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  1. I decided to take yesterday off to get some things done. My main goal was to head to Lancaster to pick up some cabbage for homemade Sauerkraut. Bob texted me a photo of his Rosie so I gave him a call to congratulate him on his find. I wasn't planning on detecting, but now I had some motivation to head out for a couple of hours. Where to I thought. I was home and didn't feel like driving too far, so I decided to hit my spot across the street. Still experimenting with single freq's I thought it might be a good idea to run 40 for some gold targets. The first hour was foil some clad and crap. The second hour was way better. Deciding to move closer to the house I got a fringe tone that sounded to good to pass up. At the 10'' mark I almost filled the hole back in. Glad I didn't because at 12'' I hit the seam of a really nice crotal bell. Ten minutes later I got one way copper tone that rang up 20-21 which turned out odd for the coin that was in the hole. It was another deep target, and at 10'' I saw the edge of a large copper coin. At first I thought it was your typical Matron head large cent. As it turns out it was a Draped Bust, sadly no date was visible. On to more foil products. No good targets were showing up and I decided to pack it in. I was just about back to the truck swinging as I was walking. BOOM I got a good silver tone. At 6'' I pulled out a silver spoon ring. I could just make out ST on the cut end of the ring, so it's not plated. Overall my day was pretty awesome. My friends did well on their digs and I found some good stuff, AND I got cabbage!!!
    12 points
  2. Minelab could take some lessons from Milwaukee. This is how a company which respects it's customers responds. Summary: Milwaukie released a new impact wrench with a redesigned mechanism inside, and it failed for a number of people. Milwaukie responded within a week, stopped production. They explained what the problem was and that they had investigated it, which model #'s were affected, admitted the design was flawed and didn't stand up to the brand name reputation and quality, acknowledged the customer feedback, and described how to get a replacement tool for free that was guaranteed not to have the problem, so there was no question what was or wasn't being actually fixed. Further, they acknowledged another problem pertaining to electrical issues which some users experienced and others didn't - leading to questions about if it was really a problem or not (sound familiar?). They published that too just so that it was clear that there was an issue with products with a specific part # users could reference to clear matters up. If Milwaukee can do it for $200 drills, then Minelab can do it for $6000 detectors. Yet a year down the road, the fix is still hidden to 99.67% of the world still today (if not for this thread). That's a real number.
    10 points
  3. I got a bug up my rear to do a park hunt yesterday after I seen the gold ring that 350 found. First target 12-12 on the CTX. 14k over 10 grams...about 6 inches deep...been there a while. It would ring up higher but the band is broken. There are thousands of foil and pull tabs in this park not to mention bottle caps. The CTX 3030 is the George Washington of detectors (It cannot tell a lie) It's my favorite machine for trashy park hunting. Notice what is missing in the trash photos...bottle caps. I never dug one. The CTX can effectively eliminate them and still find the tiniest of foil and gold. There is no interrogation of the target no raising and lowering the coil...no looking at jumpy numbers etc...you just wont hear the bottle caps with the custom programs...there is a reason it's still king of the hill on minelabs vlf team. All I want is a faster CTX hopefully the Beast will fit the bill. BTW all I dug after that was trash and coins...even went back this morning for another 2 hour hunt just trash and coins. strick
    9 points
  4. Oh my gold. I was trying out a new coin program on the legend and found this 10k ring in my own yard. Now we have lived here for over 35 years. Great little excitement on a Saturday morning
    9 points
  5. I held an Axiom today! A new tester/reviewer has one and he showed it to a few of us. It is very light and well balanced with a solid 'stick' sort of feel. I didn't get the sense of a coil heavy device. Reminds me of the Equinox with the 6" coil. It sounded great with the onboard speaker. I'm sure if they are not near a release date, he can provide a present evaluation to be considered. I'll see it again tomorrow and maybe use it.
    8 points
  6. There's a big festival here at the campground so I got out early today before people started setting up, only had 3 or 4 hours. I was hoping to find more jewelry, and I did, but it was junk. A tiny toe ring that said "Love", and a cheap aluminum ring. I dug a lot of trash today, my personal wedding ring is a 15/16 so every pull tab that had those numbers came up 😀 the aluminum ring was the same. Got a lot of coins again, mostly dimes. I expect clad here, Zincolns and copper memorials, but when I went over to the fence at the entrance I was very surprised to dig a coin I have not found as yet: My first silver Roosevelt dime, a 1949. 🥳 I've dug Mercury dimes, even seated dime and half dime. In 2 1/2 years I have never got a Roosevelt. There are a lot of other coins for me yet, but it was great to be surprised with one here. Even more surprising, it is an "S" mint dime, extremely rare to find on the east coast. 🤪 A key date. Ended up with $2.06 more in the box, the coins just keep coming. Since I found silver, lunch was on me, and my wife and I got a beer and watched the band. I have never found a silver coin at this campground after digging hundreds of them, so that makes it a real prize.
