An Unusual Find Day - Feb. 5, 2013

Today, we started our detecting in the early afternoon.  After getting a slow start due to all our previous day's sightseeing, for the first time we decided to drive several miles down the beach toward a large fishing pier.  The pier is located on a public beach away from the hotels.

We were surprised at all the coins that people seem to lose on the public beach.  While digging at one signal, we located three quarters and several other coins, all in one spot.  Unfortunately, all of them were "clad" coins (no silver).  However, we did get one of our most exciting finds to date -- PPP dug up an Eisenhower Dollar!  Not that they are rare, but it is exciting to find one, considering the fact that you rarely ever get one in change nowadays.

The best we can figure out, the long black item in the picture is some sort of fishing lure or anchor, which has little silver rhinestones all over it.   We also dug up a small metal button, but nothing else of any real value that day.  We won't even take time to post our findings on February 6th, since it rained all day and all we found was a penny before we gave up.  So.....we hopped in the car and went shopping.