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| 1966 100 Pesetas Coin Find Photo. |
I had this post done and ready to post around 8 AM this morning, but just before I posted it, I lost the entire thing. Very disappointing. And not only did I lose the post, but also some of the links that were included. So this is my second attempt starting over again at zero.
I did still have the photo. As I explained in my previous post, I liked some of the photos I made with my microscope system. I was looking through those photos and really liked some of them. Some I liked because they were nice photos and others because they were pretty or interesting in some way.
So the photo above is one of those. It is a 1966 100 pesetas coin from Spain. It is 80% silver.
I remember finding it. I was hunting on a rarely detected area along an inlet on Hutchison Island. The area was seldom hunted for a variety of reasons, which I won't detail now, but I hunted it occasionally because I thought there was a possibility of some old things as well as a few modern pieces. When I found the coin, I first saw the side shown above, and without taking time to examine it better, I stuck it in my pocket thinking it was probably a fake treasure coin.
I generally don't like to take much time to examine finds in the field while I'm detecting. For one thing, I don't usually have much time to detect and move pretty quickly. However, sometimes finds will provide important information that will tell you how and where to continue looking and perhaps what you might focus on finding.
One time long ago, when I was a relative beginner, especially when it comes to old artifacts, I found a very rusted twisted piece of metal. I failed to recognize the musket mechanism when I saw it, but later found a flint that it would have held. I always wished I recognized the musket lock when I saw it. I probably would have hunted the area more intensively and I would have been alert to the very real possibility of related items being found nearby.
Each find potentially provides data that could be useful in guiding your search. Even junk provides information. It can tell you what happened at the location and could tell you something about how different kinds of items are distributed on the beach.
The 100 pesetas coin was not the kind of thing I expected to find at that site. When you find one of a type there is a good chance of finding more. That holds for treasure coins, jewelry and even junk. Of course, I wondered how it got there. At this time it seems to be something of an outlier, however I does affect how I look at the area where it was found.
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Here is link to a map that purports to show 30 cities that will be submerged if sea levels rise three meters.
Map shows US cities that could go underwater if sea levels rise 3 meters - Newsweek
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I was watching a program about Budweiser beer on the History channel yesterday. Being a bottle collector and having found many such beer bottles, including several by the Adolphus Busch Glass Company.
The program had many reenactments of events in the history of the company, but the thing that I really didn't like was the brand-new beer bottles that were used to portray centuries old events. They looked nothing like the bottles that were used at the time of the events being portrayed. They were obviously out of place and stood out to me as very distracting anachronisms.
Maybe if you weren't into bottles, you wouldn't even notice, but it was a glaring distraction for me. I wished they would have went to the trouble of getting period correct bottles or at least fake it with replicas or AI or something. It was almost like Sitting Bull driving a car through the battle at Little Big Horn. OK, so that is a bit of an exaggeration, but the effect on me was similar.
I see something similar on the internet all the time. Too many articles, sites, or whatever, throw in a stock photo of something that clearly is not accurate to the story or event. You might or might not notice it, but you'll see it often, even in publications that you would think would be more accurate or honest. Trying to pass a pile of gold coins off as a particular hoard, just doesn't get it. You read a story and then look at the photos, and realize that the photo doesn't go with the story. Those are the wrong kind of coins, artifacts or whatever. I probably let a few those into some of my posts before I learned how common the practice is. Now I realize that you have to check the photos and make sure they match the story before you make too much of the photo.
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If you have a newer car, it is probably collecting a lot of data, which might be sold whether you know it or not. Below are a couple excerpts from an article about that as well as the link.
Right to Limit the Use and Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal Information
This is a request to limit the use of your sensitive personal information—say, your driver’s license number, precise geolocation data, and biometric data, such as fingerprints and iris eye scans, to name a few—only in “necessary” or “reasonably expected” situations—for example, in response to a search warrant or subpoena from a law enforcement agency.
Right to Opt Out
This is a request to stop selling or sharing your personal info and data with any third-party company. This request covers both the initial recipient of your data—the automaker—and companies they share and sell the data to, including data brokers and insurance companies...Here is the link.
Stop Your Car From Collecting and Sharing Your Driving Data - Consumer Reports
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Nothing new with beach conditions. The surf remains calm and the seaweed is still out there.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net
