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| V Nickle Find Photo by Dan B. |
Here is Dan's first V Nickel find.
Congratulations Dan.
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Have you ever found a copper 1943 S penny? I really doubt it. If you have you are very lucky.
Here is how one such penny was found. Kenneth Wing was 14 years old in 1944 when he made his rarest penny find. The penny was dated 1943-S, but it was made of copper, rather than the expected zinc-coated steel. Wing took the coin to his local coin dealer who made him a very generous offer for the time, $500, but Wing said he didn't want to sell the coin...
Kenneth tried to have the coin authenticated, obtaining the opinion of experts from the Smithsonian as well as coin grading services and other experts. Some thought it was not authentic, but eventually it was accepted as authentic.
The coin was put in a safe deposit box and forgotten until Kenneth passed away. The heirs were able to sell the coin with documentation for $72,500.
Click here to see the entire story about this copper 1943 S penny.
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According to Kovels Komments, New York State now includes mammoth ivory in its ivory ban. The state decided the federal ban wasn’t strong enough. Jewelers have been making expensive jewelry with mammoth ivory legally found on private property. This means antique scrimshaw and jewelry with mammoth ivory can’t be sold or exported. Jewelers say it is possible to tell ancient mammoth ivory from new ivory. But the New York State conservation office says it is difficult and that new ivory may be altered to look like old, so the ban is needed. New Jersey has also banned mammoth ivory and California has a bill in the works.
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Some detectors can be mastered relatively quickly, but others can take much more time.
Recently I saw a fellow at a beach using a cheap detector. I felt a little sorry for the fellow. I doubt that he knew what his detector would or wouldn't do. He was swinging the coil about a foot off of the ground. If I wasn't in such a hurry I would have stopped and had a talk with him. I seriously doubt that he could have detected a coin on the surface with that detector, certainly not while his coil was so high off the ground.
Something like that is easy to demonstrate. I've said it before. Do some tests. I bet that fellow would have been shocked and disappointed to learn that he couldn't detect a single coin the way he was going.
The longer I detect the more use I find for test objects. I almost always have a few test objects with me when I'm in the field now, most especially when I'm using a detector that I haven't thoroughly mastered. I'm also thinking that a lot of the time people have not thoroughly mastered their detector, even sometimes when the think they have.
As you move from one environment to another, performance will change. As you move from dry sand to wet sand to moving water, performance will change. Lately I've been testing a new detector and using test objects to see how the detector responds to different types of objects under different circumstances. I've learned how some settings will change performance in some environments, but not all of them. I pretty much know how many inches I'll lose in a high EMI environment as compared to a low EMI environment, for example. I also pretty much know about how many inches I gain or lose on different types of targets as I move from one environment to another.
Maybe I'm slow, but it is taking me quite a while to really get it all down. You can learn a lot by using different test objects in different environments with different settings. I'm continuing to learn and know that I have a lot more tests to do before I can be satisfied that I really know as much as I want to know about using this new detector.
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On the Treasure Coast expect more of the same with maybe a slight increase in the surf this weekend.
If you look at the surfing web site, they are predicting a big surf (something like 10 feet) for next weekend. As I've commented before, those big predictions that are a week out are seldom correct. My bet would be that the big surf predicted for next weekend will change in a couple days. Nine out of ten times it does.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net
