Dry Sand Beach Merc

FelixtheCat · Feb 28, 2014

I metal detected for 6 years until I got my first Merc in 2011. I happened to get 2 that year and had not gotten any more until this year - a beautiful one in January and now this one in good shape and nice & shiny from the sand! $5.64 total, a beautiful angel medallion (pewter?) and a nice Merc, not bad for almost 2 hours of detecting after work! :yes:

SeabeeRon · Feb 28, 2014

Good job Felix! That Merc doesn't look like it was in the sand very long, might have come out of someone's pocket change.

Cfmct · Feb 28, 2014

Good looking finds Felix... I was going to post the same thing Ron did

Detector Nut · Feb 28, 2014

Congrats!

hello · Feb 28, 2014

Congrats on the silver! :grin:

cntrydncr1 · Feb 28, 2014

tough to find silver coins on Florida beaches...always a nice surprise! congrats

GroundSweeper · Feb 28, 2014

Love the merc and the after work hunting! Congrats

Duckhunter811 · Feb 28, 2014

Congrats on the Merc.

Dirtfishin · Feb 28, 2014

WTG on the merc. And a fine hunt, congrats

FelixtheCat · Mar 1, 2014

SeabeeRon said:
Good job Felix! That Merc doesn't look like it was in the sand very long, might have come out of someone's pocket change.

Ron/Craig: I don't think so. I have gotten 2 off the same beach in the same "dry sand zone". I think they're showing up because sand is being transported from other, much drier sections, further away from beach. This beach uses a lot of heavy machinery, cleaning off the surface and moving stuff around. Detecting the the dry sand here I have found yields surprises every now and then.

Captain Silver · Mar 1, 2014

Congrats on the Merc, nice hunt!

SeabeeRon · Mar 1, 2014

FelixtheCat said:
Ron/Craig: I don't think so. I have gotten 2 off the same beach in the same "dry sand zone". I think they're showing up because sand is being transported from other, much drier sections, further away from beach. This beach uses a lot of heavy machinery, cleaning off the surface and moving stuff around. Detecting the the dry sand here I have found yields surprises every now and then.

Well that is even better than, Congratz buddy!!

boxing63 · Mar 1, 2014

WTG nice hunt :cool:

plantguy · Mar 2, 2014

Nice find. Congrats. I too have found a similar angels along with a clover medallion over time. When I found two of the same I thought what were the chances? Now I saw you found one too! Anybody know about these?
HH

FelixtheCat · Mar 2, 2014

Plantguy - :neat:

After a little research on the angel I found them for sale on various places on the web. They're called "Pocket Angels" and are made of pewter as I had suspected.

matmit · Mar 2, 2014

Great job on the Merc!
I found one of those angels a couple years ago and gave it to my sister-in-law because she loves everything angelic.
Mine said Healing on the back

plantguy · Mar 3, 2014

Felixthecat- Interesting. Thanks for the info. They are more common than I thought.
HH

trash2find · Mar 3, 2014

My Merc count is 2 in less that 6 mo detecting.
Hope you find many more FelixtheCat!
HH

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