winslow
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- Oct 30, 2004
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Took my detector with me on vacation to South Florida. No beach hunting ... just parks with a small coil . My observation is that most detectorists hang out at the beach. I squeezed in 5 hunts of about 2 hours each and found just under 500 clad coins that added up to about $51.00. There were just too many zinc pennies, pull tabs and shredded can slaw to dig targets that I would normally dig. Each sweep of the detector would generate about 3 to 10 targets (sometimes more) under trees at parks. Man .. I'm not used to that!
One of my first targets was one of those (40's- 50's era) aluminum good luck tokens that I dug near a canal. It looked like crap when I dug it and I thought it was a bi-metal foreign coin at first. There was an iguana, about 2.5 foot in length, that didn't like what I was doing and he (she?) dived into the water and swam off like a fish under water. I didn't know they could do that.
In a complete stroke of luck I was digging a quarter target the next day under a tree loaded with coins and the usual crap. Dug out the quarter, scanned the hole again and got a nickel target right near where I dug. Dug that target and out popped a gold wedding band. I didn't realize until I got back that day and cleaned things up that it had the markings for 24K gold. Nice weight at 7.33 grams. 24K ... that's a first for me.
Other finds included a gold over .900 silver cartouche pendant. A cartouche is a persons name spelled out in Hieroglyphs. Never ran across that kind of thing before. Another gold find was a 14K earring. Pretty light at .90 grams but gold is gold. Also, a cheap but pretty citrine looking ring. A leather bracelet adorned with silver was a surprise at 4 inches deep.
Another first for me was an elongated quarter. Found a number of elongated pennies over the years but never a quarter.
Of course the wedding band was the find of the trip. Glad I brought my detector!
One of my first targets was one of those (40's- 50's era) aluminum good luck tokens that I dug near a canal. It looked like crap when I dug it and I thought it was a bi-metal foreign coin at first. There was an iguana, about 2.5 foot in length, that didn't like what I was doing and he (she?) dived into the water and swam off like a fish under water. I didn't know they could do that.
In a complete stroke of luck I was digging a quarter target the next day under a tree loaded with coins and the usual crap. Dug out the quarter, scanned the hole again and got a nickel target right near where I dug. Dug that target and out popped a gold wedding band. I didn't realize until I got back that day and cleaned things up that it had the markings for 24K gold. Nice weight at 7.33 grams. 24K ... that's a first for me.
Other finds included a gold over .900 silver cartouche pendant. A cartouche is a persons name spelled out in Hieroglyphs. Never ran across that kind of thing before. Another gold find was a 14K earring. Pretty light at .90 grams but gold is gold. Also, a cheap but pretty citrine looking ring. A leather bracelet adorned with silver was a surprise at 4 inches deep.
Another first for me was an elongated quarter. Found a number of elongated pennies over the years but never a quarter.
Of course the wedding band was the find of the trip. Glad I brought my detector!
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