2023 year end total 

 41 gold, 3 platinum, 1 Palladium                              total weight 290.6 grams

 Silver total 88

 11-25-23                                                        Another Caribbean hunt

 Sunday brunch with the team. Me , Gretchen, Boston Mike, Or Jerry and Betty, Ark Jeff and Debra 

11/26 I had the most incredable morning, 5 gold rings and jeff got the smallest childs ring I have ever seen 14k 1.9g

                     14k Diamond rig 8.7g                                               22k Versace ring 5.4g                                           14k womans band 2.0  

                       14k white gold band 8.3                                          10k name ring Shyla 3.6 

 11/26 afternoon hunt Got my first real Cartier ring 18k 7.1g

 11/27 Morning hunt I got another gold ring 14k white gold band 7.9g

 11/27 afternoon hunt More gold i got another 14k white band 6.9g and jeff got an 18k band 4.3g and Mike with a 14k band 2,9g

 11/29 good hunt 10k High school ring 4.6g and a silver pandora ring

 11/30 Jeff got a biggie today 14k gold bracelet 25.4g and mike got a 18k ring with stones 5.0g

 12/1 Platinum band 10.4g and 3 silver 

The rest of the crew left on the 2nd and Gretchen and I stayed for a couple more days

 12/3 hunted for about 4 hours in the morning Huge 14k white gold band 12.9g

 12/4 Hit the hotel where i got 5 the first morning and a guy came up to me and said you may come across a white gold ring out here, I asked him to describe it. after about 15 minutes i had the ring in my scoop, I walked up to him and asked him to show me his hand, I then slipped his ring back on his finger. He imediatly bear hugged me! 14k white gold band about 10 grams

 11/11/23

 Mostly dry sand 

 11/4/23

B32

 Tried a small beach near me, some coins, junk lewelery and loads of toy cars

 9/16/23                                                                  England hunt 9/16/ to 10/ 28

 First 10 day team Fla Dan, Cal George, Va Marge, Gretchen, Boston Mike, Or Jerry and me

 9/17 Marge started it off on the first ful day with a Bronze age gold arm band ring. 1000 B.C. 

 9/17 about an hour later Tim popped a beauty Celtic gold quarter stater 

 9/22 Cal George get a 18k gold ring british hallmarks 1800's

 My team and Tim's team get tgether for a double team photo 

 Team #2 NY Ralph, Ark Jeff, NY Andy, Aussie Brad, NY Todd, Cal Mark, GG and me

 9/28 Cal Mark gets a beauty Celtic quarter stater

 9/28 I got a nice medieval Groat Edward III1300's

 10/1 Couple keepers today 1500's toy cannon and a Charles rose both sides hammered silver penny

10/4 Another good day for artifacts, Roman bronze 4th century, Lead Vesca seal 1300's 

 10/8 Great silver day for me, Silver spoon 1700's Hammered silver cut half penny 1100's and a silver pocket watch 1800's 

 10/8 Team #3 GG, Fla Mark, Gypsy Mike, Dutch Robbert, Wa Terry, Boston John, Mass Mike and me

 10/10 Hi stakes game of Left Center Right (love chicago ron ?) 

 10/15 I got a beauty hammered silver farthing.  

 10/15 Great photo of the team as we took part in a UK rally. we got 3 hammered silver

 Team #4 Toronto Jason, Fla Laur, Fla Michael, Cal Dave, Cal Jason, Cal Val, GG and me

 10/23 Rainy day so I headed to the beach, no mud! Silver chain. 

 10/26 Cal Dave pops a George III 1/3 Guinea

 9/6/23

B31

 Lots of junkers, 3 silver and coins 

 9/4/23

B30

 Lots of coins and 3 silver

 8/30/23

B29

B28

Did some traveling to the east coast, Carolina and Virginia got out for a bit. 1 silver earring

 8/19/23

 B27

 Just coins and 1 earring

 8/17/23

 B26

 Coins and junk

 8/16/23

B25

 1 silver ring and coins and junk jewlery 

 8/14/23 

14k Chain 5.7g Can't find photo

 8/12/23

B24

Silver bracelet and another pair of Ray Ban sunglasses 

 8/9/23

B23

2 silver crosses 

 8/6/23

B22

silver earring 

 8/4/23

B21

14k Initial ring  2.5g

 8/3/23

D9

 8/2/23

D8

4 silver  

 8/1/23

D7

 very cool 1920 Private detective badge

 7/31/23

D6

Gold plated pocket watch, 1906 barber quarter and a 14k gold chain 5.7g  

 7/30/23

B20

 7/29/23

D5

Silver charm 

 7/28/23

D4

Silver cross, pandora charm, and earring 

 7/27/23

B19

 7/26/23

D3

silver earring ans a big stainless steel chain 

 7/24/23

D2

1 silver ring 

 7/23/23

D1

 7/21/23

P1

 7/20/23

B18

 7/19/23

B17

 7/11/23

B16

one silver cross 

 7/10/23

B15                                                                                    Lots of junk jewelry out there. 1 silver earring

7/9/23

B14

More coins and some junk jewelry 

 7/7/23

B13

 7/5/23

  B12                                                                   Mostly junk and coins

 7/3/23

 B11      about 8 dollars and 2 silver

 7/1/23

B10                                                                                     lots of junk jewelry and coins

 6/30/23

 B9     2 gold charms,2 silver and a HS ring that is a junk metal. 14k 3.2g 14k 2.9g

 Vacation in the Caribbean for 1 week

                             6-18 couple of dives, 2 gold 14k band 6.1 and 14k Claddah style ring 4.2g and 2 silver

                                                                                                        6-19 slow day not many targets some junk jewlery

           6-20 heavy Platinum band 14.0g

                6-21 Though the day was a bust but when i got home the ring that looked like junk tested 9k 3.3g

6-22 Another wedding band 14k 5.3g

 6-23  2 beauties a 14k with 12 diamonds 18.6g and a 14k band 12.4 

                                                             Great sunset on another wonderful vacation with my honey

 Caribbean  1 week hunt

                                                                 Taco Tuesday with the crew. Jeff, Debra, Denise, Mark, Gretchen and Me

                                        6-11 1 gold 18k band 7.0g

6-12 10k band 4,8g and a silver.  RAY BAN!

