Narthoniel
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Hello,
Managed to get out for a little bit today. I have been called upon to tile my bosses kitchen backsplash, and I spent a good part of the day doing that. Did not get home til after low tide. Ate an early dinner with the wife, and finally made it to the beach a little after low tide. I decided to head to the north end of the beach. The last few days I have been down south, and I decided I needed new sand to plunder. My expectations were low, because it's Sunday, and I know a lot of people that hunt the north end, especially on the weekends. When I arrived, my low hopes were dissolved into no hope. The beach had changed drastically over the last 24 hours, and knowing the winds were blowing in the wrong direction was not good. Yesterday, the beach was flat, and a lot of wet sand was exposed. Today, very little wet sand, and the beach was scalloped all up and down. I groaned, and decided to try anyway.
I managed to talk the wife into coming down with me for once, and she was going to jog home from there. She agreed to spend a few minutes with me as I got going, so, once that was established, I cranked up the excal and got ready to hunt
. I should point out that we stopped at the top of the low part of a scalloped area.
As I turned on the machine, I had a hard time getting the threshold to come on and stay stable. I messed with it a bit, and moved the coil, and heard a null. Realizing I had been on top of metal, I understood, and stabilized the sound. Then I rechecked the area, because I have learned sometimes good targets will null if the coil is on the edge of them. The sound I heard was that of can slaw, not a null. I checked where I was, and upon realizing I was so high up from the water expected to find can slaw. So I told her nothing about how it was a potentially good sound.
One good scoopful of sand, and the target was free from the ground. Kicked the pile over, located the target, kicked again, and oh baby, what a pretty color I saw. I just stood there as her eyes made it down to the pile. I have much desired to find a golden trinket with her present, as I want her to get excited about this hobby too. She knelt down, picked it up, and said, "It's and earring!" I was upset, because it looked just like a ring to me. But upon closer inspection, I saw 8 princess diamonds!!! And they are not small either!! (roughly .15 to .20 carats each if genuine.) We will be testing them soon, and I hope they are real!! The earring is stamped 14k in two places.
After finding the earring, I jokingly told her, "Well, I got what I came for, lets go home!" I then checked around in the bowl of the scallop, and quickly found a nickle and a quarter. She then kissed me goodbye, and took off jogging home.
I exhausted the scallop, and moved one scallop south, and quickly found another coin. Suddenly my feelings of no targets were dissolved, and I pictured tons of targets in every scallop I saw! (Strange to think that only these 2 scallops held much of anything, as I was soon to find out.) At the top of the scalloped area, I picked up a faint crackle of a signal. Very faint, and possibly iron by the sound. Well, I dug anyway. Several scoops and a deep hole later, the target was free from the sand. Poking around I found it, and thought, "Nice! A Quarter!" Quarters are always welcome, and I like finding them. But then, I noticed something funny about it. It was not the normal quarter color. In fact, it looked like GOLD!
In disbelief, I tossed it back on the ground, turned the discrimination all the way up, and scanned it again with the detector. It nulled. Then I did a bit of a double take, and realized what I might have on my hands. I picked it up, looked again, and said, "Nah. It can't be" and chucked it in my pouch with everything else. It just did not look right. Very soon I realized it could be real, so I put it in a nice soft sweatshirt pocket all by itself - just in case. I am not sure if it is real, but if it is, I will be ecstatic. The weight is right about where gold coins are, so maybe...just maybe. I will have to do a lot of research on this one. While I could just scratch it - no friggin way! Ill be patient on this one.
Well, off again I went looking for more goodies. Up and down the beach I went, finding a coin here and a coin there. Nothing like those two scalloped out areas tho. None of the other low spots yielded much more than one coin, if that. I made my way back to the first two areas, and decided to recheck them from a different direction, and slowly. Boy was I surprised to find a HUGE earring just a few feet from where the gold one came out. Not sure what it is made of, but it is heavy! And then a few feet from that I found ANOTHER earring! This one is definitely junk, and it is the thin hoop earring in the photo. I decided to grid again at a diagonal, and picked up a nickle! So lesson learned - even a tight grid does not find it all!
Well, it was definitely a good hunt for the amount of time. I think I spent an hour on the beach. I am very satisfied with the results! I will update when I find any new information on the golden coin. I have a lot of doubt about it, but I am hopeful. There is always that glimmer of a chance.
Happy Hunting!
