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Soviet 14k again, 1871 railway token, 1864 seated dime
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Soviet 14k again, 1871 railway token, 1864 seated dime February 19, 2013 06:27PM |
Used noise cancel #11, audio gain = 30 with the 18”x15” SEF coil, Pro coil, and the Minelab 8” coil. Sensitivity level varied depending on coil.
5 days at the beach only produced 1 gold jewelry piece and 2 silver coins, an “okay” 1864s seated dime, and an extremely worn down and pitted barber dime.
The 1st day, while checking a couple of meters above the outgoing tide’s waterline, got a very weak, very low tone signal. Usually, this type of signal is either a tiny piece of very conductive shallow metal, or a small piece of deeper lead. Turned out to be a Soviet 14k gold clip, similar to the one found a couple of weeks ago. This one was found with the latch open, and sounded different than a ring type signal.
On the third day, hit the negative tide zone and got lucky. Periodically, an area around 20m x 30m receives mid-to-late 1800 coins from deeper water, worn, but not that much corrosion. This time, it produced an 1864 seated dime, and a 1871 railway token.
The 5th day, got an extremely worn, corroded no date barber dime out of the rocky area.
Went to an area, not too far from the main beach, where modern coins, and sometimes light weight jewelry, periodically wash in. In the negative tide zone, spotted partially buried jewelry items, including 2 watches, a nameplate chain bracelet, a perfume bottle, and a Reed & Barton “Damascene” bracelet. There is probably 100s of buried jewelry items that washed in here over the decades. Periodically moving around during storms and strong tidal currents. But for every jewelry item, there’s probably over a 100 junk targets, including corroded zinc pennies, not to mention all of the iron.
ID = inner diameter (in millimeters)
Procoil auto-sensitivity = 16
Rings air-tested with ring parallel to coil, unless otherwise noted
Here’s a photo of the Soviet 14k leaf “clip”, the 1864 seated dime, and the Russian 14k “clip” from a couple of weeks ago.
Note: with an open latch, orientation to the coil greatly affected detection depth.
Above are before and after cleaning photos. The left hallmark is; a colon “:”, then a 1, then Cyrillic letters “oo” and “yu”.
The middle hallmark is; a Cyrillic letter “oo”, then a hammer and sickle in a star, then 585 (14k). The last mark is a sideways 9 or 6.
Here are before and after cleaning photos of the silver coins.
At the bottom is an 1871 railway token. It says “Oakland Brooklyn & Fruit Vale R.R. Company” on one side, and “One Fare” “1871” on the other.
The other coin to the right is unknown, but probably foreign.
Here’s a coin group photo.
Here’s the other stuff.
The watch to the left is “Geneva” brand, and to the right is “Seiko Kinetic”, and ticks after a few shakes.
Detecting since Feb, 2010
E-trac with 18"x15" SEF, 13" Ultimate coil, Pro coil, Minelab 8" coil, 4.5"x7" SEF, Sunray target probe
CTX3030 with 17"x13" DD coil, 11" DD coil
5 days at the beach only produced 1 gold jewelry piece and 2 silver coins, an “okay” 1864s seated dime, and an extremely worn down and pitted barber dime.
The 1st day, while checking a couple of meters above the outgoing tide’s waterline, got a very weak, very low tone signal. Usually, this type of signal is either a tiny piece of very conductive shallow metal, or a small piece of deeper lead. Turned out to be a Soviet 14k gold clip, similar to the one found a couple of weeks ago. This one was found with the latch open, and sounded different than a ring type signal.
On the third day, hit the negative tide zone and got lucky. Periodically, an area around 20m x 30m receives mid-to-late 1800 coins from deeper water, worn, but not that much corrosion. This time, it produced an 1864 seated dime, and a 1871 railway token.
The 5th day, got an extremely worn, corroded no date barber dime out of the rocky area.
Went to an area, not too far from the main beach, where modern coins, and sometimes light weight jewelry, periodically wash in. In the negative tide zone, spotted partially buried jewelry items, including 2 watches, a nameplate chain bracelet, a perfume bottle, and a Reed & Barton “Damascene” bracelet. There is probably 100s of buried jewelry items that washed in here over the decades. Periodically moving around during storms and strong tidal currents. But for every jewelry item, there’s probably over a 100 junk targets, including corroded zinc pennies, not to mention all of the iron.
ID = inner diameter (in millimeters)
Procoil auto-sensitivity = 16
Rings air-tested with ring parallel to coil, unless otherwise noted
Here’s a photo of the Soviet 14k leaf “clip”, the 1864 seated dime, and the Russian 14k “clip” from a couple of weeks ago.
Row Col carat ID grams depth FE-CO max depth description
1 1 14k -- 1.85 3” 12-06 5” leaf parallel to coil
3” 12-01 5” latch closed, latch loop parallel to coil
2” 12-05 3” latch open, latch loop parallel to coil,
leaf tip facing front of coil
.25” 12-06 .5” latch open, latch loop parallel to coil,
leaf tip rotated 90 degrees
Note: with an open latch, orientation to the coil greatly affected detection depth.
Above are before and after cleaning photos. The left hallmark is; a colon “:”, then a 1, then Cyrillic letters “oo” and “yu”.
The middle hallmark is; a Cyrillic letter “oo”, then a hammer and sickle in a star, then 585 (14k). The last mark is a sideways 9 or 6.
Here are before and after cleaning photos of the silver coins.
At the bottom is an 1871 railway token. It says “Oakland Brooklyn & Fruit Vale R.R. Company” on one side, and “One Fare” “1871” on the other.
The other coin to the right is unknown, but probably foreign.
Here’s a coin group photo.
Here’s the other stuff.
The watch to the left is “Geneva” brand, and to the right is “Seiko Kinetic”, and ticks after a few shakes.
Detecting since Feb, 2010
E-trac with 18"x15" SEF, 13" Ultimate coil, Pro coil, Minelab 8" coil, 4.5"x7" SEF, Sunray target probe
CTX3030 with 17"x13" DD coil, 11" DD coil