No the place was full of overnight guests, I saw very fresh footprints in the sand. The place is known for big teeth. I was just the first one to spot it. Had me going for a few minutes.
I guess it was two summers ago I was at another beach, dug what I thought was one of those Chucky Cheese golden tokens, as I never take my glasses with me when I'm out, and asked my digging buddy was this a Chucky Cheese token? as it had an eagle on the back. He freaked - $5 US gold coin lost apparently out of someone's necklace. It's hiding in the house here somewhere.
And then last year I find a brass disc at a CW site, have my buddy come over and it's a flattened Confederate I button.
Sometimes I don't get an ID till I get the glasses out! Or get home to retrieve the magnifier!
And a few years ago I got a HUGE silver dollar shaped item, a Netherlands daadler coin, 1620 something, I still have it - trouble is, it's made of junk metal and was a Shell oil promotion in the 1970's. Someone left it on the beach for us low life detectorists to find.
When I found my gold guinea at the beach, a year or more before that, and having heard the reputation of the place, that folks throw fakes out there, I looked all over it for the word "copy", and it was and is genuine! Only me.
