7/4/18 Report - Super Quick Way to Scan Coins. Applied Lip 19th Century Bottles.

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Using a Magnet To Quickly Separate Coins.

One convenient but often overlooked tool for the treasure hunter is the magnet.  It can be used in many ways.  One thing you can do with a magnet is quickly separate different kinds of coins.

   

Some coins will stick to a magnet - others won't.  Steel pennies will stick to a magnet.  Silver coins won't.  You can use convenient facts like that.

One man discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars a valuable magnetic coins.  Here is a bit of that story.

... in the first roll of 50 pennies Ed opened up, there were a couple with no logo. He opened another roll, and another. By the time he was done, he had turned up more than 500 no-logo coins.

And yet, the respected International Coin Certification Service – which doesn’t sell coins, just grades them – had only 290 on record until Ed’s find.

If you discover a 2006 magnetic, no P, no logo specimen in your penny jar, you might get $50 for it. But the real prize is for uncirculated coins – factory fresh, mint condition.

And on eBay, one of the uncirculated pennies recently sold for $500, uncertified. Ed’s are certified, and he’s going to sell them for $635...

Here is the link for the entire article.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/talk/paul-wilson-ed-checks-his-penny-jar-and-finds-300-000-1.1380742

There are times when a mint produces coins on the wrong type of planchet.  And there are times when a magnet can be helpful in identifying those coins.

Did you know that most many Canadian coins are magnetic.  I had a pile and wanted to find any that might be silver.  After separating the non-magnetic copper pennies, I simply used a magnet to eliminate all of the magnetic coins, which were all but two.  One was a penny that I overlooked and the other was a 1963 Canadian dime.

I recreated the process for the following video.  

https://youtu.be/dO9HNBp-GDk

When I originally did this, I started with a much larger pile.  It only took seconds to eliminate all but the silver dime and copper penny.  I had no idea if there were any silver coins in the pile, but knew this was one quick way to tell.

Don't leave the coins in a big pile.  Spread them out.  Otherwise magnetic coins under non-magnetic coins may not get picked up, and non-magnetic coins on top of magnetic coins will get picked up and stuck between the magnetic coins and the magnet.

Now for the precautions.  This is a strong magnet.  It should not be used with valuable coins that can be damaged by scratches.  You can use a less strong magnet with no sharp edges.   You can cover the magnet with a cloth.  It will still work.  But if you have uncirculated or mint coins that might be valuable, this is not the right procedure.  For miscellaneous coins that you aren't worried about, it is a much quicker method of scanning coins than going through and checking the date of each one.

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Two  Brown Applied Lip Blown Bottles From Late 1800s.

These were probably beer or ale bottles.  The bubbles in the glass show they are blown as opposed to machine made bottles, and the lips are applied.  They probably both date to around 1880 or 1890.

The bottle on the left has I. C. CO. L.  on the bottom.

I.G.CO.L indicates the Ihmsen Glass Company, Limited, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (c.1876-1900). Also listed as Ihmsen Window Glass Company. Pittsburgh directory listings show this company included the “Limited” in their name from 1876 to c.1896.

Bottle on Left Above.
Applied Lip

Bottle on Right Above
Showing Applied Lip and Bubble Near Shoulder.

More views of these bottles are available in TGBottleBarn.blogspot.com.

Happy Independence Day.

Be Safe,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

1/4/17 Report - Miscellaneous Eye-balled Finds From Today. FUN Conference. Escudo Gift. Bigger Surf Coming?

Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.blogspot.com.

Piece of Cup Found This Morning.

Before breakfast this morning, I did a little eye-balling.  I saw a few interesting things.  One was the piece of ceramics shown above.

When I first saw it, my mind jumped to Kang'hsi.  But as quickly as that hope came to mind, it disappeared.  It didn't take long to see that it was not Kang'hsi.  For one thing, the paste was too coarse.

Bottom of Same Piece Showing Markings.

There is enough here that I should be able to identify the age and source of this piece when I get around to doing the research.

Another thing I found this morning was a blown, applied-top, olive green bottle shown below.

Bottle Found This Morning.

Notice the bubble in the glass near the base of the shoulder.  It has other bubbles as well.

Also found was the bottom piece of a torpedo bottle.  Too bad it was broken.

Bottom of Torpedo Bottle.

The glass is thick and not of consistent thickness.  That is why I was drawn to it when I saw it sticking out of the sand.

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The Florida United Numismatists Show will be at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center from January 5 -7  .  Sedwick Coins will be there if you want to see what treasure coins they have to offer.  They will also be accepting items for their upcoming May online auction.

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Nick gave Rachel the "first impression" rose.   Now that we have that important item out of the way...

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A Spanish one-escudo was given to a Salvation Army bell ringer in Indian River County this Christmas.  It was encased in plastic.

That was a nice act.

Here is the link to that story.

http://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-county/2016/12/24/christmas-treasure-finds-its-way-salvation-army-indian-river-county/95824712/

Thanks to Dean R. for that link.

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The video camera I usually use is not working right yet.  I was hoping I could fix it.  Not yet.

I haven't been out to the beach to detect yet this year.  Too many other responsibilities and things to attend to.

The surf prediction chart looks interesting.  If that holds, I'll be getting out to the beach for sure.

Happy hunting,

TreasureGuide@comcast.net