I use a cheap bounty hunter that seems to find coins like crazy!! And I have figured out the tones both good and bad.. If I could just figure out how to post some pics I would, luckily my wife is fairly tech savvy and I am not.. Anyway, som amazing stuff I have found lately. I have been going to this one beach where lots of people fish and along with some fishing lures, buzz bombs and a dart, weights, lots of hooks, even a super sharp fillet knife!! it was a recent drop in the sand. Now we do not have many sandy beachs or great summer weather with lots of people flocking to the beaches, most are fairly rocky, all salt etc. So those and a few bucks in change, nothing special. But, on September 5th I found a sterling silver earring! I found 925 non 925!!Its in the shape of a crescent moon with a hammered look. I have put an add on craigslist, not describing it but saying if anyone lost a silver earring to email. One person did.. Lost a diamond stud.. Yeah right! I emailed back and asked them, This Beach? Approx location? etc.. said I will look and if I find it I will email you, but then heard nothing, no answers, so I suspect its someone fishing for it.. jerk..
I went to an old park about 2 weeks ago and only found a couple pennies, all modern stuff. One interesting thing I did find in the ground was part of an old leaf spring! At first I thought it was a sword! Just a fantasy I know, but wishful thinking! Its a pretty old one to cause its not real thick and small in dimension. Well, today I had a few minutes to kill and decided to swing around. I went to a couple different spots and found a couple pennies and a clad dime, then.. I hit my first silver dime!! A 1951 rosie! I'm so freaking stoked its not funny! Ok, a little back ground. I am a coin collector. I have 1 of every roosevelt dime made in my books from silver, to proof to the 96 W! So as a coin collector no big deal but as for finding it its a big deal! Its freakin sweet! Right next to it was an old old coke can, its tin! Its crushed and rusty but easily identifiable and within a few inches was part of a fuse block with one of the shotgun shell looking fuses in it.
Oh man! How can I forget!?!?! a few weeks back I was at a different beach that had a homestead on it at one time and in the beach I found a rusty crusty pocket watch! I cant ID the maker cause its so rusted over or the material its made from. It has some pitting on the outside and its plated, I think nickel and might be copper or brass. I will work on the whole picture thing and get some posted if I can. I use photobucket for the hotwheels collectors site, will that work here?
Sorry its so long I'm just pretty excited finding my first silver!
Dave
I went to an old park about 2 weeks ago and only found a couple pennies, all modern stuff. One interesting thing I did find in the ground was part of an old leaf spring! At first I thought it was a sword! Just a fantasy I know, but wishful thinking! Its a pretty old one to cause its not real thick and small in dimension. Well, today I had a few minutes to kill and decided to swing around. I went to a couple different spots and found a couple pennies and a clad dime, then.. I hit my first silver dime!! A 1951 rosie! I'm so freaking stoked its not funny! Ok, a little back ground. I am a coin collector. I have 1 of every roosevelt dime made in my books from silver, to proof to the 96 W! So as a coin collector no big deal but as for finding it its a big deal! Its freakin sweet! Right next to it was an old old coke can, its tin! Its crushed and rusty but easily identifiable and within a few inches was part of a fuse block with one of the shotgun shell looking fuses in it.
Oh man! How can I forget!?!?! a few weeks back I was at a different beach that had a homestead on it at one time and in the beach I found a rusty crusty pocket watch! I cant ID the maker cause its so rusted over or the material its made from. It has some pitting on the outside and its plated, I think nickel and might be copper or brass. I will work on the whole picture thing and get some posted if I can. I use photobucket for the hotwheels collectors site, will that work here?
Sorry its so long I'm just pretty excited finding my first silver!
Dave
