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  1. Thanks. I was very happy to get some results again from that section. The Philippine coin threw me for a while because it's smaller than a dime. I wasn't sure what it was, but I knew it was silver. I definitely will be back next time out. Come on, hemostats are hard to beat 🤔 Spoons are a dime a dozen. 😄. I'm getting nervous, that about 1/3 of that beach has been detected to the clay layer by me. 😨. Eventually, I will need a pretty big storm to rip enough sand from the lower sections of the beach for me to get into that kind of groove again. It seems 1/2 of the beach gets slammed, while the other half doesn't see the same damage for some reason. I need a spy that lives close to the beach to let me know when the time is right 😏
  2. Beach hunt # 28 was back at my favorite beach. This is the beach that produced a lot of silver and a ton of clad. The goal was to hopefully get 1 or 2 silver coins, but also to just relax after last week’s hunt. I got there late at around 10:30 and headed to the area I did well at, hoping I missed some silver. When I got there I noticed the area adjacent to my spot seemed to lose some sand. This was an area that was too sanded in to hunt. So, I opted to start there instead of going over ground I already did. It immediately started to produce coins and lots of iron. I spent about 6 hours there and was very happy to have a way better day than I expected. It actually turned into a battle of the spoons vs tent stakes. 🙄 How can people lose so many spoons? I did have to deal with a lot of big iron, which unfortunately did not fit into my pouch, so I left it high above the water line. My car was simply too far away to bring it there. What I did find was a lot of clad including 3 bicentennial quarters, one Liberty V and two Buffalo nickels. But the silver stole the show. 9 silver coins including the Walking Liberty half, and the US minted 10 Centavos coin from the Philippines. Digging was rough as this area is packed with rocks. I usually don’t scratch coins when I dig, but this time I scratched 3 of them using the spade or screwdriver. Just unavoidable unfortunately. A much better hunt than I was expecting and very happy to find that many coins. I’ll probably try and be back there again next week, and maybe give the AQ a shot there. Or just a smaller coil to navigate the big iron better with the GPX. A nice, fun, and relaxing day at the beach
  3. I read that post. You should have left it there. That way it seems I would just have to find a couple of pull tabs and some zinc pennies to beat you 😄 Now I have to actually find something good on my next hunt. 🙄 Spoiler alert, I did. ☺️ I hope you do well if you did get out to the beach today. 🤞
  4. Nice first hunts on a new permission. Them winds can be brutal sometimes. They are the same way beach hunting, you are out in the open. But you ended up with some silver and more cool relics, so a good hunt. Sometimes farms are scraped of some top soil to sell. Maybe that's what happened many years ago and they took a lot of the goods with them. Although, if you have an excess of iron, then it was probably cherry picked for high conductors. Did you get hungry while you were out there? 😄 You didn't have to take a bite out of that Lincoln cent. What did it ever do to you? 🤔
  5. Stunning buckle. There are 2 kinds of spectacle buckles - Crude and Cruder 😄 Yours is the cruder (older). 😍 As for the gnats, do you have a drop down net hat? I've been save many times with a net on. Kind of weird at first with a net right on your eyeballs 🙄 but after getting some of those gnats in your eyes, nose and mouth, you'll be reaching for that net
  6. Wow, some nice finds. Great button. 🥰 2 Flying Eagles shows you when that site was active. Being only produced a couple of years, they do not turn up very often. Watch out for that Z phone. I have the Z 3 and the screen already cuts out when I open it. Just under 2 years old, so it's getting replaced next week. No more flip phones for me.
  7. Maybe Gerry needs another one? Or maybe I can expand his business to MA? 🤔. How are the fairgrounds treating you? I miss digging in the dirt! But silver was like a new found girlfriend, very attentive from the start. Why did she have to just up and dump me like that? 😭 I like gravy..... but I guess mashed potatoes are fine every once in a while. Seriously though, It was a longer and well appreciated silver run. It also makes the next hunt more relaxing knowing I can't do worse. 😏
  8. I like the expanded scale, coming from a White's before owning a Minelab, but I don't like the fact that the new machines expanded both the pull tab range and the gold range, so they blend a lot more than previously. On the CTX, a large number of women's gold rings came in at 6 or 9. I never found a pull tab at 6 or 9 on the CTX, so I would get excited to see those numbers knowing it isn't going to be a pull tab. I guess I'm saying that previous technology seemed to better group targets, but now you can dig a zinc cent from anywhere 65 different numbers. I've had them read as low as foil and as high as just above an Indian. I may pull out the CTX if a lot of sand is removed or if I want better odds in cherry picking small rings in a field. I'm all for more numbers, but a better classification of targets would help.
