1/9/19 Report - Million Dollar Penny From Lunch Money. Reflecting on Metal Detecting and Error Coins.

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1943 Penny Thought Worth $1.7 Million.

Source: MSN.com link (See below).

This 1943 penny found in a boy's lunch money is going up for auction and thought to be worth $1.7 million dollars.  

As you know, to help the war effort pennies were made of zinc coated steel in 1943, but a small number (probably 20 or less) were mistakenly made of copper.  Those are among the most famous and valuable coin errors of all.

Here is the link for the story on this penny.  Thanks to Dean R. for the link.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/viral/holy-grail-rare-penny-might-be-worth-dollar17m-after-it-was-found-in-boys-lunch-money/vi-BBRYXAL?ocid=spartandhp

That is one reason I always pick up pennies and do not discriminate pennies..  They can be valuable too if you know what to look for.

Unfortunately I did not learn much about coin collecting and error coins until fairly recently.  I received a book as a Christmas present - Strike It Rich With Pocket Change: Error Coins Bring Big Money by Ken Potter and dr. Brian Allen.  The Potter and Allen book only covers modern US coins up to recent years, so you might need to occasionally consult other sources.  There are older error coins and new errors being discovered all the time.
  
Not only can you scan your finds for valuable coins, but you can also find valuable coins in your pocket change.   I now enjoy doing both.

Don't think you will find a lot error coins all the time.  The majority of coins do not have any extra value - especially those in poor condition - but you will find some, and there is always the possibility of something big like the penny shown above.  Condition is an important factor, even if the error is rare.

I have one book that lists around 800 different valuable Lincoln cent errors from 1909 up to recent years.  That is only pennies, so you can figure how many types of error coins exist.

That book is Lincoln Cent Error Coin Guide 2019, by Stan McDonald.  The Potter and Allen book is a much better book if you want to identify error coins.  The McDonald book only lists them.  It has very few pictures and is not much help in identifying error coins - only listing them.

Valuable error coins include die errors, such as doubled dies, repunched mint marks, off-center strikes, struck on wrong planchet, struck on wrong metal (such as the one above), die cracks, lamination errors, clipped planchets, strike-throughs and more.

Wheat Penny Showing Strike-through

In the short time I've been looking for error coins I've found some interesting die cracks and strike-throughs.  I haven't found any good doubled dies yet, or any certain repunched mint marks.

The coincommunity.com web site is very helpful when you aren't sure about a coin.  The community will provide their helpful comments and opinions on your coins.  There are also web sites that will verify and classify error error coin discoveries.

When you begin searching for error coins, it might be frustrating.  It can be difficult to tell the difference between damaged coins and coins with real mint errors.  And as you would expect, valuable examples are not real common, yet they can be found.

The strike-through shown above was created by something being on the coin planchet when the coin was struck.  It could easily be mistaken for a simple scratch, but it is not.

Damaged Coin - Not Error Coin

This penny might look like an error coin, but it is only a coin damaged by acid.  That is the opinion of people more expert than I.

I do recommend giving it a try.  The Potter and Allen book can be a good starting place.  It has a lot of pictures and tells you what to look for.

Like anything else, you have to go through a period of learning to become knowledgeable.  That is why good books and web sites are very helpful.  It is another one of those things that you can never learn everything about.  It is a continuing learning process.

I've said this before, but one of the problems with coins that are found by metal detectors is that a lot of them are in poor condition and coin collectors generally only like coins in fine condition.  Even error coins must be in great condition to bring the highest prices.

Learning about error coins and coin varieties can make coin-shooting more interesting and profitable even when it is not easy to find older silver and gold coins.

Another thing you will need is some good magnification.   There are a variety of tools you might use for that.  Maybe I'll do another post on that some day.

Of all the regrets that I have about metal detecting, the vast majority were caused by simply not knowing enough a the time.  I wish I had known more about coin collecting back when I was really digging a lot of coins.  When I started metal detecting I was targeting coins.  Later I started targeting gold, but was still digging tons of coins.  I wish I had known what to look for when all of those coins passed through my hands.

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We haven't been getting much surf lately.  Friday it might be up to four feet, but that is all.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

7/5/18 Report - Francly Speaking About Two 1938 French Coins. Searching For Mint Errors.

