Metal Detecting Forum awards, January, 2005 (come vote in the polls!)

lordmarcovan

It's still been pretty slow in the MD Forum awards, but many folks are still snowed under or dealing with rock-hard frozen ground, which hampers metal detecting a bit. Of course, there's always the "Wild Card" category for finds made without a detector, including circulation coin finds and pretty much anything. At least we got a few entries in each category this month.

First, the four monthly "quality" awards, awarded by poll.

Best Coin/Token- come vote in the poll

Best Jewelry Item- come vote in the poll

Best Relic/Other- come vote in the poll

Best "Wild Card" Find- come vote in the poll


Next, the two monthly "Quantity" awards, awarded for Most Silver Coins and Most Face Value in US Coins.

Most Face Value US Coins
CROCKofCOINS: $30.34.

Most Silver Coins Found
loditom: 5

relayer

I've never done any metal detecting, and rarely even find a coin on the ground, but I enjoy your monthly awards and go check them out and vote when you post them.

lordmarcovan

Thanks, on behalf of all our detectorists.

CoinOnTheCob

Lordmarcovan,
I am becoming very interested in metal detecting. I live in Placer County, CA. (Gold Rush – 1849) and my friend, who has been swinging for years, is really turning me on to it. Later this month I am going to buy a Whites MXT and start in. I checked out a book from the library, but its 25 years old. That should hold me over until the two books I bought off of Amazon arrive.
I told you all that to ask you this, is there a good website where I could get up to speed a little faster?
Dennis

lordmarcovan

COTC, by all means, join us on the MD Forum!

And we'll look forward to your participation.

There are a few other places, too, like the The Treasure Depot forums, the Findmall forums, and so on. I don't frequent them too often, but they are among many forums out there.

If one of the books you mentioned happens to be Coinshooting, by H. Glenn Carson, which has been in and out of print many times since the 1960's, it is a timeless classic, and the advice therein is golden, regardless of the advances made in detectors since. Carson also writes a regular column for Western & Eastern Treasures magazine, which is available in many of your larger bookstores and newsstands, and is the best detector magazine out there (not only full of stories about great finds, but loaded with good "how to" advice as well).

Neptune

kewl finds!

lordmarcovan

Well, it's been slow, thanks to winter. But if you wanna catch up on what everybody's found since we started the forum awards back last July, click on the "Hall Of Fame" link in my sig line. There have been some really neat finds in the seven months or so we've been doing this.

TommyType

Oh, Lord of the detector and holey coins:

I think you did yourself a disservice in the "Wild Card" category by splitting your shark teeth into two entries. You're competing with yourself!

lordmarcovan

That's the way it's supposed to be done for finds entered in the competition, though- the award is for best single finds, rather than groupings of finds. (Although GTOster found a vintage candy tin containing a cache of old coins, back in October, and we sorta made an exception in that case...)

Purple73

If it wasnt freezing I would get out there....But the cold cuts me like a knife...I don't have much padding.

nwcs

Wow, those are some great finds!

CoinOnTheCob

Jiminy Christmas, I’ve never noticed that there is a metal detecting forum right here. I can see that it doesn’t get the action that “U.S. Coin Forum” gets bet it’s nice to know it’s there. Thanks, lordmarcovan, for the links.