A Few Of Guessologists Finds

[MegsyB007]

Old barrel tap maybe?

 

[Guessologist]

Legend came good pretty quickly on one of my old favourite sites, got a soft repeatable 52-54ish and retrieved a Centenary of Victoria & Melbourne medallion from about 5 inches down amongst bricks and nails. I've found one of these before but it was fully toasted, this one's still got some gilding on. In my ground the Legend seems to be more stable and sorted at equivalent sensitivity than my old 600 and dare I say it maybe a bit deeper? If not for real then it certainly is giving the illusion of that.



Edit: forgot that the E-TRAC snuffled this out of the same site about a month ago:

 

[Guessologist]

Had 15 minutes spare yesterday so got back out with the 11" coil fitted for the first time. Difficult ground with lots of iron so I jacked the recovery up to 10 and found quickly that the 11" can't take it quite like the 6" can with my preferred settings, with tone volumes a bit low the way I like it, they almost disappear in comparison. Regardless I persevered at a setting of 9 and kept my ears peeled, turned up 1922 and 1929 half pennies in amongst a stand of saplings pretty quickly (again, no doubt I've covered the ground with a different detector before). The 1929 was a weird signal, felt very small and varied with some differing swing angles but didn't waver over to the ferrous side at all. Quickly found the reason for that - it was about 3" down, in the ground exactly on edge:

 

[Guessologist]

Went back over the small area where I pulled out the coins the first time I fired up the Legend (on the previous page), but with the 11" instead of 6" coil this time. Wasn't expecting miracles since there's a fair bit of iron, but I jacked up the sensitivity and recovery and just listened for iffy signals amongst the mad falsing. I tried to switch off my brain a bit and just dig on anything that flashed up the occasional 40-50ish and could be vaguely pinpointed. These came out of the first hole I dug, 1874 florin and 1895 sixpence:

Then the second hole about 1m away, a 1918 florin:


Two florins in one hunt is definitely a new one for me, I should have asked for a half crown... The common theme between these holes is there was multiple large, fancy round-headed iron nails in each which would have been giving some wacky masking effects. I swung past another site on my way out and jagged a quick 1914 shilling (the only good signal out of any of these) and 1917 penny using the same settings.

 

[user 794]

Great finds, once again!

The Gothic Florin is usually on everyone's wish list. Your's is in pretty reasonable nick. Congrats. Is the latin date on the other side readable?

 

[Guessologist]

Yeah it mostly is, should be 1874 if I've read the book right. A quick consult of my spreadsheet tells me I have found 11 florins, 3 of them are gothics and this would be the "worst" one if there is such thing as bad silver. One of the positives of detecting in the goldfields, my finds tend to be skewed towards the older side of things. The top of my wish list at the moment is a full crown or a cartwheel, I want a hefty coin.

I've never noticed before that the old florins are just ever so slightly bigger than the Commonwealth ones.

 

[Guessologist]

Went back out to mop up with the 6" on, was only able to pull a 1911 threepence out of the same patch.

And here's what hid all these silvers from the E-TRAC repeatedly and a once-over from the Equinox when I was learning it - tons of tarp eyelets and these big round-headed nails that ring up a dodgy 35ish on the Legend:

Snagged a cheeky sixpence on my walk back out to the car too

 

[Phil8303]

Went back out to mop up with the 6" on, was only able to pull a 1911 threepence out of the same patch.
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And here's what hid all these silvers from the E-TRAC repeatedly and a once-over from the Equinox when I was learning it - tons of tarp eyelets and these big round-headed nails that ring up a dodgy 35ish on the Legend:
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Snagged a cheeky sixpence on my walk back out to the car too
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Which state are you in, mate?

 

[Guessologist]

Yeah in Vic, mostly poke around east of the GT but get up north on the river a bit too, would love to spend more time detecting in the Mallee as there are many, many places up there that will have never seen a detector before. Think there was a guy posting a while back that was specialising in getting around the back blocks of the Mallee and turning up some good stuff.

 

[Guessologist]

Went back to where I found that gold ring a while ago, found a little religious medallion from 1883:
https://en.mandadb.hu/tetel/673965/Loretoi_Szent_Haz_Tarsulat_emlekerem


Then got an iffy signal, reasonably strong but a bit spread out and numbers all over the place between 25-40, averaging about low 30s on the Legend. Gave it a dig thinking it might have been a half penny and popped out a solid silver chain from about 2" down:


Thought it might have been just plated but the dull bits polish up to silver with a bit of a rub (and are starting to darken in the light), no hallmarks though so can't pick the fineness, 28g. Not wrong about chains giving rubbish signals, missed it with my last two detectors....

