” finds so far. She states that metal detecting for her is not about making the most valuable find to sell it for a good price, she said, “it is about the history.” One day she decided to walk across her backyard...
At first I was skeptical to electrolysis. I consider this as a”barbaric” method of cleaning. However, I decided to try it. As a test subject i chose the 15 kopeks silver coin 15 from 1926, with a silver purity of 500. The condition of this coin was no good- it was more dead than alive. There was black tarnish on it, which had previously tried to remove with a little citric acid. There was also...
Now we have entered the year of 2017, and many diggers probably think about getting a new detector for the new season. Some has even already started to dig on the 1st and 2nd of January, and others, like me, waiting for when the end of the wind, the cold and the snow go away. The first fields will be ploughed, and there will be new discoveries. Over the past year I have...
