1942 S Walking Liberty Half-dollar, 1944 Washington Quarter, 2 Silver Dimes!

[mn90403]

Today I was walking along the wet sand just looking for any targets and not finding many.  Then I found a Jesus ring. Thank you Jesus!  I gridded the area near the ring and found an Italian chain marked CU SU so I guess that means it is only gold ionized or something like that.  It is pretty.  It was time to get off the wet sand on the mile plus walk back to the car.

I walked around the area where I had found my Franklin 50 Cent piece and nothing new.  I went through the area nearby where I had found some recent silver and then followed my pattern back to the car.  It was a warm day and I had to keep myself slowed down at about the 3 hour mark to keep in the game.  Then I got the 35 on the Equinox and it turned out to be only my second silver 50 cent piece.  I don't think I've held one of these since I was a kid.  In the same general area was the 1944 Quarter and a couple of silver dimes.  That makes for a pretty good day.

These are the best of the finds with two wheat pennies.

Just after I found the ring which is unmarked I got a 5 on the 800.  When I dug it I could see the chain hanging out of the scoop.

 

Then you feel it and know the weight is not quite right even tho the color is good.

 

Then later I saw the markings and now it is stylish but not solid gold.  I gridded the area and kept telling myself that chains don't sound like coins.

Then about half an hour later I did get a coin sound and what a nice coin it is.

This has not been touched as far as cleaning.  It is one of those substantial coins that when you hold it it feels good.  So you settle down and get to work looking for more.

It was not long after and I had the quarter and a couple of dimes and the wheats.

This was the way it all looked when I dumped it in the containers after the hunt.

 

The saw blade was quite odd.  I'll go back to that area one day at the beginning of my hunt rather than at the end.

Mitchel

 

 

[Valens Legacy]

Looks like a great day of hunting for you, glad to see some nice saves.

One of these days I am going to get back out there, if grandmother stops making a list of things to do for me.

Good luck on your next outing.

[schoolofhardNox]

Nice hunt. It'd be hitting that area hard digging anything that even peeps on the EQ. Anytime you find silver like that, there must be more just under, a little bit deeper. I'm not sure on the marks on the chain, but maybe it could be silver under that gold (vermeil). A successful day for sure.

[F350Platinum]

Great stuff! Awesome you found old silver.

"CH" is "plated" in Spanish. 😀

[beatup]

a good day out , well done .

[mn90403]

3 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Nice hunt. It'd be hitting that area hard digging anything that even peeps on the EQ. Anytime you find silver like that, there must be more just under, a little bit deeper. I'm not sure on the marks on the chain, but maybe it could be silver under that gold (vermeil). A successful day for sure.

This is more like park hunting than beach hunting in the area where I found the coins.  These never got wet.  Most of the coins with age that I have found were in the 40s.  I can't remember any of them even in the 30s so far so I think this area was a house party area during WWII.  I'd have to research it somehow and confirm that.

When I'm done with the Nox and getting most of the trash then I could use my 5000 to see if there is deeper beeps.  There is kind of a hard pan under the several inches of sand.

What settings would you try?

[schoolofhardNox]

3 hours ago, F350Platinum said:

Great stuff! Awesome you found old silver.

"CH" is "plated" in Spanish. 😀

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! It has too mean solid 24K Gold 😄 What does SU stand for (if anything)?

[schoolofhardNox]

1 hour ago, mn90403 said:

This is more like park hunting than beach hunting in the area where I found the coins.  These never got wet.  Most of the coins with age that I have found were in the 40s.  I can't remember any of them even in the 30s so far so I think this area was a house party area during WWII.  I'd have to research it somehow and confirm that.

When I'm done with the Nox and getting most of the trash then I could use my 5000 to see if there is deeper beeps.  There is kind of a hard pan under the several inches of sand.

What settings would you try?

Yeah, They look like it. Every once in a while my silver, very high on the beach, come out much cleaner looking and only starts to turn black on a very small section of the coin. They also clean up nice. If hard pan is under 10 inches (clay or rocks?), I would just use the stock settings. If you overdrive the machine that close to clay you gain nothing. Better to get a smooth threshold than to do what I do looking for 15-20" coins. The GXP on low settings can handle 10" and under nicely. At 10" it should be a sweet, quiet response. Deeper than that I can't give you (and the rest of the world) my settings 😆

[mn90403]

18 minutes ago, schoolofhardNox said:

What does SU stand for (if anything)?

I found the SU is 'Italy.'   So it is a 'cheap' Italian designed chain.

[mn90403]

20 minutes ago, schoolofhardNox said:

It has too mean solid 24K Gold 😄

I wish!