Its been a good while since I made a decent find as I haven't been out much recently. Thanks for watching, man.

If I can carve out the time to spend a few hours detecting I'll keep them coming no worries. Thanks for watching and appreciating the videos.

No worries, thanks for watching. Hopefully I will get out a bit more once the crops come off in the Autumn so there will be more videos to come.

I do try to put the odd bit of information into the videos so thanks for appreciating that. I like those other guys too. Dan is severely entertaining and roadkillsjim is whacked out to the max so it's no surprise those guys do well on the subscribers / views too. Thanks for watching the videos.

Another fine and informative video Richard.Great idea about teaching children about detecting and history etc.All the best of luck for your future hunts.

I look forward to welcoming you to the finds series. Viewers love the fact that they can see finds from different people found all over the world with different machines. Subbed you too. I hardly ever go to the beach as I live in the middle of the country but next time I do I'll take the detector. You seem to do well enough on beaches.

Your video is definitely a thumbs UP. Thanks for showing us your finds. I wish we had common coins of such size here in the U.S.

I am loving your videos pondguru i get my new garret ace 150 next week and i cant wait to hunt the farms near me.

Great Video Richard Thank you for sharing, best regards from New York City!!!

Lovely finds, I haven't found one musket ball yet. Well done for finding so many. GL & HH

No worries. Thanks for watching.

In the UK, snake belt fasteners have been used for centuries. May have started with Romans? but certainly way back to early medieval. Thats the only one I've found bt look forward to finding another. Thanks for watching and appreciating the videos.

No worries, man. Thanks for watching. The only problem over here is that much of the older history has sunk out of range of all but the top range detectors (e.g.GPX5000) and some even beyond that. Also, the trash from the last 2000 years of occupation makes picking out good finds that bit more difficult. Then there are the agro-chemicals destroying coins and the 'green waste' used as fertiliser which contains waste metal fragments which can ruin a good site....

great videos keep them coming, i enjoy everyone one of them, all the best from Brian at metal detecting finds.

Thanks for that, man. I would like to go one day so the offer is much appreciated.

Thanks for sharing. Like those hammered coins.

you have some cool stuff there I wish our history went back as far as it does there good luck hunting

Very nice collection, and well organized, mine are all over the place, except for my nice coins.... well done, and here's to the next 12 months... good luck.. Carl

I generally rub them with a paste made from baking soda and water and that will lift up nearly all the muck. Then I polish them with 'Silvo' which removes the finer tarnish and protects the shine.

great finds very organized. keep it up!

great video , ive watched some of your detecting videos with your son and really enjoyed them ,good luck to you both

@pondguru

9 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy them as I love making videos.

Thats probably my favorite too but the gothic florin is a close second. The hammered was a bit of a joint effort as I went over it first but he was heading that way. I pointed him in the right direction to see if he could find the good signal I got with mine a minute earlier. He did and I was suprised when we dug up a hammered. A real rare find in my area. HH

I'd love to go all camo and compound bow but I've never done that due to it being illegal over here. Thanks for the offer of a shoot, man. I never get the time to do anything for more than a couple of hours so even a simple hunt with the detector is a couple of hours so I couldn't arrange a decent shooting trip unfortunately - most things are on a spur of the moment. I don't even get the time to go 'rabbit stalking' now - lol but thanks again for the offer, much appreciated.

Hi I'm surprised that you haven't, as yet as far as I can see, found any roman artifacts especially coming from around our neck of the woods. I've been out of detecting for around twenty years now but decided, after seeing your videos to start again, so bought an etrac about three weeks ago and had my first real hunt last week and found a couple of roman coins in a few hours and i'm not a million miles from you ! Keep up the good videos they are very informative and enjoyable. Keith

I sometimes use a toothbrush with baking soda paste and it helps get into the nooks and crannies but just rubbing the paste with my fingers usually does the trick. I don't bother cleaning copper coins as I haven't found a way to clean them without removing the patina except for a rub with clean fingers to remove the muck and then brushing with olive oil to keep the 'just out of the ground look'

