Went to an area where I've found a few old coins in the past. It's a beach front where it's best to go there during a minus tide if you don't want to wade around a few points to access some of the areas. Never found anything real old there....the oldest being an Indian cent from the 1890's, but, it's been a steady producer when the conditions were right. This day was cool, windy, and a few sprinkles thrown in for good measure. Perfect for beach hunting during the day if you wanted to avoid the crowds. I hit some areas where I've had good luck in the past and only found a couple of wheats and some clad. I decided to hit another area I like and passed through a spot that didn't have much in the past, but, this time I got a good signal that made me stop and scoop. Up popped a wheat. Good. Spun around that spot and got another good signal. A Mercury dime. Alright, now were talking. Next signal was another wheat. Stepped a foot away and got a strong solid 30 on my Equinox, which is almost always a clad quarter. Figuring that was what it was, I casually took a scoop expecting to see George staring at me, but, what was this? A crusty half dollar size item was in my scoop. Thoughts start whirling in my head as I scraped the edge to see if it was clad or silver. Silver....oooh......may be a Franklin or even a Walker. After rinsing and brushing off some sand, I still can't decide what it is. I remove a bit more sand on one side and see a few more features that didn't look like either one. Humm, maybe a token or something even older. Once I got home and was able to remove some of the crust, I could see a date, 1834. Wow, I had never even found a seated half and only a couple of Barber halves, and now I've found a Liberty Cap? I was totally flabbergasted. I'm sure some of you folks back east have found lots of them, but, here in San Diego, those are extremely rare.....even on land......but at the beach? Here's a few photos of my haul for the day, the junk, and the before and after photos of a token, (not old as it turns out), the Merc, and the L.C half. It cleaned up reasonably well considering how bad it looked starting out. If it wasn't for the corrosion, it would have graded at least XF.
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