Did Santa crash land in a lake??

[scubadetector]

The only place I have ever seen a belt buckle this large is on Santa!!! No idea what else if could have been from. Anyway, The ring is 1/30 14K gold filled, RATS. Two silver quarters a 1900 barber and a 1924 standing (First I have found in the water I can actually see a date on!) Two 1964 dimes and 5 wheat cents, the rest new junk. Lighter is a first for me A Park Sherman made in Springfield ILL. Too bad the outside case is missing. The bracelet is nickel silver (more junk) Anyway it was a nice evening in the water. I love the fact the lakes are warming up!! These finds are out of the same lake I have been in the last bunch of dives but a different part of the lake.

I also found a set of feeler gauges and a monkey wrench and a box wrench and they are in my dive float tonight. There has to be real gold around this spot also. Its the same spot I found 39 buffalo nickels in a pile last year. I think a roll was dropped off a boat way back when. The two tokes are state tokens. One New Jersey and the other New Mexico. I have found a lot of them in this lake also. I think I have over 20 of these brass tokens now.

 

[OldBeechnut]

Nice treasure Scuba!!

 

[mikeothmer]

Are you sure your not in Cowboy Country ?

 

[Magyar]

n/t

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Another interesting hunt.
Thanks for posting your finds.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Nice finds scuba! I have a Q for U. Did you clean those silvers before the pic, or is that how they come from the water?

 

[scubadetector]

No crud on them but black. Some lakes they have a lot of crud on them. Most the lakes around here with multi million dollar houses around them have super clear water and the coins come out better.

LOL me clean silver??? I leave them alone cause I send it all in for scrap and the more weight the more for me!! Most the crud is silver oxide anyway and it all contains silver. Thats why the coins are so thin underneath it.

I also have noticed if you find silver in the sand its pretty clean, in muck its got a lot of crud on it and near weeds, forget it. Very cruddy and very much ate up. I am sure it has to do with the ground it is in.

 

[Jason in Enid]

LOL, I don't think anyone would my beach silvers without some level of cleaning. Any ones that have been in the water for a while have a THICK coating of oxides, sulfides, sand and who knows what else cemented to them.

Just wondering, thanks for the answer.