Hi Thanks for subscribing to my channel . Im still new at this but now and then I will download some finds. Thanks for sharing your finds with us I found the video really interesting and enjoyed every minute .It is people like you that encourage me to get off my fat arse and go detecting ,In fact I went today for a couple of hours and found 2 coins ,the earliest being 1800 a 1 kreutzer from Austria.I will download today .I am from Nottingham but live in Bratislava slovakia near Austrian Boader

nice round up of what most uk detectorist will find in our open ground,,,and very well explained,you have a great collection,but the maundy twopence is top of the pile for me,,,fancy claiming you sons hard earned hammered,,great video

As I hunt mainly pasture, yes definitely. It is good on ploughed too but for skimming quickly on ploughed I think the XP Deus recovers faster. All you have to do is just go a bit slower or alter the settings to recover fast 'on' and recovery deep 'off' when searching quickly for small shallow targets.

It was on pasture but it had been ploughed a few times years ago. The hammered was a bit of a joint effort as I went over it first but he was heading that way. I pointed him in the right direction to see if he could find the good signal I got with mine a minute earlier. He did and I was suprised when we dug up a hammered. A real rare find in my area. I was using the Etrac and he was using the Vista Gold.

Interesting finds of WWI. I found an Iron Cross a couple of months ago which was unexpected and welcome. I have never hunted a beach but maybe I should as people always seem to find stuff there. Subscribed.

Great video ,Thank you..

Olive oil is a good one - sometimes use that myself. I normally leave the coin in there for about a week to a month to lift up the muck then the coin seems to absorb the oil and gets protection and really brings up lost detail of really old coppers.

You can do it, man! Just keep working hard!

Richard, although most people will call me fatty / baldy - lol. The Euroace is a great machine. My mate has one and I am very impressed with the target ID, discrimination and depth. It would be awesome to be in an area where hoards of people hadn't hammered it for decades

Hi there- Great finds, especially the little canon. I think that the snake buckle may have been one that came with Enfield rifles. They were used from the civil war up to the start of last century. I may be wrong of course,and you may know otherwise. Anyway, keep the great videos coming.

Excellent!

Like all your vids I liked this one to. I follow you Deepdiggerdan and roadkillsjim. You vids are entertaining and informative. So thanks keep up the good work

I'd just use a paste of baking soda and water after doing the spit and foil trick. That will remove any muck that can be lifted. Electrolysis can be used on silver too which works quite well but do it too long and the coin will get pitted.

Hi guru, I was just doing an audit on my channel and was surprised to find that I had not subscribed to you despite having enjoyed a number of your videos. I'm in the mix now and you can soon expect an entry in your finds of the month vid'.

nice video !!!

Nice1,enjoyed your vid....brilliant finds all round ...glad i didnt become an astronaut now...lol,GL&HH,Paul:)

Maybe after WWII there was a realisation that putting the silver reserves into coinage wasn't such a good idea after all - lol

I live just down the road from you at Ebchester. There aren't many places which aren't privately owned so its a case of knocking on doors and asking farmers unless you know anyone who owns land. Anywhere near rivers is normally good so you could start with your own area. Parks can be OK for modern tat butare normally strewn with rubbish. We're a lomg way from the beach too.

+Michael Henderson Best of luck wherever you go, man.

Nice collection of finds. Nice silvers and hammered's. Shame about the 8 kilo's of worthless coins but sounds like your gonna put them to good use. Great idea. GL and HH on your next.

nice one!

pondguru, your one lucky guy.

I'm one of those "damned Americans" who took all your silver, going to grab my detector and come get the rest of it! Great video, really enjoyed it.

@pondguru

10 жыл бұрын

Well I hope you have better luck than me, man. I'm having trouble finding time to do any detecting for the last 2-3 months. Thanks for watching and appreciating the video.

