Bet On A Beach Hunch And Won A Barber Trifecta!

[F350Platinum]

Got a strong feeling this morning that I should go to my local big beach.

The festivals and big events are over for the year, and finally parking is free 🥳 I really didn't expect much, and for the first two hours that was the case. The tide was very low today, I think that's part of what made me go, the high beach was pretty barren of finds but I noticed the shoreline had quite a few cuts in it. The North wind has been pounding the shoreline for quite a while.

Got there around 9AM, it was still 46 degrees but the water is still warm and the sun was up, so I never felt the cold. 

I searched this beach for 2 hours and got quite a few coins near the edge of the water. My count was 37 coins for the day.

I ended up with a small amount of clad, a few old things, a silver earring, and a jeweled cross on a tiny chain. I found it on Amazon for $5.99 🤬 At first I thought it might be gold due to the low ID, but it's not.

After 2 hours of finding pretty much the same old same old, I decided to hunt a stretch of beach I call "the spot", it is about 50 yards long. The tide by then was really low, lower than it has been in a while.

It was then that I almost felt like I went back in time, I started finding coin after coin that was over 100 years old. 🤯 I couldn't leave that spot despite being tired, and I'm glad I didn't:

I got 4 silver coins! 2 Barber Quarters, a Barber dime, and a Mercury dime. Under those are 4 "V" nickels, and a Buffalo nickel. Two Indian heads and 5 wheats.

The most interesting thing that occurred today was finding the Merc, it was sitting on top of a huge piece of iron, yet the D2 sniffed it out. 😎

The iron chunk literally fills the frame. 

Trash was bits of everything, about 2 handfuls of lead, copper screws and bullet shells, and the usual junk.

[MD4V.org]

Gracious! Fantastic hunting - Congratulations!😎

[schoolofhardNox]

That's the kind of beach hunting I like 😍. Looks like you hit the early wheat days, with plenty of Barber and V's still in circulation. I wonder what's still in the water. Prime gold ring area if you cared to get wet. Great hunt!!

[rvpopeye]

Strong feeling your way down that beach worked well with the conditions just right ! Beeped out a merc on giant iron ? Good find D2 , here's your biscuit ...🥸

[TTT2866]

Love it! That looks like a great spot. Always nice when old silvers pop up - gold can't be far away. Have you tried much in the water there? I had a similar looking spot years ago - pulled well over 100 silver coins off the shore but no gold. As soon as I got in the water, within 15-20 meters from shore I found 16 or so gold rings within a 50 meter stretch. 

[Valens Legacy]

Great hunt 350, one of these days your going to have to get some scuba gear and hit the water so that you can get the really old stuff.

Great hunting and nice skills to find the good stuff.

Good luck on your next outing.

[TampaBayBrad]

Wow....You hit "The Spot" alright! Way to use you're noggin to find the old stuff. I'm with the other guys, I would have had to waded in at least knee deep even as cold as it was just "to test the waters". Great hunt.

[F350Platinum]

10 hours ago, MD4V.org said:

Gracious! Fantastic hunting - Congratulations!😎

Thanks MD4V,

And thanks for what you do for Veterans. I was in the Army when Desert Storm happened, we had to enlist voluntarily or get sent over there, my ETS came up 5 days after they lifted that order. My ARNG unit was selected to go but that changed as well, and it was disbanded soon after I got out. I've been to other parts of the Middle East but never saw what many did. 🇺🇸 

I've got old coins and objects in that spot before, but not to this degree. I feel like it's my blessing for choosing the right answer to the moral challenges I've had this year. 🙂

[F350Platinum]

9 hours ago, schoolofhardNox said:

That's the kind of beach hunting I like 😍. Looks like you hit the early wheat days, with plenty of Barber and V's still in circulation. I wonder what's still in the water. Prime gold ring area if you cared to get wet. Great hunt!!

Thanks School,

I didn't bring my D2 water rig but I may return, however I did swing my 13" coil out over the water "spear fishing", and heard nothing. I'm pretty sure that if there were any gold objects they would have been right where I was but probably beyond the reach of my VLF, or I misinterpreted some signals. Luckily I came away with some good stuff. 😅