Best night out thus far

[Soup]

Decided to head out last night, even though I had work early in the morning. Good thing I did too. Best night so far for me. Went to the spot Nate, Jason and I found the other day that we pulled a lot of change from. I spent 3 hours of non stop pulling, I am talking about every foot or so the Sand Shark was buzzin. Below is what I found, was a great night but a bad day at work ha ha. Good luck

1 PT900 ring (12g)
2 Silver rings ( 1 huge one)
some kind of crown
8,573 yen ($114)

 

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[Bobbypins]

Awesome rings you got there. A banner hunt for sure!

 

[Smoogle]

Beautiful Plattie Soup, congrats

 

[stpauli914]

Amazing hunt

Why do you suppose you find so much Platinum over there? It seems like a lot comes from those japanese beaches! Is it more popular than gold over there?

Aaron

 

[dewcon4414]

I wished they would do away with the dollar and five dollar bill.... can you imagine the kind of day we could have? $114 day wow. Thats one nice ring you got there also. How hard is it to clean and turn their coins in over there?

Dew

 

[Soup]

Why do you suppose you find so much Platinum over there? It seems like a lot comes from those Japanese beaches! Is it more popular than gold over there?

Actually not really sure, it does seem to me that they like Plat more than gold. Maybe Nate has a better answer?

Rob

 

[Soup]

I wished they would do away with the dollar and five dollar bill.... can you imagine the kind of day we could have? $114 day wow. Thats one nice ring you got there also. How hard is it to clean and turn their coins in over there?

Nate told me a quick way to clean them so not too bad. I have 2 methods to clean now, soak the really dirty ones in CLR, rinse and use Dremel to clean up. Other way is put all like 500, 100, and 50 coins in plastic bottle use salt and white vinegar and shake, shake, shake, rinse and done. I have not had any issues using the money to buy stuff.

Rob

 

[Lorrain.]

"Soup"er finds, Soup!

The rings are beautiful...especially that Plat.

Keep 'em comin'!

Lorraine

 

[ottawadigs]

that crown is very stange

did you test for diamond or precious gem?
very strange object, maybe its very old?

cool finds

 

[Soup]

that crown is very stange did you test for diamond or precious gem?
very strange object, maybe its very old?

I do not have anything to test with yet. I just recently got into all this fun. Once I get to the States, I will check it out. For now I am just collecting anything that is not junk and keeping it. It did look weird when I saw it in the scoop, it reminded me of Crown Royal I used to drink when I saw it.

Rob

 

[ianth]

Soup,
Nice to meet your acquaintance and WTG on the rings and coin hauls. I've played around for years trying to clean the thousands of coins I find in Japan annually and discovered a cheap and effective toilet cleaner which gives excellent results called San Paul (see picture). It is actually a slightly geled formulation containing HCL acid. I usually tumble the silver-looking denominations together with about a couple tablespoons of San Paul and aquarium gravel for about an hour. Results are great. I take an additional step of using a vibratory (dry medium of crushed walnut shells) tumbler which puts a nice polish on the coins.
Japanese have strong beliefs regarding marriage and the higher value of platinum reflects this; platinum, not gold, is the norm for wedding bands. Good news for MDer's here in Japan. When I started hunting here almost 20 years ago at the hight of the bubble, almost all gold was 18kt. These days, tungsten, stainless steel, and other types of rings are taking a share out of the noble metals. White gold has increased in usage as the poor man's wedding band.

Since US currency was used for almost two decades after the war, do you and Nat get your share of older silver coins. Have you tried hunting some of the smaller local islands? What about ordinance? I've got a nice pile of 20mm AA taken from the local beaches. Probably dumped offshore after the war.

Link to picture of San Paul bottle:
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/41z3zBoFTgL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Ian

 

[AdamBuchanan]

Nice !!!! its in the ground everywhere !

 

[Soup]

Since US currency was used for almost two decades after the war, do you and Nat get your share of older silver coins. Have you tried hunting some of the smaller local islands? What about ordinance? I've got a nice pile of 20mm AA taken from the local beaches. Probably dumped offshore after the war.

Ian

Ian, thank you so much for the information. I have not found very many American coins at the beaches. I found some on base before when I used to do land. On the ammo part I have found some bullets from time to time, and most of the time give those to Nate. I have not been to any of the smaller islands and doubt I will as I am going back to the States soon, but who is to say I might 10 years from now

 

[Les West Central Fl]

Super finds!! WTG!!