A Harley and an old coin day

[Ian (Japan)]

Three hours at the usual beach with my sons. Their school had a holiday today (Monday).
Got there at 7:30am, saw a few girls sleeping on the beach, a few people swimming, but not many people at that time. The beach shops are just about ready, with some open already.
Saw a squashed watermelon....a common summer thing in Japan, someone is blindfolded, given a long stick and they try to split the melon.......the idea being that the melon is then eaten....the smarter people first put the melon on a plastic sheet to keep the sand off!

Sons were hungry so went to a convenience store near the beach and bought some rice balls to eat.

Tried to teach the younger son to keep his Ace 150's coil down low to the sand, he took that literally and ended up flattening the sand with the coil. Soon after he got a 10 yen coin and thought that was great. Ended up with 26 yen (not in the pic).

Elder son - a couple of sinkers and 10 yen (not in the pic).

My results (excluding plenty of sinkers and keys) using a Sea Hunter Mark II are in the pic: 381 yen in modern coins, cross shaped whistle, silver Harley Davidson earring, unkown coin (token?) from a city in Japan. Two junk rings.
Bottom coin with the square hole in the middle - a Japanese coin from the year 1668! The oldest coin I've found so far, I'm HAPPY!

CLICK HERE for some other pics from today

Ian @ the land of the rising (mmmm....no rings today!) the rising Harley's and watermelons.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Always nice to see your pics Ian. You sure get a variety of interesting finds....I mean sleeping girls, smashed water melons and I nearly forgot, coins, ring and religious artifacts. have a good one Ian.

 

[High Desert Jim]

Lan,

That old coin is in good shape for being in the ground that long. I had an old coin like that I didn't dig it, picked it up in the swapmeet several years ago.

I was told it was a ming area coin. I was going to photo graph it and see what you thought it might be. Was the back on your blank?

I dug it out of an old jar that I had setting on the book stand and it was so screwed up because it was in there being rubbed by all the other forieng coins that are in rough shape. I could barely recognize it.

Anyway, I learned I'm going to need to take better care of my finds, dug or not.

Thanks for Sharing your finds! One question on that cross wissel. Do you think that may be some kind of knotical whisel? Used by sailors?

HH................HDJ

 

[Ian (Japan)]

Send me a photo of both sides of your coin and I'll see if I can ID it.....

Yes, the condition of the one I found is too good to have been in the sand all that time. Have heard that the old carpenters used such coins (holes in the middle), with a number of them tied to the end of a string they made simple string levels which could also be thrown a reasonable distance too.

Re. the whistle - no idea yet, but thanks for yours, I'll research that direction more....

 

[High Desert Jim]

Lan,

Will get you that picture as soon as I can. I'm looking for my soft wear. I just bought a new computer need to upload the sofwear.

r/ jIM

 

[Uncle Willy]

You been busy again Ian. HAA./

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Hey John, when you're on the other forum, want to let them know I'm still kicking. For some reason that stupid forum won't accept my posts. I emailed the webmaster and that was an exercise in futility. Thanks.

Bill