schoolofhardNox Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 After finding a decent amount of silver on my favorite beach the other day, I had to get out there again. A storm had just passed and I wanted to see if the silver continued in my new area. I had a lot of competition, with 8 other detectorists. But they were all hitting an exposed area like piranhas 😄. I was alone in my area. I used the GPX for this section because I needed the extra depth. I wasn't expecting this good of a day. A total of 34 silver coins, a silver chain, a silver religious medal and a nice 14K gold and ice? cross. I can never seem to get a good shot of anything that sparkles with my waterproof camera. 137 coins for the day. My copper to zinc penny ratio was threw the roof at 62 copper to 2 zinc. That is what a good storm does for you 😊 I won't be able to get back until next week, but I'm hoping I can start where I left off. Fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 27 minutes ago, phrunt said: Strange place to find an Aussie silver threepence. That's an outstanding result with that many finds. Champion effort. Thanks. It had me going for a while. It's very thin and the part of the Emu(?) looked like a wing when viewed sideways. It was very dull until I cleaned it up a bit. I thought I had found an early US half dime (Flowing hair or Bust style). Those are extremely rare to find. But it was not to be 🙁 These beaches were very popular after WWII, so I'm thinking a soldier may have brought it back. I can't wait for next week to get back there and see what is left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachHunter Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Congrats on all the great finds! Good luck when you go back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kac Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 That's a nice take, no bobby pins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted October 20, 2019 Author Share Posted October 20, 2019 5 hours ago, kac said: That's a nice take, no bobby pins? Thanks. That's just the good stuff 😊 I dug a lot of iron. Nails and big iron. No bobby pins because the ocean cleansed them out to sea for me. No aluminum either. Only the deeper, heavy stuff remained. That's why the high coin count. Mostly only coins and iron. That is a dream scenario for a GPX. Deep coins, and not a lot of non ferrous junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 On 10/19/2019 at 10:30 AM, schoolofhardNox said: 34 silver coins That’s quite a haul, more silver coins than most people find in a year, and gold also! It’s great to see a post about using the GPX at the beach, that’s power for you. Thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hillis Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 I love the gold cross. Gold crosses are a tough target. HH Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 On 10/23/2019 at 12:45 PM, Steve Herschbach said: That’s quite a haul, more silver coins than most people find in a year, and gold also! It’s great to see a post about using the GPX at the beach, that’s power for you. Thanks for posting. Thanks Steve. I can almost understand why there are not many people posting a GPX on the beach. Mostly due to the damage that the salt and water can do to an expensive machine. I have already had to spray the potentiometers to un-seize them and my on/off switch is acting like it got some sand in there. It will need replacing soon. They way I hunt, I'm surprised it lasted this long.😄 I'm sure the PC boards are taking a hit as well. Or........ maybe no one wants to let people know how well it works on the beach🤐 After seeing Phrunt's coin hunting adventure, I think I am going to borrow his way of posting subsequent hunts on one post for my beach hunts. So here it is - the return to that beach. A decent amount of silver, not much clad (that's good) and the copper penny to zinc penny ratio is still high at 54:3. Also the usual boatload of iron which is my punishment for digging all those silvers. After all the world loves to be balanced.😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cntrydncr1 Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 beautiful cross! congrats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 I returned to that same beach again for what was going to be a decent low tide. I must admit I was kind of tired that morning and it showed in my not so smart strategy. Basically I used the wrong detector, with the wrong coil, during the wrong part of the tide recession. That's it in a nut shell😆 The beach was starting to sand in and my use of a 14" coil for the GPX on a very wet, black sand area, littered with iron was a bad choice. I should have let the sand dry a bit and used the 5x10" coil. Also used the Equinox with the sand too saturated (11" coil), and it performed marginally. For my area, it is better to let the surface of the sand dry a bit and let the saturated part be below and not surface, for the coil to see. All of the silver was found in the dry sand with the GPX early on. Also by shifting to a lower area, you can see the ratio of zinc to copper pennies was way different than the other two hunts. So even after 50 years of detecting, I am still able to make some rookie mistakes 🙄 But I did get a great silver spoon at 20". It was a ghost signal that I chased and it ended up being that spoon. I think it reads-1HAS.W.Kennard&Co 925. I'm heading out to another beach tomorrow to see what it holds. I need to give that beach a rest for a bit. The fun continues......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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