With the weather being as changeable as it is up here you're better off in East Anglia, man. lol

I would say thet for every 100 coppers I find, maybe one will be good enough to go in the collection. I do have a few but I used to try and clean them up which just ended up with me brutalising them beyond recognition. Now I just give the better ones a rub with dry fingers and they come up not too bad. I forgot to put them in this video but I got a nice George II Irish halfpenny on my last trip out - 1766. Gold is the target for this year - lol.

Although I have a good video editing program (Magix studio 16) I never use it as I haven't learned to properly use it - lol. I generally just bang all the individual bits of filming onto Windows Movie Maker. They should all load in sequence if you select the whole lot you want as their details should be numerical in order. Then because that program (or my computer) doesn't handle HD very well, I make the whole lot into wmv hd format by finishing as a completed video, then reload and edit.

Thanks, starting to think they were tight with their money round where im from...LOL GL & HH

Imagine what it would be like detecting in Scotland. Copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny.

People were all paupers around here but I'm sure one will come when I least expect it.

I have so many subscribers who are against shooting that the only shooting related videos I have on the channel are guide and review videos and nothing is actually getting shot. Still even get the nutters commenting on the guide videos which is crazy. There are maybe a dozen or so in the 'Shooting, Fishing and Vermin Control' playlist. I've not been out on a shooting trip for about a year but still get the squirrels and rats around my place when they show up - usually with the .17hmr, lol

I know alot of people with land so it was fairly easy to get many sites but failing that I normally know people who know people and it goes from there.

It was down as aluminium display case with 2 trays on ebay. I think it was around £15.

I have taken great strides to reduce the debt but the old overdraft / loan is still there around my neck like a millstone unfortunately but it is slowly heading in the right direction.

Hey, we had to give up our silver to around that time. I have a 1943 silver dime, I think they stopped making silver coins around that time. Because I have dimes at the year of 1947, and they aren't silver. Maybe we were paying our war debt to the Japanese? By the way, I love your collection, you should hang them up on the wall, so people can see how beastly awesome you are.

I suppose it all depends on where we hunt. Mine is nearly all upland pasture so I tend to find alot of lead fragments (including musket balls) and never found any decent jewelry yet - except for a gold ring which was recovered for a landowner after being lost for 12 years. HH

Guilded buttons are very hard to clean. I would just leave as is myself as I've tried to clean loads of them and the gold just flakes off.

Maybe so! Or there wasn't enough silver! But over all, wars are pointless! I think we should go back to the gold reserve, and silver reserve. The money we have now is pretty much useless. Keep doing what you're doing though, I love seeing the history unravel before my very eye's! Thanks a lot for these video's!

Yorkshire has way more potential than the area I live (south northumberland). I'll have to get down there myself some day.

No problem if you can sort a few hours out sometime let me know, the offer will still stand for you Keith

lol. I have a bit of OCD about the coins. They are all in dated order in the case which is a bit strange since all other aspects of my life and business are all over the place and I never know what the hell is going on. There has to be some more hammered and the odd bit of gold turn up during the coming year hopefully. GL & HH

I assume you're talking copper coin herre. Yes, soaking in olive oil is good for really old copperbut there isn't much else that I know of.

The shop doesn't earn me any money and I already have someone in it during the week. I install ponds mon-fri and work in the shop on saturday so that doesn't leave much time. On a night I put orders together for ebay. Aaaarrggh!

i have a bag of shame but its filled with something completely different

Everyone should have the right to bear arms. It should be right up the top of any rights bill. Life is the most precious thing we have and over here we aren't allowed to even protect that which is a bit of a bummer. Maybe I will move to the US - lol. Thanks for watching, man.

greet video :)