    8 points
  7. If you can't get permission you can always put a pair of running shoes on and carry a police radio.... should give ya 3 min head start 🙂 Old parking areas can have a lot of older deeper finds. Take your time and listen for the deeper stuff.
    8 points
  8. For me, some baking soda and a wet toothbrush does the trick, once I get them home. I carry a small squirt bottle when I'm hunting so I don't scratch the silver coins. I cringe whenever I see someone wipe a nice old silver coin with their fingers as soon as it comes out of the ground...... 1938 dime.
    7 points
  9. Been bit lazy posting stuff, mostly been coin and jewelry hunting and nothing spectacular to post. Earlier I started to hunt an area that had some old buildings at off the beaten path and was able to pluck this pewter handle out. Possibly ww1 era? Maybe a cane handle? Thanks
    6 points
  10. ML's not without fault, but been that way for years on various products, but even given their blemishes they still tend to produce cutting edge detectors that push the envelope in some way, shape or form. Minelab's produced a lot of game changer detectors over the past few decades. Now they finally have competition in the SMF field, aside from the CZ and V3 SMFs they've had little to no serious competition in that arena until recent new entries from Nokta and XP. I put my Manticore order pre-order in ☔ When it comes out I'll test it myself, at my sites in my dirt. At a particular western frontier site I've enjoyed over the years that I started hunting with the F75 LTD which did okay in the beginning but it petered out. Then I started taking the Makro Racer/Racer2/Multi Kruzer there and it really opened up, but after a few years started to die out again to the point that my hunt partner wouldn't even go with me anymore. The Equinox completely opened the site up for me landing a very rare $1 US gold coin, a seated dime & half dime cache (19 coins total), several semi-key date seated dimes that weren't part of the seated dime cache, Phoenix buttons, early military and civilian buttons, trade silver, and other period relics. We'll see what the Manticore brings to the table at a "hunted out" site. I look forward to it's increased depth as I've located several silver coins that were at the fringe depth of what the machines were capable of (and missed by Tom's Explorer2 🙂 So no doubt there are a few stragglers that my current detectors simply haven't located, and there's no shortage of iron of all sorts and other stuff (flat rusty tin for example). Nice thing about this particular site is that the ground is pretty tame as far as mineralization goes and EMI free, so it could be the perfect candidate for the Manticores extra depth capabilities. We shall see this winter 🌵🤠🐍
    6 points
  11. So you forgot that they said the same thing for Equinox? They barely made it by January... 🤣 Not biting on this one to line up in the queue. Will be glad to consider it AFTER all the hoopla dies down and avoid the inevitable delay frustration. Regarding the Nox $100 discount - oh great, it's priced back to what they were two years ago. The way I read this is they know it's going to be delayed so they need to juice the fencesitters who might be thinking Mandymoore is right around the corner...into buying a waterlogged Nox today. Sorry, just really jaded on all ML's shenanigans. They really take us for rubes, this 50 percent more power thing really left a bad taste in my mouth. They are SO non-transparent on what is really going on. And we lap up the Kool Ade like dogs in the desert.
    5 points
  12. A fairground by me has a large dirt parking area. Would that be a good location for jewelry? People get out of there cars and walk to the fairground.
    4 points
  13. Local lake is exactly one mile from my house. It was built in the 1880’s and started allowing recreation about 1917 as far as I know. I work swing shift so I have all morning to screw off and now that it’s kinda cooler, I’ve been hitting the lake. Nothing great so far but I found a ring that is gold in color but must be Carbide. It won’t scratch on the stone. It only has a CH marking inside. Here are a couple pics and I’m using the Deus 2. It’s kinda fun and different from my usual gold rush relics. I’m hoping for some gold rings as the lake drains in the fall.
