Got out Sunday a week ago for a little and found the items on the left (along w/ some clad, etc.). The '52 Rosie was on an area of unpaved sidewalk(?) that had just had some work done on it. Strange tarnish on it. Had one odd situation for one of the wheats or nickels where I could pinpoint it pretty clearly in discrimination mode but when switched to pinpoint, it couldn't seem to find it but instead showed large objects on either side. I dug it anyhow. That's a bit disturbing as it's often hard enough for me to identify falsing off the edge of iron--my Sov would also often give me a fairly clean good target signal between two pieces of iron--and the pinpoint mode is one of the tools I normally use to identify if something is a good target or iron falsing. I'm not sure how to approach it if I can't trust pinpoint.
Then, on Saturday, met someone in NH so detected the beach there for 5 hours. Given the time available was set by the meeting, I started detecting about high tide. That didn't work so well as the upper part of the beach was just coated in lobster-trap iron. Found the items in the center, one pull-tab, and one tiny copper slightly-curved cap for something. Well, that and a few lobster trap pieces that sounded like they might have been hiding something. Not much there at all.
Then went out on Sunday after my daughter's birthday party. The item on the right is from the banks of a historic river--which has since been dammed and landscaped. But I have found a large copper not far from there--Hibernia I think--so the possibilities of older stuff is good, I hope. I looked up the history of lighters, so I suspect this is from the early 20th-century. Thought at first I'd found a fancy scabbard tip until I washed the dirt off in the river. Didn't find a single coin there but tons of pulltabs. (And a yearbook and a passport in the water.)
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Then got out last night--no photo--and found a '41 wheat and a '52 Canadian maple leaf cent. My oldest maple-leaf so far. (Only older Canadian coin I've found is the 1906 large cent in my avatar.) I forget what the numbers were but they were a bit odd but it sounded good. Also found a really big chunk of lead(?) all folded up. I could tell it was a large object from pinpoint mode (and was reading 7, ??) but I dug it just to see what it was since it was a consistent reading and finally found it about a food down. Sneakers aren't so great for 30-degree weather so I headed back in when the toes went from painful to nearly-numb.
Then, on Saturday, met someone in NH so detected the beach there for 5 hours. Given the time available was set by the meeting, I started detecting about high tide. That didn't work so well as the upper part of the beach was just coated in lobster-trap iron. Found the items in the center, one pull-tab, and one tiny copper slightly-curved cap for something. Well, that and a few lobster trap pieces that sounded like they might have been hiding something. Not much there at all.
Then went out on Sunday after my daughter's birthday party. The item on the right is from the banks of a historic river--which has since been dammed and landscaped. But I have found a large copper not far from there--Hibernia I think--so the possibilities of older stuff is good, I hope. I looked up the history of lighters, so I suspect this is from the early 20th-century. Thought at first I'd found a fancy scabbard tip until I washed the dirt off in the river. Didn't find a single coin there but tons of pulltabs. (And a yearbook and a passport in the water.)
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Then got out last night--no photo--and found a '41 wheat and a '52 Canadian maple leaf cent. My oldest maple-leaf so far. (Only older Canadian coin I've found is the 1906 large cent in my avatar.) I forget what the numbers were but they were a bit odd but it sounded good. Also found a really big chunk of lead(?) all folded up. I could tell it was a large object from pinpoint mode (and was reading 7, ??) but I dug it just to see what it was since it was a consistent reading and finally found it about a food down. Sneakers aren't so great for 30-degree weather so I headed back in when the toes went from painful to nearly-numb.