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| Ten Dollar Bill In Current Sedwick Auction. |
A couple days ago I talked about old paper money. There are a few lots in the current Sedwick auction. The bill above is lot number 115 and already has a bid of $850. Below is the lot description.
USA (Washington, D.C.), Legal Tender, $10, 1901, Vernon-Treat, serial B2856607. FR-116; KL-382. This appealing Bison note also features the portraits of famous explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. VF with light stains and a single pinhole in the bottom margin, overall good colors and appearance.
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Not too long ago I told about the find of a ten dollar gold coin. Here is a quick video showing what it would sound like if you were using a detector such as the Garrett Ace and if the coin was not in a jar or anything.
It was found buried in a jar with a metal lid though. And the ID meter didn't read "ten dollar gold coin." I often talk about not relying too much on discrimination or ID because a lot of the best finds won't be identified accurately for one reason or another.
The following video shows the same coin as it would sound in a jar with a metal lid. The jar and lid is not exactly the same as the one that originally contained the coin. That lid broke as I tried to open it.
If you were being selective about what you dig, you might have missed this one. Picking through junk can be tricky business.
As I've said before, many of the most interesting and valuable finds will not be things that are precisely identified by a metal detector ID meter or readout. They are often rare or complex items,or concealed, as this coin was, in something else.
Most of the Treasure Coast beaches are not very junky. I think that must be true of beaches everywhere. When I was hunting down south a lot, any beach that I hunted frequently would be pretty clean. I usually dug everything, and if you do that very much, there won't be much junk left after a while.
Things can be different at other kinds of sites. Picnic areas were usually covered with aluminum pull tabs, tin foil and other kinds of junk. For those types of sites, you might choose to pick through the junk without picking up all the trash. Then you might TRY to pick up the good stuff, while missing the junk, but you never know what good stuff you left behind.
Home sites usually have another kind of junk, including a lot of nails and rusty stuff. You can try to pick through that too, but there is still the danger of missing the best finds that way. As the fellow that sifted an entire home site showed, a metal detector search will miss the majority of coins.
You might try to save time by not picking up junk or low value targets. That is one strategy, but there is still the danger of missing something very good that way. Again, you never know what you miss, and maybe that is a good thing, and that is a good thing if you want to go away thinking you did a good job. You'll never know it if you didn't.
One area that I haven't spent a lot of time on is developing skill in picking good targets out of a very junky environment. I try to do it on rare occasions, but haven't really studied that process. I'm sure I could learn how to do it more effectively. I'm sure there are a lot of good tips and tricks to be learned for doing that, but I've always spent most of my time on the beaches. I haven't studied junky areas very much. That would probably be worth while, because a lot of other people are going to take the easy way out.
That is all for now.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