    4 points
  14. So the first time I ever hunted my first find was an Indian Head penny. That was back when I first started detecting early this year on an old farm permission. The home owner insisted on keeping it even though it was crusty as heck. Since that hunt I had not found a single old coin. I found awesome relics, rare buttons, lots of cool finds but no coins older than Wheaties. All those hunts were with the Legend. Fast forward to today. And my new Simplex. Went to a spot I have hunted before, a open area near some baseball fields. I knew the land was old, but being public land didn't have high hopes. But I wanted to see if the Simplex could do any better than my Legend which I have used here a few times. Got a couple memorials before I hit the path that I wanted to scan like 10 feet from my car. Then bam, found an Indian head penny at 8 or more inches. Behold! The curse is lifted! Detected for an hour or more and decided to detect my way back to the car. Then, 10 feet from the first Indian Head I get another sweet signal, and bam! Another indian head! Deep one like the first 8 or 9 inches. I am over the moon. The simplex really knows how to snif out deep coins I must say. I look forward to using the Simplex more. For 250 this thing is an absolute monster bargain.
    4 points
  15. Dunno Simon, they got me zooming in to...um...get a closer look at that detector. So mission accomplished, I guess... Anyway - more promo photo mocking to tickle your cynical funnybone... Let's just let M-core blast way into my ear as I jaunt through the spooky myst forest...which apparently rings up at a 52. I'll have to write that down on my target ID chart: Forest....TID 52. Can't be trusted though as that is an air test TID. Look at the depth though, we'll beyond 50cm... Ah...the Lord of the Ring. "Lookey everybody at what I found...!" Let me step well away from my shovel and detector so I can gaze at the majestic beauty of my treasure... This one's even more ridiculous...no scoop needed I guess. Beast just levitates targets right into your rain jacket. No need to get your left hand dirty, wet, and cold. Guess he left his shovel and backpack down at the other end of the beach once he figured out how useless they were going to be. SMH Looks like a cool place to detect though...😎
    4 points
  16. Some of those parking areas have gravel and I always carry a screwdriver to help get around the rocks that cover the coins and things. Good luck and always ask the proper place for permission, county and city if you ask nicely and make sure they know that you won't make a mess of things will let you do what you want. Also if there are sidewalks there check both sides and also around the entrance booths yield coins from where they drop coins.
    4 points
  17. There should be stuff there. If its part of the fairgrounds why would you need permission? HH Jim Tn
    4 points
  18. I like relic hunting more than just coin shooting. I stumbled on the majority of my old coins while relic hunting.
    4 points
  19. 1949-S is second lowest mintage of the Roosevelt series meant for circulation (i.e. not including some of the proofs). And to find one on the East Coast is much tougher than the guys out in the Far West deal with. Good thought, but actually that's not the case. The Roosies saw much higher mintage per date+mintmark. For example, only five date+mm Mercs had 100 million or more struck (and all during WWII). Compare that to 18 date+mm's for the Roosies. The highest single mintage for a Merc was the 1944 (plain) with 231 million struck and only one other -- 1942 plain exceeded 200 million. Four of the Roosie date+mm combos exceeded 300 million: 1962-D (335 M), 1963-D (421 M), and the two way out in front -- 1964 (plain) with 933 million and 1964-D with 1.36 billion! (The 1965's were delayed because Congress was figuring out how to screw us detectorists and stop minting with silver. 😠 So they just continued minting 1964's for almost an extra year. In addition, they were fighting a shortage battle and chose to seriously increase the number of coins minted per day. Mission accomplished.) I've hypothesized that the fact that silver disappeared from circulation by the early 1970's, there was more time for Mercs to be lost (50+ to 20+ years depeding upon the date) compared to the Roosies (20+ to 6+). Don't know if that's the reason, though. Interestingly I've found a lot more Roosies, relative to Mercs, in the last couple years -- 16 to 8, but the Mercs still lead 29 to 23. Randomness is always messing with us....
    4 points
  20. Rock nice on the collection!!! Screwing off while not at work is one of my favorite things to do. I'm thinking you will most likely find gold there, just a matter of time. Don't be shy to the shade tree area's, too. They also produce from people who are not sun worshipers. Sometimes the odd spots produce the most finds. Great post!!!!
    3 points
  21. 🙂 They should put a little serial number checker on their website where you enter your serial number and it tells you if you need to send it back or not. I'm betting a lot of people have a dud and don't know it as they think it's normal as they were told its because its such a high sensitivity detector and Minelab even put out the primary notice saying just use headphones to calm it down and do lots of noise cancels. They didn't even want to say an approximate date they resolved the issue, and the notice is only very recent, put two and two together and they only solved the issue a couple of months ago. They have said they know the serial numbers with the fault, so a simple solution and will speed up the process for everyone. It's in their best interest to not get everyone sending faulty units back, that costs them money. What they seem to not understand is having a bunch of faulty very high priced detectors out there is doing damage to their reputation. Profit or reputation, which means the most to them? So far it's clear its profit. This is what happens when there are no choices in the market, no competition.... they've got us by the short and curlys, very little we can do, can't just say screw Minelab I'm buying "X" brand from now on.
