Tom_in_CA

beautiful reale.

Are you sure you're not confusing an earlier incarnation of the 6000 Di pro ? We're talking the black box with the 950 loop, right ? If so, I thought that didn't come out till 1989-ish ?

El, have you planted the GPS tracking device on his vehicle yet ? SSSssshhh , be stealthy so he doesn't see you planting it there tonight. It'll be our little secret. Right ? 👌

Oh my gosh, that reale is BEAUTIFUL ! And amazing that a ~75 yr. old coin was still circulating up to the time of the gold rush. Great history ! Congratz.

There was multiple beach jetties put in, along southern CA beaches, back in the 1940s & 1950s. To "trap" sand, in order to stem beach erosion or whatever. And some put in to protect harbor entrances, etc.... As the sand backs up, and the beaches got wider and wider, this meant that even WHOPPER storm erosion would never reach back to the cliffs again. And therefore some of the high-dry sand has never seen wet-salt since the 1940s & 50s. An enterprising So. CA guy that I knew of, figured out that there was SUPER deep silver coins (albeit just whatever was in circulation back in the 1940s/50s), that were beyond the reach of regular machines. Since the coins tended to sink down till they got to a firmer hard-packed layer, about 1.5 ft. down. So he took a high-powered GPX nugget machine there (which, as you know, can get a coin to nearly 2 ft. deep), and started getting silver coins & wheaties that way. Lot of hard work, but he eventually mined 100+ silver coins from these stretches doing this trick. The reason it was a lot of hard work, is that unfortunately, using a high-powered nugget machine like that, then naturally every single little foil-turd will ALSO "ring the bells of Notre Dame" too, 🤪

You are sick. Sick sick sick .

Mike, I know that the "Nox faithful" would dispute what you are saying, but : I agree. The old school explorers were better for cherry-picking in junky-parks types of scenarios. A better "grasp" at telling a potential coin apart from trash. HOWEVER, that's only a select niche of hunt style preferences. A lot of hardcore guys simply do not troll junky inner-city turf for silver. They are strictly relicky guys. Who are just after anything conductive, and don't need nuanced tones that a cherry-picker needs. In the case of iron-riddled zones, I've noticed that my equinox friends are indeed spanking my Exp. II. However, in turf, I tend to spank them. I know some Nox guys will dispute these results, and try to say that the Nox guy "just needs more experience", blah blah. But ... so far ... I just haven't seen it.

Great show once again !

Don't forget that an ingredient like "copper" can vary in TID, depending on where it was mined. Because of trace minerals that exist in various parts of the USA. For example Rose gold vs yellow gold. Each is equally gold, but they have slightly different make-up colors, d/t the trace minerals of where they were mined. So too is it the same with copper : Uncle Sam might have been buying his copper on the open market (wherever was cheapest) in ... say... Montana during a few decades of the 1880s/90s. But then switch to Idaho where a new mining strike of copper was the new source, etc..... Because notice that wheaties from the early teens sound different than wheaties from the '20s, vs wheaties from the 30/40s, etc.... (not to mention the sickly corrosion/color that 30s to 50s wheaties take on, while teens/20s wheaties take on a desirable green patina). This is true even though all the wheaties and IH's supposedly had the exact same composition . Thus it's apparently the trace minerals in the ingredients, that make for the differences we see, and our subtle TID differences.

Nice photo-spread. I never get tired of the emerald green patina that some IH's take on .

You certainly paid your dues with the trash ratio. Some of which is older age-indicators (ie.: "fun trash"). The utterly best sites are ones where all-human-influence stops by the late 1800s. So then you're not bothered by aluminum, mechanical/automotive/electrical stuff, etc..... Good job on the trime ! I think I've only ever found 2 of those on the west coast.

Holy smoke Andrew ! Correct me if I'm wrong but reales are very rare find in your part of the USA, right ? And ... sheesk ... 1781 no less ! Congratz dude !!

Wow. Love that new buckle and all the powder flasks. Just dripping with history. You haven't found the GPS device we planted on your vehicle yet, have you ? 😜

I never get tired of seeing those beach-kissed blackened silver coins in my scoop !

nice early seated.

