Hi again,
Well, how was I to know that a tornado was headed my way
...I've been glued to the U.S Open Tennis matches for many days now.
Sooooooo , when I got to a beach "down the line", I was surprised to have rain and dark clouds greeting me, but I was there to detect so that's what I did while hoping that the rain would subside.
It did subside for a 3 hrs. hunt
, but when it got very windy , I headed for the car and home to Tornado warnings on T.V. interrupting the tennis matches.
Hunted wet sand slope and dry sand.
Found a nice big silver Columbian Half Dollar up the beach where the trucks dump out all the scrapings from the beach sand. Yup..sometimes the junk pile holds treasures .
At first I thought it was a Benjamin Half..had never seen ( nor heard of ) the Chicago Expo Columbus coin commemoration. This is the first commemorative coin series minted by the United States and was issued at the Chicago Exposition in 1893.
Here's a link to info about this handsome coin:
Coin Value | Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Half Dollar 1892 and 1893
The silver navel ring with "bling" ( faux) I think was not in the wet sand very long; didn't even need cleaning just had to shake the sand out of it.
Here's some pics.
As always, thank you for looking at my post
Lorraine
p.s. check out that fishing lure...found in the dry sand; dangerous to barefooted beach goers.
Well, how was I to know that a tornado was headed my way
...I've been glued to the U.S Open Tennis matches for many days now.Sooooooo , when I got to a beach "down the line", I was surprised to have rain and dark clouds greeting me, but I was there to detect so that's what I did while hoping that the rain would subside.
It did subside for a 3 hrs. hunt
, but when it got very windy , I headed for the car and home to Tornado warnings on T.V. interrupting the tennis matches.Hunted wet sand slope and dry sand.
Found a nice big silver Columbian Half Dollar up the beach where the trucks dump out all the scrapings from the beach sand. Yup..sometimes the junk pile holds treasures .
At first I thought it was a Benjamin Half..had never seen ( nor heard of ) the Chicago Expo Columbus coin commemoration. This is the first commemorative coin series minted by the United States and was issued at the Chicago Exposition in 1893.
Here's a link to info about this handsome coin:
Coin Value | Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Half Dollar 1892 and 1893
The silver navel ring with "bling" ( faux) I think was not in the wet sand very long; didn't even need cleaning just had to shake the sand out of it.
Here's some pics.
As always, thank you for looking at my post
Lorraine
p.s. check out that fishing lure...found in the dry sand; dangerous to barefooted beach goers.
