THE RARE ANNUAL BEACH TOKEN HUNT SUNDAY 28th Feb 2010

[PHIL YNYSBOETH]

The Rhondda Artefacts and Research Enthusiasts Annual Beach token Hunt was held today at Barry Island South Wales.
The rally, despite the threat at bad weather was attended by about 15 members, the poor weather forecast and there being 2 other rallys on the same day was to blame for the low turn out.
Raffle prizes where kindly donated by the members themselves as it was decided that the £100 the Club normally spends should go towards our Annual Summer token Hunt.

A big thank you to Iggle for providing the 5 gold coins which only 3 (to my knowledge) were found) and for mark for seeding the beach with 50 coloured old Penny's

After Mark and Paul laid the tokens we were off !
Hoovering up most of the tokens in the 1st 2 hours members steadily filtered off to look for some natural finds.
The day ended at 1.00 when the tokens were exchanged for raffle tickets.
I dint think anyone went away empty handed I won a Spade and an illuminated magnifying glass and nearly £2.00 of cash from the beach.
I think the Robert and his miss,s had the most luck  (sorry i dont know her name)  they went away with 3 bottles of wine and a Pinpointer kindly donated By Debbie Jones.
Also id like to thank Debbie for providing the Cakes my belly salutes you !

Over all a great day was had by all
Personally Id like a bi annual Beach token hunt   !

all the best
One happy Beachcomber
Philip A Jones

[Legacy Hunter]

Great day out at the RARE club rally today really enjoyed I had 6 tokens and 1 gold coin and ozzyheadsteve had 8 tokens
I won 3 prizes then I would have won another 3-4 times but I refused to have any more prizes so pulled a different ticket and let someone else win a prize dont want to be greedy lol
Thanks to everyone that made the day happen and organising it
Congratualations to everyone that braved the weather and turned up
debs
Debs

[bymatt666 (byron)]

i enjoyed the day on the beach !... ...i had three tokens and left for the wet sand....unfortunately nothing worthy of mention came up...but i was happy to get three prizes in the raffle.... ......byron

[Salty (Karl) Cardiff Scan Club]

Well done guys, sounds like a good time was had by all
Sorry i couldn't make this one but i had committed to the Scan Club Rally.
So, There's still Gold down Barry Island then

[Sexy Legs (Leighton)]

Well I found four tokens and got a nice prize in the raffle. Phil, how many tokens were found in total? I wonder how many are left, lol...

[handyman [Alan}]

sounds like a lot of fun was ahd by all - -well done to everyone involved in organising  and contributing to, such a succesful event.

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

 I posted my stuff in the wrong place yesterday Phil, sorry  they should have been on the club one, , rushing again to get off so my daughter could come on  to do her work,
 i'll post the larger close up shots of the gold coins when i get time,
Alan

[Gadget(Ian)]

well done all glad you enjoyed.

[KANE (DES)]

HI ALL MYSELF I FOUND ONE TOKEN AS MY DETECTOR BROKE,
BUT IT GOT ME A PRISE ALSO AFTER I REPAIRED MY MACHINE I FOUND 2 ONE POUND COINS AND A 2 POUND COIN SO I.M A HAPPY BUNNY LOL,
DES.  ps and a silver hair clip
,

[Gadget(Ian)]

i bet the hair clip will come in handy for you des.
only joking mate.

[KANE (DES)]

tee hee as bald as i  am ian lol

[16.5DD (richard)]

sorry i was already committed to a rally .
looks as if there is a gold coin on the beach left ooow barry golden beach did anyone find anything else then interesting.
see you all soon

[igglepiggle]

i also planted a 9kt gold ring on the beach hoping someone would find it !   but it looks like it is still there

i planted it in front of wall 2

it's a ring i had found on the road (run over) a while back i think it was one of them joking sovereign rings with the coin missing

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

wow, just goes to show how stuff can be missed hey,  but then people were sspread out all over the place.
 well done Paul

[Al.Thepastfinder, ( Alan )]

Here's a better pic of the coins,