Badger Does The Happy Dance - RARE Lumberjack TOKEN FOUND!

[Michigan Badger]

We were down in Michigan's lower peninsula today visiting a lakehouse we own. This place is located only about 15 miles from the 19th century ghost town of Deward (named after lumbering giant David Ward).

Eventually I decided to do a little detecting.

I picked a spot about 10 feet from where I had dug a cache of rare lumber era tokens a while back (sold for $100 each on ebay). I figured it would be useless because I had totally cleaned this area out using some of the deepest detectors made.

I only hunted about 3 minutes and my detector gave me a "go for it" signal. I figured it's another stinking zinc fruit jar lid.

Down I dug and nearly gave up, but suddenly there it was! another David Ward token!

I also picked up some trash which also surprised me. I had totally cleaned this area out...or so I thought.

Thanks much for looking!

Badger

 

[coolcash2004]

Congrats again on the token Badger! I keep checking up on this post and i love seeing that token! Theres just something about it that makes it look really cool. The detector you used to find the tokens, how much do they cost?

-CC

 

[ringfinder]

OHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Badger, GReat find, I just love tokens.
I'd love to come up to Mich. sometime and hunt a logging camp. Wonder if
that machine of yours will find gold coins.

HH, Ringfinder ( Ohio guy)

Funny you should mention gold coins because one was found with this very machine. The guy I bought it from lives down south in the Civil War hunting area and he found a $1 gold piece with it.

Nautilus was primarily designed to be a professional detector. This is mainly why you won't find much about it on line even though the company sells tons of machines worldwide every year.

See, in the detector world you have the common brands that all get close to the same depth. They're very good and serve the general public very well.

Then there are:

1) Nexus
2) Nautilus
etc.

The machines in this category are not well known by the average hobby person because they're in a totally different class. They're not hobbyist pop detectors, they're professional units made for specific purposes.

Some coinshooter/ring diggers wouldn't like the Nautilus. It's ugly, bulky, not a water machine, not the best for salt beaches, rather heavy, etc. And on top of all this it looks like a piece of industrial equipment.

But for what it was made for it's unsurpassed and the makers of the other detectors know this. This is why in those areas they don't include a Nexus or Nautilus in their "depth comparisons." If they do they turn the power as low as it will go . The hobbyist makers generally just ignore the professional machines. They call these "specialty machines" and therefore they can justify excluding them from their tests.

When I hunt a park with the Nautilus IIB, I never have any thoughts of not going deeply enough. It's mainly just covering the ground. If a coin or piece of jewelry buried in a park, yard, ghost town, woodland area, fresh water beach, etc., can be found by any detector, it will be found with the Nautilus..period.

If I ever come upon a $1 gold piece it's mine!

If you ever want to know more, PM me.

Well I hate to burst your bubble, but last weekend in Indiana I met a lady who
found two caches with her ACE 250 and one of the caches had two gold
coins in it. One of them was a 2 1/2 dollar gold coin. Not sure what they other
one was. She also found other silver coins with it. Not sure if this machine will
do all that the nautilus will do, but I think it will come darn close.

I know myself I've dug coins out of good top soil at over 12 inches
with my ACE 250. I also use a SunRay Probe to get the really deep ones.

My buddy has a Nautilus and he really likes it, but heck he buys
every new machine that comes down the pike. In fact I think
he just bought a new Explorer and they haven't even hit the market
yet.

Thanks for the reply Badger, HH, Ringfinder