Heavy metal and mystery silver

[CASPER-2]

Finds from a few other spots recently - lots of lead and found a crusty object I thought was a salt water silver quarter
but after rubbing some of the crust off it looked like the bust was something different - so thought I might have
a foreign coin or a medallion - broke crust off this morning - ta da ...silver religious medal!

 

[redcobra8u]

That is a pretty sweet Silver! Congrats!

 

[xr7ator]

TREASURE! Nice find, Casper.

 

[dirtlooter]

nice find! looks like you are almost there for supplying a years worth of lead weights for fishing. congrats on the silver, gotta love it

 

[CASPER-2]

nice find! looks like you are almost there for supplying a years worth of lead weights for fishing. congrats on the silver, gotta love it

for the time ive been out this year - (which is below normal) Ive got a lot of sinkers
end of year I usually post a pic - will have pile
this was from a few years ago

 

[CASPER-2]

I just weighed what I got so far for the year - 50lbs of just sinkers

 

[Mzjavert]

Beautiful medal. I also like the pocket knife.

 

[trapperart]

Good thing you're in the water, you're on fire, congrats

 

[Kurios1]

Sweet JESUS! Now that's some righteous silver! Gotta' get the lead out too.

 

[scruggs]

Good mixture of finds...you scored again!

 

[Underwonder]

I guess you know where the fishing spots are! Good catches.

 

[CASPER-2]

I guess you know where the fishing spots are! Good catches.

they used to be mainly swimming spots - they make cuts to life guards and reduce the swimming areas up here
and now where they used to be swimming they are fishing

 

[park pirate]

Nice finds Casper...

 

[RVRoamer76]

Awesome job, the medal is excellent!! Those fishing weights are not cheap. Some of them three to $5. If memory serves me.

Congrats to a Legend !!

 

[CASPER-2]

Awesome job, the medal is excellent!! Those fishing weights are not cheap. Some of them three to $5. If memory serves me.

Congrats to a Legend !!

would like to have found medal in fresh water it was probably real nice - its slightly bigger than a quarter
and your memory does serve you well - some shops get a pretty penny for them - I put a box out of different sizes yrs back at a yard sale just to see
if they'd sell - price of lead was lower than now - did not know what to ask - put 25c a piece on box - couple of guys were fighting over them
I know a lot of guys that just throw them away - one guy if he found a lot would dig a big hole in the wet sand at low tide and dump them in

 

[pepperj]

Nice looking piece of silver Casper. Your doing well in the lead division, 50 lbs is worth a fare amount $$$ if you sold them off.

 

[diggingthe1]

Great find, I love adding religious medallions to my collection also. I'm sure when I started I threw away some coins that I thought were just crust. Its amazing what can be found underneath!!!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice Casper. I like that religious medal.

 

[WHADIFIND]

Ahhh, I remember those "crusts". Always a surprise but it's also what got me out of the water. I hated seeing what the water does to silver coins.

Still a wonderful surprise!

 

[CASPER-2]

Great find, I love adding religious medallions to my collection also. I'm sure when I started I threw away some coins that I thought were just crust. Its amazing what can be found underneath!!!

when I was a kid in the late 70s - first detecting trip to the sea shore - was on a group hunt - myself and others had never experienced "cookie" coins
we thought they were washers or iron slugs - we did not know that was what happened to silver - we were all getting po'ed we were
finding so many at this one spot and we all were skimming them into the ocean