Where do you find your Best finds?

[Larsmed]

My fellow hunters!

I am curious to know where you found your best finds? Parks, beaches, or your own yard?

Mine would have to be the beach. Found a Cache of pennies..haha..

Note, I have not even been out for 20 hours total as of yet.

 

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[Doc2be]

I haven't done very well at the beach yet, but so far I've had a fair amount of luck at parks, schools, old campgrounds. Goodluck with the hunting.

 

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[TreasureTales]

What do you like to hunt for? Do you like relics, old coins, lots of clad coins, bottles, artifacts, tokens? It really depends on a person's own idea of what's best. For me, what I like best are relics so I look in ghost towns, mining camps, and lumber camps. My best coin finds have been around old houses. My best jewelry was found in a school field. My best bottles were in an old dump. It just depends on what is exciting to find. But mostly I enjoy being outdoors and in somewhat remote areas...that's the true treasure for me.

 

[Rave]

ploughed fields or fields in stubble.

 

[Larsmed]

Recently I went to an old French fort in Jacksonville, however the guards said I could not use my detector. After reading the story about the French and Spanish were fighting it out to the death at that fort, it really left me hungry for some artifacts.

Now, instead of using older maps, I am simply looking for pieces of undeveloped land by the interstate and construction sites, right after the digging machines have dug deep into the earth. I figure they can do the digging!

Larry

 

[BEACH-HUNTER]

My best finds and oldest have been all beach finds.Here in New England the coast is full of history!! Ship wrecks everywhere,we had our share of pirates and such too.Here's my two oldest coin finds found this year at the beach!!

 

[Functional]

Nice finds there BEACH-HUNTER.

And as for the pictures, I think those are good examples of how to take pictures. Well cropped of useless backgrounds. Only thing missing, is a ruler alongside to tell how big the coins are. Otherwise, good in-focus pictures.

Just a tip for others with really worn coins and other items with writing thats hard to make out. Take a couple of pictures with lighting from a sharp angle to the coin face and it should help to detect the shape of letters and numbers on the coin surface.

I understand that there are filters that help with this sort of thing too, but sometimes nothing short of an x-ray will detect what the eye can't see. I'm considering trying infrared to see if that helps on worn lettering, once I find a camera to modify and make an IR light source. (Something I've been planning anyway.)

F.

 

[BEACH-HUNTER]

Thanks!! Functional...it took some time to get the photo thing where it is now...I will get a little ruler to put in photo's. the big coin is bigger than a U.S Silver dollar!!! the cob is half dollar size but thicker weight is 0.7 OZ.

 

[Functional]

Thanks!! Functional...it took some time to get the photo thing where it is now...I will get a little ruler to put in photo's. the big coin is bigger than a U.S Silver dollar!!! the cob is half dollar size but thicker weight is 0.7 OZ.

Now theres an idea for displaying TH'd items. Display them all on a digital scale with rulers. Short of showing them suspended in water while measuring specific gravity, what more could a person ask?

Like many people on here, I've been a fan of Irfanview for editing, resizing and cropping photo's for several years. I think my version dates back to 2003 and it would be older, but I had to replace my earlier one due to having my old computer stolen in late 2002. Oh well. Just nice to see pictures on here that don't waste what little bandwidth I have on dialup, with detailed views of someones fingers, or someones furniture, etc.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time and making the effort to display items clearly.

F.

 

[Ronin9868]

T-NET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[WinnGoldDigger]

In my opinion, it would have to be what you classify as a great find... To some people, an old tool would be worth more than an old coin, whereas, to others, a civil war relic would be worth more than a new diamond ring. You just have to decide what a great find would be for you, then hunt places where that is likely to be found.