Check out what one of our MD forum members has found, just in the last three months!

lordmarcovan · July 30, 2012 4:04AM

Click here, and prepare to be awestruck.

If I hadn't once personally seen this guy in action when he visited me for some local digging, I wouldn't have believed it.

You colonial coin buffs will get a kick out of this.

BryceM · July 30, 2012 4:06AM

Very nice indeed!

georgiacop50 · July 30, 2012 4:09AM

What is meant by the term "hammered out site"?

Banemorth · July 30, 2012 4:13AM

<< What is meant by the term "hammered out site"? >>

It has been detected over and over by numerous people. Just goes to show that you can never find everything!

lordmarcovan · July 30, 2012 4:13AM

<< What is meant by the term "hammered out site"? >>

A site that's been hunted countless times by many detectorists.

This guy is good. VERY good. Like I said, I've seen him at work, in person.

He found Spanish colonial silver on a site here when he visited me.

I and at least five or six other people had worked that site many times before he came.

mr1931S · July 30, 2012 5:30AM

LM,what was the equipment used by the lucky finder of the colonials?

Of course,for the Minelab Safari,the magic number for silver,new or old,no matter,that one always looks for on the display console is 38. Never pass on a "38" even though there are a few junk targets (like pieces of pipe and old nails) that will give this number.

Report of this kind of find encourages and inspires me,who likes to think that at an old site,against all odds, his Minelab Safari would scream "SILVER! DIG HERE!" each and every time when passed over such a valuable target as a Pine Tree shilling.

Now exactly where did he say he found the colonials?

lordmarcovan · July 30, 2012 5:35AM

<< LM,what was the equipment used by the lucky finder of the colonials? >>

Dunno. When he visited me, I think he was using a White's machine. Not sure.

<< Now exactly where did he say he found the colonials? >>

I'm not sure he did. (Could you blame him?) He lives up north, in the New England states, which shouldn't come as a surprise considering those finds.

Tim is a man of relatively few words. It's too bad I can't combine my longwinded, florid writing style with finds like his. I'd have a bigger following for sure. Again, if I hadn't seen the guy in action, I'd never have believed his recent finds. He blows my mind. Some of the sites he hunts... whoa momma.

After I do Merry Olde England, I might have to take a road trip up to NEW England and prevail upon his hospitality.

He used to moan and call himself a "reluctant relic hunter" when he started out. Wasn't finding enough coins to suit his tastes. But he was digging up well preserved old daguerreotype photo plates, for cryin' out loud! Stuff like that. Looks like his coinshooting finally caught up to his relic hunting. The crazy thing is, I don't think he's been at it more than what, seven, eight, maybe ten years at most? The guy's a natural if I ever saw one. Turn HIM loose in Olde England, and you'd have some stuff worth seeing.