What are your best surface finds ?

MattLock · Sep 16, 2016

For me it has to be the Indian head penny from the parking lot a gold ring off of the amusement ride and recently a war nickel from a parish panic. I found it because it was on a slope and all the dirt washed away around it

MattLock · Sep 16, 2016

My 4th war Nickel

matmit · Sep 16, 2016

Barber dime

Found this on a construction site after some rain

I Literally walked up on it.

Wom 27 · Sep 16, 2016

On my wat to a tot lot.

Oldsjunkie · Sep 17, 2016

1902 Barber. Blew my ears off as there wasn't anything new or shallow at the old house and had the phones cranked to hear the deep tones. A root had been holding that dime there for decades...just waiting for me.

Shakakka · Sep 17, 2016

Found this on the beach while detecting last month. It was wet like it just washed up out of the ocean.

http://imgur.com/a/RbLbE

I like to think the MD gods were rewarding me with gas money.

Borneo_Bleeper · Sep 17, 2016

An old pure gold woman's ring on a small section of an old soccer field after heavy rains where the sandy soil was slowly being eroded down. Rang up as a nickle on the Racer 2. Someone had stepped on it.

The area is filled with iron. Looking at the sandy area on the surface one can actually see small rusty iron and nails all over the place. Went back the next with the small 5" coil to grid the small area. Found another ring on the surface where the erosion was taking place. It had also been stepped on. I did not notice one section was broken off. Went back after 5 days (had no time) and really searched for small solid upper foil signals and found the broken off segment of the flower. Now complete with 9 stones.

Haven't found anything more in that small section other than vast amounts of little pieces of bronze, copper and iron. Most of them the size of a grain of rice.

VaBill · Sep 17, 2016

Fired 3 ring bullet in a washout on the Brandy Station Virginia battlefield. Dropped 3 ring bullet on the earthworks of Fort Blakely Alabama.

GeneralQuarters · Sep 17, 2016

50 bucks cash! Two twenties and a ten. Can't remember the VDI number!

riveraiders60 · Sep 17, 2016

I don't have a picture of it but I stopped to check my mail in a row of mailboxes one day and there was a diamond encrusted cocktail ring laying on the ground right below the boxes. I just open the car door and picked it up. I ran an ad in the paper for the person who lost it for 30 days ,nobody claimed it.

5 mile · Sep 18, 2016

All of these were found in farm fields where long ago where 1880's houses once stood
An 1889 Indian Head
3 Frozen Charlottes
Multi colored glass inlay-ed button

Arrowhead was found in my backyard, while a pond was being dug. (penny for size reference)

5 mile · Sep 18, 2016

MattLock said:
For me it has to be the Indian head penny from the parking lot a gold ring off of the amusement ride and recently a war nickel from a parish panic. I found it because it was on a slope and all the dirt washed away around it

You did good Matt

MattLock · Sep 18, 2016

5 mile said:
You did good Matt

Yeah who knows where you'll find treasure, only where you look. For example my last trip to the amusement park I found $1.10 in coins

rob.ream258 · Sep 18, 2016

Found on the surface and didn't even need a detector to find it. Hands down the best I've ever found above or before ground.

GL & HH

jonnied1 · Sep 19, 2016

Shakakka said:
Found this on the beach while detecting last month. It was wet like it just washed up out of the ocean.

http://imgur.com/a/RbLbE

I like to think the MD gods were rewarding me with gas money.

Happened to me a couple of months ago. Pulled into a gravel parking lot at the park, got my equipment out of the Jeep , reached down to extend the lower shaft on the Deus and found a folded up $20.00 bill right next to the coil!

Vermonster · Sep 20, 2016

1876 seated quarter. Figured it was a surface bullet, sluffed off the surface dust with my boot, there it was. No digging required.......

I C THE LITE · Sep 20, 2016

No picture but many years ago I found 3 $20 bills under the bleachers at an old baseball diamond. They had been there a long time because they were hard and stiff from numerous rains and sun drying.

cellrdwellr · Sep 20, 2016

20$ in a golden easter egg last year, and during my first season found a 1942 merc on the surface. HH!

rreahard · Sep 20, 2016

Most of what I find on the surface is junk. I did find a $20 bill at a music festival once.

Vermonster · Sep 20, 2016

Well if we're counting bills, not just metal stuff, I did find 6 $20 bills folded up on the ground outside a target a couple years ago.......

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