    3 points
  22. They need to publish a range of affected unit serial #'s so the public can know. It's just basic business ethics. People have lost $1000+ selling their 6000's they could not get to work in their locations and were unable to tell if it was a bad machine, operator error, bad EMI location, or just how the machine acts normally. Letting more people take losses because they are unsure if their detector has a problem or not is unethical business IMO. They also need to detail exactly what this fix address - is it just the speaker, or fixing more EMI issues? Or are we going to potentially need to send our units right back for a fix #2 next year? Do they even acknowledge there are EMI/stability issues beyond just the speaker issue? Do units currently manufactured still have issues? Are dealers still carrying/selling units that just need sent right back for repair as new? Who knows. They need to tell us. 6 months ago. This is the part I was trying to drive home on the forums a few months back too. After I left Arizona last winter and travelled around more I realized that there was some kind of strange issue where the location itself seemed to be affecting the 6000 with regards to stability and EMI. I found the same thing - some places just totally undetectable, while I get on my ATV on ride a short distance away and I can detect again. Go back to the first location and it was still undetectable. Also the setting the 6000 on the ground and losing stability thing seems to affect a number of units as well. There is the speaker issue, that's one thing. But there is something more EMI related too. Bad shielding? overwhelmed firmware/CPU resources? I have no clue since we can't even open the box up to see ourselves, but something is happening there. So it seems to me that either there another fix #2 coming, or Minelab is not disclosing the extent of both the problem and/or the extent of what the fix addresses at this time.
    3 points
  23. A proper fix can only improve performance, by reducing unwanted noise. This sets up a scenario where all 6000's sold until now will exist under a cloud of sorts, something always to be aware of if buying used. Between coil cracks and this, it is going to be a case where a GPX 6000 made in 2023 is probably going to include fixes for these problems.
    3 points
  24. By the look on his face i think he's gazing at his 13th bottle cap.
    3 points
  25. Yes, I hope it's more CTX like, I loved the Nox for silver until I invested in a CTX and haven't looked back. On a side note Minelab's marketing is beyond a joke, really, it's sickening. This is off their Manicure marketing page on their website, the girl looks more like she's heading off to go and get a manicure than using a manicure. I'm not too sure high heels are good detecting shoes, and is she really going to be digging in the grassland like that with the garden scoop they include that shes got tucked into her pants? She's clearly yet to find a target, she doesn't have dirty knees. Come on Minelab, where do you find your marketing people...... what is your target market? Think about it.
    3 points
  26. I probably won't get it in time, I'm used to being disappointed by Minelab 🙂 If you think the Nox issues and their ignorance was bad think of us poor suckers that paid 9 grand NZD for our GPX 6000 that has way more problems than the Nox. I've found my Nox fantastic, couldn't be happier with it, not so much the 6000.
    3 points
  27. I know. I'm pretty salty, haven't been detecting for awhile because work has been a bear. I also know the Beast will be one heckuva detector that should address most if not all of Equinox's flaws (the silence and blame shifting on the Nox leak issues was probably good for the share holders - but you don't see the same behavior from Nokta - taking ownership of the faulty Legend speaker is a great example). So in fixing the Nox flaws and some nice added bells and whistles you get to spend $700 more than Nox for the privilege. 🤔 Make no mistake, the Beast will likely find a home in my arsenal at some point (and the Nox may be retired), I'm just going to skip the early adopter lines and instead go detecting. When Northern Hemisphere Summer rolls around, we'll see what the Beast is made of. Simon, here's to hoping you get that Christmas present in time. But don't be surprised if ML just misses the opportunity.
    3 points
  28. I don't do anything with mine other then a water rinse when I get home. I, too, have a small bottle that my silver coins go into during the hunt. HH jim tn
    3 points
  29. I think civil war commemorative of some sort. Grand army of the republic maybe. i see crossed swords, anchor, two guy's shacking hands. Maybe a north/south convention item. Cane handle does sounds a good guess. Interesting find!
    3 points
  30. I've hunted a very similar parking lot, It has yielded a TON of silver coins for me, But also a crap ton of aluminium and zincoln's. I think you'll do well and wish you luck!!!!
