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Spent a nice weekend at a camping ground which has plenty of beach area, here is what I found.
Pepsi can - I was startled to find this old Pepsi can in such good shape at a beach - Registered as a nickel 2 inches down, when I dug 5 inches and still no nickel, I pretty much figured it was a can, as I have ran into these sand buried cans before. Found it at about 7 inches and when I saw the bottom of it, I was very tempted to just leave it there and rebury it, as I didn't feel like toting a can around with me and there were no trash cans around. Pulled it out on an impulse, and am glad I did. My useful memory stretches to the mid 70's or so, I sure do not recall this Pepsi design then, I am guessing it is 60's, perhaps 50's.
Anyone knows, let me know please.
Again, I am clueless about how a can could have survived in a beach environment for years in this good of shape - And I am doubting if it is a recent burial, if only because of the depth, not to mention the unlikelihood of somoene taking a decades old can to the beach to bury.
Rings & things - Found a silver ring, a 14k gold ring minus the stone, a .925 earring. Also was suprised to find a silver 1960 Rosie dime, and a 1950 wheatie.
That little button thing I didn't think too much of at first, turns out to be pretty cool when I read the date - Says American Legion Membership 1953. Is really small, as you can tell from relation to the dime.
2 junk rings rounded out the jewelry dept, and about a $5 pile of clad.
I did find another silver ring, on request. A little bikini clad hottie said "yoo hoo, mr detector guy, do you think you can find my ring" ? I said sure, you know where abouts you lost it ? She pointed the area out, and it took all of 3 seconds to scoop it up in my sand scoop. She was mighty impressed, and poised to give me a nice hug until she remembered her boyfreind was standing right there, so she said thanks ! I'm so happy ! I said no prob, that'll be $25, which made her jaw drop and eyes roll, she said ... Really ??? I said naw, just kidding hun, glad I could help.
Found a nice cell phone also, when I got home, I looked through the recent call list [musta been a recent drop as it still had a charge]. Made a couple of calls, tracked down the owner and arranged to meet him to return his phone.
He was super gratefull, saying he had no home phone, it was his only phone, and all his contact info ect was on the phone ... He tried to press a $50 into my hand, I said really, thats mighty nice of you but I don't need anything, glad I could help.
He said no please, you took the time to do this and I really have to give you something, so I relented and accepted a $20, figuring that I would want to do about the same were I in his position.
All and all a pretty good couple of days [I'd say I detected maybe a total of 6-7 hours over 2.5 days there] ... And I'll be going for another weekend next month .. A Lot of beach I didn't explore yet, not to mention the coming drops [All sand finds by the way, I did explore a bit of the waterline out to 2 ft or so with my Ace 250, just found a bit of clad].
Pepsi can - I was startled to find this old Pepsi can in such good shape at a beach - Registered as a nickel 2 inches down, when I dug 5 inches and still no nickel, I pretty much figured it was a can, as I have ran into these sand buried cans before. Found it at about 7 inches and when I saw the bottom of it, I was very tempted to just leave it there and rebury it, as I didn't feel like toting a can around with me and there were no trash cans around. Pulled it out on an impulse, and am glad I did. My useful memory stretches to the mid 70's or so, I sure do not recall this Pepsi design then, I am guessing it is 60's, perhaps 50's.
Anyone knows, let me know please.
Again, I am clueless about how a can could have survived in a beach environment for years in this good of shape - And I am doubting if it is a recent burial, if only because of the depth, not to mention the unlikelihood of somoene taking a decades old can to the beach to bury.
Rings & things - Found a silver ring, a 14k gold ring minus the stone, a .925 earring. Also was suprised to find a silver 1960 Rosie dime, and a 1950 wheatie.
That little button thing I didn't think too much of at first, turns out to be pretty cool when I read the date - Says American Legion Membership 1953. Is really small, as you can tell from relation to the dime.
2 junk rings rounded out the jewelry dept, and about a $5 pile of clad.
I did find another silver ring, on request. A little bikini clad hottie said "yoo hoo, mr detector guy, do you think you can find my ring" ? I said sure, you know where abouts you lost it ? She pointed the area out, and it took all of 3 seconds to scoop it up in my sand scoop. She was mighty impressed, and poised to give me a nice hug until she remembered her boyfreind was standing right there, so she said thanks ! I'm so happy ! I said no prob, that'll be $25, which made her jaw drop and eyes roll, she said ... Really ??? I said naw, just kidding hun, glad I could help.
Found a nice cell phone also, when I got home, I looked through the recent call list [musta been a recent drop as it still had a charge]. Made a couple of calls, tracked down the owner and arranged to meet him to return his phone.
He was super gratefull, saying he had no home phone, it was his only phone, and all his contact info ect was on the phone ... He tried to press a $50 into my hand, I said really, thats mighty nice of you but I don't need anything, glad I could help.
He said no please, you took the time to do this and I really have to give you something, so I relented and accepted a $20, figuring that I would want to do about the same were I in his position.
All and all a pretty good couple of days [I'd say I detected maybe a total of 6-7 hours over 2.5 days there] ... And I'll be going for another weekend next month .. A Lot of beach I didn't explore yet, not to mention the coming drops [All sand finds by the way, I did explore a bit of the waterline out to 2 ft or so with my Ace 250, just found a bit of clad].