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| Metal Detector With 20 Foot Rod. Treasure Diver Magazine, Aug. 1990, P. 50. |
If you've been following this blog, you know I've been browsing some magazines and research materials that I found in a box not too long ago. And you also know that I've been talking about techniques and equipment that other than metal detectors and standard scoops. One additionoal technique that I recently discussed is sifting with an over-sized scoop on an extra-long handle. That kind of sifting can be done without a metal detector, but I also mentioned in my 8/22/22 post, that you could use a large, long-handled scoop in conjunction with a coil on a long handle of similar length.
As coincidence would have it, while browsing through one of the old magazines I recently discovered in a box in my garage, I noticed an article on the use of a metal detector coil with a twenty-foot extension rod (shown above).
A gun used in a crime was cast into a lake with very poor visibility, heavy vegetation covering the bottom and cold water that limited dive times. The long-handled metal detector was part of the solution.
Of course, the long handle required a long cable to connect the coil to the control box. Fisher Research was able to provide the extra-long cable.
The detectorists used a zodiac on a cable stretched across the lake to detect a grid pattern with the long-handled detector. The second signal on the first pass across the lake produced the gun. That is just one example that clearly illustrates how a detector with long rod can be used to detect otherwise difficult to detect areas.
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In looking through these 30-year-old magazines, one thing that sticks out is the quality of the images. The magazine pictures back then were not nearly as good as those we've become accustomed to seeing on the internet.
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I've advised keeping valuables in a safe deposit box, but there can be restrictions on safe deposit boxes that you should know. For example, many institutions do not permit storing cash unless it is of a collectible nature. That is a prohibition that is becoming more common as the government goes deeper into debt.
Many institutions will prohibit storing a variety of other items or substances, especially those that might be connected with illegal activities, in their boxes.
Here is an article that will tell you more.
How Safe are Safe Deposit Boxes? - Numismatic News
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Here are some new US coins that you might have noticed.
In addition to the 2022 Native American dollar with its one-year-only design, the U.S. Mint through July released the first three issues from their four-year program of American Women quarter dollars. Each features a unique design. They include:
- the 2022 Maya Angelou quarter which began circulating in early January. (The Mint started selling collectible Maya Angelou quarters in rolls and bags on Feb. 7.)
- the 2022 Dr. Sally Ride quarter which started circulating toward the end of March. (The Mint started selling collectible Dr. Ride Sally Angelou quarters in rolls and bags on March 22.)
- the 2022 Wilma Mankiller quarter which began circulating in early June. (The Mint started selling collectible Mankiller quarters in rolls and bags on June 14.)
U.S. Coin Production Tops 1.1 Billion in July 2022 | CoinNews
I know I've found some of those in change.
The Wilma Mankiller Quarter is the third coin in the American Women Quarters™ Program Wilman Mankiller was the first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation and an activist for Native American and women’s rights. She was born in the Cherokee Nation in 1945. After drought devastated her family’s land in the 1950s, her family was moved to a housing project in California, where the adolescent Mankiller experienced culture shock, exacerbated by poverty and racism.
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| Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
I'm still thinking the red one, even if it continues to develop, will remain out to sea. That doesn't mean it won't send any surf our way.
Looks like we are having some higher high tides, but the surf remains small.
Good hunting,
Treasureguide@comcast.net