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2 Franc Coin - 1938

This is an aluminum-bronze coin worth 20 cents to five dollars depending upon condition.

Reverse of Same 1938 2 Franc Coin

I've been going through a lot of foreign coin finds lately.  A good number of older ones are from a cache, and some that are not as old are old beach finds that I just put aside, not knowing much about them.  

A lot of Canadian coins were found in Hollywood Florida over the years, for example.  A lot of those I showed in the magnet demonstration yesterday were from there. 

Here is a photo showing the two 1938 French coins that I'm showing today.  As you can see, the 2-franc coin is much bigger than the 50 centimes coin.  Otherwise they are very similar.

1938 2 Francs Compared to 1938 Fifty Centimes.

Below is the fifty centimes coin.  I should wipe this one off.

1938 2 Centime Coin.

This one is also aluminum-bronze and worth about the same as the 2 francs coin.

Reverse of Same 1938 2 Centime Coin.

Unlike Canadian coins, only about twenty percent of a large group of miscellaneous foreign coins (mostly from the sixties, seventies and eighties) I scanned were magnetic.

A good magnet can be used in a lot of ways.

You can actually test silver with a neodymium magnet.  Silver won't snap to it like ferrous metals, but you can slightly move silver with it.

If you have an old dead computer around, you can find a neodymium magnet by taking the hard drive apart.

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I never seriously searched for coins up until a few weeks ago.  I started looking through bunches of old coins.  I hate the idea of missing a valuable old coin simply because I didn't look or didn't know any better.  What I learned is that like with a lot of things, it takes time and practice to become effective.  It is more complicated and difficult than I expected.

Everybody has heard of double-die coins, and how they can be valuable.  Well, it turns out that there are a lot of kinds of doubling you will see on coins, and most of them are not valuable.  You have to learn to tell the difference.

A lot of what first likes a mint error is actually damage that occurred to the coin after it left the mint.  It can take some detective work to tell if something is a mint error or not.

There are also a lot of different kinds of coin errors, and many of them you will never see unless you know exactly what to look for.  For example, one digit of the date might be a touch smaller on some coins.  If you didn't know exactly what to look for, you would never expect the coin to be different or valuable - it would look like a perfectly normal coin.

I was surprised that in learning about errors I had to learn more about the minting process, and some of that applies to silver and gold cobs despite the fact that they were hand punched.  They still made die, and those die sometimes got cracked or damaged.  You will see some things that are similar on both modern coins and old treasure coins.

There are a heck of a lot of different coins, dates, countries, mints, etc. etc. to know about.  There is a lot to learn, but if you decide to get into it seriously, you might enjoy it, and you might even discover something of value.  It does take time and effort.

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Looks like we're in for more south winds and one to two foot surf.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

6/15/18 Report - Multiple Error Eight-Reale. 100 Top U. S. Error Coins. Coins and Cash.

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1775 8-reale Error Coin.
Source: MintErrorNews.com (See link below.)

But what has happened to this particular piece? First, it was struck slightly off-center to about 7:30 o’clock. Then it flipped over and was struck a second time, about 75% off-center to 7:00. However, during the second strike it was sandwiched between the obverse die on one side, and the obverse of an already struck coin on the other. This produced a partial brockage (indent of the the obverse of an already struck coin) on the obverse of our coin, and a clear flip-over, double-strike on the reverse. The 1775 date is indicated by the “75” that shows from the second strike on the reverse...

Here is the link for the rest of that article.

Source: https://minterrornews.com/issue3.pdf

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I've been spending some time looking through coins to see if I can find any good mint errors.  An error penny can be worth more than a Royal escudo.  Mint Error News lists one error penny that sold for 1.7 million dollars.  In fact they list 100 error coins, all of which sold for over $29,000.

Here is a list of the top 100.

https://minterrornews.com/news-1-10-12_top_100_prices.html

If you want to learn about war pennies struck on the wrong metal or three legged Buffaloes, take a look.

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I received a few thoughts on the mystery item I posted yesterday, but will wait a few more days to see if I get any more responses before I tell you what I think it is.  Please send your ideas on that.

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According to the Federal Reserve web site there is about thee times the amount of cash in circulation today as there was in 1997.

