Day at the beach

today i spent most of my day at the beach, but befor i went there i stopped by a new junk shop that has opened up because i heard he was selling coins. i had a look at what he had, which was nothing much, but i noticed that everything he had on display had been very harshly cleaned. i asked him if he did it and he seemed to take offence, then he pulled a small bag from behind the counter and said "if you like dirty coins you can have theses for £2". i had a quick look and saw that they where mostly pre 1940 pennies so i thought what the **** there might be a '36 in there lol. any way when i got to the beach i had a good look through them and there was quite a few QE2 sixpences in there. then me and my partner got talking about how i got in to collecting and i told her it was because i had found a coin in a hedge and it had made my day. so then i got the idea to plant some of the sixpences (ive always had a dislike for them any way) around the beach in rockpools and half burried in sand and the like so that hopefully some one can find one and it makes their day. and you never know i might have just turned some one from the whiteheaven area into a collector. sorry for the HUGE story, just thought it would be nice to share. all the best

 

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That was a very neat story ;D Finding a cool old coin would definatly turn me on to collecting!!(and it did)

 

i just remenberd the feeling i had when i found my first coin (which i still have by the way) and wanted others to experience that too. love the picture in your avitar very nice photo

 

That's really cool of you, it may make someones day.

 

Great idea Calum, I wish I'd thought of that. Who doesn't like a buried treasure story anyway.

Bruce

 

its a realy cool beach too. i always find fossils there, once i found a gold ring and another time i found a piece of carved whale bone scrim shore

 

I enjoy putting large pre-1967 British pennies into change return slots here in the U.S.A. for unsuspecting people to find...

I also like to walk up to people at work and give them a 70-100 year old British Penny and tell them it is a Lucky Penny for them and explain that as much as we use the term "Penny", our nation has never minted any pennies, only cents and most Americans have never held/owned a true Penny.

 

i gave my mother in law a 1910 penny today and it was great to see her face just light up

 

I haven't found any coins really so I don't quite know what that feels like yet, but I will soon be getting shipped a metal detector so that should change hopefully soon! ;P

And ty! I just recently snapped that photo on a sunset cruise off the coast of St. Thomas.

 

Maybe someone metal detecting will find it! The same idea has been done before: spending key date coins to promote interest.