The Law of Likeness
Published by Larry on Tagged Instuctional, Metal Detector Training
I consider this law unequivocal. As a avid practitioner of the Law of Attraction, as a treasure finder and coin shooter, I know I will find plenty of treasure. It is there for the finding! The very first post on this blog deals with having a treasure finding mindset by utilizing the Law of Attraction. However, the Law of Likeness needs to be practiced fervently too. By this law we reproduce like kind.
I learned about this law some years ago from a minister preaching a message on seed-time and harvest. That message got my attention in a big way. I knew his life and the illustrations of the Law of Likeness that he gave were impressive. He was a younger man who had very little going for him financially and someone blessed him with $100.00 to buy a new suit. He felt God spoke to him to give that money to help another minister buy a suit. In sowing a seed into that man’s ministry he was blessed and over the next 18 years he never had to buy a suit as he was blessed by people buying him new suits. A total of 90 suits in 18 years is astonishing and a great example of the Law of Likeness.
The Law of Likeness is very clear. I took a course in Rhetoric and guess what? The Law of Likeness was one of the underlying principles for Rhetoric. Later, I took a college class in Physical Science and a key premise in the mind of the professor was, the Law of Likeness permeates every area of the universe. You might ask how does this relate to metal detecting to build coin collections?
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Can You Dig It - 1918 Bank Token
Published by Larry on Tagged Promotional, Give-A-Ways, Relic Finds
The featured coin for the month of July’s Promo give-away is a rare bank token from Tarpon Springs minted in 1918. This is a dug specimen just like the one pictured. The pictured token is one of 45 I dug in a cache a few year’s ago that were buried by the man who was president of the bank when it collasped (as the result of the Stock Market Crash of 1929). I bartered with C. R. Clark for rare US coins releasing 40 of the 45 uncirculated tokens into his hands. He is renowned for his work on Florida Trade Tokens. This token is attributed on page 451 of His Book, Florida Tokens, and has an R3 rarity level. I am proud of this token and 4 others attributed as a result of my metal detector finds in Tarpon Springs. In fact, the other 4 have a rarity level of R6, meaning less than 7 tokens are known to exist.
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TWENTY BEST METAL DETECTING RELIC/JEWELRY FINDS
Published by Larry on Tagged Cache Finds, Relic Finds, Coin JewelryWhile my main emphasis on this blog is building coin collections by utilizing metal detectors, I find many other valuable treasures in the form of jewelry and relics too. As I did on the post for 20 favorite/best coin finds, I am including date, metal detector used and how deep item was located. Most of these finds came from either the land or water around Tarpon Springs, FL
1. 4 Diamond 14K Star of Linde Sapphire Ring - Found summer of 1973 at Tarpon Beach using a White’s Amphibian (diver’s model). First water ring find - one inch deep.
Crazy Buyers!
Published by Larry on Tagged Selling Detector FindsI am flabbergasted, astonished, amazed and just cannot believe the prices people will pay for coins and metal detecting equipment on Ebay. I love the Ebay marketplace and this article is not critical of the program or process. It is beyond my understanding that people will pay three or four times the original price of items that are offered routinely on Ebay.
Last night I checked out the outcome of a 14 inch Garrett search coil, for a vintage late 1970’s VLF Deepseeker unit, that was listed at $5.95 and shipping. I have a couple of these detectors with multiple coils and just last week purchased an identical coil (on Ebay) for approximately $30. I was the first bidder on this new listing and no one else placed a bid for more than four days of the six day listing. Six hours before it closed the bid was only $10.50 and it progressed to over $72.00 with less than ten minutes remaining. Then a bidder placed a bid for $400.00 and another behind him at $405. This coil (brand new) sold for less than $150.00 and commanded a selling price of over $400.00 on this auction. Remember, I purchased one last week for $30.
I will gladly take $405.00 for the vintage coil, two other coils and the great metal detector that goes with it. In fact, I have a 1985 up-grade Master 7 Deepseeker with target ID and three coils (11, 8, 4 inches) on this blog with a buy now option of $210.
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PI Metal Detectors
Published by Larry on Tagged Instuctional, Metal Detector Training, Detector ReviewThere is excitement in the air concerning Pulse Induction (PI) metal detectors. It is said that a revolutionary model is about to be released by several manufacturers. The main characteristic of PI detectors is their ability to ignore both conductive and nonconductive mineralization in the environment at the same time, while maintaining high sensitivity to all metal targets. Another positive feature is their detection range is not affected by the medium between the coil and the target. Performance for the most part is not hindered by water, sand, silt, solid coral and generally speaking, the air. Some PI’s I have used do not go as deep to locate a target in the air as they do for submerged or buried targets.
I dug a 1957 Roosevelt dime at eighteen inches with my Fisher Impulse. It took more than forty minutes to retrieve that coin in the shallow water at Sunset Beach in Tarpon Springs, FL and that is a primary reason I do not use PI’s for coin shooting. Another reason is the extreme sensitivity to all metal targets will mean digging about 30 junk items for every good target in most coin shooting environments. You will lirerally plow a field before you finish covering the ground. In doing a comparative test last year, I dug almost 300 junk items and retrieved only nine coins and three jewelry keepsakes. A third negative aspect of most PI’s is the difficulty of pinpointing targets. Pinpointing with a PI is a learned art. Most conventional detectors either the center of the coil or a pinpointing button or switch makes for an easy retrieval of finds. One PI I own the target centering point is to the left side of center and is very difficult to zero in on small targets. My primary uses for PI’s are gold prospecting, Civil War relic hunting and bottle digging ventures. They go very deep! I have dug shotgun casings at nearly two feet, nails at fifteen inches and as mentioned above a dime at eighteen inches. Here is my positive thought for using a PI for relic hunting. The P in Pulse Induction stands “Power”! I feel empowered when hunting fields and woods for relics and an occasional coin is a great bonus. However, as a coin-shooter the P stands for punishment in most of my environments. I cannot use one in hunting a burned-out property lot, or on a sports bleacher area or on a ball diamond to name a few areas where a conventional detector with a small three to five inch coil will produce far greater rewards and not destroy the back or shoulders.
I have listed some of the PI’s out there now and they are worth the time to go online and compare their specs and prices. Every serious treasure finder needs to have one as a part of their detecting arsenal. You might want to wait though and see what is coming soon before spending some serious cash. I cannot wait! Bring on those new PI’s.
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