steffenb70
Tenderfoot
- Jul 26, 2012
- 6
- 6
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab explorer XS, Eric Foster Beachunter PI, Garrett GTI1500 Others
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
Old silver coin from Norway
YESSSS - Silvercoin in good shape.
Had time to hunt yesterday, on a private beach I cleaned up earlier this year.
Just a few targets, but they were all deep, and very encrusted - Except for one interesting coin.
I scooped this Norweigan silver quarter, dated 1899.
The coin is less than an inch in diameter (1.7 cm), and i could'nt identify it as silver at first. I looked it up, and discovered that it was NOT a common coin (even though they produced 600000 of them - don't know if it is true, but that is what I read about my new coin)
I must have done a very good job cleaning that part of the beach, because signals were very scarce - kind of boring hunting in such an area..
A guy with a metal detector get's a lot of attension, from people who is laying on the beach relaxing, and trying to do as little as possible. A man put down his book, when he heard the silent 'bingo', which was just about the only sound I made, as I slowly worked the beach. I forgot my own rule about putting on a pokerface when I dig a keeper!
Yesterday I hunted most of the day, had little to show for it, but when I got that 1899 silverquarter, my day just changed status from 'nothing interesting happened' to 'very exciting day' - I'm still smiling....
One small coin changed my day - Big time - Have you ever had that experience because of only one coin
The details on the coin is much better than the pictures show - using a loupe, I can see that the edges are very sharp, and there is very little damage done to the coin, even though it has probably been in the sand for a century.
This is not the oldest coin I have dug, but for a beach find, it was very unexpected, and I really enjoyed the surprice that nice norwegian man/woman dropped in the sand for me to find...
Hope you enjoy the pictures.
HH.
/Steffen
YESSSS - Silvercoin in good shape.
Had time to hunt yesterday, on a private beach I cleaned up earlier this year.
Just a few targets, but they were all deep, and very encrusted - Except for one interesting coin.
I scooped this Norweigan silver quarter, dated 1899.
The coin is less than an inch in diameter (1.7 cm), and i could'nt identify it as silver at first. I looked it up, and discovered that it was NOT a common coin (even though they produced 600000 of them - don't know if it is true, but that is what I read about my new coin)
I must have done a very good job cleaning that part of the beach, because signals were very scarce - kind of boring hunting in such an area..
A guy with a metal detector get's a lot of attension, from people who is laying on the beach relaxing, and trying to do as little as possible. A man put down his book, when he heard the silent 'bingo', which was just about the only sound I made, as I slowly worked the beach. I forgot my own rule about putting on a pokerface when I dig a keeper!
Yesterday I hunted most of the day, had little to show for it, but when I got that 1899 silverquarter, my day just changed status from 'nothing interesting happened' to 'very exciting day' - I'm still smiling....
One small coin changed my day - Big time - Have you ever had that experience because of only one coin
The details on the coin is much better than the pictures show - using a loupe, I can see that the edges are very sharp, and there is very little damage done to the coin, even though it has probably been in the sand for a century.
This is not the oldest coin I have dug, but for a beach find, it was very unexpected, and I really enjoyed the surprice that nice norwegian man/woman dropped in the sand for me to find...
Hope you enjoy the pictures.
HH.
/Steffen
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