I did a sneaky today, and palmed off our visiting relatives with the missus for several hours whilst out of town, so managed a few hours detecting in the arvo. Once again, back at the Victorian coin hotspot for some more gridding, first few hours turned up nothing much of interest except some shotguns shells, lead, projectiles, and a small buckle.
Not wanting to go home empty handed, I continued gridding for another hour or so, and was greeted with a reasonably large target. At first I thought it was junk till I turned it over and spotted the wording on the outer edge, "Champion with bat & ball". Yet another bucket list item, a complete cricket buckle at long last!
A metre away from the buckle dwon the same grid line, I picked a sweet sounding high conductor which could only be a coin, a rather deep 1872 sixpence in excellent condition.
I reckon the Deus has managed to pick up more bucket list items in the last year than my other detectors have managed over the last couple of years, very pleased with its performance so far.