Today there is something over $1.6 trillion.  I don't know why there is so much increase.  I wouldn't expect that.

Here are some interesting tables.

Here is the source link for those tables.

https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/money-finance/how-many-dollar-bill-circulated/

I was trying to find how many coins are thought to be in circulation today, but couldn't find that.  I bet they have no idea how many are lost.

Over half of all coins produced in 2016 were pennies.

How many coins and bills are lost, collected or stored away is another thing.

Happy hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net

6/12/18 Report - How to Get More Fun and Money Out of Your Coin Finds. 1719 Battlefield Surveyed.

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A find is the beginning for another hunt.  After the find comes research, which adds additional  meaning, interest and value to the find.  That is true for coins as well as artifacts - even what are apparently common coins.

There are coins in circulation today that are worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars.  As you would suspect, such coins are rare, but you still might be lucky enough to find a good one if you carefully check the coins you have.

If you've been detecting very long, you've probably found a lot of coins.  Even pennies can be valuable if they have a mint error.

Most of us spend our common coins without paying too much attention to them, but you might enjoy and even profit from going through them very carefully.

First though, familiarize your self with the types of coins you have and what to look for.

There are many web sites such as this one entitled Lincoln Penny Key Dates, Rarities and Varieties (  https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/lincoln-wheat-penny-768219 ).

That one is not necessarily the best.  It is just one of many that provides useful information.

I've been spending some time searching for errors lately and learned a few things that might make it easier for you.

I'd recommend categorizing your coins before you begin.  It is much easier to search one type of coin and date at a time.  You can research that type of coin at a site like the one I just mentioned and then go through those coins.  There  is just too much to remember to go through a bunch of random coins and dates.  It is much easier if you know what you are looking for and look at one type and date at a time while the known errors that you found through your research are still fresh in your mind.

Another advantage of doing one type and date at a time is that you can compare coins.  After you've seen several of a particular type and date you'll quickly notice any that appear different.  Maybe it is one digit in the date that is smaller, larger or in some other way different.

Unfortunately many of the coins found by detectorists have been buried, banged up or corroded.  That makes many coins, even with errors, less valuable.  It also makes it difficult to identify any errors.

Some mint errors are common or inconsequential, while others are valuable.  If coins are damaged, it is hard to tell if something suspicious is an error or something that happened to the coin after it went into circulation.  That can require some real detective work.

In the coins that I've been searching lately I've found a variety of surprising things.  One coin was made to look like what is called a "greaser," which is a coin that was struck through grease, resulting in an unclear image on part of the coin.  It has been determined though, that that coin, a wheat penny, actually had acid applied to it in such a way that the image was blurred.  The coin weighed two grams less than a normal wheatie, which would not have been the case if the coin was actually struck through grease.

Even something as seemingly simple as a double die error can be difficult to see and identify.  Some are small, and double die errors can easily be confused with die bounce, which is not the same thing.

As with everything, knowledge helps.  If you just want to go through a stack of coins and hope to find something odd, you'll probably miss important things.

There are some types of damage that are difficult to distinguish from true mint errors.  The easiest thing is to scan coins that are in pretty good shape to begin with and know what kinds of errors are known to exist for that type of coin.

Many valuable errors are not easy to see.  I would consider some type of magnification to be absolutely necessary.

I have a little lighted system that I use to make some of my coin photos.  It blows the coin image up several times and makes it much easier to scan for errors.

In summary, you can add to your enjoyment of common coin finds and possibly find something interesting, but you need to do a little research first.

Again, I highly recommend, starting with one small class of coins, depending upon what you have.  If you have enough coins, maybe start with steel pennies, war nickels, or certain dates of wheat pennies.  The more coins you scan, the better chance you have of finding a coin worth something, and the more you'll learn in the process.

The most valuable coins are rare, so it might take some work, but if you search enough coins, you probably will find at least some of the more common error coins and you'll learn enough to be on the alert for the more valuable coins.

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Here is an excerpt of a nice article from Scotsman.com.

...The catalyst for the 1719 Rising was the outbreak of war between Spain and Britain the year before.

The Spanish saw the benefit of resurrecting a Jacobite uprising for increasing pressure on the British government and offered the Jacobites an alliance and assistance in war, according to the inventory of Scotland’s battlefield.

