Popular Post Sirius Posted March 27 Popular Post Share Posted March 27 The beach I was on had a ton of finds but usually only at this one spot in front of a house. Usually the finds were scarce before the house, and there's practically nothing further down the beach either. The first target was the bullet encased in rock close to the parking lot. The next group of targets I hit was the coin line in front of the house. There, I found various coins, including a silver Roosevelt dime. Thinking I had cleared the area, I ventured further down hoping that something about the beach changed, that would allow for coin lines. In the end I found nothing worth mentioning, except the lucky out of place silver ring that just happened to be there. Venturing even further, I found nothing, so I backtracked and was going to check that coin line again just incase I missed anything. On the way back, my detector picked up this low tone 24-26-32 target. I Dug the target and found this folded up coppery looking thing which i thought was a piece of junk. The strip of metal had spiral designs on it and was brown in color with some copper tarnish. At that point I thought it was copper junk jewelry with some gold plating and just tossed it in my finds pouch. When I got a better look at it today, I thought that it might be something of value, so I checked with my detector again and it rang up gold numbers. "Strange" I thought to myself. "This warrants further investigation." So I decided electrolysis would be the answer, and worked on cleaning this item up along with a few other things I found curious. Turns out this "copper" strip of metal was not copper at all, but was so heavily tarnished (and still kinda is) that it hid the gold underneath. This was indeed gold. But just to make sure, I did the acid test and it is indeed 10k gold. Quite a lucky find, but I think there's a lesson in all of this: clean your copper looking jewelry if it rings up as gold. 😉 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valens Legacy Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Nice find and I hate finding bullets when detecting as you never know what they might do. Good luck on your next hunt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. MI Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Nice find. It looks old. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirius Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 9 hours ago, Valens Legacy said: Nice find and I hate finding bullets when detecting as you never know what they might do. Good luck on your next hunt. Pretty sure that it's been in the ocean long enough for the gunpowder/primer to become inactive. perfectly safe as far as i'm concerned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirius Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 2 hours ago, Rick N. MI said: Nice find. It looks old. That beach is close to 100 years old if not older, people have found seated coins there, so it has alot of potential. The one thing that is bad about it is that you have to pay to get in which lowers chances of finding stuff in my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPT_GhostLight Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Great hunt, Sirius, with gold, silver, brass, & lead, and a silver Rosie, well done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamid Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Interesting finds😮 Congratulations 🎉🎊🥇😎 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strick Posted March 30 Share Posted March 30 Looks like part of an old sugar tong to me..some can be very fancy and delicate. strick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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