2013 YEAR IN REVIEW*ANOTHER INCREDIBLE YEAR*6 GW BUTTONS ,COINS & RELICS

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

In 2013 most of my hunts were with Todd (Thiltzy).He himself has become quite a force to reckon with as a colonial cellar hole hunter.We both made quite a few amazing historical finds.The ones that stand out the most is digging 10 George Washington Inaugural buttons between the 2 of us this year.He dug 4 & I dug 6.

We had a few group hunts with Dan(Del) George (coinnut)Dale (Elad) Jesse (sniffy)
Scott(Safari Scott) Frank(fast frank)John(Blaze) Roger( Rebel) Ray(Kray) & Gary(foundation hunter) but for the most part Todd & myself paired up for the majority of the year.
Didn't do quite as well as the 2 previous years in the large copper dept but 57 1/4 totally satisfied me.
Other than the 6 GW's some nice relics surfaced.one of my faves was the baby pre civil war US oval belt plate,a early 1 piece militia button,CW buttons and a couple nice colonial shoe buckles.one of my fave coin finds was a beautiful uncut 1721 two reale pistareen,I dug my 2nd ever seated half dollar.
Along with the finds,I won a minelab x-terra 305 in a contest on facebook.i am in 2 calenders for 2014 Detect America & the White's calender.I will also be in Western & Eastern Treasure Magazines best finds of 2013 issue due out in March for the 5 GW button day.I also have a 2-3 foot tall trophy coming from Josh Silva's CS Sentinel Forum for find of the year.Totally flattered to receive all of the above!
Was a unforgettable year gettin stung up by white faced hornets

,seeing Todd the following week getting chased

& stung by yellow jackets,encountering a bear in the trail.hundreds of mosquito bites,pulling ticks off us,hiking up mountains and losing a ton of sweat during 100 degree temps,Freezing our butts off in close to zero degrees during the winter.crazy thing is..we'll do it all over again in 2014!
I hope you all have a a safe new year!

 

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[mariposagold]

Great year amigo. The buckle, seated and 2 reale are certainly my favs. Congrats on a Stellar year, the publicity and many more hunting years to come.


HH
Mariposa Gold.

 

[CRUSADER]

All looks good to me, congrats!

 

[matt092079]

Will be hard to top this year, Dave. Good luck in your 2014 year of detecting!

 

[CoinShooter23]

Thats some bada** finds there!! I wish there were some big battle sites in Florida that could be detected..

 

[Flex68]

Awesome finds and great pics!
Thanks for sharing!

 

[Steve in PA]

Greats finds and great pics Dave! You definitely chase the booty with a vengeance. You can't find that kind of quantity and quality surfing T-net and going out for a few hours on the occasional weekend (like me - LOL).

 

[Ahab8]

That is an incredible year with some crazy good finds. I'm not sure I woulda survived digging all those GW's in one day. Prob would have had a hear attack. Nothing but respect for anyone who obviously works very hard at research and puts that much time in at locating those great sites. Those amazing recoveries don't happen by accident. Great job, Abe

 

[doninbrewster]

You had a great year by any measure. I particularly liked the US colonial coins. Have you had any of them attributed by variety. A quick look at the NJ and it appears to be a Camel Head variety. The Connecticut pieces look quite interesting, specifically the one in the last photo.

 

[docbars]

Just plain awesome,congrats.

 

[hamiddetecting]

CONGRATULATIONS!!

 

[ironhorse]

I remember a bunch of those finds, great finds, great year!
An unbelievable amount of those inaugural buttons, with that many found they aren't that rare anymore, at least for you guys !

 

[ironhorse]

Sorry double post

 

[pepperj]

What a great recap of the season, may 2014 one be a great one too.

 

[johnnyblaze]

Dave that is some serious Colonial Nectar right there

Many people will not understand how much trooping that really took to find all those goodies..

Sweet year and you saved lots of history which is the most important thing for us

Do not forget about your cover shot photo

Blaze

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Congrats on a ton of great finds! You've got it covered all the way around ! Congrats on an awesome year! GL & HH in 2014!

 

[ATpro5]

Wow.... Amazing Year,Amazing Videos,Amazing pictures

 

[markp]

Those are some great finds.

 

[HEAVYMETALNUT]

That is an incredible year with some crazy good finds. I'm not sure I woulda survived digging all those GW's in one day. Prob would have had a hear attack. Nothing but respect for anyone who obviously works very hard at research and puts that much time in at locating those great sites. Those amazing recoveries don't happen by accident. Great job, Abe

thanks Abe & to everyone else for the awesome comments!

 

[park pirate]

All i can say is OUTSTANDING.....