6/3/18 Report - Money Saving Tip For Vets. Minelab Equinox User Experience. WW II Artifact Found by Young Girls. Old Coins.

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Source: Foxnews link below.

Two girls were playing in the water in a lake in Michigan when they felt an object that turned out to be a WW II practice bomb.

Here is that link.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/05/31/michigan-girls-discover-world-war-practice-bomb-while-diving-for-treasure-in-lake.html

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1907 V Nickle

This coin is in much better condition than the 1840 something dime that I posted yesterday. I have a variety of old coins to post now. For the older U.S. coins, this one isn't as worn as many of the others.

1907 V Nickel

It looks like there is some kind of cloth-like impression on the back of this nickel.

This one is only worth a few dollars.

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I have a correction to make.  You probably noticed that I showed a seated liberty dime yesterday but  I originally had in the text that it was a quarter.  Sorry.

Here is the other side of that dime.

Very Worn Seated Liberty Dime.

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Concerning the Minelab Equinox detector, Superrick had the following to say.

I have an 800 that I bought for Fla and the beaches. I put many hours into learning it on the beaches while in Fla. It's like any other detector and has some problems! The main one is that it is a dig every signal you get which can be a real pain if you don't know what you are doing with it.

Like any detector, it takes time to find all the little trick you can use with them to increase what you find with it. 

As you know I had an ATX and got rid of it because of the weight and the fact that it would not hit on a meteorite! If I lived in Fla. full time I would have kept it. It will go deep on the beach that's for sure! Buying a new metal detector is like going out on a blind date.   You never know what you are getting until you have used it a few times.  What looks beautiful can be the worst thing that ever happened to you! 

There is so much hype when a new detector hits the market you never know what you are getting! It always pays to wait a while before you buy any new detector! I'm back in Vegas and using the 800 out in the desert to see if I will find gold with it. My hunting buddy bought one also, and yesterday we went to an old park and I pulled out more stuff using my Deus.  

Now, with that said I've also taken the 800 to some paks out here that I thought that I cleaned out with my Deus, but I found stuff that I had missed with the Deus...

Thanks Rick.

Joe R. sent me some info that might save you over one hundred dollars if you are a veteran buying a new detector.  He said he got a 15% veterans discount when he recenty bought a detector, and said to look into it if you are in the market.  He said, I had to email a copy of my DD214 for proof that I was a veteran. The dealer requiring the documentation makes me think it may be Minelab offering the discount.

Thanks for that tip Joe. That is very good to know about.

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On the Treasure Coast we're having west winds and small tides and surf.  That makes for easy shallo water hunting.

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1/30/15 Report - V Nickle Find. Copper 1943 S Penny. Some More Observations On Learning To Use A Detector.

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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

1/11/15 Report - Mystery Pot For Age Determination. Variety Of Great Old Coin Finds. Diamond Ring Recovered From Inside Dog.

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I got this message a couple of days ago from Jonah M.

Jonah said, I went out last night to a beach that I've found really good treasure on with no ties to our 1715 beaches. And this is what I found . We find a lot of China and all sorts of pottery on our wrecks but this piece looks older I could be wrong ,but after a light cleaning this is as good as I could get it. It's about 4 inches tall with no marks on the bottom.  Please feel free thoughts on age.






Let me know what you think about the age of the pot.

Context is often one of the better indicators of the age or source of an object.

Remember, when beach conditions aren't right for one type of material, it might be a good time for other types of material.  I've said that in the past, but not recently.







Michael E. has been putting in a lot of field work.  That is one of the biggest determinants of finds.  If you want to find a lot, you have to put in the time.

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... still land hunting for me to begin the new year. Last 2 hunts have resulted in many items, and some nice coins. 1943 half dollar, 1891 v nickel, 1870 centimos, 1918 buffalo, all first for me, which most things still are. Still have a gift for you in my truck, hope to catch up one day. This is my gold from 2014, less 3 pieces found after this photo. I dedicated to swing hard, Long and often in 2014, really to see what could happen. My goal overal was 100 rings and 10k pennies. Only made 5.6k pennies but dug over 10k individual pieces of clad. With minimal time at local parks. Didn't think I would reach the ring goal, but amid a few other hunters at my usual beach on December 31, I recovered #100, 18k band...


Below are some of Michael's recent old coin finds.

Coins Found by Michael E.
Photos by Michael E.
 

Very nice.  Thanks for sharing guys!


Did you hear about the dog that swallowed an expensive diamond ring and wedding band?

Here is the link to a video on that.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/video/dog-with-expensive-taste-swallows-wedding-rings/381520963608/Comcast/StrangeVideos?cid=hero_sf_weird
 

Maybe you should run your detector over the animals you come across.


I got word of some reale finds from a couple of days ago. 


Looks like the Treasure Coast will get something like a three or four foot surf for a few days.   The wind won't be out of the North until Tuesday.

I'll put my beach detecting conditions rating back down to a 1.


That is all for today.

Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net