George Kinsey

Very nice hunt.

2 hours ago, locator said:

Wow. That's what I call "Good genes".👍😎

All the Best.

 After my Military Sevice look. From the 101st to "Hippie Dude"🙃

On 1/29/2024 at 2:02 PM, locator said:

I'd say that's you, George. My guess would be at age of 16, may be 18.👍

27.

Who is this guy?

6 hours ago, Lodge Scent said:

That is cool! Looks like it weighs a few poinds. 😄

British pound or American?🙃

5 hours ago, Bill (S. CA) said:

I bought my first detector in 1972.  A White's Coinmaster III.  I remember the Metrotech.  At the time it was between that detector, my White's and a Relco as I recall.  I remember looking at Gardiner detectors but they had giant search coils and that scared me off.  In the end my mother told me to buy the White's with my paper route money and she invested $50.00 of her own money since I was short of the funds.  She was my number one detecting partner well into her 80's.

Mom is always right. She was a very wise Lady.

17 hours ago, JCR said:

Please give us a run down on it's capabilities in an experienced operator's hands. (now that you are not quite a kiid anymore😉)  It will be good to realize how far equipment has come from those pioneer machines.  I wish I could get my D Tex BFO back to operating.

l I was 18 in 69. The detector will not pick up any small iron and foil, but I found coins and gold jewelry with it. To turn it on you just plug the headphones in. You use the coil knob (built in) to adjust it to the ground, then you fine tune the sound using the knob on the body.

2 hours ago, Bill (S. CA) said:

It's a beauty, George.  When did you get your first one?

1969.

I have friends in Canada who would go "Stealth" to help a brother out.😉

My first "real" detector. Works as it should. One of my best recent finds.

New with all the accessories. One of my all-time favorites at 19kHz. Nice.

Glad to hear it works well for you. George

Mine sits lonely in the corner.

Very nice array of finds.

4 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

A dream coin find for me , for you it's just another .🙄

Great score no matter how many you have already found ! 

Now , go find another !  🤩 

🖖

I will try today for sure. 69 in Richmond today.

2 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

George thanks for posting your book. I’ve got one coming now from Amazon and they showed it was the last one they had.

 I knew a guy down on the coast at Corpus and he had a bait stand on Padre Island. He would walk behind the sand dunes and find Spanish coins sitting up like on a little toad stool. This was about the time in 67 some treasure hunters was working on three ships off of south Padre. The wind would cut the sand away from the coin and leave it sitting on top. Most was cut coins this how they made change back then .

 Chuck 

Yes I have experienced finding coins that the wind undercut the sand. The most gold rings I found at one time was a minus tide at Rehobeth Beach Delaware. You could see little circles in the muddy bottom which held gold rings and coins. A day to remember.

I just woke up from that nightmare.

My first real detector. Metrotech 220 A.

A donation to the local Historical Society.l

17 hours ago, HardPack said:

A few Spanish Reale have been detected or dredged in the California goldfields. Here’s a website to background information:

https://coinsite.com/spanish-8-reales-milled-and-pillar-dollars/

17 hours ago, HardPack said:

A few Spanish Reale have been detected or dredged in the California goldfields. Here’s a website to background information:

https://coinsite.com/spanish-8-reales-milled-and-pillar-dollars/

I wear my 8 Reale with chop marks on a silver chain. 

Nice!

1969 second addition about Spanish Reale Coins. Pictures of coins with their back in the day value. History of the coins with various markings and what they mean, Nice.

3 minutes ago, kac said:

That would be a good comparison a d2 with largest coil vs the abyss.

 I will save you the trouble when I get one. But I have lots of testing to do with the Abyss.

My very first time at the Beach, I dug to China only to find the darn drainage pipe.