Dockyard Gives Up Old Silver:thumbup:

[bdahunter]

I noticed that the Works and Engineering crews had been cleaning up the beach at Dockyard the other day so I made a trip out there this afternoon. The winds have been blowing strong from the NW for the past few days, bringing cold, damp weather (mid 50's, BRRR!) but also blowing away almost all of the seaweed that was piled up in the cove a week ago.
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My arthritis has been acting up with the weather lately so I opted for the wet sand today and found it to be virgin territory, mainly that means it was full of trash. I collected a pouch full of pull tabs, canslaw and bits and bobs but I also found a very nice 1922 Britsh Silver Florin (it's a lot like a Walking Liberty), a silver coin (still soaking and possibly a dime but hopefully a Reale), a Bermuda Fifty Cent Piece and a tiny bit of clad. I also found a British Royal Navy gilt button in a sad state but although I Like gold finds I Love old finds so I'm happy none the less (possibly 1800's). Now if I could just combine Old with Gold, like a Gold Dubloon I'd be in Seventh Heaven!
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Towards the end of the hunt I had a special treat when a Plumed Egret swooped in and settled on the rocks to hunt for fish. I managed one decent pic before he got nervous and scooted into the next cove.
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Cheers All,

BDA

 

[BEACH HUNTER]

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[diggindirt]

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[Skully]

Nice old silver...a bit of history is Kewl ...
Found another W L half today ...
(WORK MODE ) gonna wait and post tomorrow

 

[Bobbie]

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[Craig-PI]

Nice looking coin and pictures BDA.. I chuckle when you Brrr at in the 50's.. its snowing here and that means I can go detecting tomorrow instead of work

 

[Gulf Hunter]

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[bdahunter]

Having spent the first 42 years of my life living in The Great White North of Canada I always considered temperatures in the 50's to be T-Shirt weather. After only 4 years of living in the tropics I've grown soft to the point that temps in the mid 50's are cold and the low 50's are positively frigid. It probably doesn't help that I live in a solid stone house built in the 1700's with no insulation and only a tiny electric space heater for heat. We do have a fireplace but it only produces smoke but not heat.
One of my main reasons for moving south was to get away from the arthritic pain that arrived every year in November and didn't leave until April, the result of so many broken bones acquired from a career in construction.
I still find it odd to think of temps in the mid 50's as cold weather but it doesn't make my bones ache any less.(Bermudians are wearing parkas lately) The weatherman says we'll be back up into the 60's today and I'm looking forward to some relief. I may even get out for a quick hunt this afternoon if I can find the time.

Cheers,

BDA

 

[PaPa-Joe-Fla.]

bda Great pics. and the silver coin I really like. Neat piece of driftwood ( or root) in the background with the Egret. Thanks for sharing. HH

 

[Mat in MA]

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[The Barnacle.]

looks like you are having a few finds from my part of the world, i do come across a few american coins on my travels but they are few and far between, - do you find many British coins?

 

[bdahunter]

It depends upon where I am hunting, Barnacle. Some of the older swimming sites are rife with older British Coins and some of the hotels provide a fairly steady flow of newer Brit coins as well as Euros. The Large Pennies take a real beating in a marine environment and my oldest peeny is an 1860 Queen Vic which was pretty eaten up. Bermuda is still a colony of Britain though it often considers itself a nation. (it's an island mentality thing)
Americain and Bermudian Coinage make up the lion's share of my coin finds, followed by British and then Canadian coins. All of these nations have a long standing relationship with the island of Bermuda. Most of my British finds won't compare with what you can find in Europe but the fact that they have survived in this hostile environment with so few contributors make them special, at least to me.

Cheers,

BDA