  9. It's amazing how cruel a beach can be 😅 But generous as well at times 😋 It is an awesome potato masher. 😍 I'm renting it out if anyone is interested. If there are no takers, them I may have to move to Idaho where it should get some good usage. 🥔
  10. Beach hunt # 27 is history, but the pain will linger forever. 😨 So, after many generous hunts in a row, reality can strike you hard. This was to be the lowest tide probably until fall, so I have to pick the correct beach. I waffled between my area beaches and NH beaches and finally picked NH. I must admit, nothing can reset your expectations better than a day spent digging this. 😅 So here it is, in all its glory – my stellar hunt. Spoiler alert……….. My best find was a potato masher. I kid you not. 😵
  11. Thanks. It is getting sparse but nothing prepared me for this next hunt 🤣 I know, that beach mistakenly though I said lead, when I clearly asked for gold. 🙄 I hope you had a chance to get out during that low tide. You would have beat my next hunt just by stepping out on a beach. 😅
  12. Beach hunt # 26 is at a new beach. This is beach #1. I had high hopes for this small beach. Research shows this beach may go back to the early to mid-1800’s. I was a bit leery since there is a limited number of parking spaces and houses are very close by. I arrived and parking was tight. The beach is even smaller than I thought. People were already eyeballing me, so I opted to go light with the Manticore. Not my primary choice, but I figured that I should be able to at least see if any coins show up. I really didn’t feel comfortable at this beach right from the start, but I decided to just concentrate on getting a solid target and see what comes up. If I get kicked out, I can get to another beach in 15 minutes. I must admit, the Manticore struggled there. It has a lot of iron and bigger exposed rocks, but I was able to get depth to about 6”. Raising the coil to get above the rocks greatly altered the response, especially the target ID’s. Luckily, coins were rather shallow, in the 3-5” range. Realistically, even with the great amount of iron there, my GPX with a smaller coil would have been ideal. But the Manticore did produce a lot of coins, so I’m thinking this place has not been detected since the 80’s at least. For silver, I found 2 Washington quarters, a mangled older style ring, and some kind of small teardrop shaped piece. Most copper cents were Memorials with a couple of Wheats thrown in. A lot of lead at this place too. Beach #2 was another small beach that I had previously done ok at. I used the GPX for this one. Time was now limited and unfortunately, they had already repaired the damage to this beach. That can be a good or bad thing. I was able to get a silver Roosevelt dime and what’s left of a silver thimble. Judging from the things I dug, prior to them repairing the beach, it would have produced a good number of older coins. Looking over at the water line on the concrete wall, about 1-2 feet of sand was removed. That is a huge amount for this beach. I’m sure someone was able to get some shallow old silver from there. Good for them. 🙂 So not a bad day at the beach, and I did get some more silver, so all is good. I may get a chance to do one more beach on Monday. It is going to be a really low tide. Now I just have to pick the right beach. I won't even tell you about the crazy people I was approached by at the first beach. Scary. 😵😵😵
  13. Thanks. I know PI's are definitely not for everyone, but for me, I could not do beach hunting without one. I'm still amazed on how many old coins come up. I talk with others there and there are beaches that turn up large cents and Spanish. The ring can be cleaned up by electrolysis, but I would imagine it won't reveal a smooth surface underneath. If you can figure out how to turn that ring into a SLQ, then I am all ears. 😮 One of the nicest coin designs. Hard to find them, especially with any meat left on them. I hope the quarter is a '13S, but around here if you want an S, you have to magic marker it on them. 😄
  14. I would do a visual search. In the house I grew up in, the attic floorboards were a good idea. Try and find one board that is really short in length. We found ours contained and old cobalt blue syringe (in a wooden case) and some odds and ends. But it could have held cash previously. Cellars (as mentioned) are good, especially if they have dirt floors. There was a guy locally that found a cash box for some people that they knew existed, but their father died before he disclosed where. He used a very small coil, low sensitivity and was looking for a decent size metal box. He did find it for them. Either way, just looking around in any area that may have a loose board or a ledge or hidden pocket. I would do cellar and attic first, barn second, and if there is a chicken coop, under that. Good luck.
  15. Beautiful knee buckle. You can tell just from the finds there was money at that house. Engraved Tombacs, a masonic cuff link, plus other nicer design cuff links, and some of the best coppers I have seen come out of the woods. Beautiful soil where you are at. Must have great drainage. Congrats on some stellar hunting.