Anthony
Update: Found a picture online very similar to this coin! I have it soaking in water now, and some of the sand is coming off. I keep looking for flakes of "gold" as that would key me into knowing it is a cheap plated look a like.
http://www.wakeforestcoins.com/worldcoins/worldcoinindex.htm
Managed to get out for a little bit today. I have been called upon to tile my bosses kitchen backsplash, and I spent a good part of the day doing that. Did not get home til after low tide. Ate an early dinner with the wife, and finally made it to the beach a little after low tide. I decided to head to the north end of the beach. The last few days I have been down south, and I decided I needed new sand to plunder. My expectations were low, because it's Sunday, and I know a lot of people that hunt the north end, especially on the weekends. When I arrived, my low hopes were dissolved into no hope. The beach had changed drastically over the last 24 hours, and knowing the winds were blowing in the wrong direction was not good. Yesterday, the beach was flat, and a lot of wet sand was exposed. Today, very little wet sand, and the beach was scalloped all up and down. I groaned, and decided to try anyway.
I managed to talk the wife into coming down with me for once, and she was going to jog home from there. She agreed to spend a few minutes with me as I got going, so, once that was established, I cranked up the excal and got ready to hunt
. I should point out that we stopped at the top of the low part of a scalloped area.As I turned on the machine, I had a hard time getting the threshold to come on and stay stable. I messed with it a bit, and moved the coil, and heard a null. Realizing I had been on top of metal, I understood, and stabilized the sound. Then I rechecked the area, because I have learned sometimes good targets will null if the coil is on the edge of them. The sound I heard was that of can slaw, not a null. I checked where I was, and upon realizing I was so high up from the water expected to find can slaw. So I told her nothing about how it was a potentially good sound.
One good scoopful of sand, and the target was free from the ground. Kicked the pile over, located the target, kicked again, and oh baby, what a pretty color I saw. I just stood there as her eyes made it down to the pile. I have much desired to find a golden trinket with her present, as I want her to get excited about this hobby too. She knelt down, picked it up, and said, "It's and earring!" I was upset, because it looked just like a ring to me. But upon closer inspection, I saw 8 princess diamonds!!! And they are not small either!! (roughly .15 to .20 carats each if genuine.) We will be testing them soon, and I hope they are real!! The earring is stamped 14k in two places
.
After finding the earring, I jokingly told her, "Well, I got what I came for, lets go home!" I then checked around in the bowl of the scallop, and quickly found a nickle and a quarter. She then kissed me goodbye, and took off jogging home.
I exhausted the scallop, and moved one scallop south, and quickly found another coin. Suddenly my feelings of no targets were dissolved, and I pictured tons of targets in every scallop I saw! (Strange to think that only these 2 scallops held much of anything, as I was soon to find out.) At the top of the scalloped area, I picked up a faint crackle of a signal. Very faint, and possibly iron by the sound. Well, I dug anyway. Several scoops and a deep hole later, the target was free from the sand. Poking around I found it, and thought, "Nice! A Quarter!" Quarters are always welcome, and I like finding them
. But then, I noticed something funny about it. It was not the normal quarter color. In fact, it looked like GOLD!
In disbelief, I tossed it back on the ground, turned the discrimination all the way up, and scanned it again with the detector. It nulled. Then I did a bit of a double take, and realized what I might have on my hands. I picked it up, looked again, and said, "Nah. It can't be" and chucked it in my pouch with everything else. It just did not look right. Very soon I realized it could be real, so I put it in a nice soft sweatshirt pocket all by itself - just in case. I am not sure if it is real, but if it is, I will be ecstatic. The weight is right about where gold coins are, so maybe...just maybe. I will have to do a lot of research on this one. While I could just scratch it - no friggin way! Ill be patient on this one.
Well, off again I went looking for more goodies. Up and down the beach I went, finding a coin here and a coin there. Nothing like those two scalloped out areas tho. None of the other low spots yielded much more than one coin, if that. I made my way back to the first two areas, and decided to recheck them from a different direction, and slowly. Boy was I surprised to find a HUGE earring just a few feet from where the gold one came out. Not sure what it is made of, but it is heavy! And then a few feet from that I found ANOTHER earring! This one is definitely junk, and it is the thin hoop earring in the photo. I decided to grid again at a diagonal, and picked up a nickle! So lesson learned - even a tight grid does not find it all!
Well, it was definitely a good hunt for the amount of time. I think I spent an hour on the beach. I am very satisfied with the results! I will update when I find any new information on the golden coin
. I have a lot of doubt about it, but I am hopeful. There is always that glimmer of a chance.Happy Hunting!
Anthony
Update: Found a picture online very similar to this coin! I have it soaking in water now, and some of the sand is coming off. I keep looking for flakes of "gold" as that would key me into knowing it is a cheap plated look a like.
http://www.wakeforestcoins.com/worldcoins/worldcoinindex.htm
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anyone have thoughts on the coin?
to get yer kicks like that 
--almost as bad as our florida penny cutters who cut pennies into 1/4 ths and dump em down here in treasure beach areas so PI type machines can not hunt the beaches --- only disc machines that can null out copper can get around it.
