6/25/16 Report - A Lot of Beach Finds From GoldNugget. A Web Site For Identifying WW II and Aviation Finds. Restoration of LaBelle.
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Really Nice Beach Finds.
Finds and photos by GoldNugget.
My 6/23/16 post provided a link to a North Carolina beach photo showing a beach as it appeared after the April storms. The video was made by Gosports1, also known as GoldNugget. You might want to look at the post and video again to see the conditions that produced the coins and buttons shown today.
More Great Finds By GoldNugget.
Closer View of 1853 Half Dime by GoldNugget.
Button Find by GoldNugget
Besides coins and buttons, GoldNugget also found some other things. Here are some shell casings he found at another beach. 50 caliber Browning shells show up regularly along much of the Florida East Coast, but I haven't seen many of them on the Treasure Coast for some time.
WWII Shell Casings Found by GoldNugget.
As most of you know, WW II training exercises were held along the Treasure Coast.
GoldNugget said, "The imprint stamped on the brass casings are SL 43 and TW 45
As with most Old Beach Coins from the 1700-1800's it's hard to get a date,
One of the Large Cent was laying on top of the sand ( Note Eye Spy ). This happens when the water pushes over the top sand level and will leave some coins on top. I have found a lot of coins like this. , Easier than finding shark teeth.
Three of the best coins were found from 8;00 PM until 12:00 AM - my 1st time Detecting the Beach after dark in over 20 years, not that I won't do it again if I can fill up my finds pouch.
Notice the fishing weights were the old round style. I only found 2 that were pyramid shape with the leaders."
Thanks for sharing GoldNugget. And congratulations on great finds.
I talked about shell casings in my 2/17/12 post and gave information telling what the marks mean on those types of casings mean.
The shells marked SL 43 were loaded by the St. Louis Ordnance Plant in 1943, and those marked TW 45 were loaded at the Twin Cities Ordnance Plant in Minneapolis in 1945.
Below is a web site that gives the markings for all of the ordnance plants as well as a lot of other interesting WW II information. You might want to take a look at that link.
https://www.blogger.com/goog_1255904480