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unusual beach coin

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As the weather was so nice yesterday and most of our land under crop now
me and my detecting buddy thought we would jump in the car and do sandbanks beach again
the idea would be to get their about 6pm when the beach would be emptying and detect till 10pm so a nice relaxing drive down and fish and chips for tea before we start
got to the beach for 5 . 30 and still quite busy but enough room without upsetting anyone
there was quite a breeze but still pleasant ....first 5 tagets were bottle tops B| all new ...to me thats the downside of beach detecting having to clean up other peoples rubbish B| ....and so it continued with silver foil / ring pulls etc etc
my mate was doing well with a mood ring and lots of coinage ...i was on rubbish cleaning detail =))
decided to move down onto the wet sand which was a lot cleaner
had a blinding signal and procceeded to dig a paddling pool sized hole looking for the target
eventually it came out and i'm stood there thinking wow thats different ...1974 quarter dollar

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i ended up with £3 .99 p and a pouch full of rubbish
my mate did well a mood ring and nearly £12 in coinage so we nearly paid for the parking and the fish and chips ::g
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Good lot of finds there and a yank as well. ::g
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Post by leslie(nova scotia) »

From the land of the Bluenose.....
yupper those Yanks get everywhere!
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leslie(nova scotia) wrote:From the land of the Bluenose.....
yupper those Yanks get everywhere!
spot on there ...i don't know if this coin is still in circulation ? or when it was lost ? but its 39 yrs old ...
but thats what fascinates me about this hobby what was that person doing when they lose there stuff
one thing about beach detecting is i'm aching all over ...you certainly get a full workout
perhaps i can start a new fitness fad .....get paid to take people beach detecting ...they get fit and the beach gets cleaned ::g ...everybodys a winner :D
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good coin, I had a russian kopec off Scarborough beach so you never know. ::g
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SheffieldSparky wrote:good coin, I had a russian kopec off Scarborough beach so you never know. ::g


that is the beauty of our hobby you just never know ::g
the first thing i do when i go abroad is empty my wallet and pockets of my english currency so i do not mix it up ...so perhaps these people have just arrived ?
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Strange coincidence I found one last week at Brid dated 2005 on the obvers was a buffaloe and the words Kansas 1867!
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FUBAR wrote:Strange coincidence I found one last week at Brid dated 2005 on the obvers was a buffaloe and the words Kansas 1867!
That is one of the US mint coins issued under the 50 State Quarters Program Fubar and time to visit Specsavers as the date is 1861 the year that Kansas joined the United States. ;)

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Post by Brendan McEvoy »

Well done mate I know cleaning up the beach for others is the down side to beach detecting but if they were not there to drop the rubbish they wouldn't drop the goodies. Mac
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