Narthoniel
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Update: scroll down for photos after cleaning.
And I am sure she is very happy to be safe and dry. She had been in the water for a very long time, and was very worn out from the experience.
I was gridding out my favorite strip of beach, hoping to cash in on some erosion with all the strong winds we have been having lately. Turns out I found an area where LOTS of old targets were showing up. All the clad I dug was heavily corroded, green, and unreadable except for the size alone.
I was gridding into the water, then back out and up the beach into the coin line. One on line, I was going up on the wet sand, and had a good hit. Dug, and once it was in the scoop, filled my hole, and kept on gridding, planning to clean out the sand once I got back to the water. Not far away, I had another nice hit, and knowing it was close, hoped to get it in the scoop without dumping the sand in the scoop already. Well, I got lucky, and with one shallow scoop, no sound in the hole. Made it to the water without any more sounds, and cleaned out the scoop. Looked in to see a quarter, and a huge disc 3 or 4 times the size of the quarter. Thinking it was a washer, I looked at it, and was surprised to see it was solid. I could make out some small marks along the edge, but thought nothing of it, and chucked it into my pouch. Hard to see much in the early morning darkness.
Short time later, I noticed Mike come along. I walked over to him, showed him where I had been gridding, and then showed him my strange disc. He looked at it, did a double take, looked again, and his eyes lit up.
"Where the hell did you find this?!?"
I pointed a few feet down the beach.
He identified it better than I could, and it turns out it is a MORGAN DOLLAR!!! And by the looks of it, it has been in the water for decades. The back is completely smooth, and the date is unreadable, but, it is a Morgan. The outline of the face and the stars under it are visible, and it is one of my greatest finds. I always wondered if I would ever find a silver dollar, but never expected one to show up on the beach. Especially a salt water beach.
Let the lesson therefore be told - a beach is NEVER hunted out. Targets are always there, but they cannot always be found. I hunt this area often, sometimes more than once a week, and grid it out heavily. This has been under my coil before, I am sure, but until today, I could not reach it.
May you all be blessed with similarly spectacular finds!
Anthony
And I am sure she is very happy to be safe and dry. She had been in the water for a very long time, and was very worn out from the experience.
I was gridding out my favorite strip of beach, hoping to cash in on some erosion with all the strong winds we have been having lately. Turns out I found an area where LOTS of old targets were showing up. All the clad I dug was heavily corroded, green, and unreadable except for the size alone.
I was gridding into the water, then back out and up the beach into the coin line. One on line, I was going up on the wet sand, and had a good hit. Dug, and once it was in the scoop, filled my hole, and kept on gridding, planning to clean out the sand once I got back to the water. Not far away, I had another nice hit, and knowing it was close, hoped to get it in the scoop without dumping the sand in the scoop already. Well, I got lucky, and with one shallow scoop, no sound in the hole. Made it to the water without any more sounds, and cleaned out the scoop. Looked in to see a quarter, and a huge disc 3 or 4 times the size of the quarter. Thinking it was a washer, I looked at it, and was surprised to see it was solid. I could make out some small marks along the edge, but thought nothing of it, and chucked it into my pouch. Hard to see much in the early morning darkness.
Short time later, I noticed Mike come along. I walked over to him, showed him where I had been gridding, and then showed him my strange disc. He looked at it, did a double take, looked again, and his eyes lit up.
"Where the hell did you find this?!?"
I pointed a few feet down the beach.
He identified it better than I could, and it turns out it is a MORGAN DOLLAR!!! And by the looks of it, it has been in the water for decades. The back is completely smooth, and the date is unreadable, but, it is a Morgan. The outline of the face and the stars under it are visible, and it is one of my greatest finds. I always wondered if I would ever find a silver dollar, but never expected one to show up on the beach. Especially a salt water beach.
Let the lesson therefore be told - a beach is NEVER hunted out. Targets are always there, but they cannot always be found. I hunt this area often, sometimes more than once a week, and grid it out heavily. This has been under my coil before, I am sure, but until today, I could not reach it.
May you all be blessed with similarly spectacular finds!
Anthony
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