DrJoePrime
Bronze Member
- Joined
- Sep 9, 2007
- Messages
- 1,535
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- 949
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- Location
- Long Beach, California
- Detector(s) used
- XP Deus, White's Surfmaster Dual Field, Tesoro Sand Shark, Garrett ATX
- Primary Interest:
- Beach & Shallow Water Hunting
What a beautiful Saturday morning here in Southern California...but after lunch the rain was threatening. I decided to hunt (again) the north side rocks of Seal Beach.
Pickings were slim and so when I hit a clad dime I decided to head in a line towards the water in case more coins were dropped on the way in. I got a TID of 95 (on my Fisher F4) indicating a half or silver dollar... OR more likely a larger piece like a tin can lid.
My first two scoops missed it. Looked to be about 6" deep when I finally got it.
...............WOW!! A Huge Silver Ring!
It barely fit on my thumb. Nice .925 Silver. There's a middle race that seems to be missing a rotating insert. I have another similar ring with a wave pattern rotating insert intact found summer 2007.
Then the icing on the cake: Found two wheat pennies in the rocks! A 1953 S and 1958 D. Totally unexpected in that high traffic (fisherman) area. Those pennies have been most likely laying there for over 50 years!
My ring count is 4 for 19 days...all silver but I know the gold will follow and I've got the typical DETECTORIST'S PATIENCE to wait it out.
2nd photo is last year's similar WAVE ring.
HH Joe
Pickings were slim and so when I hit a clad dime I decided to head in a line towards the water in case more coins were dropped on the way in. I got a TID of 95 (on my Fisher F4) indicating a half or silver dollar... OR more likely a larger piece like a tin can lid.
My first two scoops missed it. Looked to be about 6" deep when I finally got it.
...............WOW!! A Huge Silver Ring!
It barely fit on my thumb. Nice .925 Silver. There's a middle race that seems to be missing a rotating insert. I have another similar ring with a wave pattern rotating insert intact found summer 2007.
Then the icing on the cake: Found two wheat pennies in the rocks! A 1953 S and 1958 D. Totally unexpected in that high traffic (fisherman) area. Those pennies have been most likely laying there for over 50 years!
My ring count is 4 for 19 days...all silver but I know the gold will follow and I've got the typical DETECTORIST'S PATIENCE to wait it out.
2nd photo is last year's similar WAVE ring.
HH Joe
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