Around 5,000 Spanish soldiers set off to invade Britain but the fleet was wrecked by a storm off the south coast of England and the manoeuvre abandoned.However, a smaller contingent led by Jacobite George Keith, 10th Earl Marischal Keith, of Dunnottar Castle, was on its way from the Basque country and set up camp at Eilean Donan Castle.

In May, the castle - traditional seat of Clan Mackenzie - was attacked by the Royal Navy with 39 Spanish marines taken prisoner....

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/study-at-battlefield-glen-where-spanish-joined-the-jacobites-1-4753199

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We should soon start to hear from the local salvage crews about the new finds made this year.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

9/5/17 Report - Still Watching Irma Predictions. Error Coin Web Sites.

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Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

Here are the MagicSeaWeed surf predictions for Sebastian (above) and Fort Pierce (below).

Both show a pretty big surf for this coming Sunday.  It starts to increase late Friday or early Saturday. 

The predicted peak surf for both locations at this time is above 12 feet.

 Source: MagicSeaWeed.com.

Irma Tracks Shown on WunderGround.com After 2 AM Update.

It seems the predicted paths are trending towards the Florida west coast.  See the tracks as shown on WunderGround.com (above).

Position of Irma as Shown on Windyty.com for 1 PM Monday.

Above is the position of Irma as predicted by running Windyty.com after Irma has passed us.  It ran up along the west coast of Florida.

Below is what you see if you ran the Ventusky web site Monday morning before the 5AM update.

Position of Irma as Predicted by the Ventusky Web Site.

Both the Ventusky and Windyty web sites now show Irma passing to the west of the Treasure Coast.

It is too early to make much out of these predictions.  There is still a lot of time left for changes.

This seems very reminiscent of Matthew, which we watched last year.

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 For a more pleasant diversion, here are a couple web sites about error coins.

MintErrorNews.com shows an issue of the online magazine.  The sample issue is no. 42.  You can easily find the other issues.

Here is the link.

http://minterrornews.com/issue42.pdf

And below is the link for the error coin section of JimsCoins.com.

http://www.jimscoins.com/error_coin_examples.php

It seems like a long time ago, but a few days ago I posted a picture of what I thought might be a die cap strike nickel.  I haven't seen anything to change my opinion on that but would like to hear from anyone who might have an opinion on that conclusion.

I'll probably update this post some time later today.

Be safe,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

5/10/17 Report - Small Change on the Beach. Mule and Other Error Coins. In the Dumps. Florida Wildfires.

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Mule Quarter
Source: See link below.

I haven't talked about coins much lately.  It seems that you don't find as many coins on the beaches anymore.  People aren't carrying money as much.

Down south there were a lot of places where people needed change when they went to the beach, either to feed the parking meters or to pay park entrance fees.  That meant more change on the beach.  

On the Treasure Coast the beach accesses are mostly free.  And there are few places where there are concession stands.  That means less change on the beach.

I used to detect some places where there was evidently some type of paid parking next to the beach in the old days. All that remained at one such location was an old wooden post and a small section of a packed shell road right next to the beach where I believe people must have paid their parking fees. The road was very close to the water at that point and actually eroded when the water was rough. That was a good place to find lots of old coins when the bank eroded. I once got five mercury dimes in one scoop. There were older coins and some old jewelry there too. It was very good detecting when it eroded.  I suspect that it is still very good detecting when it erodes.

There was one place where I found a lot of Susan Anthony dollars in the shallow surf. I never understood why that would be.

I believe it is still a good idea to take a good look at any coins you might find. There is always the possibility of something interesting popping up. You never know when you might pick up an error coin. I've dug a few over the years.

I've been finding an odd number of wheat pennies. I don't know if people have decided to spend their collections or what.  They are in good condition.

Mule coins are one type of error coin. You can easily miss them. A mule coin is a coin struck with dies that were not intended to be paired. "The most prominent of these would likely be the 14 Sacagawea dollar planchets struck by a Washington quarter dollar obverse die and a Sacagawea dollar reverse die.” The quarter at the top of this post is one example.

Collector Tommy Bolack wrangled his 10th Sacagawea dollar/Statehood quarter mule during an Aug. 6 Stack’s Bowers Galleries auction for a total price of $117,500.

