The Silver Streak Continues, With A Bonus!

[F350Platinum]

I wasn't thinking of going detecting today, but last night I noticed a negative low tide at a local beach, we had yet another big moon here this week.

The predicted wind didn't look too great, we have had a lot of it. November is pretty much the same as March here, but this year a little warmer. 

Got up early and hit the beach, an hour drive from my house.

Today I had my Manticore with the M9, my titanium scoop and Tube Tubb, and Thresher headphones. It was kinda cold this morning but expected to get in the mid 60s, and there was next to no wind. I thought I'd be pretty good to go. I was wearing waders (1500 Thinsulate), and used a beach finds pouch to hold the shoulder straps together, they don't cross, and I needed a pouch for junk and the good stuff. I wore two quick dry shirts for insulation, but the water is still pretty warm, about 60 degrees.

The wind came up later but the waves only got to be about a foot as the tide came in. I hunted for 6 hours today, grid searching from just over waist height to the dry. 

I've used auto GB tracking since I got the Manticore, but today I decided to turn it off and ground balance. GB was a 1, and I left it there. It worked out fine! 

I use Beach Surf and Seawater with Dankowski "4 from the top only" Ferrous limit, and Neil Jones Freestyle tone settings so everything on land and in water sounds the same on my machine. 

The only other thing I noticed later on today was that I had turned Horseshoe iron off! It ended up being a good mistake, I didn't dig anything that wasn't a clear tone both ways and walking around it.

I still got a lot of junk, but nothing out of the ordinary:

A few bits of iron, some steel, and everything else you'd expect. 🤔 The M9 tends to false more on iron and is the same with aluminum as any coil on land. 

There are still a lot of coins in the water, I tried to skip some of them but here really good stuff falls in those ranges so I ended up with 22 coins:

Oldest is somewhere in the 1970s, except for the 23d coin which I'll show ya in a bit.

I also found some junk jewelry, sadly the little charm with the diamonds is only plated bling, the little heart may be silver because it has the Masonic logo on it:

And now for the surprise, when I got home one of my quarters had 1941 on it! 🥳 Silver Streak unbroken. 

Totally miserable looking coin, but with electrolysis and some baking soda it came out ok.

But you know me, that wasn't all. My best find of the day was this, early on:

Got me some Vitamin 14k, white gold, size 9.5, I had to straighten it out a bit on a ring mandrel.

🍀

[schoolofhardNox]

Nice.... gold and silver again! 4.1 grams ain't too shabby 🤗

[F350Platinum]

16 minutes ago, schoolofhardNox said:

Nice.... gold and silver again! 4.1 grams ain't too shabby 🤗

Nope, but was kinda hoping to get something good for my wife, who puts up with long days of me out there. 🤔

This has been my best gold year ever.

[Joe Beechnut OBN]

That's a Great chunk of 14k!! 

 

 

[Ridge Runner]

I’m going to let you down easy as best I can. That quarter with a date of 1941 is not old. You understand not old and I say that because that’s the year I was born.

Chuck

[geof_junk]

Ridge Runner  hope you have a full set of 1941 coins. I have saved my Aust coins but I am not saying what year. 🙃

[Ridge Runner]

1 hour ago, geof_junk said:

Ridge Runner  hope you have a full set of 1941 coins. I have saved my Aust coins but I am not saying what year. 🙃

My mother will say the same thing as I if it’s got a date of 1922 .

[F350Platinum]

6 hours ago, Ridge Runner said:

I’m going to let you down easy as best I can. That quarter with a date of 1941 is not old. You understand not old and I say that because that’s the year I was born.

Chuck

But I will say the coin looks much older... 😝

[Compass]

Sweet gold! I'm sure it looked great in the scoop. It doesn't take as much anymore for a great payday - congrats!!