SkyPirate
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I am so excited to show these finds after dodging the rain this morning in South Nags Head area. All cleaned up easily, sorry if the pictures are not clear. Of course I found some beer cans and nails and pop tops but here is the good stuff.
I will save the best for last.
First is a silver ring and a 1964 silver quarter. I found these about 10 feet down from the dune near a beach access. They were both about 6 inches deep.
The ring is bent out of shape and has a marking on the inside but is too small to make out without a magnifying glass or loop. I will have to check it out when I get home.
Second is a rusty bolt although I think it is stainless steel, has a hex head, is an inch and a half long and is probably from a boat. Found it closer to the water at about 6 inches deep.
Third is a 2002 Euro, was 4 inches deep in the soft sand.
Fourth is a little cylinder object with a green cap. I cleaned all the sand off and found a threaded hole at one end. I found this under some wood steps that come down off the dune. It was about 4 inches deep.
Fifth I found an AKC dog tag a couple inches down.
Now for the grand finale![/u] It started to rain lightly and I was getting ready to pack it up for the day. I had covered a lot of the area and was searching closer to the surf, I was using my sharp shooter and kept getting a lot of false signals from the wet sand but I dug all of them. Being kind of new to this I did not want to take the chance of missing anything important. I got a pretty good signal that read 25 cent piece. I used my scooper and dug up a couple good size clumps of sand and shook it out. I wasn't finding anything, I ran my MD over it again and still got the signal so I scooped another bunch and shook it out and nothing. Now the hole was a good 10 inches( my guess) I ran the coil over the hole and got the signal. I was getting ready to give up but thought maybe it was a bottle cap or similar so I got my little folding shovel out and dug some more sand out, I was down to where the water starts coming through the sand. I waved the coil over the hole again and there was no signal so I waved it over the pile of sand I dug out and got a hit. I scooped that dug sand with my scooper and shook it out and there was my quarter! I thought that was a lot of digging for a quarter. I rinsed it off in the water and looked at it. It was not a quarter at all I don't think. I actually didn't know what denomination it was but it reads "East India Company" "1808". The back has some foreign words on it as well as English "X. Cash" I have no idea what it is or what it's worth but I am guessing that since it is that old it must be silver. I don't know but I am happy to find it and it made me work hard for it. This is the oldest coin I ever found! I can't wait for the rain to let up so I can get back out. I am hooked on MD now, I would really like to get a beach/surf detector.
I will save the best for last.
First is a silver ring and a 1964 silver quarter. I found these about 10 feet down from the dune near a beach access. They were both about 6 inches deep.
The ring is bent out of shape and has a marking on the inside but is too small to make out without a magnifying glass or loop. I will have to check it out when I get home.
Second is a rusty bolt although I think it is stainless steel, has a hex head, is an inch and a half long and is probably from a boat. Found it closer to the water at about 6 inches deep.
Third is a 2002 Euro, was 4 inches deep in the soft sand.
Fourth is a little cylinder object with a green cap. I cleaned all the sand off and found a threaded hole at one end. I found this under some wood steps that come down off the dune. It was about 4 inches deep.
Fifth I found an AKC dog tag a couple inches down.
Now for the grand finale![/u] It started to rain lightly and I was getting ready to pack it up for the day. I had covered a lot of the area and was searching closer to the surf, I was using my sharp shooter and kept getting a lot of false signals from the wet sand but I dug all of them. Being kind of new to this I did not want to take the chance of missing anything important. I got a pretty good signal that read 25 cent piece. I used my scooper and dug up a couple good size clumps of sand and shook it out. I wasn't finding anything, I ran my MD over it again and still got the signal so I scooped another bunch and shook it out and nothing. Now the hole was a good 10 inches( my guess) I ran the coil over the hole and got the signal. I was getting ready to give up but thought maybe it was a bottle cap or similar so I got my little folding shovel out and dug some more sand out, I was down to where the water starts coming through the sand. I waved the coil over the hole again and there was no signal so I waved it over the pile of sand I dug out and got a hit. I scooped that dug sand with my scooper and shook it out and there was my quarter! I thought that was a lot of digging for a quarter. I rinsed it off in the water and looked at it. It was not a quarter at all I don't think. I actually didn't know what denomination it was but it reads "East India Company" "1808". The back has some foreign words on it as well as English "X. Cash" I have no idea what it is or what it's worth but I am guessing that since it is that old it must be silver. I don't know but I am happy to find it and it made me work hard for it. This is the oldest coin I ever found! I can't wait for the rain to let up so I can get back out. I am hooked on MD now, I would really like to get a beach/surf detector.
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----the ADMIRAL GARDNER was a BRITISH EAST INDIA TRADING COMPANY VESSEL THAT SANK IN ENGLAND --ON JAN 25TH , OF 1809 * part of her cargo was the entire lot of 1808 X (ten) cash copper trading coins made for the companies far east use. --- they were lost for many years -- finally found a keg of them (28,000) were recoverd in 1985 from off the wreck site under a permit issued by england --it was a barrell filled with coins and tar (they were packed that way in 1808 /1809 to"protect them" at the time from petty theft by crew while being transported) -- however the methods used by the salvors caused the salvage rights to be voided-- thus your coin is a real shipwreck coin -- off the vessel --1 of 28,000
