Tom_in_CA
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I know that reales are jumping out of every sand box on the east coast. But out here in the west, we have to work at finding coins that old 
Those of us in central and northern CA don't normally allow Southern CA hunters to come north of the Santa Barbara line. But made an exception for Val ("dana point val") Who was slated to come visit his son Jason ("staydetuned") in San Francisco for the Thanksgiving weekend. Naturally that meant we had to blindfold Val. So he wouldn't know where he was being taken to. And for each silver coin he found, he had to pay $100 "tax". But ... hey, what are friends for after all ?
They gave me permission to assemble the pix for a post.
First stop: Jason & Val hit a spot more north of me, up in Jason's direction. A relicky site hunt. Jason scored with a Spanish reale (hence pre - 1823). His first reale that was that old, if I'm not mistaken. He was not able to get a date off of it. But you can definitely see the pillars . It's a 1/2 reale size.
Also up north they did a day of park hunting too. And got the usual fare of wheaties, a silver washington, an IH, etc...
Then the 3 of us joined up for some hunts in my area. First we did Carmel Beach dry sand. A certain zone that has hard-pack within reach. So occasionally turns up silver coins in this one area. This day was no different. We each got oldies. Jason got a merc, a silver roosie, and 6 wheaties. Val got a '42 walker half, a silver roosie, and 4 wheaties. I got a merc, a silver roosie, and 6 wheaties.
Next stop, they wanted to do some old-fashioned turf-strategy exercises. So we all went to Central Park Salinas. A super pounded and junky old park. Jason got 6 wheaties . One of which was an '09 if I recall. He was going to scrutinize under some pitting whether or not it was an "S" and/or "vdb". Did you do that yet Jason ? Val got an '02 IH and a wheatie. I got a merc & 6 wheaties.
Thanx for stopping by on your family holiday weekend guys ! Great to see you.
Val's finds from their trip. Right hand row: Turf hunting up in Jason's area. Middle row: Carmel Beach. Left Row: Central Park Salinas.
Jason's finds. First pix: Carmel Beach. Second pix: Central park Salinas.
My finds from the leg of their trip to my area. 1st pix: Carmel Beach. 2nd pix: Central park Salinas.
Those of us in central and northern CA don't normally allow Southern CA hunters to come north of the Santa Barbara line. But made an exception for Val ("dana point val") Who was slated to come visit his son Jason ("staydetuned") in San Francisco for the Thanksgiving weekend. Naturally that meant we had to blindfold Val. So he wouldn't know where he was being taken to. And for each silver coin he found, he had to pay $100 "tax". But ... hey, what are friends for after all ?
They gave me permission to assemble the pix for a post.
First stop: Jason & Val hit a spot more north of me, up in Jason's direction. A relicky site hunt. Jason scored with a Spanish reale (hence pre - 1823). His first reale that was that old, if I'm not mistaken. He was not able to get a date off of it. But you can definitely see the pillars . It's a 1/2 reale size.
Also up north they did a day of park hunting too. And got the usual fare of wheaties, a silver washington, an IH, etc...
Then the 3 of us joined up for some hunts in my area. First we did Carmel Beach dry sand. A certain zone that has hard-pack within reach. So occasionally turns up silver coins in this one area. This day was no different. We each got oldies. Jason got a merc, a silver roosie, and 6 wheaties. Val got a '42 walker half, a silver roosie, and 4 wheaties. I got a merc, a silver roosie, and 6 wheaties.
Next stop, they wanted to do some old-fashioned turf-strategy exercises. So we all went to Central Park Salinas. A super pounded and junky old park. Jason got 6 wheaties . One of which was an '09 if I recall. He was going to scrutinize under some pitting whether or not it was an "S" and/or "vdb". Did you do that yet Jason ? Val got an '02 IH and a wheatie. I got a merc & 6 wheaties.
Thanx for stopping by on your family holiday weekend guys ! Great to see you.
Val's finds from their trip. Right hand row: Turf hunting up in Jason's area. Middle row: Carmel Beach. Left Row: Central Park Salinas.
Jason's finds. First pix: Carmel Beach. Second pix: Central park Salinas.
My finds from the leg of their trip to my area. 1st pix: Carmel Beach. 2nd pix: Central park Salinas.
I can’t imagine seeing something like that in the dirt...
