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    Talking Best GOLD Day!

    I had a fantastic week of detecting local beaches! There are 3 beaches that I detected each day this week and it was a lot of fun. Below is a pic of all the junk jewelry I found this week. What is not seen is the amount of trash I also dug. There is a tungsten ring in there that I’m keeping…all the rest I will discard.

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    Here is a pic of all the 925 silver that I found. Included is my first Pandora silver ring. The day before I found a fake gold Pandora ring so it was nice to find a real one.

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    The nickels below are from Buffalo beach. The V nik was buried in the clay which helped preserve it I think...its a 1901.

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    Today I detected Buffalo beach and for the first 3 hours I found bottle cap after bottle cap. I was getting frustrated and I decided to head to the sections of the beach where I had found old coins in previous hunts. I soon got a perfect bottle cap signal (35 on the Nox900) only an inch deep or so and in my scoop was a 14K men's wedding ring! I was so excited! I kept at it for another hour and came across a sketchy 23 signal and I had another gold in the scoop!

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    The second one is interesting in that it is marked 625 which (per google) is likely pre 1930's and made in England. Being 625 it is 15k gold. I have never seen a 15k gold ring before. Unfortunately the stone is no longer in it.

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    Today was my best gold day I have had.

    I used both the Manticore and Nox900 for these hunts in Beach mode.

    Thanks for looking!
    Jared
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    (probably should have started with that one)

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    AMAZING, JARED!!! Buffalo Beach must have been cherry picked at some point, before you started digging all the old low conductors? You must have had some long days there!
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    Got some great gold there as well as coins!
    Minelab Manticore / SPECTRA V3i, Pro-Pointer II. Lesche Digger.
    Oldest Copper: 1694 William & Mary Halfpenny. Oldest Silver: 1663 1-Reale
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    Congrats on all the recoveries. Can't remember the last time I found gold but I am not a dig all guy as it takes a toll on me. Great finds. WD
    Total silver 3 - Goal 50 (2024 Finds) - 0 Washington - 0 Barber Dimes - 0 Mercury Dimes- - 3 Roosevelt Dimes - 0 V Nickels - 0 Buffalos - 0 War Nickels - 0 Indian - 10 Wheats - $ 3.44 in clad
    Relics: MILESTONES since 2012: 1700 silver coins - 8000 Clad Quarters - 500 Roosevelts - 750 Mercury Dimes

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    Huge congrats on the double gold day! Wow, that was an amazing hunt. The silver rings are nice too. I had never heard of .625 or 15K gold before.

    Lifetime totals:
    10 Large Cents, 415 Indian Heads, 2 Two Cent Pieces, 1 Capped Bust Half Dime, 1 Seated Half Dime, 10 Shield Nickels, 68 V Nickels, 124 Buffalo Nickels, 31 War Nickels, 16 Seated Dimes, 131 Barber Dimes, 405 Mercury Dimes, 249 Rosies, 4 Seated Quarters, 18 Barber Quarters, 20 Standing Liberty Quarters, 89 Silver Washingtons, 1 Seated Half, 3 Barber Halves, 16 Walking Liberty Halves

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    Those are some great finds, and the rare old gold is always a great sight in the scoop. Congrats!
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    2024: Silver 1, Gold 0
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    That's a sweet haul Jared!
    Wow!
    Congrats!
    If you can make out what those hallmarks are, you'll be able to tell who made it, where they made it, and the year it was made!!! I love English hallmarks!!
    Some days you get the corn, some days you get the cob
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    Awesome finds! Congratulations on all that precious metal too!
    Oldest Coin: 100-60 BC Gallic bronze coin (Sequani Tribe)
    Oldest Silver Coin: 1156 hammered Pfennig from (now) Bavaria
    Oldest U.S. coin: 1805 Draped Bust Large Cent
    Best Coins EVER: 1625 4 Sols from Kingdom of Chateau Renaud, France
    1662 15 Kreuzers, Leopold I, Austria
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    Makes me want to jump in the water. WTG Jared!
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