SpencerK
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- Joined
- Jan 5, 2017
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- Location
- San Antonio, TX
- Detector(s) used
- Minelab Go-Find 60, Bounty hunter tracker IV
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
So I went detecting for the first time since my surgery and had a killer day. Went to my normal stomping grounds (mothers beach in Marina Del Rey, CA, also known as the trashiest beach in the area). Most detectors know both aforementioned facts and never hit that beach. I hit it with my bounty hunter tracker on all metal and dig more clad than I do trash.
Today was a foreign coin day. I found way more than normal. I normally only find 1 if any but I found 4 today.
My favorite find is the 1964 Kennedy half dollar with only a little tarnish. Dug it out of the clay layer completely covered in hardened black colored grit so I tossed it in the iron bag without realizing. After breaking it out of the nasty tar tar like encrusted ball of sand and silt I was shocked at how shiny the rim was then I wiped it off and found how perfectly preserved it was in whatever that crud was while I was in my break at my security job and nearly crapped my pants. First silver coin I have ever detected/dug and it came out of my scrap bag.
Also happened within a week of finding very old silver change in a cash register at a hardware store and asking for it. Figured I would ride the luck and it paid off.
Btw that thing that looks like it's trying to be a ring, it's sterling silver and stamped .925 lol
Today was a foreign coin day. I found way more than normal. I normally only find 1 if any but I found 4 today.
My favorite find is the 1964 Kennedy half dollar with only a little tarnish. Dug it out of the clay layer completely covered in hardened black colored grit so I tossed it in the iron bag without realizing. After breaking it out of the nasty tar tar like encrusted ball of sand and silt I was shocked at how shiny the rim was then I wiped it off and found how perfectly preserved it was in whatever that crud was while I was in my break at my security job and nearly crapped my pants. First silver coin I have ever detected/dug and it came out of my scrap bag.
Also happened within a week of finding very old silver change in a cash register at a hardware store and asking for it. Figured I would ride the luck and it paid off.
Btw that thing that looks like it's trying to be a ring, it's sterling silver and stamped .925 lol
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