007tallguy
Elite Member
it was a great beach day.... until our severe thunderstorms rolled in! 
no gold today, but i hit 2 separate beaches this morning and pulled a total of over $9.30 in clad out of the sands! and a pair of cheap earrings.
one $2.00 coin was an eyeball find from about 10 feet away!
i was watching ahead of my feet and i see something shining and sure enough... 2 bucks!
i also had to wade through the empty fireworks tubes. everywhere i looked, they were sticking out of the sand. that beach must have been quite "noisy" last night for Canada's birthday celebrations, ha.
so i'm just checking my coins from the smaller beach i was at later this morning and one looked to be a bit different. certainly a quarter, but very tarnished. after a closer look, the best i can determine is a King George V quarter, somewhere between 1911 and 1936!!! depending on the actual date, it's either .925 silver or .800 silver. from it's condition, i'm guessing it's the .800 coin but i won't know for sure until i can ID the date on it.
it was fairly deep and this beach is north facing and well sheltered and doesn't suffer too much from storms so... that quarter was likely there for quite some time!
any ideas of how i should clean it up a bit would be welcomed.
oh, and a pic of the hail from our storm! luckily, i was in my vehicle when it hit, but considering i drive a convertible, i was wondering if my top could withstand that stuff. and why i never lost my windshield, i'll never know.... that stuff hits HARD!!!!!
oh, the photo was from the Halifax (online) newspaper and i'd have to say the hail here was much larger, golf-ball sized in some places! that's very rare for this area. the shot through the windshield was after it was starting to taper off and the "slugs" were getting smaller.
thanks for looking,
Pete
no gold today, but i hit 2 separate beaches this morning and pulled a total of over $9.30 in clad out of the sands! and a pair of cheap earrings.
one $2.00 coin was an eyeball find from about 10 feet away!
i was watching ahead of my feet and i see something shining and sure enough... 2 bucks! i also had to wade through the empty fireworks tubes. everywhere i looked, they were sticking out of the sand. that beach must have been quite "noisy" last night for Canada's birthday celebrations, ha.
so i'm just checking my coins from the smaller beach i was at later this morning and one looked to be a bit different. certainly a quarter, but very tarnished. after a closer look, the best i can determine is a King George V quarter, somewhere between 1911 and 1936!!!
depending on the actual date, it's either .925 silver or .800 silver. from it's condition, i'm guessing it's the .800 coin but i won't know for sure until i can ID the date on it.it was fairly deep and this beach is north facing and well sheltered and doesn't suffer too much from storms so... that quarter was likely there for quite some time!
any ideas of how i should clean it up a bit would be welcomed.
oh, and a pic of the hail from our storm!
luckily, i was in my vehicle when it hit, but considering i drive a convertible, i was wondering if my top could withstand that stuff. and why i never lost my windshield, i'll never know.... that stuff hits HARD!!!!! oh, the photo was from the Halifax (online) newspaper and i'd have to say the hail here was much larger, golf-ball sized in some places! that's very rare for this area. the shot through the windshield was after it was starting to taper off and the "slugs" were getting smaller.
thanks for looking,
Pete
I felt bad for the guy but his crying "tears" had me laughing! 
