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<p>[QUOTE="wood_ster, post: 3606234, member: 37387"]I first submitted to ngc - I also tried to have then ‘conserve’ it - they would do neither.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pcgs wouldn’t grade it either</p><p><br /></p><p>I included the photo of the ‘body bags’ the coin came in from both companies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I want to address how I found it!! I am a treasure hunter with a metal detector. Oh my other hobbies have taken a backseat, snowboarding, mountain biking, gardening, rock hounding, all I wanna do is metal detect!</p><p><br /></p><p>I found my first silver coin on the beach, at an old ferry Landing in the Puget Sound. It was a Mercury dime. Since last year, I have found about 200 silver coins on the beach. And thousands upon thousands of non-silver coins, and other Relics. Some beaches are good. Some beaches are bad. Sometimes erosion will put new dirt on top of old dirt. Sometimes erosion exposes old dirt, where every coin is old. The tides fluctuate 15 vertical feet. That means if there is a gentle grade to the slope of the beach, a half mile of beach can be exposed between a high and a low tide. </p><p><br /></p><p> I don’t just randomly metal detext on beaches. I Metal detecting underneath dock that of been used for 130 years. Actually docks that were created 130 years ago, and then abandoned. I don’t know what the ocean swallows. I just know what it does not swallow. And what it does not swallow is what I dig up underneath my coil. So that’s how a guy with a metal detector can scoop up silver dollars in the salt water beaches[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wood_ster, post: 3606234, member: 37387"]I first submitted to ngc - I also tried to have then ‘conserve’ it - they would do neither. Pcgs wouldn’t grade it either I included the photo of the ‘body bags’ the coin came in from both companies. I want to address how I found it!! I am a treasure hunter with a metal detector. Oh my other hobbies have taken a backseat, snowboarding, mountain biking, gardening, rock hounding, all I wanna do is metal detect! I found my first silver coin on the beach, at an old ferry Landing in the Puget Sound. It was a Mercury dime. Since last year, I have found about 200 silver coins on the beach. And thousands upon thousands of non-silver coins, and other Relics. Some beaches are good. Some beaches are bad. Sometimes erosion will put new dirt on top of old dirt. Sometimes erosion exposes old dirt, where every coin is old. The tides fluctuate 15 vertical feet. That means if there is a gentle grade to the slope of the beach, a half mile of beach can be exposed between a high and a low tide. I don’t just randomly metal detext on beaches. I Metal detecting underneath dock that of been used for 130 years. Actually docks that were created 130 years ago, and then abandoned. I don’t know what the ocean swallows. I just know what it does not swallow. And what it does not swallow is what I dig up underneath my coil. So that’s how a guy with a metal detector can scoop up silver dollars in the salt water beaches[/QUOTE]
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