    3 points
  31. Thank god you finally found one!!! I've been pushing the Rosie joo joo your way for a while. It always feels really good to conquer a coin on your list. No matter what it is. Great job!!!!! There is more headed your way.
    3 points
  32. I've had some good luck in old parking areas, especially near old baseball diamonds.
    3 points
  33. IMO, that sounds like an excellent idea and well worth your effort. The big plus with such controlled tests is just that -- you are in control of the target types, orientations, and locations. The big minus (but only for those who fail to realize this) is that it's not a perfect proxy for what happens in the field. Many factors, such as soil compaction, soil moisture, and the unknown 3-dimensional location effects of multiple targets in view cannot be duplicated. Add to that the fact that you know exactly where the test garden target is and you can keep trying until (unless too deep) you get a signal. In the wild you are flying blind and a deep but detectable target can be missed if you don't get the coil's sweetspot (typically coil center) directly over it.
    3 points
  34. It has a chamfered inner and if wet or soapy slides right off so, buy a ring that bites the finger a bit.
    2 points
  35. Yep CH is probably China. They make a lot of jewelry these days.
    2 points
  36. Nice finds! Yeah you get a bit of old and new there. 👍 "CH" could be country of origin, or "chamfered". No doubt you will pull some gold out of that place.
    2 points
  37. Yep I'm sure you will be finding more cool stuff...It's nice to be able to go on a quick hunt after work esp at a lake with that much history. If you could find where there were some old events or popular swimming holes that would be golden. The best thing about our hobby is all of the possibilities it's endless. strick
    2 points
  38. That's awesome Strick. I think the initials KP stand for Ka- Pow. Nicely done my friend!!!!
    2 points
  39. I love a hunt like that. Relics and silver. That crotal bell is sweet. It's been awhile since I found one.
    2 points
  40. Hey Strick, I learned a while back don't even try to clean them with anything but a dull toothpick. You add water and the coin is even worse than when you started. Mainly I just toothbrush most of the dirt off right out of the ground, Then later when its dry I buff it on my pant leg. You also can rub a little mineral oil on it and buff it on your pant leg again. If it was a coin that's worth a bunch of money and its in pretty good shape I would pay a pro coin person to clean it.
    2 points
  41. awesome feedback, keep it coming.
    2 points
  42. I am in Salt Water too. Well your bottom must be highly mineralized. To make a long story short> The D2 does work well in highly mineralized areas. With your mineralization and Salt it will make chain detection very difficult. I doubt more reactivity will help and I do not see any of your settings that would make much difference if changed. Also for the record I have found the Equinox to work better in high mineral conditions >Sorry. But! As a try....Make sure you're in magnetic sand reject. Anything over 1.5 reactivity will hurt, but if you can up the sensitiyity at 1.5 try it., Also try tracking Ground Balance. Turn your iron volume down to one. Like anything else sensitivity is important. Test a target you have found in the past. Also try Beach Pitch it may cut those minerals with better frequencies to find gold. But it also might be more unstable.
    2 points
  43. That's good juju! 👍 You had someone bury it there, didn't you? 🤔 🤣
    2 points
  44. Nice job Ken, You always manage to wrestle out an odd find and that's pretty cool. Could be a cane handle or a carved petrified pickle Ha Ha. Whatever it turns out to be it's, something interesting for sure. Pretty sure you'll have an answer soon.
    2 points
  45. If you can get permission to hunt it, but if it's gravel it's gonna be tough to dig. Yeah, change, keys, all sorts of stuff.
    2 points
  46. Gotta get out there early tomorrow, car show. I think we will extend a day so I can tear it up Sunday. It was an additional surprise to get a key date, I didn't notice it until After I posted it. 🥳
    2 points
  47. Well done! One reason some seem to find more Mercury dimes than "silver" Roosevelt dimes is Mercury dimes were minted more than 10 years longer (29 years) than the "silver" Roosevelt dimes (18 years), so there's probably at least 1/3 more Mercury dimes put in circulation.