Here is the link for the rest of the article.

http://www.coinworld.com/numismatic/collector-basics/start-your-collection/coin-world-mule-error-coins-collecting-basics-numismatics-87398475.all.html

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Recent construction uncovered an early 1800s dump in Iowa that yielded thousands of artifacts.  This article raises many issues that I could discuss but I won't take the time to do it now.

Old dumps are good places to find old things.  They won't appeal to people that hunt modern jewelry.  You might be able to find old jewelry if you explore enough old dumps, but more often you'll find broken or cheap items.

Old dumps are explored especially by bottle hunters.  They are especially challenging for detectorists because of the prevalence of old cans, iron and other miscellaneous pieces of metal.

I'd love to be able to go dig up the old burn pile areas and dumps where I grew up. Some of them existed long before I came along. As a kid there was one dump in a field below an old farm house where we would get bottles to shoot with our bb guns.  We'd take them up the creek, throw them in, then run down to where there was a high cliff looking out over the creek, and sit there and shoot the bottles as they floated down the creek.

A lot of bottles were tossed in depressions or dips where water run off.  Such places are worth scanning.

You might know that on the Treasure Coast, the lagoon was used as a dump before there was garbage pickup.  As a result tons of bottles and things can be found in the river when conditions are right.

There are also places where you can see the remains of burn piles on the bank of the lagoon.

Here is the link to the article about archaeologists exploring the 1800s dump.

http://globegazette.com/news/iowa/excavation-uncovers-major-iowa-archaeological-site/article_76945ace-935e-513f-b5e3-d0946d7c39b2.html

One of the issues relevant to that article, is how much actual archaeological value items in discarded in a dump might have.  Does the context of those items provide any information?  Like I said, I won't get into all of those kinds of discussions today.

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“Florida is in the middle of its worst wildfire season in years – with no end in sight,” Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Adam Putnam said in a May 8 statement."

Of course that means you need to be careful with cigarette butts and campfires, but for the detectorist there is another side to wildfires.  Fires can remove brush and open up new detecting territory that might have been protected by vegetation for a long time.

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This is the last day of the current blog poll.

More small surf coming.  No change in beach conditions.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

2/25/14 Report - Florida Coin Shooter's Dream Come True! Reader Of This Blog Finds 335 Silver Coins On One Small Lot!

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Silver Coins Dug By One Reader At One Small Site.
Look at that parade of Walking Halves!
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Finally!  I've been itching to tell you about this for months now.  Finally I can do it. Remember, you got it here first, right here on the Treasurebeachesreport.BlogSpot.com.

Back in April of 2014 a small run-down condemned bungalow built in Florida in the early 1900s was condemned and demolished. Old silver coins spilled out of the walls - 60 pounds of them. But that is not what I'm going to tell you about today.  I'm going to tell you about what happened when one of this blog's readers, who will remain anonymous, followed up on the story.

Here is what he had to say.

 

When I read the news of the hoard and the method it was discovered, I thought some of the silver coins might have made it into the ground.  I was cautiously optimistic, but when I heard that the demo work had occurred months before I thought surely the area had been scoured since it was an open secret amongst the city workers, as there were multiple workers on site when the coins were initially discovered.  I worked out a deal with the current owner to split my finds 50/50.  I found one coin in the first half hour (a 1906 Barber dime unrelated to the hoard) before finding a large concentration of coins.  In about 3 hours I found 125 silver coins, many of them halves.  In one expanding hole I found 30 silver coins!

Silver Coins Found First Day On The Site.
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The search was made much more difficult because 6-8 inches of fill had been spread on top of the site after demolition.  Many of the coins were deep and gave marginal signals.  There was also a huge amount of trash.   After searching the area over eight visits using every method that I could muster, including different swing directions, different coils, trash removal, digging all questionable signals, searching after hard rain, and even blind digging in spots, I found thirty more coins after having 4-6 inches removed with a Bobcat (I have a family connection and how I wish I had access to that Bobcat all the time!).

Silver Coins Found Second Day On Site.
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I searched carefully for buried jars, but no luck with further caches.

My total silver count for the site was 335 coins.

