UnderMiner
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- Jul 27, 2014
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- Minelab Excalibur II, Ace 250
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Was walking across one of my favorite beaches at low tide and after about 20 minutes I spotted a black canvas bag in the water. I pulled the bag out of the mud and saw that the main compartment was opened and full of mud. There was nothing of value in the main compartment, but on the side I noticed a secondary compartment. The zipper was rusted and seized shut. To open the compartment I used a fishhook that I had found to tear a hole in the interior lining of the bag - tearing into the side compartment. At first all I saw was brown muck, but after I washed a little water over it I could see coins - many many coins! 98 Quarters, 115 dimes, 23 nickles, a Jamaican $20 coin, a Jamaican 1$ coin, and a couple hundred pennies. So around $40 in US currency all together.Oldest quarter was a 1965, oldest nickle was a 1964, no silver but I'm not complaining 
The bag pictured where I found it:
Video taken of the find seconds after I tore open the compartment:
Cleaning the coins:
Sorting and counting the coins:
Bag must not have been submerged for more than a week as most of the zinc pennies were still intact, although some had begun to corrode. So maybe a week or very slightly longer submersion time at most.
The bag pictured where I found it:
Video taken of the find seconds after I tore open the compartment:
Cleaning the coins:
Sorting and counting the coins:
Bag must not have been submerged for more than a week as most of the zinc pennies were still intact, although some had begun to corrode. So maybe a week or very slightly longer submersion time at most.
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why it's there. Your gain for sure, congrats on yet another cool find.
You must be living right or something...
