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Posted May 31, 2006, 11:28:00 AM |
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I had a pretty good day at The Shark Pit Today! I spent about 4 hours there & had a hard time leaving. But tomorrow I am going camping until Monday & I have to get things ready for the trip. I found a whole salt shaker, 2 things that I think were walking Caine tops. One looks like grapes & the other looks like it was an Elephant head! I also found 2 sharks teeth & 2 Sting Ray teeth, 13 cookie coins, 9 buffalo & 3 V nickles, 1 wheat penny, 3 more tokens, 2 cool buttons, a little boot that looks like a game piece, 1 lead bottle seal, a pin type thing with 2 white beads on it, a spoon handle & other Misc. things Thanks for looking! To find out all the details about the Shark pit, cookie coins & to see more finds click here. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,18502.0.html |
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Cleveland, OH
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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted May 31, 2006, 11:40:25 AM |
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Wow.  Amazing. Bottomless pit.  You have a great spot. Any good dates on the Buffalo Nickels? They look like they are in good shape. Cookie coins - what is your best guess at what these are? Mirage |
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Posts: 1904
Hollywood, Florida
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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted May 31, 2006, 11:41:22 AM |
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Great Haul again! Thanks for posting. You always seem to get some interesting stuff from the pit! HH  surfrat |
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Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted May 31, 2006, 12:14:55 PM |
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I would like to see you try electrolysis (or some other method you choose) on your cookie coins and see how well they come out. It seems like you are finding them in salt water by the looks of the cookie coins but the Buffalo and V nickles certainly would have been more corroded if you found them in the same location unless they were in dry sand and the cookie coins were in wet sand. I found a brass key that was very heavily corroded and after using vinegar, salt and aluminum foil over a period of several days, it came out perfect. However, some heavily corroded modern pennies treated the same way, although the corrosion came off, the coins were badly pitted. GREAT spot you are looking in. Congratulations on the finds.
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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted May 31, 2006, 12:15:37 PM |
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Slow down!! We can't keep up with you! LOL Great digs! That place is a gold mine. HH
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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted May 31, 2006, 12:18:05 PM |
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If that salt shaker is all glass, booh ya , great find.
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Reply To This Topic #6 Posted May 31, 2006, 12:23:53 PM |
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Very nice batch of finds!
I'm not sure what a "Shark Pit" is but years ago I heard of some fellows who had some special locations down your way where jewelry and coins collected.
These guys made BIG money hitting these spots after storms. I never did get the details but it had something to do with currents carrying goodies to certain spots along the beach. They were professors at a local college when they were doing this.
HH
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Cleveland, OH
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Reply To This Topic #7 Posted May 31, 2006, 12:25:45 PM |
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I checked out the link you posted above. Cookie coins are wheat pennies, IHs, Mercs,Barber or SLQ's. I liked your coin ID contest. Very cool. I liked your picture of how you used electrolysis to clean them. We have used this method and it does work on those very crusty coins. Mirage |
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Gypsyheart~ Queen of Rust Posts: 13120
Hardscrabble Bluff, Missouri
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Reply To This Topic #8 Posted May 31, 2006, 12:27:18 PM |
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Great finds...Looking forward to many nmore!
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Reply To This Topic #9 Posted May 31, 2006, 12:40:50 PM |
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I LOVE IT..Congrats we get to look at this stuff all summer..H H
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A LOST COIN SHOULD NOT BE FORGOTTEN
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Reply To This Topic #10 Posted May 31, 2006, 12:55:46 PM |
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I am totally amazed at what you can still pull out of this place! It seems almost neverending!
vicki
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Michigan
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Reply To This Topic #11 Posted May 31, 2006, 01:11:23 PM |
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Always nice to see you finds...HH
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Central Minnesota
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Reply To This Topic #12 Posted May 31, 2006, 01:12:35 PM |
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Nice to see a new season of finds and, as usual I have to say....Wow! |
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Cellarhole country
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Reply To This Topic #13 Posted May 31, 2006, 01:42:20 PM |
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Yea....It's shark pit time!! Keep 'em coming, Rob!  |
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Reply To This Topic #14 Posted May 31, 2006, 02:06:00 PM |
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WOWzers! What an amazing haul!