One other quick note.  A city worker who was on-site the day the coins were discovered during demolition said that their project manager was impatient and did not want to delay the demo job for long while the coins were collected.  They carefully picked up all they saw, but scoops of dirt and debris had already been loaded in the dumpster prior to discovery.  The worker pulled out a few handfuls of dirt…and found silver coins.  The site manager did not want to search that dirt so it was hauled to the dump!  After hearing this story, I made some effort to find out the exact location the debris was dumped but, since it occurred several months prior, the search was fruitless.  I guess silver coins are still being lost!

 

Congratulations!!  And thanks or sharing.  It is always good to see people do so well. 

 

Back when the project started the detectorist commented to me on how going back over the same ground in different ways was productive.

 

There are some good hints in that story.

 

In that number of coins, and they look to be in very nice condition, there have to be some good dates and maybe even some error coins.

 

I was invited to be in on the project from the beginning, but tried to give what advice and assistance I could via email.  I missed a lot of fun, but I'm happy about the outcome nonetheless.

 

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net

 

 

8/28/14 Report - Million Dollar Eight Reale? Christobal & Three Disturbances. Battle of Blair Mountain. Error State Quarters.

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Million Dollar Coin?
Source of photo: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=9a501b2f-1cb3-4254-b702-c38b9ca8b983&c=116708e0-3539-11e3-b96a-d4ae52844279&ch=12520520-3539-11e3-ba6f-d4ae52844279

 

Is this a million dollar coin?  We'll find out this November when it is auctioned by Sedwick Coins in Orlando.

The auction estimate is $500,000 to $1,000,000.

Minted in Mexico in 1538, this 8 reale was found on a shipwreck in the 1990s.  This is one of three known to exist and is considered to be the first dollar-sized coin minted in the New World.  This is the first time it will be offered publicly.

Here is the link for more information.

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?ca=9a501b2f-1cb3-4254-b702-c38b9ca8b983&c=116708e0-3539-11e3-b96a-d4ae52844279&ch=12520520-3539-11e3-ba6f-d4ae52844279

Three Disturbances and Christobal
Source: www.nhc.noaa.gov

We're certainly seeing more activity in the Atlantic.  Christobal is headed towards Iceland.  One disturbance passed over the West Indies and is heading towards the Gulf.  One is sitting over the Southern coast of Texas, and one is just about to leave Africa.

Padre Island is getting four to six foot waves, building to overhead today.

The 2014 Outer Banks Pro (surfing competition) started Wednesday because the waves were coming in at the head high to overhead range.  

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to pop down on any beach at any time you wanted? 

On the Treasure Coast, if that is where you are, this is the last day of 3 - 5 foot surf.  This weekend it will slack off and get back to a 1 - 2 foot surf.  At least that will give you a chance to get out a little farther where the waves were hitting the past few days.

I'm curious about the path of these next two potential storms.

Source: archive.archeology.org link.

Here is a pistol from the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain. 

Detectorists helped to locate the position of skirmishes by locating concentrations of bullets and shells.  I don't remember that being mentioned in the article, but maybe it was.  It has been a while since I read the article.

The following link provides a good article on the effort to save the mountain as a historic site, ironically, from mining operations.

http://archive.archaeology.org/1201/features/blair_mountain_coal_activism_west_virginia.html


Coin errors are out there and they can make a big difference in the value of a coin.  I've found a few while detecting.  There are so many possible die errors that it can be difficult to know what to look for.

There are a lot of mint errors on the state quarters.  Here is one article showing a lot of the easily noticed errors as well as a few of the more difficult to detect errors.

http://koinpro.tripod.com/Articles/finding_states_quarters_errorsa_.htm

Source: www.koinpro.tripod.com link above.

Some of these errors make the quarter worth hundreds of dollars.  That is something you won't want to miss.

For example, this 1999-P Pennsylvania state quarter shows the faint image of the opposite side of the coin on both sides.  This quarter is worth about $700.

It is easy to let some good treasures go simply because you don't know about them. 

It can be worth taking a good look at your coin finds and doing some research.







And here is a another web site showing some more difficult to detect errors found on state quarters.  Some of these you really have to know about or you would never notice them.  For example on one you need to know how many trees there are supposed to be.

http://www.blifaloo.com/info/more-rare-coins.php

Have some fun hunting error coins.


Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net