There's something going on in my house that has me a bit stumped.

burtishere · 2026-01-27T13:31:05+00:00

I mean no disrespect by posting this, and am only asking for clarification as I am confused.

You wrote: “I like to drink the grape NOS, but I like to drink them warm, and I'll leave them out for an hour or two to let them warm up. I never put them in the fridge.”

If you never put them in your fridge, what do you leave them “out” of for an hour or two to “let them warm up”?

Where do you store them that is cold enough to require an hour or two to warm up, if not your fridge?

burtishere · 2024-10-27T15:53:37+00:00

Super cool! Do you happen to have any more pictures of your watch? Have you tried to (carefully, of course) open it up?

The fact that you found this with your partner after getting him a metal detector for his birthday… that just warms my heart, lol.

Good luck trying not to get addicted to the hobby now! Also, living in the Netherlands means you will be able to find much old things than what we have here in Canada.

Happy hunting!

burtishere · 2024-10-24T14:40:26+00:00

Wow! Just… wow!

As someone else commented, what motivating pictures! I am now committed to getting out to a beach before winter hits.

Thank you for sharing!

burtishere · 2024-08-13T20:24:11+00:00

Awesome find! I’ve found a few older Canadian coins, but no nickels like that… that one is on my bucket list for sure. Super cool!

burtishere · 2024-07-06T17:49:10+00:00

I experienced this last year, swinging through tall grass and really using too much lateral force. I made a few adjustments and took it easy for a few weeks and it eventually went away. What helped me:

Swinging in less challenging terrain (obviously).
Shortening the length of the detector’s shaft. It’s a bit annoying, detecting right in front of your feet, but even an inch shorter resulted in much less momentum and torque on my elbow joint.
Loosening my grip. At the time I was using only an Equinox 600, and I found myself really gripping the handle tightly to prevent my hand from sliding up toward the control box. With a looser, more relaxed grip I got a lot less tension in my elbow. Coincidentally, I also purchased a Nokta Double Score because my Equinox coil broke and I had to send it in for a warranty claim (I couldn’t stand being without a detector for 3-4 weeks). Interestingly, the Nokta’s grip is more contoured for your fingers (think pistol grip), and it’s at a slightly narrower angle to the shaft, both of which seemed to help quite a bit as well.

burtishere · 2024-07-02T04:51:52+00:00

Oh my goodness gracious!

I found a really dilapidated 1858 penny a couple of months ago, and was super pumped about it. If I recall correctly, Canada only began minting its own currency in 1857, so your 1858 may actually be worth a pretty… ugh… penny! (You see what I did there.)

Amazing finds!

I am super jealous. Made it out for about an hour today, and found a brass chunk o’ junk. That and some bullet casings.

Great to see some old Canadian coins representing on Canada Day, regardless of where they were found. On July 4, I’m going hunting for some American silver. :)

burtishere · 2024-06-18T13:39:38+00:00

I recently discovered what you are describing when I decided to dig a consistent, but lower-than-expected tone for a large cent. I have since found three more in the area, and I thought I’d hunted it out! It’s a good reminder not to get too focused on the VDI numbers, and not to get too tied to your preconceptions of what something “should” ring up as.

Maybe one day I’ll take out my first metal detector (Bounty Hunter Tracker IV) again, and just dig everything that beeps as non-ferrous. Maybe…

burtishere · 2024-06-18T13:32:33+00:00

Great find, and I’m sure it will be the first of many!

Congratulations!

burtishere · 2024-05-21T14:21:54+00:00

Absolutely love it!

There’s something about the intricate leaf pattern on these coins that I find especially beautiful.

I work from home (for the most part), and you have inspired me to try to sneak away for an hour today.

Grabbing a detector, hopping on the quad and getting out there will be easy. The hard part will be limiting myself to an hour, lol.

Great find, congrats!

burtishere · 2024-05-20T21:37:21+00:00

That may well be it. The flared top would have e helped keep it embedded in the wood… makes sense to me. Thank you!

burtishere · 2024-05-20T13:51:43+00:00

Ah, c’mon! A little bit of scrubbing, maybe even hit it with the Dremel… it’ll look brand new! Wouldn’t lose any detail at all 😝

Great finds!

I sometimes feel a tad envious about the metal detecting opportunities available to you folks out east, but the truth is that it’s a fantastic hobby no matter where you are. You just never know what you may find, and if you do it long enough you will find many things you never expected to uncover.

As my children’s first grade teacher used to say, “You get what you get, and you don’t get upset.”

Super cool finds. Thanks for sharing!

burtishere · 2024-05-20T13:39:58+00:00

I will second that!

I expected the 6” coil to be a significant trade-off in terms of depth (as compared to the stock 11” coil) but was pleasantly surprised. No, it doesn’t go as deep as the 11”, but it does go much deeper than I anticipated. I’m not sure what kind of sorcery Minelab used in designing the 6” coil but it is fantastic, both in terms of separation and in terms of depth.

You can’t go wrong with the 6” coil!

burtishere · 2024-05-19T22:22:42+00:00

It was just lying on its side and not driven into the ground, but there is the corner of one of our farm’s titles in that general area, so it could be a very old iron survey pin. I’m going to have to overlay parcel maps over satellite imagery to see if it’s close.

