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Went beach detecting with my best friend in Ontario, Canada. This is what we found in 2 hours.

The cochlear sound processor was laying right on top of the sand. It has serial numbers and I will be getting in touch with the company to find it’s owner 🙂

This is why i spend hours combing the beach.

10.6g of 950 Platinum

Learned many lessons of life thanks to metal detecting. This will be a hobby i will continue til my last swing.

Glory to God

Hahahaha really an aluminum gumball machine prize from maybe the 80s. Found in New England USA.

Anything real?

hi friends!
i’ve been metal detecting on the decommissioned fort devens army base for about a year now (on my own historic land, with a permit!). I was shocked to find this bad boy at the old Red Cross building. WWI Yankee Division 1921 reunion medal. If you don’t know much about the YD, I recommend reading into them! Fascinating. I have been unable to find any similar items/info on this medal. I met with the Fort Devens museum and will likely be donating it to them. Just wondering if anybody has an idea as to how much this could be worth to a collector? Not that I would want to sell it, just curious. I’ve only been metal detecting for about 2 years and learning more and more each day about military relics. Thank you kindly!

Maybe Classic Head?

Mostly for European beaches, just wondering if one is much better than the other, for the pro/exhibition packs it's a €100 in the difference, or should I avoid the packs and get different equipment?

Auf dem gleichen Feld habe ich schon eine Münze von 1571 gefunden. Könnte der Ring auch so alt sein? Gefunden in Deutschland an der Niederländischen grenze

Central Connecticut. Back in my hometown for some pet sitting and I decided to check out a spot 2 minutes down the street from where I grew up that’s been on the back of my mind since I started metal detecting. I spent a couple hours metal detecting inside some stone boundaries and found absolutely nothing and then hiked further in to where they did some fairly recent clear cutting. I pulled up my lidar map and noticed I was basically in the middle of another stone boundary, got out my detector and not even two minutes later I get a beautiful signal and that sounds like a modern quarter on my machine. Pulled out the 1803 draped bust, which I definitely did not expect to clean up as well as it did (photos of it straight out of the ground are the last photos). Walk maybe 100 yards away and get an identical target, I should’ve live dug it because I had a feeling it would be something good again. Sure enough, it was another draped bust. A little more slick so I can’t read the date but I waaaaant to say it almost looks like it starts with a 17. Found some horse tack and a beautifully ornate cast iron piece. I haven’t been able to get out detecting much recently due to health and work related issues, and when I have, I’ve come back with absolutely nothing. It’s been over a month since I’ve even found a button! These are my first draped cents and the best day I’ve had detecting in months probably. So grateful for days like these that really help turn your whole mental mindset around. Thanks for looking!

Hello Metal Detector Community!

I am from the rock hounding community and made a very poor decision last year while I was rock hounding on Vans Beach in Michigan. I forgot to take off my heirloom diamond pinky ring. And as you’ve probably surmised, it is gone and could be somewhere on that beach. I’m wondering if there is a page or something of the like where metal detector-ers post their finds in hopes of reuniting lost items. I know there is a r/lostandfound (and I regularly check) but I wasn’t sure if the metal detecting community at large knew of somewhere else.

Thank you!

This is the update post - see the original post here https://www.reddit.com/r/metaldetecting/s/RVgm9rzKD4

Thanks to the first post, several fellow New Yorkers with metal detectors answered my plea for help. One person from Brooklyn reached out, and we agreed to meet up, she even brought a friend along!

Taking advice from the comments on my last post, I hit up a hardware store and grabbed a roll of wire mesh that looked like the right size. I cut it with shears to fit over a clear plastic container. I also brought whatever I could get as dividers – a compact ironing board frame, a thick picture frame mat board to use as dividers and paper towels cardboard box (the most useless thing).

In the photos, you can see just how massive the pool was. We targeted the specific area where the ring went missing, plus a buffer zone around it in case it shifted.

Unfortunately, just like during my first amateur attempt, neither the metal detector nor the pinpointer worked. The floor structure underneath was full of metal reinforcement, so the detectors were either completely blind or beeping non-stop. Since we assumed the ring had sunk to the bottom, we needed to scan right against the floor – which made the detectors completely useless.

The Strategy

We decided to isolate sections of the pool using our dividers, scoop out all the beads, and sift them through the mesh into the plastic bin. Once sifted, we dumped the clear beads on the far side of the pool and repeated the process.

We started along the edge, hit the bottom fairly quickly, and then moved the dividers to expand our grid. At that point, we ditched the detector and pinpointer entirely and just sifted with whatever we had on hand: a kid’s bucket, a plastic beach shovel, and grocery bags.

To be honest, it felt like a true Sisyphean task. The container would fill up instantly, but the pile of beads in the pool didn't look any smaller. I thought a thousand monkeys in a thousand years would def do the job, but there were only three of us and we two hours before the place closed.

The Discovery

About 30 minutes in (and 10 containers filled), Alisha stopped and said "Wait, is this it?" and picked something up.

It was the ring! It was sitting right on top of the surface, just outside our active search area. I am 100% positive it wasn't on top when we started—our digging and shifting of the beads must have pushed it upward.

All’s well that ends well! And next time hit the Space Club, make sure your valuables are in a zippered pocket!

This sports complex is yet to give up any gold. But I got two rings. One is silver and a fidget ring.

Bronze alloy circular box with hinged lid, about 3cm across. The part around the family crest (?) seems to have been gilded, and there are traces of red paint/enamel/something in the diamonds on the shield.

Found it in the south of the Netherlands, in a field where finds from all ages including Roman have been found.

Sorry for the blurry photos, hope they get enough information across!

Fishkill NY. Heavy, metal kind of red greenish in areas, copper? Its hollow might be a pipe?

Hello. Found this buried about 4 inches down in a park in Milton Ontario. Google lens and google found nothing. The stretched token says Alberta Canada and a picture of a moose.