What was your BEST DAY metal detecting?

[Terry Soloman]

For some it may have been the partner they hunted with, or what they found that day. What was YOUR best day out metal detecting? Looking forward to some great stories and pictures!

 

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[RustyRelics]

Second day of DIV XL, when I found a Confederate staff officers button at a house that J.E.B. Stuart and his staff visited during the Civil War.




I had only found two bullets and an unmarked flat button in two days of detecting, so I began to walk all over the site, and found an old house foundation, and saw two guys digging there already. Long story short, they said it was fine if we detected there, and I ended up walking a mile back up the mountain to find my dad, and we came back down to detect. I found the button where the old front door used to be, which was pretty cool. We didn't know what it was, but I had a lot of people coming up congratulating me the next day. I didn't do anything, I was just lucky enough to wave my coil over it!

William Leigh said that this was a 10/10 for rarity.

 

[CASPER-2]

Tried to find a best land day - but detecting for over 40 yrs - I couldn't - so posted some easy bests
this was my best trip... 4 days of water hunting - gold & silver



best day for rings


best land relic - very rare to find complete

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

My best day was probably beginners luck, plain and simple. Got out couple days after buying my first detector on my first "real" hunt. Working an old farm where the barn and home had been razed, near the foundation of the house. Got excited when I got a good high tone and pulled out a merc. Whoohoo!
Went back over the area and found a friend...then another, and another. They just kept popping out of the ground! An hour later I had a pocket full of silver. 26 mercs and 2 barber dimes!
Got pic of the mercs, cant find the barber pics....

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

My very BEST day metal detecting was when I took my wife on a hunt and she didn't like it. Enough said.

 

[smokeythecat]

The day I got my 1774 British Gold guinea after Hurricane Sandy.

 

[SD51]

The first day I tried my first metal detector and knew I would never stop detecting.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

The first day my daughter and I detected together. Unfortunately, she is older and I now hunt alone.

 

[Bum Luck]

Well, I found a Barber half dollar in the gravel driveway of the old stone house my mother lived in when she was a little girl. Her dad probably lost it working on a car.

The weirdest thing was when I found a pocket spill consisting of an entire collection of silver war nickles.

 

[Dave Rishar]

Two gold rings in a blighted urban park, in the pouring rain, in the space of an hour or two, and then a weird counterfeit of a coin that never existed shortly after that.

I was fairly sure that both of those rings were pull tabs, but I dug the first one because it sounded just a bit off. The second one sounded exactly like a pull tab. I stopped walking past pull tabs after that. I've dug other rings and a mountain of pull tabs since then, but it was a transformative afternoon for me.

 

[GopherDaGold]

That would have to be the day I dug my first ever silver coin. 1853 seated dime in spectacular condition. It looks like it was dropped the day it was minted.
I was getting frustrated at never finding anything cool and was considering hanging up my detector.
This coin motivated me to keep pushing on. I have since added a same year seated half dime and a type 2 holed Trime, all from the same field.
And an 1847 large cent and an 1866 shield nickel.

 

[Coinboy]

One day I found a small hoard of 26 Silver Canadian Dimes from 1929-1965!

 

[Coinboy]

One day I found a small hoard of 26 Silver Canadian Dimes from 1929-1965!

 

[teleprospector]

Any day I get out is my best day whether I find anything or not.

Jon ​

 

[CoinHunterAZ]

My best day was when my girlfriend (who is now my wife) got me my first metal detector for Christmas, yep... I was like a kid at Christmas! I've been detecting as much as possible ever since.

 

[Tahts-a-dats-ago]

I'd have to go with best days, since I can't really pin it down to a single day.

My best detecting days have nothing to do with the items found - all of which were ordinary and rather mundane to most - but everything to do with the excitement of the finds. Those days consist of the various times I've lent a machine to some youngster (mostly my neighbor's kids) and just helped them dig the newly discovered treasure. Their excitement was my treasure, as the findings were nothing I consider special but to them it was the equivalent of a chest filled with gold coins.

I'll never forget how excited my neighbor's son (about 7 at the time) got when we dug up a discarded (junk metal) cap gun. To him it was the greatest treasure ever dug, and he bragged about it for months.

Or the time his sister (a couple years older) found an old horseshoe. To this day it remains tacked up to the side of her parent's shed (she is now 21).

I've found silver and I've found gold, but I've never experienced the sheer joy (and excitement) that I discovered/enjoyed when they found their treasures.

 

[Gene Mean]

I was playing with our dog and lost my wedding ring. I went to the local hobby shop to rent a detector, found my ring in a bush and I was hooked.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Any day my daughter was detecting with me. Those memories are better than any finds I have ever made, (and I've made some nice ones).

 

[xcopperstax]

My best day.... well I guess it's all the memories I attach to the finds. I have a lot of good memories. My favorite: It was right across the street from my dad's house. I had a hunch that the land was old. I had just gotten my current detector so it was new to me and I wasn't sure it's capabilities. I had three other friends meet up too. The grass on the field turned out to be a little longer than ideal but we went at it anyway. In the first 2-3 hrs nobody found anything. It was starting to feel like I had a dud of a spot. I started to think that maybe my detector was not able to be used in grass that long. Then people started making finds. Everyone went home happy with multiple coppers. I found a really nice KGIII, KG II, and CT copper. Also found two shoe buckle frames and a spoon bowl that could date to the 1600's. We dreamed of going back again to find the Spanish silver that was almost certainly there... It was not to be as the elderly couple who lived there told their kids about us and the kids told them to put a stop to it. I went by there the other day and the grass was cut really short. If we had another try at it I'm sure there would be some great finds. The hunt meant a lot to me because I had found the spot, made it a great day for all involved and found stuff where I grew up. I felt connected to it all. I know there will be great days ahead but this one makes me really happy when I think about it.

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Tomorrow, one more hole...