Nice finds. Here in New England in USA I find mostly junk and the ratio of something good to junk is about 40 junk items to 1 good item. I need to invest in a better metal detector as for mine is a cheap $100 detector so it detects nails, horse shoes, pipes, pull tabs, bottle caps, toys, and other junk and about 1 in 40 will be something worth keeping. Most of what I find is also junk copper, however I did find an 1851 Large Cent, and a 1855 Silver Half Dime out by an old foundation in the woods in good shape although green corrosion and the half dime was dark grey. Nothing to get rich on, but the thrill of the hunt is worth it as well as the condition of the 1855 half dime places this cellar hole foundation structure of around the 1860s or so as an educated guess. Good idea to use the copper junk coins for kids to hunt for them. Some will really like it and others will try it and think nothing much of it. I have been trying to get my daughter interested in coins and she is kind of bored with them. I even went to the bank and got some rolls of coins and loaded the rolls with old coins for her to find to try to get that spark of excitement when finding an Indian Head Penny, Buffalo Nickel, and Barber Dime etc, but its not there.To her its no different than a canadian coin mixed in USA change. I then point out to her its worth and once again the excitement and interest just isn't there =( Hopefully one of your kids are interested in it to hand the coins down to or share the fun of the hunt with. =)

@pondguru

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, my son comes out with me whenever he can and since I now work from home there should be plenty more opportunities during the school holidays, He's found some great stuff and usually beats me, lol I couldn't imagine not going out and finding stuff from centuries ago. We have it really good over here for detecting. My latest video (uploading now) has two of us in a 'worked out' field finding more silver than copper which was most unexpected. Every field over here has coins in it no matter how remote they are as there has been someone over every square inch of land some time in the past. GL&HH

very informative!! nice crotal bell. your stuff is in great nick! lovrly Vicky florin! How do you get the stuff off silver coins?

Nice collection there, just wondered what detector found the Charles 1 st shilling? and was it on pasture? Thanks

Lol well i wish you good look in finding some gold. When i find nice coppers i allways take a little sealed tub of olive oil i pop them in there soon as i find them because it keeps them from drying out and they never look the same as what they did when they are fresh out of the hole. G.L H.H fella

Lovely collection there fella.Could i ask when you find nice coppers do you still scrap them in or do you keep the decent condition ones thanks mate.Good luck for the next hunts lets see the etrac pick some gold up H.H

What a collection nice assortment. You said that you sell on E Bay under what name?

@pondguru

7 жыл бұрын

I don't sell detecting finds on ebay, just filter media for aquariums and ponds - seller name filterprouk and also on my website www.filterpro.co.uk

WOW! You're truly a busy man! And on Sunday, you are all worn out! How come the shop doesn't earn any money?

I will continue to graft until I have a stress induced stroke and my life insurance pays off the debt and frees up my family to move to New Zealand - lol.

LOL at least I don't live there :) GL & HH Conor

I think a small army of kids metal detecting for you is a good idea. =] "Oh, that coin? It sure is old and beat up... Here take this newer one as payment for that old junky one." *wink*

As you probably know Tassie was settled by the English .for the convicts Vandiemen's land .Their was no currency Some English coins were made and sent here, they were rare because that worn't released in England ,then other trade ships came in french for eg and business started making their own tokens.I have found coins here in the mid to late 1700s.I must get out and do some more,but it has been a bit cold. Cheers for now..

@pondguru

10 жыл бұрын

Your idea of cold will be our idea of a pleasant summer day in North East England, lol Keep diggin' man.

@THEDRAGONBOOSTER8

10 жыл бұрын

Pondguru will do..

Hi again I see you do a bit of shooting is it a big part of you like detecting, I also shoot in Northumberland , pheasant and deer. Any shooting videos in your uploads ? Keith

I washed it myself, lol The perfect crime....

PS.If you can offer some advice on how you make your youtube vids that would be cool.When I go out I stop the camera between finds and then do the round up separately but when I upload they come out as individual separate Videos.I am sure you too film your finds separately but it comes out as 1 video how do you do that ? My camera is a Nikon Coolpix VR & ISO 1000. 2.5 inch LCD. I am not technically minded and learn faster by example rather than reading instructions.

How have you found so many silvers pondguru, ive only found 4 this year!!

A big collection. No gold coins?

