• Metal Detecting / Treasure Hunting discussion : How to, tricks/tips, your finds, equipment, fuck bot
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Pile o' shit from the past few days. 1600s-1800s coins, giant key, belt buckle, dingledonger and a cool 1700s sword ornament. [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1474003690.jpg[/img] Friend found this awesome 1/24 Riksdaler from the field, I cleaned it up: [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1474061280.png[/img] Well preserved skilling [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1473973044.jpg[/img]
There are comparatively few treasure hunters in Brazil, and i noticed how no-one seems to explore a nearby battleground from 1930s civil war. Paraguay war battlegrounds are also largely untouched. This thread motivated me to purchase a detector, hopefully i'll explore that place soon!
Isn't 1700s Spanish silver reales some of the things you could find in Brazil?
[QUOTE=Orkel;51062443]Isn't 1700s Spanish silver reales some of the things you could find in Brazil?[/QUOTE] I guess it would be possible, but rare-ish and only on the extreme south. Most of the country's colonization was Portuguese. People you have no idea how underexplored these battlegrounds are, i knew of a land bought by a farmer and abandoned because skeletons, muskets and cannonballs kept appearing when he tried to till the land. [B]And the old man just left the land untouched.[/B] There are 3 main historical periods to be explored here - 20th century military gear from civil wars and revolutions (we had over 20 in that century alone), 19th century military gear from the Lapa Siege and the Paraguay War, or 1700s civilian relics and coins from the Missões (religious enclaves whose objective was to teach christian culture to the natives), so there's good variety and i don't know what could come up. I realize most of these names mean nothing to you all, but the information i found in English is terribly simplified and/or incorrect. Send me a PM if you'd like to hear some more historical background.
I'm jealous of people who live in places with actual history. I metal detected for about 3 years and all I ever really found were coins and tokens where the oldest was from around 1900. My city didn't even exist before 1850, and the only people here before that were Native Americans, so there's really not much metal to find. Sometimes you can find arrowheads in creekbeds, but that's about it. If you look at maps from the late 1800s literally all of the buildings are within the area that's currently downtown, so they've been built over dozens of times.
Another 1/24 silver Riksdaler! This one is from 1778, the other posted before was 1779. [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1474272652.png[/img]
Silver Bonanza today! Got permission to a new field, we got 4 silvers in total. 2 for me, and 1 for each of my friends. 1/6 Riksdaler, 1778. Face coin! It's been burnt and cannot be 100% cleaned, in some fire back then. Gives a nice surface to it I think. [img]http://i.imgur.com/qwLZuL3.jpg[/img] 1 Mark, 1695. Another face coin! [img]http://i.imgur.com/xhY6tcz.jpg[/img] 5 Ör, 1700 exactly. [img]http://i.imgur.com/HTqsWdD.jpg[/img] 25 Penniä 1907, still uncleaned. [img]http://i.imgur.com/lv1n77q.png[/img] Random copper coins from 1600-1700s. We found 20 coppers in total between us, here's my lot. [img]http://i.imgur.com/KYwb2BL.jpg[/img]
I love how well preserved the silvers are. Nice finds!
We have visited the field 3 times now, and in total our group of 3 detectors has gotten 44 coins. 40 of those are copper, and 4 are the silvers posted before.
Friend found this today. [img]http://i.imgur.com/ROmX7iv.jpg[/img] I already have 2 of them (posted in this thread before), so it's nice that he got one this time. He doesn't have this "model" of coin yet, tis his first.
Something different today, found this lead seal. It has the date 1846 on it, under a coat of arms depicting a lion and an eagle. The other side reads "Åbo Hallstempel" which means this seal was from the city of Turku (Åbo in swedish back when they controlled it). These seals were used for wheat and grain transportation. After shipping the wheat to my town a few hundred km in the north, they opened the wheat bags and threw the seals away, some ending up as detecting finds these days. [img]http://i.imgur.com/XDSnIBm.png[/img] [editline]18th October 2016[/editline] also, friend found a 1/24 Riksdaler, identical to the ones posted last page, so cba taking a pic.
½ Ör, 1598 hammered silver coin, it's bent but other than that pretty good condition. [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1477396714.png[/img] [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1477407630.png[/img]
FUCK YES. FINALLY A SILVER MARKKA [img]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1477956889.jpg[/img] been trying to find one for 2 years now, can now cross it out of the bucket list
Is there something rare about those early ones? Or has it just been elusive to you until now?
[QUOTE=Lone Wolf807;51282992]Is there something rare about those early ones? Or has it just been elusive to you until now?[/QUOTE] The 1 markka is a rare find. There are many people who have detected for years and years and haven't found one. Finding 1 silver markka is, to a Finnish detectorist, the same as an American finding a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_dollar]silver Morgan dollar[/url]. One of my friends has detected for 3-4 years and has only found one silver markka. Another friend who has detected for 3 years, and two other friends who've detected for 1 year, have found none. There is an even rarer 2 markka coin that I probably won't find ever. The official Finnish metal detecting forums have been up for 10 years, and has over 4000 users, but the amount of discovered+posted 2 markkas can be counted on one hand to give some perspective. Note that this is all in terms of detecting. You can buy a silver markka for 10-20€ on the internet, and the 2 markka is just a little more expensive (20-40). They are super rare [I]in the fields.[/I] [editline]30th October 2016[/editline] like hell, our group together has found more 1500s silver coins (3 or 4) than 1800s markkas (2).
