Crispin
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- Jun 26, 2012
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Most of you probably don't know that I have been excavating an Old Spanish forge site on the Gulf Coast for the last three to four years. I've found lots of silver but have never found that definitive piece. Well, today I found it! What made it even better is that GIB joined me for the hunt so he was there to share the moment. Here are the raw pics...then the story...
![IMG_1953[1].JPG](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1231/1231167-403d1c860644ad286131f7213a6700a8.jpg "IMG_1953[1].JPG")
![IMG_1954[1].JPG](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1231/1231182-d6bb96506b723dfea31f8a0a8fd366e6.jpg "IMG_1954[1].JPG")
This was the first time GIB and I had been out there since the Tropical Storm a few months ago. We knew there was going to be a lot of beach erosion so even at high tide we were super excited to hit it. I was using the sand shark and literally finding 2-3 targets every two feet. In some cases multiple targets in the same hole. I was feeling good until I slipped on a slope and sliced the bottom of my foot open on a calm. That was pretty miserable but I wasn't going to let it ruin my hunt. I stopped the bleeding by packing it with sand and kept moving. Then I hit it...that special noise only expert sand shark users know about. It was a low-high to mid-high beep. I knew I had something special. It didn't have the slight buzz of iron and it didn't have that high-high beep quality of a circle coin or a ring. When I pulled it out my heart skipped a beat. After 3-4 years I finally had the piece to date the site! So I dropped the detector and scoop and started moving at a very fast walk to show GIB. He saw me coming and could see the smile beaming from 100 yards away. He pulled out his cell phone to record the encounter. I walked up with hand held high...victoriously, and he said,
"You got something good?"
I replied, "We finally got it GIB, we finally got the piece to date our site."
I proudly put the coin in his hand and just beamed at him. He looked at it for three seconds and said, "It's a fake." and then handed it back to me.
"What!" I said aghast! This has not been a tourist beach for a long time..."How do you know?"
He calmly replied, "I bought it in St. Augustine for you." Then he said, let me guess, "You found it right here?" And he showed me the exact spot he had buried it in.
So I looked real close at the coin...
![IMG_1955[1].JPG](https://www.treasurenet.com/data/attachments/1231/1231201-802d8f4ae856255bd04dd2a6037e8c76.jpg "IMG_1955[1].JPG")
All of the sudden my foot started to hurt real bad again. The only consolation I have is that GIB guessed wrong on which way I would go first so he had to wait a good hour until I finally got around to where he had hidden it.
Alas! Hunt with GIB at your own peril!
One good piece of news is that I did find another piece of cast off silver from the forge. It is the black rock looking thing. GIB scanned it with his 3030...so you can get the official numbers from him. Its not pure silver but I already knew that because I have been melting the stuff down and getting different metals out of it. GIB also claims that the hunk of iron that looks like a C with the nice inlay is an old Scallop shucking knife...I'm not so sure I believe him. Gonna have to post it in the What is It section to make sure.
This was the first time GIB and I had been out there since the Tropical Storm a few months ago. We knew there was going to be a lot of beach erosion so even at high tide we were super excited to hit it. I was using the sand shark and literally finding 2-3 targets every two feet. In some cases multiple targets in the same hole. I was feeling good until I slipped on a slope and sliced the bottom of my foot open on a calm. That was pretty miserable but I wasn't going to let it ruin my hunt. I stopped the bleeding by packing it with sand and kept moving. Then I hit it...that special noise only expert sand shark users know about. It was a low-high to mid-high beep. I knew I had something special. It didn't have the slight buzz of iron and it didn't have that high-high beep quality of a circle coin or a ring. When I pulled it out my heart skipped a beat. After 3-4 years I finally had the piece to date the site! So I dropped the detector and scoop and started moving at a very fast walk to show GIB. He saw me coming and could see the smile beaming from 100 yards away. He pulled out his cell phone to record the encounter. I walked up with hand held high...victoriously, and he said,
"You got something good?"
I replied, "We finally got it GIB, we finally got the piece to date our site."
I proudly put the coin in his hand and just beamed at him. He looked at it for three seconds and said, "It's a fake." and then handed it back to me.
"What!" I said aghast! This has not been a tourist beach for a long time..."How do you know?"
He calmly replied, "I bought it in St. Augustine for you." Then he said, let me guess, "You found it right here?" And he showed me the exact spot he had buried it in.
So I looked real close at the coin...
All of the sudden my foot started to hurt real bad again. The only consolation I have is that GIB guessed wrong on which way I would go first so he had to wait a good hour until I finally got around to where he had hidden it.
Alas! Hunt with GIB at your own peril!
One good piece of news is that I did find another piece of cast off silver from the forge. It is the black rock looking thing. GIB scanned it with his 3030...so you can get the official numbers from him. Its not pure silver but I already knew that because I have been melting the stuff down and getting different metals out of it. GIB also claims that the hunk of iron that looks like a C with the nice inlay is an old Scallop shucking knife...I'm not so sure I believe him. Gonna have to post it in the What is It section to make sure.
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