Down the beach with the Sovereign

[silver]

Good stuff Sandta,... waiting on that clean picky next.(6d).

 

[Goldpick]

She's an oldy sixpence - nice score, hopefully it cleans up well! Kinda freaky, as I got a 1919 threepence tonight as well.

 

[Sandta]

This is about as good as its going to get .... Without electrolysis i think

 

[Goldpick]

It looks pretty toasted, I don't think electrolysis will achieve much - but silver is silver.

 

[Ramjet]

Hmmm. Toasted

 

[silver]

I cleaned one up with a hammer myself once(ha),... it's hard to type when you are laughing so hard(at myself for being funny), but,... hopefully, after you give it a bit of electrolysis it will come out looking like this one Sandta.

after all Silver is Silver.
P.S I see your coin is the same on both sides.

 

[Sandta]

Ye ,good for 'heads or tails'.... If you pick tails that is :lol:

 

[Sandta]

I had another go down the beach after work today
Got a nice silver taurus zodiac charm , a few crusty coins , a broken cast plane , a couple of lumps of lead and a heap of pull tabs

The charm is now soaking in vinegar to get the rest of the encrusted stuff off

Amazing the paint is still on the plane

 

[silver]

That'd be a spit fire maybe ?,... I used to love flying toy planes around the place as a kid(two at a time) banking and loosing altitude at the same time and shooting at each other(inside and out),.... needed two hand on one plane for loop the loop though,... took me right back to being six or seven then Sandta.

 

[Sandta]

4 hours this morning wasnt quite enough to satisfy the urge .. So i hit the beach for a couple of hours too

$12.40 and an American dime

Now im knackered :lol:

 

[Sandta]

Away again today/tonight . Left home 4am, finished on site 4:30 this arvo....organised accommodation ,a bite to eat ,then straight down to the local beach till 8pm

$15.65 , a hit pipe and a flattened 50c coin

What ever was used was done in 1 strike ... Its totally flat and smooth on both sides

 

[Goldpick]

Maybe it was stuck in road bitmen at one stage, continually being driver over flattening out the surfaces??

 

[rocketaroo]

Railway track job?

 

[Sandta]

Away for work again today/tonight, little coastal town up north
Went down the beach after knock off, about half an hour in the dry sand
$6.30 and a silver ring
Then to the park across the road....

 

[Sandta]

Dismal weather ... But went down the beach for a couple of hours this arvo
Theres a lot of sand at the moment ,so start in amongst the rocks ... First target was this brass lid ( broke it with scoop)
Then the brass spike , followed by the sinker

I got the crusty 20c next and the amethyst pendant

i sure hope it was already broken

The foil bits and other coins were around the high tide line

 

[silver]

You could join a gem club Sandta and grind the amethyst a new termination(short but classy).

 

[Sandta]

Gday guys .. Well i havent been down the beach for a while but finished work early yesterday and again today.
I bumped into a couple of fellow forum members while down there yesterday evening, not sure how their night turned out ( would be interested to know ,if you guys would like to share or maybe pm me)
My finds yesterday arvo/night
1cx21,2cx10,5cx22,10cx16,20cx11,50cx1,$1x1,$2x5
Half penny x1,sixpence x5,three pence x8 and a shilling ... And a lead soldier

Went back for another go this arvo
1cx21,2cx11,5cx18,10cx7,20cx6,50cx3,$1x2,$2x1
Penny x2,half penny x2,three pence x5,and another shilling ,, and a USA dime

Unfortunately todays hunt was cut short 8.(

Some of the silvers are very worn but will try to get some dates and new pics

 

[Goldpick]

You made a killing, obviously conditions were good for retrieving those long buried coins after the storm. A record number of silvers over two hunts for you?

 

[Ramjet]

The storm must have ripped some sand away. That's the most coins you've gotten in a while.

 

[rocketaroo]

You had a ball