  16. Beach hunt # 25 is back at that same small beach. Although the low tide was average, I was surprised to see so much lower beach exposed in the area that I found those Barber coins last time out. So, I headed there instead of doing a different section that I had planned on doing. It turned out well, as I still found silver but at the expense of a lot of iron and pull tabs. I was torn between just digging high conductors or hoping for that gold ring. No gold ring showed up, so the pull tabs won that fight. I detected a good chunk of new ground just after where all the coins were coming from, but I did not get anything of value. I still don’t know why all these silvers were found in such a small area. It’s a very accessible area (not complaining) 😄. We have some really low tides coming up, so I’m going to try and get at least 2 hunts in. It will be a toss up between the GPX, Manticore or AQ, depending on the circumstances. It’s always a gamble I don’t like doing, to pick a beach to do at low tide. Pick wrong and you get to hear all about the guys that got multiple gold rings. 😪 We shall see how it turns out. One good thing though, a friend printed me out a couple of pin pointer caps for the Garrett carrot. Now I don’t have to duct tape the tip, so I don’t wear it out. Get out and dig if you can!!!
  17. Wow, that's a nice surprise.😄 Sterling turning up everywhere (including that spoon 😉) Sure it's nice to find 1600's coins, but sometimes silver jewelry can be a lot of fun as well. That would make a nice small display. Great hunt.
  18. Melt them down 😅 Skim the copper, keep the zinc. Might as well get something out of the deal. 🤔 I find a lot of coins still here on the New England coast and even the non zinc ones would still have to be tumbled to be readable and spendable.
  19. Thanks. If you want to see a real wanted poster.... I have some way better coins I would love to find and post. 😄 But that will never happen 😭. I doubt the pliers are salvageable since it looks like it has lost a lot of steel already. Would probably snap if cutting something 🤭. I'm already itchin' to get out again 😬
  20. We used to find those back in the 80's or 90's. I think the little cans of Mott's apple juice had that style, but I could be wrong.
  21. Well...... you can't see the white nickel because someone forgot to post that picture. 😵 Here it the picture of the clad stuff. I put the arrow under it and at first glance it may appear to be a Jefferson reverse side, but in hand it doesn't quite match up. But you never know, could just be a Jefferson. Yes, the pull tabs on the lower left are the older ones. I once had a nice dated chart showing all the different types, but I can't find it. Here is another source. Just scroll down until you see the picture. Supposed to be the first style around 1963. https://pulltabarchaeology.com/2021/10/22/new-shipment-from-the-nelsons/
  22. Beach hunt # 24 is done. I decided to hit a small beach for half a day and then return to my silver beach if things didn’t go well at that beach. So, this small beach has previously given up a decent number of coins, some junk jewelry, but occasionally I get a silver ring or some silver coins. I think the most silver in one trip previously was 2 silver coins. I was expecting this beach to be a bit more roughed up from previous storms, but after talking with a friend that lives nearby, I was told the storms usually push sand up on the beach. OK, 🙄 not what I wanted, but maybe there are some good coins pushed up from the ocean depths. It took a while, but I found a coin line and after a couple hours, I managed a silver Washington, a Mercury dime, a silver cross, and part of a silver ring. I also found 2 more war nickels which read 56 and 68 on the Manticore. Well, already that’s more silver than my usual haul when things quiet down, so I was happy with that. 2 Buffalo nickels also showed up, so I am always happy to see those. It tells me I am in the right time frame for silver. But I think it’s time to move on to the other beach. I was almost ready to leave when I started to dig those very old style pull tabs. If you get them, more silver is possible. So, I stayed and continued to the end of the beach where I started to see some nice erosion. This section was very different from the rest of the beach and was only exposed because of the low tide. I never really thought about this section much because it’s hard to get to unless the tides recede enough. My first target sounded very loud (as shallow targets often do on the GPX). I removed a couple of small rocks and down about 2 inches pops out a quarter. Clad sometimes gets tumbled a lot and comes out shiny, but I quickly noticed the eagle back of a Barber quarter. OK then. 🥰 Next target might be an old nickel, but completely wiped clean. 3rd target was a Barber dime. 🤔 What the heck is going one here? 😅 Not a lot of targets there, and I’m now fighting the tide coming back in, but I managed some more silver dimes and another Barber quarter. Talk about changing my day. Needless to say, I spent the whole day there, and did not go to the other beach. One of my best outings on this beach and I plan to return there the next time we have a decent low tide. You never know what the day will bring.
  23. I'm hoping for a speedy recovery. 🙂 Best of wishes and prayers to you Cpt Ghostlight.
  24. That's a lot of coins. I have had a couple of days recently of high coin counts, so I know the feeling. You just can't stop digging them. I guess one of the reasons to dig like that, is the fact that nature can bury that location within a matter of days. So time is of the essence. Also, you never know when someone else can stumble onto that location. Congratulations on your hard work. It looks like it payed off!
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