I'm fairly certain that your salt shaker is from Duncan and Miller's # 46 line. (I'm a bit of a glass geek)
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Okinawa Japan San Diego
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Reply To This Topic #15 Posted May 31, 2006, 02:27:42 PM |
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Really nice....sounds like fun!
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Okinawa Dave
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Reply To This Topic #16 Posted May 31, 2006, 03:33:49 PM |
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Looks like another great season rob!! WTG on all the cool finds!HH!!
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Alabama
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Reply To This Topic #17 Posted May 31, 2006, 03:44:05 PM |
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Ahhhhhhhhh............ 'sigh'  Just WoW! And looking forward to seeing more! Nana ;) |
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southern louisiana
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Reply To This Topic #18 Posted May 31, 2006, 03:48:20 PM |
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congrats on the finds
ice
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Reply To This Topic #19 Posted May 31, 2006, 04:16:58 PM |
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It's amazing how many Liberty & Buffalo nickels you're getting out of there! Truly is a bottomless pit.
Great stuff you've got!
Chris
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Reply To This Topic #20 Posted May 31, 2006, 04:32:29 PM |
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Love the shark pit finds. Keep them coming.
99Brown
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Reply To This Topic #21 Posted May 31, 2006, 06:08:47 PM |
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Thanks guys! I would like to see you try electrolysis (or some other method you choose) on your cookie coins and see how well they come out. It seems like you are finding them in salt water by the looks of the cookie coins but the Buffalo and V nickles certainly would have been more corroded if you found them in the same location unless they were in dry sand and the cookie coins were in wet sand. I found a brass key that was very heavily corroded and after using vinegar, salt and aluminum foil over a period of several days, it came out perfect. However, some heavily corroded modern pennies treated the same way, although the corrosion came off, the coins were badly pitted. GREAT spot you are looking in. Congratulations on the finds.
petersra, There has been many methods tried on these coins by a few defferent people. Just look under the Cleaning & Preservation section of this site & you will see a few. I am finding all these coins in salt water and all of them in the same place. As a matter of fact I had a nickel & cookie coin come up in the same scoop 2 times today. The nickles do have crust on them most of the time but it comes off pretty easy if I rub the edge of the coin on my shifter screen. This does not work on all the other coins. For some reason nickle stands up to being under salt water for over 30 years way better the silver & copper. WOWzers! What an amazing haul!
I'm fairly certain that your salt shaker is from Duncan and Miller's # 46 line. (I'm a bit of a glass geek)
Is that a good thing? Thanks for all the great replies! Half the fun of finding these things is sharing them with you all! |
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Reply To This Topic #22 Posted May 31, 2006, 07:10:05 PM |
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Rob
This is an amazing place and I love looking at your finds. Good old stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Best of luck there.
Smiles!
BDoo
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Reply To This Topic #23 Posted May 31, 2006, 08:01:00 PM |
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Quote from: mlw67 on Today at 03:06:00 PM
WOWzers! What an amazing haul!
I'm fairly certain that your salt shaker is from Duncan and Miller's # 46 line. (I'm a bit of a glass geek)
Is that a good thing?
LOL! Well I dunno that it is worth a fortune--it is a bit of an obscure pattern--but at least you will know what it is. I've never seen a shaker in that pattern before, but those rings and panels are a dead giveaway.
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Goose Creek, South Carolina
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Reply To This Topic #24 Posted May 31, 2006, 08:13:30 PM |
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Awesome finds, HH Art...
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Reply To This Topic #25 Posted May 31, 2006, 09:50:33 PM |
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..............and he's off!
hold on boys + girls ,
shark pit season;)
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San Antonio, Texas
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Reply To This Topic #27 Posted Jun 01, 2006, 03:41:46 AM |
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Wow Rob!!! Great finds again, that is an awesome spot that you found!
Rich
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Hampton Roads VA
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Reply To This Topic #28 Posted Jun 01, 2006, 05:28:12 AM |
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WooHoo been waiting all winter to see the shark pit finds once again. congrats on the finds looks to be a good summer ahead. |
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Reply To This Topic #29 Posted Jun 01, 2006, 08:46:02 AM |
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You've probably answered this before, but how are you doing your searching? Scuba diving with an underwater detector, or just bringing up buckets from the bottom and sifting through??
Congrats on the great finds.
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