    2 points
  48. I finally got around to installing the V1.09 & Threshold updates recently. They did install much easier with the new Updater Tool Nokta came out with than past updates. Having the Threshold volume working as it should thru the BT headphones is nice and helpful in a way I was not expecting. If you are using any Disc/Notch, the threshold hum will blank on the Disc'd target. This is like the Anfibio Notch volume but better because it is different than the Iron Bin tone. I rarely use any Disc, hunting mostly Relic sites, but will use some in heavy Al trash on town house lots or public areas. In working out a Notch (29-34) for coin hunting these sites the benefit of the blanking of the Threshold really showed itself. Because the masking Al trash will down average the coin signal, you can't go by the TID alone. You just dig the repeatable tones. A coin may read TID 35, but you can hear the Threshold blanking to let you know a Disc'd item is masking a higher conductor. If you can isolate the coin it will read near normal but masked it will be down averaged. This really helps when interrogating a target. For now I'm using this in Park mode, 4 kHz(which ignores un wadded foil/detunes the Al trash well), Recovery 3, Audio gain 3. 2 Tone, 60 Tone & Pitch work equally well with a Tone Break at 20. The 2 Tone is very crisp/clean, 60 Tone paints a good Sonic picture & Pitch gives good Depth perception and is lively. It will alert on my 6" buried Dime with up to 2 pulltabs laying on the surface in close proximity, all under the stock 11" coil. The 6" should be even better. Nickels & small Gold are trickier. If the Legend can get a peek, it will give a broken/short tone with a TID in the mid 20s-28, bumping up against the Notch wall. I will adjust the Notch if needed as I use it. If I get into some higher mineral dirt M3 maybe a better selection. The Legend is proving to be a very versatile & effective machine. And Nokta keeps improving it!
    2 points
  49. Beach hunt #5 was supposed to be at a new beach, but upon arrival the entrance was torn up for construction. Without anywhere to park, I decided to hit a beach close by. The beach I went to, was the one others have found a lot of gold and silver due to some massive push back from passing storms. I never got to share in that jackpot since I was late hearing about it. But today, I was first one on the beach, so I immediately went to the exposed rocks. I told myself that I was looking for low conductors, so ignore the high conductors. Using the GPX for this part of the hunt, I was trying not to waste time figuring out deep iron, knowing that others would arrive soon. First target, a real nice high conductor. 😄 So, I dug it, broke my own rule right off the bat, and was rewarded with a 1951 silver (class?) ring. I managed about 45 minutes of hunting before another detectorist arrived. I did hit about ¼ of all the exposed areas and left for the next area right after I dug a large ring. I thought it was gold and I thought it was a class ring, but it ended up being a Navy ring which says 14 k 1/30 RGP (rolled gold plate). Well, some gold at least. After a bit I saw 2 others arriving, so I picked up the pace. Targets were far and few between, but I did manage a bunch of junk jewelry, and then it happened….. I got a strong low conductor sound. I got the target out and when I pinpointed the pile, out comes a nice 14k herringbone necklace. I thought WOW, 😍 I didn’t think the GPX would hit that chain, at least not that hard. So, I went over the pile again and got a strong hit. Must be the medal that was on the chain? 🤔 Nope, it was a pull tab, probably the signal that I originally heard. That was a nice surprise. By this time, a detectorist was almost finished sweeping the next pile of rocks ahead of me, so it’s fair game to go over that area. Everyone on that beach was using an Equinox. I managed to dig a couple of junk targets but then hit on a small cabochon bracelet. Finally, I figured it was time to switch to the Nox with the big coil. I did various areas and landed in a spot that started producing coins. And then a silver peace ring came up, so I really circled that area. Next, an unexpected find was a .950 bracelet with what I think has Lapis Lazuli stones in it. Looks well made. A pretty piece. 😊 I read that .950 is the highest sterling you can get before it’s not practical to use in jewelry. No other marking on it. Another odd find was a spoon, which is usually silver plate over a brass base. This spoon showed no signs of being plated, so I thought I had silver. But the back reads Fuller A1. Plate, as best I can tell. There is no sign showing through the base metal on any of the edges or anywhere in any of the dings around the spoon. This is a well-used, thin spoon with a lot of ocean tumbling showing. I’m wondering if the base metal is a combination of copper, zinc, nickel, which would a be silver colored blend called German silver. I used the GPX 3.5 hours – Equinox for 6 hours. A great, unexpected day at the beach.
    2 points
  50. My "that's mine" story doesn't get any better than this. Found 3 wallets on the beach over a year ago on different beaches. All loaded with $ and cards. 1 of them I drove by the address on my way home that morning. Guy answered and said no one lives here by that name. Finally tracked him down and he said keep the cash and return everything else. There was over a $1000 in it. The other 2 I believe I found on FB. Left messages for both , no response. Only recently did I tear everything up except the cash , very strange.
    2 points
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