        6-13 14k band 10.2 and another silver

                    Game night Winner Winner!

           6-14 Another pair of Ray Ban with Glass lenses  and a beauty Lions head 14k 6.6g

      6-15 Lots of coins and junk jewelry   and an 18k band 2.4g

       6-16 Great days dive! silver, gold and Palladium  

                         The 1 week hunt totals for Mark, Jeff  and Me

                                                             Thanks for coming boys and girls, it was a blast and we found some great stuff! 

 6/4/23

 B8                                                                                                                    More coins, jewelry is scarce 1 tungston carbide

 6/3/23

 B7    10 bucks and 14k band 3.1g silver earring

 6/2/23

 B6                                                      tons of coins and lots of junk jewelry

 6/1/23

 R1                                                                                                                trip to the river lots of lead and a couple coins

 5/29/23

 B5                                                             coins and 1 stainless steel charm

 5/28/23

 B4                                                                                                    dry only about 5 bucks

 5/27/23

 B3                             Lots of coins and a 14k quinceanera ring 2.0g

 5/22/23

B2      dry sand. 2 silver, 3 bucks in change

 5/15/23

B1                                             Dry sand and water one silver pandora charm

                            England March 18th to April 18th 

 Arrived safely in UK. team 1 Go!

                                                                                                      Mike, Ron, Paul, Marge, Nick, Robbert, and Gretchen

                                                                                  Mikes beauty Celtic Wode Grinder 1st century BC

                                                                  Paul's 8-13 AD Celtic qtr stater- Bigga type

                                                                                                                                                   George's 1850 Birmingham mint - 22 carat gold ring - star mark

                                                                                                                                    Paul's Aucient piece of a gold wrist Torc

                                                                                   Another day at the office, My view at work.

                                                                                                      Best Partner ever!

                                                                                                         Team #2 Marge, Ron, Sean, Adam, Tom, Dan and Gretchen

Dan's broken George III 1/4 Guinea 

Marge's 19thC gold tooth plate. dental gold

                                                                                    Tom's Edward III (1351-61), Gold Quarter-Noble

 Team #3 arrives saftly looking for pictures

Joe, Ron, Gary, Rob, Terry, Linda and Gretchen 

                                                                     Joe's solid gold watch, lost over 40 years ago returned to land owner

                                                                                                                    Terry's Bronze Kiev style Knobbed Mace - c. 12th - 13th century

Gary's Silver thimble

 Total for my 4 weeks in the Dutch Caribbean 

Silver 20 pieces                                                                            1 platinum and 13 gold

 2-3-23

Last morning at the hotels Popped a beauty 18k white gold with 1ct diamond 4.6g 

 2-2-21

Tried an island  beach got 18k yellow band 2.7g in the swim area and a 14K white band 9.7 in the snorkel area with the nemo blu3

 2-1-23

Long dive silver chain and 2 dutch silver coins 

 1-31-23

junk and coins 

 1-30-23

more Junk and coins

 1-29-23

Start of week 4 silver cross  

 1-28-23

storms  over the last couple days brought in some seaweed and visability is not real good. did get a pair of RayBan's

Silver and gold for the 3rd week 

 1-27-23

Tried several places  did get a 14k earring with diamonds 1.6g

 1-26-23

2 battery dive, lots of light stuff, 14k band 5.0g and 2 silver rings, pandora ring with the big CZ almost gave me a heart attack 

 1-25-23

Dive in the morning and beach in the afternoon 2 more silver rings 

 1-24-23

Beach hunt in the morning silver pandora ring, Dive in the afternoon 14k white gold band 9.5g 

 1-23-23

lots of junk today 1 broken silver earing 

 1-22-23

Cash is always nice, LOL silver ring and a 14k earring 3.0g 

 1-21-23

Tried a beach with lots of erosion Lug nut Platinuum band 20.6 g and a silver ring

 1-20-23

Tungston cartbide ring and some coins 

 1-19-23

2 battery dive  lots ofd coins and junk jewlery, 1 silver ring and a 10k earring 1.8g with 1/10 ct in diamond chips

 1-17-23

Hotels not lots of good targets. 20 pull tabs and lots of bottle caps Beauty 18k ring 4.9g with blue saphire 

 1-16-23

Took a ride to Baby beach, working in the coral with the nemo blu 3. lots of targets managhed 1 silver earring 

 1-15-23

Very nice Cross 18k 1.9g Looked for the chain for about 30 minutes but no luck 

 1-14-23

Morning dive: the money clip had the remnants of cash and some Junk jewlery

 1-13-23

more junk and some crusty coins, toe ring was from yesterday. oops 

 1-12-23

got a couple toungston carbide ring, and 2 silver rings

 1-11-23

couple junk jewlery and some coins, Silver ring with Hebrew writing silver earring and a 10k gold band 1.8g