......Yesterday,I seen an ad in the Sunday paper about them coin/gold/silver buyers,travelin around,to buy your items.......WELL,they said starting tomorrow,they will be in a town 'bout 10 miles away......SO:I hunted down my old coins/jewelry/flatware that have been packed away,since my divorce,and found QUITE A TROVE of old silver halves-SOME up near collector quality, right out of the ground-Barber,Mercury dimes(around 40 all together!!),old Jefferson/Buffalo/Canadian nickles(about 40 of them,too!);LOTS of good,old quarters,3 Indian Head,1 Canadian penny,-only thing anywhere new is a 1964 Kennedy half,the rest from the late 20's,to the late 50's.....A 1954-Year of my birth- collector set of Proof 50c,25c,10c,5c,and penny from 1954,sealed in a plastic case.Also,a bag of mixed earrings,crosses,chains,AND a bag of mixed OLD flatware,some marked "STERLING"......My pride and joy of this collection is my 1941 and 1942 Walking Liberty Halves,in plastic sleeves-and,they are WAY UP near AU,I would guess.....some of them Mercury Dimes,TOO-JUST LIKE NEW,dug out of the ground.....The lion's share of these coins I found at that old beach club,my in-laws belong to-
SADLY,I believe that detecting location was closed to me for good,as my wife and I are divorced,now...I COULD call him,though,worth a try,wont know if its YES or NO,until I do.)The owner told me that this particular beach had been in use for the last 100+years,and that they had a HUGE end of WW2 party there,sometime at the end of 1945........THAT explains why,all the old silver I found there,was from the late 30's,to the mid 40's........ALL the Mercs, and Halves,except for the Franklin Half,and 64 Kennedy half I dug up there........YOU JUST WOULD NOT BELIEVE how them old coins started coming up,one after the other.......THAT beach was also where I found 3 silver,and 1 gold ring,3"deep,in a 12"diameter circle.Actually,it is a series of THREE beaches;the oldest one taken over by BIG BLACK water snakes
-NO,I did NOT rub elbows with them,in the wet......I JUST MIGHT call the owner of that beach,though...I will let y'all know what them coin people say.............Warthog Steve..........PS:When I first started hunting this locale,the owner told me in the past,some other"detectorists"told him they had;"CLEANED THE PLACE OUT"
............MUST HAVE USED A VACCUUM CLEANER,INSTEAD OF A DETECTOR,as all of these coins were right at the 3" depth level,except for the old silver coins in the water,12"deep in the clay.............
SADLY,I believe that detecting location was closed to me for good,as my wife and I are divorced,now...I COULD call him,though,worth a try,wont know if its YES or NO,until I do.)The owner told me that this particular beach had been in use for the last 100+years,and that they had a HUGE end of WW2 party there,sometime at the end of 1945........THAT explains why,all the old silver I found there,was from the late 30's,to the mid 40's........ALL the Mercs, and Halves,except for the Franklin Half,and 64 Kennedy half I dug up there........YOU JUST WOULD NOT BELIEVE how them old coins started coming up,one after the other.......THAT beach was also where I found 3 silver,and 1 gold ring,3"deep,in a 12"diameter circle.Actually,it is a series of THREE beaches;the oldest one taken over by BIG BLACK water snakes-NO,I did NOT rub elbows with them,in the wet......I JUST MIGHT call the owner of that beach,though...I will let y'all know what them coin people say.............Warthog Steve..........PS:When I first started hunting this locale,the owner told me in the past,some other"detectorists"told him they had;"CLEANED THE PLACE OUT"............MUST HAVE USED A VACCUUM CLEANER,INSTEAD OF A DETECTOR,as all of these coins were right at the 3" depth level,except for the old silver coins in the water,12"deep in the clay.............
Ma Betty!