I would fan out in all directions (from the ground-zero of a visible chimney), with my machine set to allow me to hear nails. Ie.: as a low tone that I'm going to elect to pass, but at least I can get a feel for the target spread. And as long as I'm still hearing iron (albeit rejected), that tells me I'm still in the sphere of human habitation/influence. And as long as there's still iron, then there can be conductive targets too. Perhaps the chimney indicates a lone structure, of a single individual(s). Or perhaps it meant other were closeby (tent-city), yet didn't happen to have chimneys on their hobbles. All you can do is wander around. If the sounds go "sterile" (no iron grunts), then you'll know you've wandered outside the sphere of human habitation/influence.

This reads like how the UK posts (who have 2000 yrs. more history than us) sounds. Where any/all fields have eventual finds. Great play-by-play.

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Huh ? In the USA you can make $$ too. It's called "ebay". So it's not only the UK guys that "have a chance of getting a finder's fee". In fact, the system is better here, because you get to call-the-shots on whether you want to keep it, or sell it, and at what price. So I don't see how the UK system is somehow better. We can sell our stuff here as well, or elect to keep it, with no govt. intrusion.

You're right ! If Chris finds one more, there might be an "unfortunate accident" there at his house, eh ? We wouldn't want any accidents to happen, NOW WOULD WE ? 😲

If you do, you're going to make several of us CA guys sick. We're going to come plant a GPS device on your vehicle. (Pay no attention to the suspicious person you saw in your driveway last night ! 😝 )

There's no need to slab or have them graded, if you are just keeping them for your own collection. But if you want to have the "stellar" seal of merit (even if only in your own collection), then yes: You can send off that private mint gold coin for slabbing. There's coin dealers that can walk you through that process (and their memberships with the grading agencies afford them the grading hoops to jump through. Eg.: requires membership, shipping, a cost per coin that a dealer gets at a discount, vs a new member with only a single coin-to-grade, etc...). Google PCGS (that's one of the two grading agencies), and I'm sure the instruction info. is there. But unless you intend to do a lot of repeat business with them, then a singular grade/slab, with the cost of initial membership, etc..., you might be better off just entrusting it to a coin-collector, who already wheels/deals in these deals. Once they've given it a verified grade, then you are golden if you ever go to sell. No one can banter you down on their opinion of grade, blah blah. And even if you don't sell, you'll have the satisfaction of now knowing for-sure that it's worth such & such.

Nope. Not on my watch anyhow. Cal Cobra knows it's my turn now, to find the next gold coin between us. Right Brian ? 🤣 I know 3 guys that found them : Here's one of them : https://coins.ha.com/itm/territorial-gold/1851-5-shultz-and-co-five-dollar-ms62-ngc-k-1-r7/a/1204-5439.s Another private mint CA gold coin was found near Salinas (worth only about $3k). And another private mint gold coin found at a park turf demolition in Santa Rosa years ago (not a super rare one, so perhaps $5k to $7k ?). Strangely, 2 identical private mint gold coins came from that Santa Rosa demolition scrape, but I didn't know the other hunter.

On coastal CA (our zone) this is no doubt true. I've only found 2 LC's (in CA), yet found 16 gold coins. And this statistic of more GC's than LC's seem to hold up in other CA hunter's tallies. It might go more even (or favor LC's ?) in the G.R. sites. Since that was attracting a lot of people from back east to head to CA. Not sure. Contrast to the east coast where guy can get 100 LC's before they EVER have a chance at a gold coin.

Oh my gosh. I am sick sick sick. Is this the site that gave up the other buckles and the seated quarter , that you posted on 2/15 ? And now a gold coin (private mint no less) and a large cent ?? Sheesk, are you SURE your wife won't allow you to invite others to your site ?? After all, I'm way overdue for my 17th gold coin ! 🤣 And even though I've seen two CA private mint gold coins turn up within my circle of friends, I've never found a private mint gold coin myself. Your heart bleeds for me, right ? All of my 16 have been boring USA mints 🤪 C'mon dude, the beers on me. You're only 2 hours away. We'll hog-swap site tips ! I'll scotch tape a zinc penny to the bottom of my coil to handicap myself. Ok ? 😆