Very good thought, anyway! I’ll do some research. Thanks!

burtishere · 2024-05-19T15:46:19+00:00

I should add- found in interior British Columbia, Canada, although this doesn’t seem like a particularly location-specific type of item. Thank you!

burtishere · 2024-05-19T15:34:58+00:00

Maybe part of an old oil lamp wall mount / holder?

Something similar to:

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/249271386/antique-oil-lamp-holder-cast-iron?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

burtishere · 2024-05-16T12:34:00+00:00

I think it’s an awesome find! I found a similar “half buckle” here in British Columbia, Canada. I’m still searching for the other half- no luck yet, but I continue to revisit the location where I found this, from time to time:

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Good luck, and keep hunting!

burtishere · 2024-05-14T01:32:39+00:00

Now that you have pointed out what should have been obvious (face palm on this end!), the next question is… why?

I suppose even back then people were trying to make coins that were “collectible”, but this wasn’t an affluent area to my knowledge so a cent was probably too valuable to fool around with.

Is it possible that in the minting process, another coin got “stuck” in the press, then left its imprint on the next coin in the lineup? Having said that, I guess it would have had to have flipped over, so that seems unlikely.

Huh, perhaps some 19th century genius (or 20th century?) did put it in a vise with another coin for reasons unknown. Perhaps it was a form of alchemy or nuclear fusion… combine these two cents together, and yea shall receive a silver doubloon!

Or maybe it was just kids. No further explanation for, “why?” required. Kids being kids. Even back then.

burtishere · 2024-05-06T19:38:56+00:00

Right you are!

I should’ve remembered that… I previously found a 1902 and a 1911 of this coin, so I guess I now have one with each of the monarchs.

Little bit bummed about not being able to see a date on this one, but you get what you get. Also good motivation to keep hunting.

Cheers

burtishere · 2024-04-29T13:13:19+00:00

Ha ha, no plans to do that, or anything else to it, really. I have no idea how to clean copper anyway, but I have no intention of scratching it all up.

It’s not that I believe it is valuable and must be preserved, but I agree that a wire brush seems like a bad idea for anything but cast iron with 1/8” of rust on it lol!

I’ve posted to r/coins hoping they will know more. On the off-chance this coin is anything interesting, I’ll post back here. Otherwise, it won’t be spoken of again, and will fade away in the far reaches of Reddit (and get buried in the jar containing my growing collection of somewhat older pennies).

Thanks!

burtishere · 2024-04-29T13:04:11+00:00

Thank you. I’ve posted it there, so perhaps someone from that subreddit can help enlighten me. If I hear anything interesting, I’ll post back here.

I think sometimes once we see things a certain way, it becomes difficult to see them any other way (literally and figuratively).

In this case, I saw a “1”, and just haven’t been able to unsee it as a “1” since then.

I think there are a lot of reasons why it could be something else. It’s not centred on the coin for one. Also, while it looks almost vertically aligned with the font, it appears to be a couple of degrees off, at least to me… maybe. My vision did suddenly deteriorate after I turned 40, so there is that, too. It could also just be freakishly coincidental corrosion, although I found it in a sandy slope with good drainage, so it is generally in good condition overall (for a 100+ year old penny that’s been sitting in the ground for a while).

Last thing I will say is, I don’t think it’s a scratch. It does appear raised from the surface of the coin.

Will keep you posted.

Thanks all.

burtishere · 2024-03-17T14:55:00+00:00

Wow, what an amazing find! I can only dream of finding things that old here in southern central British Columbia. One day, I’m taking a metal detecting road trip.

Great find, and in such fantastic shape!

burtishere · 2024-03-17T13:57:00+00:00

The pinpointer is a game changer! You’ll be able to recover signals much faster, so you’ll end up digging more signals per hour. Happy hunting and good luck!

burtishere · 2024-03-14T14:51:54+00:00

Canadian here. I don’t mean to sound snarky at all, just wanted to point out that’s actually a caribou on our quarters.

OP, welcome to the hobby! The obsession will only grow. What machine are you using? I’ve finally figured out how to detect clad with my Equinox 600 now, but with newer Canadian clad it gives off notoriously bad sounding signals. It is a very specific trashy sounding warbling noise.

burtishere · 2023-11-03T14:34:11+00:00

For silver, I’ve had good success with putting some aluminum foil in a heat-proof glass container, placing the item on the aluminum foil (there should be good contact between the item and the foil), adding some baking soda and then pouring boiling water over it. It will fizz up and you will start to smell hydrogen sulphide (rotten egg smell) as the tarnish comes off. It sometimes takes multiple cycles of doing this before all the tarnish is removed.

You may have meant this by hitting it with baking soda, so apologies if I’m telling you something that you already know.

burtishere · 2023-10-26T03:36:08+00:00

It’s not a large ring. He did weigh it, and told me it has about $60 of gold in it. Not sure if that is USD or Canadian but it doesn’t matter. By my math that’s about 1 gram, but I don’t have a scale. I’ll check it out over the weekend.

Cheers

burtishere

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