White gold & Silver!!!

[Charles (Upstate NY)]

The local beach has been a case of the mumbles 8 out of 10 hunts with hordes of local and tourist people detecting the poor thing to death. So I fired up Google Earth and found myself my own private beach to hunt well almost.

Good lord there were targets everywhere, most of this stuff came from about a 30x70 foot stretch of wet sand dang. Quite a change from detected to death local beach.

Here's the white gold 14k ring, a nice wide ladies band whoohoo!

Here's another pic

Also found this silver earing, man that tarnish is seriously thick. My coin cleaner didn't even phase it.

Here's the back, 925. Looks old, I dug a wheat cent near this.

Here's the makers mark

 

[The Bulgarian]

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[PaPa-Joe-Fla.]

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[Pro-Tech]

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[BEACH HUNTER]

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[cubfan64]

also finding what seems to be noticeably more hunters out and about this year as well - both ocean and freshwater. Found what I thought was an out of the way spot a few weeks back and hit it at sunrise - within an hour there was another guy there - we talked afterwards and he said the same thing that he's seen a significant increase in water hunters the last couple years.

Wonder if it's the babyboomers retiring or coming close to retirement and finding something fun to do as a pastime.

All I know is I've got more research to do.

Oh - Max, nice finds. Gotta tell you though, I'd swear that one digger is wearing lingerie and not a bikini!!! I"m glad I don't have any daughters!!!!

 

[Crash620]

You did your environmental good deed also.....

 

[Bobbie]

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[Charles (Upstate NY)]

With so many people hitting that beach I think there are more productive beaches to hunt right now. We need a storm to rip a 2-3 foot cut in that beach, then things will get interesting. I caught just the tale end of that last erosion before it filled in and found silver and gold plus lots of 40 year old coins.

 

[captRobert]

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[Gulf Hunter]

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