Found my biggest coin so far, it's a 1 Ör from 1679. Bad condition, but it's damn sizey. [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1477978360.png[/img] How it looked new: [url]http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces64172.html[/url] Diameter of 45.4mm (1.79 inches) as comparison an US half dollar is 30.6mm / 1.20 inches. It's also very thick and heavy.
We already got snow for 2½ weeks, but a momentary heatwave (+3 celsius) melted it away. So I went to the fields and grabbed myself a silver coin before the winter continues for good. 5 Ör 1710 [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1479958603.png[/img] Also this well preserved copper 1/6 Ör from 1666. [img]http://horobox.reager.org/u/orkel_1479929626.png[/img]
2016 in a nutshell [t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1481124733.jpg[/t] See you in summer 2017
So guys, kind of a cool story here. An old woman's previous house, across the street from mine, was being torn down because the local market was expanding. She moved out some days before that, but when we were watching the demolition, we noticed some stuff like clothes and shit falling from the attic, like she had them tucked away there and completely forgot. The next day i went digging in the rubble and found this: [t]http://i.imgur.com/VUUTUas.jpg[/t] Maybe some don't find it that cool, but i became obsessed with it, due to the idea that i have this damn magnetic tape coming from a very ancient house that i can't watch. Also, there was much, much more of it, but it was terribly tangled in some iron bars and i had to bolt because some big-fucking-machines were coming to cement the whole place. The idea that the rest of the tape is now under the new building still saddens me.
I work with detecting metal objects, but I can't keep anything that I find. Pretty ok though, because it's mostly belts, watches, tin foil and coins still in circulation. Still, people easily forget things in the security check, and I've found some neat pins, like a gold one from around 1905-1940. Not that I brought it home of course. It's either in lost and found, or someone threw it. When I see what all you guys are finding here, I wanna get me a metal detector and try this out. I just don't have any clue to where I should check. Never been any battles around here, or too many rich people. There is our house though, which is from the early thirties. German soldiers occupied it during the war, but we haven't found anything from that time except from some sort of trench they presumably dug. It was filled with concrete slabs of 1x1 meter, three centimeters thick, which is kinda weird. Like, why would anyone fill any kind of hole that way instead of using dirt? It's just slab upon slab.
Delivered some finds to my local museum today and while waiting for the archaeologist to arrive, I took some pics of these amazing 1000 year old silver necklaces that were found near my town in an industrial sand pit, currently displayed at the museum. [t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1485378575.jpg[/t] [t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1485403327.jpg[/t] [t]http://horobox.co.uk/u/orkel_1485366108.jpg[/t] Truly a dream find for any detectorist.
Went on a short hunt to start off 2017, but the ground is still utterly frozen and impossible to dig through. Maybe 3 weeks to go.
It begins [hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC6Mek4XKqU[/hd] 1 hour on the field, was too muddy and some places were still frozen so couldn't stay for longer. Still, found 2 coins from the 1700s, 1 new coin (1971) and a 1800s buckle.
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdbVryxMNw[/hd] We found some coins, and a gold ring. The ring was a wedding ring from the year 1940, owned by the land owner's father. He lost it in 1942 and it became somewhat of a legend in the family, "that ring in the field". He told us about it, and we immediately set out to the field - and found it in only 20 minutes and returned it to the land owner. The father had passed away decades ago, but the son (who's already in his 70s) was very happy to receive the ring and treated us to coffee.
Not much today, but I found this 1 Kopeck coin from 1799 that's in pretty good condition. [t]https://horobox.co.uk/u/qc8dgr.jpg[/t] Also a couple of pennis (5 pennis 1907 and 1 penni 1878) along with two tiny teeny shoe buckles the size of my pinky fingernail. More permissions acquired, the land owner told us to search a field where 15 years ago they found a war axe from the year 1300 just laying on the surface. That should be a good place to dig!
Even though there aren't many people posting here, please do keep sharing your finds. I love reading this thread.
[QUOTE=Strontboer;52211625]Even though there aren't many people posting here, please do keep sharing your finds. I love reading this thread.[/QUOTE] Yea we need more indiana joneses in here, gets old being the only one posting any finds.
[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq0IGEMLAs8[/hd] First silver of the season, and the first 25p that I've found [t]https://horobox.co.uk/u/M10b2o.jpg[/t] It's been damaged by farming equipment, not my shovel. The silver family gains another member. Only one missing is the biggest/rarest 2 markka coin that I'll probably never find: [t]https://horobox.co.uk/u/cIkoxE.jpg[/t] Also the other coins that I found: 2 Kopeks 1812, 1 Öre 1600s, and ½ Kopek 1840. [t]https://horobox.co.uk/u/BHltFX.jpg[/t]
[img]https://s11.postimg.org/3uzck2i0z/IMG-20170513-_WA0001.jpg[/img] A device used in the reins of horses. Produced anywhere between the year 800-1800, so it might even be from the viking age.
I wish I lived near more places where I can metal detect
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