9/2/18 Report - Finding Silver Among World Coins Using a Magnet. Hidden Medieval Doorway Under Castle Found. Tropical Storm Seven.

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

Silver 1941 Netherlands Quarter /

Do you know how many silver coins you've found?  I didn't.

If you metal detect around Florida resort areas very much you'll find coins from all over the world.  I had a accumulated quite a few and didn't know much about them, so a few weeks ago I asked my readers if anyone had any good ideas what to do with miscellaneous world coins.

The first thing I decided to do was take a better look at them.  One step in the process was to run a magnet over groups of coins.  That will give you information about what they are made of.   It can be a good thing to do when you are looking for silver coins.

Some coins, including a lot of Canadian nickels and quarters will stick to the magnet.  The silver ones won't though.  That is one quick way to scan for silver coins.

As another example, running a magnet over a bunch of pennies, will help you find the steel war pennies, which will stick to the magnet.  But I want to talk about foreign coins now.

Just the other day I was looking through some Canadian coins.  You can find a lot of those on some Florida beaches.  Not knowing much about them,I  just put them aside unless there was something very obvious that stuck out to me.   Using the magnet test, I quickly found three silver Canadian coins, plus the coin above, which is not Canadian but which was in with the Canadian coins.

So I guess I'll take a better look through my miscellaneous world coins before deciding what I'll do with most of them.

There are some very valuable Canadian error and variety coins.  It takes some research to know what to look for, but these days you can do that research online.  Here is link to a good web site on Canadian coins.  It covers most anything you might need to know about Canadian coins.

http://calgarycoin.com

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Archaeologists investigating a cave in the cliffs below Culzean Castle have discovered the remains of a medieval doorway.

The doorway had lain hidden for centuries under rocks and sand thrown up by the stormy seas.

The current Culzean Castle, which is perched on coastal cliffs near Maybole in Ayrshire, was designed by Robert Adam in the late 18th Century.

But the caves system in the cliffs goes back much further...

Here is that link for more about that.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-45361704

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The tropics are becoming more active.  There is Tropical Storm Florence and another area coming off Africa, but the most important for us right now is the system that has been hanging around down by Hispaniola.

Source: nhc.noaa.gov

There is some chance that it will become a tropical storm and pass over South Florida and into the Gulf, as shown below.

Source; nhc.noaa.gov

It looks like it won't do a lot for the Treasure Coast beaches.  The surf will increase to three to five feet on Monday, but it looks like the wave angles won't be good.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.netRe

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

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

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