I am sure I will ,I am pretty happy with what I have found so far and thats with a cheapo detector I am pondering on a Euroace.next .I know of 2 Roman finds 1 by me and the other by a young Austrian farmer I speak with .I never see other metal detectors out and about so I am pretty much working virgin ground and it is just a matter of time .Personal name is Geoff by the way ,whats yours ?

Have you found any, model penny's I collect them,I live in Tasmania and I metal detect and find mainly silver English coins early 1800s.. Great video,Cheers..

@pondguru

10 жыл бұрын

That's awesome if you're finding silver from early 1800's in Tasmania - groovy. Not sure what you mean by model pennies so I can't say if I have found any of those.

@freeganjustin8214

9 жыл бұрын

Pondguru In the 1840's / 50's, there was a bit of a push to decimalise the currency. Your Gothic Florin (one tenth of a pound) was the first step. Decimalisation or not, it was clear the old copper coins would have to go, and numerous designers made little model pennies in the futile hope their design would be used. I only found one, it took 20 years searching, and it's bi-metallic like a £2 coin. That's to show the tiny model coin and have a rim with words telling you what it is. One for the 'hit list'?

@pondguru

9 жыл бұрын

I haven't found any of them but I often see them for sale on ebay. There are numerous model pennies, half crowns, crowns etc. some of which are originals and others are modern reproductions. Some of the originals go for silly money. Feel free to send picture of the model coin you found if you have one as that sounds very interesting. Not sure if it can be attached to google+ comment but my email address is pondguru@btinternet.com

@freeganjustin8214

9 жыл бұрын

Pondguru Most of the larger denominations are toy money for use in dolls houses of the day and are a bit later, typically 1880's. I found a toy halfcrown with a very good copy of the Jubilee Head, back in the 1970's. That and the model penny are filed in boxes unopened for years. I'm sure they're not lost, but not easily found found either lol. The halfcrown is white metal and about the size of a Maundy 2d. Probably about time I looked them out.

@pondguru

9 жыл бұрын

Oh, man I found an awesome Maundy 2d from George II in the field near my house. Definitely one of my best finds so far.

Nice video, however your first ever found hammie, you state " King Edward which is a 12th century late 11 hundreds" Edward I ruled 1272-1307.

@pondguru

10 жыл бұрын

God Damn, I meant late 1200's - I always get the 00's and centuries mixed up, thanks for spotting that, man.

No worries, just send me your address. I post filter media to Australia every week so I can send out at the same time as them.

Good stuff if you fancy trying deer stalking let me know and I will arrange to take you out

haha did she find the jumper?lol

Do you have any employee's? They could watch the store for you, and you would probably only have to go in 3 or 4 times a week.

The best things about England are the history (for metal detecting) and.....errr...errrr....well thats all really..lol

I was the 100th like :)

The thing that gets me is that I am working to support those who have no intention of ever working and they are better off than me for it. Must...stop...now...... Turning...into..Hitler.. Aaaaarrhggggh.

That's terrible! And LOL!

Lol... 9:45

Nice video mate... Dave (relic hunting Scotland) surgested I try get your help with my facebook page, Metal Detecting Permissions,Clubs & Open Rallies UK. I'm just trying to make as many people aware of it as possible and try get a metal detecting community going on the page.... thanks GL & HH

@pondguru

10 жыл бұрын

Feel free to do a video advert promo thingy, no worries and I will add it to the start of an upcoming video. Not sure how facebook works as I seldom go on there but it seems that people post their group to other group pages and then people sign up or like, or join? I have a few video promos coming in from other people so now I just need to carve out some time for detecting then I can make some videos and get them used up.

@wingchunrich

10 жыл бұрын

OK thank you very much... I will about making a promo video if I can.... thank you :)

@pondguru

10 жыл бұрын

***** That would be great as when it comes to anything other than puting videos together I couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

@wingchunrich

10 жыл бұрын

Lol thanks for your help again mate :)

Haha, I sure hope that doesn't happen! The government makes you wanna do that though, don't they?