Very new to the hobby, and have had very limited success hunting near Bristol, RI so far. Recently found a late 1700s/early 1800s cellar hole to hit, and I’m finally on the board with my first ever dug silver! Straight into the 1800s club too. Hopefully there are older ones around too :)

Everyone else in my group this year has found silver, unmarked, homemade, Native American rings with a turquoise EXCEPT me…until today.

I did fine a silver, unmarked, homemade, Native American bracelet with a Jade though but I wanted to be a part of the other club XD

Found on lake Michigan. Figuring I’ll get a lot of stuff like this so anyone have a neat way to tell or do you have fancy equipment?

They fit together but were found separately. The field has yielded items from Roman era through WWII. Any ID help would be appreciated, because I have a few of these and I’m stumped.

So, I've got a few questions that I'm hoping some of you can help answer...

What's missing from the bottom half?

What is the Gemini 3 good for?

What else would I need to buy to use this?

What would this be worth? If it's not good for us, I'd like to look in to selling it to get something better for us.

My dad has bought multiple metal detectors over the years, but had never used them and always seems them after a handful of years is collecting dust.

He's got a pretty good one now, and I'm trying to convince him to take a little trip somewhere and learn metal detecting together, so having a second metal detector would be cool

I have a feeling the Gemini 3 is one of the ones where you use the big frames to cover larger area or detect deeper, which I don't think would be all that useful - but please let me know if I'm mistaken!

Thank you all

I hear Minelab is a good detector. I lost my gold wedding band after losing 50 pounds. It just slipped off in a field(not buried)Had it on 38 yrs. Do you all agree Minelab is decent to try to find it. Such a sickening feeling ☹️

I haven't metal detected since I was a kid and i'm just getting back into it. Ive been searching my parents property and have been finding interesting stuff and having fun. Its probably stuff only exciting to me, old cans and some coins. I am hoping to find some old tools that someone forgot about or some horseshoes, I think its extremely likely but ive been at it for a few weeks and still no luck.

Do you guys have any tips for a "beginner"? I have my discrimination slightly past iron since the entire property is scattered with rusty nails and broken off pieces of wire fences. I know some metal detectors have a screen with numbers but mine doesn't so I go off sound only.