 

[Guessologist]

Gave the legend a spin on one of my more "boring" sites today, a large area of burned rubbish piles and bricks with lots of sheet iron and aluminium trash. The best my old Equinox 600 managed out of there was a 1960's shire dog tag but there's got to be coins in there somewhere, I find myself coming back every now and again hoping to 'crack' it. Didn't find any today but the faster recovery speed of the Legend really opened things up:

Always good to find a rising sun, this one's been ground off a bit on the side for some reason.


Cool strap adjuster of some sort right next to the badge, no idea if it's related, OB is impossible to search properly.


Toothpaste powder tin lid, Gibb's Dentifrice with a square spot to scratch your name onto so you aren't sharing!


And the best one, a Palmolive soap token, internet tells me is circa late '20s:

 

[Guessologist]

Gave the chain a bit of the old tin foil and bicarb too, came out pretty good:

 

[Hilux]

Nice chain, I worry about chopping targets like this up with my digging tool.

 

[Guessologist]

Went back again, finally got a coin but it was a 1966 1c... there's a few modern things in this site like the key pictured, mixed in and on top of older like the pocket watch frame. The oak leaf brooch with dangly acorn is pretty cool, not sure how the wire is supposed to attach, it's just wrapped around the leaf for now but surely wasn't worn like that.

 

[Guessologist]

Realised that I got so used to the E-TRAC that I haven't been running the Legend above 25 sensitivity, it goes to 30... Got this all at about 28 sens, in Field 1. The 1879 threepence was an iffy one, gave some scattered mid 40 numbers with no ferro-check, was about 4 inches down and on it's edge next to a star picket. But it was in a pile of rubbly dirt that's been a honey hole for small silvers for a while so an easy dig decision. One plain button, one "Double Ring Edge" and a "HAWKES & Co 14 PICCADILLY" which will be pre-1890. A round lead shot and a Paris buckle.

 

[OzzieAu]

You must have the Legend dialled in pretty good to get that thrip where it was. I’m finding the correct iron filter setting is making all the difference when trying to hear those iffy high tones amongst the iron.... go the Legend

 

[MegsyB007]

Gave the legend a spin on one of my more "boring" sites today, a large area of burned rubbish piles and bricks with lots of sheet iron and aluminium trash. The best my old Equinox 600 managed out of there was a 1960's shire dog tag but there's got to be coins in there somewhere, I find myself coming back every now and again hoping to 'crack' it. Didn't find any today but the faster recovery speed of the Legend really opened things up:

Always good to find a rising sun, this one's been ground off a bit on the side for some reason.
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Cool strap adjuster of some sort right next to the badge, no idea if it's related, OB is impossible to search properly.
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Toothpaste powder tin lid, Gibb's Dentifrice with a square spot to scratch your name onto so you aren't sharing!
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And the best one, a Palmolive soap token, internet tells me is circa late '20s:
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Found this on treasurenet about your suspender adjuster...

Charles Guyot of Paris France invented this particular form of suspenders-strap adjuster buckle. He patented several evolutions of it. He first began making suspenders in 1848, and his brand continued in production for over a century.

Can you see his name on the back of it?

Also, I've never seen a connecting link on a silver bracelet like that one. Seems fairly old style to me.

Cheers,
Megsy

 

[Phil8303]

Gave the legend a spin on one of my more "boring" sites today, a large area of burned rubbish piles and bricks with lots of sheet iron and aluminium trash. The best my old Equinox 600 managed out of there was a 1960's shire dog tag but there's got to be coins in there somewhere, I find myself coming back every now and again hoping to 'crack' it. Didn't find any today but the faster recovery speed of the Legend really opened things up:

Always good to find a rising sun, this one's been ground off a bit on the side for some reason.
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Cool strap adjuster of some sort right next to the badge, no idea if it's related, OB is impossible to search properly.
View attachment 3531

Toothpaste powder tin lid, Gibb's Dentifrice with a square spot to scratch your name onto so you aren't sharing!
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And the best one, a Palmolive soap token, internet tells me is circa late '20s:
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That soap token is brilliant! An awesome find. Well done!

 

[Guessologist]

Can you see his name on the back of it?

Nah, no markings at all on the other side.

Swinging over the inlaws' place this weekend, nothing spectacular but did get a co-located pull tab and 1c coin which I thought was pretty cool for the Legend to ping, and a Paris-style buckle which while a common goldfields find for me, is really rare up their way and must date to the first period of the property's occupancy (old soldier settlement scheme farm).

 

[Guessologist]

What on earth is this doing here? A 1913 Egyptian 1/40 Qirsh