In memory of my forum friend Tim Buck, aka “phut” - and his amazing detecting career
lordmarcovan
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(Oct. 2020 edit- old thread resurrection)
Most of you probably did not know Tim. He mostly hung out with us on the Metal Detecting Forum.
He suddenly passed away on August 31st. (2012)
In this last summer, however, he capped off a brilliant treasure hunting career with some spectacular success, finding no less than THREE Massachusetts silver pieces! Some of you might recall me linking that thread up, when he posted it back in July.
If I had found ONE colonial coin, let alone a Massachusetts Oak Tree or Pine Tree shilling, let alone THREE of them, I'd have written volumes about it.
Tim posted eleven words, and his title was merely, "2012". A modest man of few words, he was.
He just mixed those "Tree" coins in with the other silver pieces he'd found, for a beguiling group shot.
This is my salute to a great guy and a remarkably skilled relic hunter.
Most of you probably did not know Tim. He mostly hung out with us on the Metal Detecting Forum.
He suddenly passed away on August 31st. (2012)
In this last summer, however, he capped off a brilliant treasure hunting career with some spectacular success, finding no less than THREE Massachusetts silver pieces! Some of you might recall me linking that thread up, when he posted it back in July.
If I had found ONE colonial coin, let alone a Massachusetts Oak Tree or Pine Tree shilling, let alone THREE of them, I'd have written volumes about it.
Tim posted eleven words, and his title was merely, "2012". A modest man of few words, he was.
He just mixed those "Tree" coins in with the other silver pieces he'd found, for a beguiling group shot.
This is my salute to a great guy and a remarkably skilled relic hunter.
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Too many positive BST transactions with too many members to list.
Bob
Successful BST xactions w/PCcoins, Drunner, Manofcoins, Rampage, docg, Poppee, RobKool, and MichealDixon.
RIP Tim
Here’s a bump back up into the sunlight for this old thread, just because I was thinking about Tim (@phut) and was grabbing those pictures to post on another forum where the topic was dug Colonial coins.
“Blast from the past / an oldie but a goodie”, as they say.
I remember 'phut', Definitely a talented MD'r.... Cheers, RickO
Sounded like a great man with some amazing skills to find the pieces he found.
Donato
Donato's Complete US Type Set ---- Donato's Dansco 7070 Modified Type Set ---- Donato's Basic U.S. Coin Design Set
Successful transactions: Shrub68 (Jim), MWallace (Mike)
Boy, that is impressive......
I have a friend that is also quite the successful detectorist. When I saw his success many years ago, I went out and bought a 'D-tex' machine. I was never very successful with it. It is indeed a great skill. I thought you bought a machine, it went beep and you dug up the diamond ring......Wrong.....
Back then, it seemed like the guys that spent the Winter doing research of where a schoolhouse WAS, or where an outhouse WAS, were the guys that got the stuff.....