Ok, You Talked Me Into Going Back To The Beach, And I Got More Coins

[F350Platinum]

After all your comments and advice, I decided to go back to "the spot" to see what else I could find, today as a water hunter. 

I brought my water ready D2, my tougher and heavier CooB scoop, and the Tube Tubb today. The water is not all that cold and it went up to almost 80.

It wasn't 5 minutes before I found my first coin, and they just kept coming. Today I came home with 38 coins, one more than yesterday, and not one Zincoln. It was fairly evenly split between the old and the new. 

I finally came to the conclusion that the North wind took 50 to 100 years off this particular spot, and almost all of the finds were coming from about 15 feet past low tide, and 15 feet above it. 

It seems to me that if a beach gets heavily sanded out, whatever is in the water past the wave action and current gets sanded in. When I went out in the deeper water the targets were very faint or non existent. Got a couple of rings out there, one may be silver but the rest are pretty much junk.

Here's the trash today, only a small handful. I dug a lot of copper screws today, a live blank .22 long, and a live .22 short. Dug next to no iron. 

Got a lot of clad but most of it has been there a long time, a nice tungsten ring, a broken one, and some small bling. 6 copper memorials, and 6 wheats. 

Here's the fun stuff, 2 old keys, another Barber Dime, 3 IHPs, 4 V nickels and 2 Buffalo nickels. On the right is a piece of typeset that says something about Chicago, a small broken buckle and I think 2 silver items, a ring and a small pendant. Both are brown, so I'll have to find a way to clean them without damage, I might just tumble them along with some of the coins to see what the dates are. One of the V nickels is a 1912.

Here's the pendant, almost looks like gold under the brown but there are no hallmarks. I cannot find a similar one:

Here is the reverse, it just says "OUT".

I was trying to get out of there and go home, but I kept finding coins about every 5 feet.

Another great day, and possibly my last beach hunt this year.

[Joe D.]

Fantastic couple of hunts Bob,

   And you know what's coming; "Third Time Is The (Gold🤔) Charm" 🍀👍👍

[F350Platinum]

7 minutes ago, Joe D. said:

Fantastic couple of hunts Bob,

   And you know what's coming; "Third Time Is The Charm" 😆🍀👍👍

Yikes Joe D,

I think the third time would be the "Not Finding Much" if I return to that spot, but other spots there may be hot. 🤔

[schoolofhardNox]

Come on Bob.... milk that site dry of all targets. 😄 You know we are all chanting - go in deeper!!!! That's where the gold is. Again a nice amount of older coins. When you V's outnumber your Buffalos, you are on to something.

[F350Platinum]

On 10/22/2024 at 9:09 PM, schoolofhardNox said:

Come on Bob.... milk that site dry of all targets. 😄 You know we are all chanting - go in deeper!!!! That's where the gold is. Again a nice amount of older coins. When you V's outnumber your Buffalos, you are on to something.

It takes an hour one way to get to this beach, so time is kinda valuable. Some of the iron there is huge, they threw a lot in there. I can only manage about 5-6 hours there making it an 8 hour day.

I agree I'm pretty much "cherry picking", but throwing big chunks of iron in the trash cans might get me banned. 😬 Digging it all isn't an option unless I had an assistant to carry the big iron to a dumpster 😅

If there is any gold there, it sunk beyond the reach of the D2, I did dig all fairly consistent low and mid tones, which is why I got so many copper screws. I was glad to get those out of there.

Any gold ring I have ever found was consistent in most directions, and silver is always a high tone unless it is older, but it still sounds like a coin. Silver is easy if it's there. The only reason I got 5 silver coins is that they were brought up and probably laid flat or nearly so by the wave action.

I'm pretty sure this place will keep producing good stuff for years to come. For sure there will be more nickels, it seems the other detectorists skip them, and pennies. I think that is because they don't relic hunt like I do.

[stupot]

Looks like the stuff I find! That open layer won't stay there forever, if there's a chance you can get back, go straight away!

If its an area with scour, you might just hit a bit of yellow. Could the stuff be coming from the eroded slope?

Either way, go back until its gone - full of sand or you've stripped it!

[F350Platinum]

17 hours ago, stupot said:

Looks like the stuff I find! That open layer won't stay there forever, if there's a chance you can get back, go straight away!

If its an area with scour, you might just hit a bit of yellow. Could the stuff be coming from the eroded slope?

Either way, go back until its gone - full of sand or you've stripped it!

I've seen your posts, particularly at the drain. There is an old sluice in the first photo, I wonder if some of the stuff came from that. 🤔

What is certain is that a lot of the beach has been eroded this summer, and I have discovered the busiest spot. I really couldn't get out of there without finding something, and I'm glad this is the "quiet time" for this area. 🙂 I may yet return.

[F350Platinum]

Update: 

I tumbled some of the coins, the keys, and the pendant and ring. It's hi res so you see the dates on the V nickels. 

The ring is definitely Sterling, but I'm going to have to try electrolysis to remove the brown, the pendant may be silver too so I'll throw that in. Just have to put a kit together.

[Joe Beechnut OBN]

A good outing.

On 10/22/2024 at 7:45 PM, F350Platinum said:

When I went out in the deeper water the targets were very faint or non existent.

I think you did excellent! Keep on learning by doing things different.

 

Here around Annapolis/Baltimore Chesapeake Bay area those faints that are far and few are possible gold and silver. I'll be lucky if I can find any targets, I can easily go 15 minutes without a signal. And I dig them all, just disruptions in the threshold. Once I find a silver (Or old target) I will do circles around, X-ing working that area slow. Plus I take note of the bottom condition, this area can be just sand.. or a harder pack sand.... then add the bottoms slope/hardpack/matrix/any different conditions. 

My last hunt I was working a drop off.. blow out cut, dug gold and silver, some of the targets were faints in the deep sand closer to shore (100 foot out 12 to 15 plus inches deep), but as I got deeper in to the drop off/blowout (200 feet off shore) targets were shallow.. less than a foot. And I could really feel the bottom slope, had to be careful for there were areas over my head.. a equal is if you every hunted a spot where boats park and party.. than get stuck in the sand as the tide goes out and they blow the sand with there prop while trying to get back out of that area.. a nice sudden slated drop of that holds targets.

And a note, these above conditions can be ... much different. .. close to............ or just like.. every spot is different. Most of the places I hunt are just like..