BillZ
10-16-2010, 07:21 PM
I know this isn't a coin find but I was coin shooting when I found it and had to share.
Yesterday was the wife's Birthday and we celebrated it this morning by detecting a park we hadn't been to yet. It had a stream and an old stone bridge that looked promising but others must have hit it already because there was nothing to be found but pennies. I checked the tot lot and found several more pennies, a couple of dimes, one nickle and a quarter.
Nevertheless, the weather was beautiful and I knew that when we got home the present that I ordered for my wife would have arrived. It was a Garrett Pro-Pointer and she was pleased as punch when she opened the package.
Of course we had to go out again so she could try it out so we went to our usual spot in the nearby woods where we find wheaties and the occasional silver coin. She used the pointer on a few wheatie finds and an old nickle. I also found 4 wheaties and an old nickle.
After a few hours we were getting tired and it was starting to get dark. I got a signal bouncing around 15, 19, 21...cool, I thought to myself. Another nickle. What came out of the ground however, was not a nickle. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. A large, thick, gold mens bracelet was in the hole!
I called my wife over, You're not going to believe what I just found! I still had doubts that it was real but we looked at it and it says Italy, 14K, and it's heavy and shiny!
After looking at it for a few minutes, I nervously put the bracelet in my pocket and began to hunt some more. I soon got another signal in the nickle range. This has got to be a nickle I thought to myself. Nope, something shiny and gold again!
This time it was an old Girl Scout pin. After doing some research, It may actually be 10K!
Here are some pics of the bracelet. It weighs 39 grams and it is almost 8 1/2 long. I have no idea how it got to be in the woods. It is clearly not as old as most of the stuff we normally find in that location.
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii112/BillZBub68/IMG_2062.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii112/BillZBub68/IMG_2063.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii112/BillZBub68/IMG_2060.jpg
Here is the Girl Scout pin:
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii112/BillZBub68/IMG_2061.jpg
Yesterday was the wife's Birthday and we celebrated it this morning by detecting a park we hadn't been to yet. It had a stream and an old stone bridge that looked promising but others must have hit it already because there was nothing to be found but pennies. I checked the tot lot and found several more pennies, a couple of dimes, one nickle and a quarter.
Nevertheless, the weather was beautiful and I knew that when we got home the present that I ordered for my wife would have arrived. It was a Garrett Pro-Pointer and she was pleased as punch when she opened the package.
Of course we had to go out again so she could try it out so we went to our usual spot in the nearby woods where we find wheaties and the occasional silver coin. She used the pointer on a few wheatie finds and an old nickle. I also found 4 wheaties and an old nickle.
After a few hours we were getting tired and it was starting to get dark. I got a signal bouncing around 15, 19, 21...cool, I thought to myself. Another nickle. What came out of the ground however, was not a nickle. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. A large, thick, gold mens bracelet was in the hole!
I called my wife over, You're not going to believe what I just found! I still had doubts that it was real but we looked at it and it says Italy, 14K, and it's heavy and shiny!
After looking at it for a few minutes, I nervously put the bracelet in my pocket and began to hunt some more. I soon got another signal in the nickle range. This has got to be a nickle I thought to myself. Nope, something shiny and gold again!
This time it was an old Girl Scout pin. After doing some research, It may actually be 10K!
Here are some pics of the bracelet. It weighs 39 grams and it is almost 8 1/2 long. I have no idea how it got to be in the woods. It is clearly not as old as most of the stuff we normally find in that location.
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii112/BillZBub68/IMG_2062.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii112/BillZBub68/IMG_2063.jpg
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii112/BillZBub68/IMG_2060.jpg
Here is the Girl Scout pin:
http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii112/BillZBub68/IMG_2061.jpg