Well the Noreaster sure brought out the treasure hunters!!! EVERY beach we went to had several people out detecting. 6 in some places!!! And I know some of my friends (Bootybay, pjroo, baspinall) were there and I never saw them. WOW. But our group of 4 did not have great luck. We all found lots of clad but I think I was the only one with any keepers. Found the religious medal, 2 wheaties, MY FIRST WALKER, and a merc that is so brown you would never know it is silver. I had a great day and the weather was fabulous; t shirts on Nov 15.
Glad somebody got something, I was with pjroo and baspinall for about hour and half at Ventnor beach and clad and keys and junk were it. I was really surprised to see that much sand on the beach, expected to see a damaged beach and it was not from Fishing Pier as far as I could see north to ACY.......
The same beach we hunted today was great after the big Halloween storm back in the 90's, back then there were many pilings showing at low tide area and almost all regular sand was gone and left a blackish harder sand in spots that was loaded with silver coins............ Ah, was hoping for that today, but did not happen.........
Don
"The mantra has always been don't clean a (copper) coin or it will lose value.
For undug coins this is true. For dug coins this is untrue.
The value will increase with judicious cleaning."
Sorry I missed you Don. Aaron had sent me a message to join you but I did not get it till after the fact. I was in Margate so I should have waved to you at least!
The storm was really a big disappointment. I was on LBI and other then the dunes, you wouldn't even know there was a storm. Beach looked like it always does. Just clad and one silver ring. The weather was nice. I can't believe how many people were out with detector's. Everywhere I went there were people detecting.
but you know, no mater how many people you see on a beach hunting...
there is always more beach than can ever be scanned by a 1000 detectorists....
Although where you were looking may not have been so good, its more likely that
the storm threw up a bunch of stuff in a few "Wash areas"
I hit a place like that on Myrtle Beach one time years ago, and you could only get to it at low
tide, in the wet sand, so I hit it for two days every low tide and got 2 gold rings 2-3 silver rings
and about 100 clad coins... but it was just that one spot at low tide, anywhere else you just found
little bits and onesies... and twosies..
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Glad to see you got some keepers. The beaches were the same north of you , a lot of sand on the boardwalks and nearby roads but the beaches were a disappointment. Can you get a year off that Walker?
Well shoot You were real close to us, oh well next time. Congrats! The beach looked fine where we were, should have been a sign to move on...... It was great meeting Don.
Brian
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Glad somebody got something, I was with pjroo and baspinall for about hour and half at Ventnor beach and clad and keys and junk were it. I was really surprised to see that much sand on the beach, expected to see a damaged beach and it was not from Fishing Pier as far as I could see north to ACY.......
The same beach we hunted today was great after the big Halloween storm back in the 90's, back then there were many pilings showing at low tide area and almost all regular sand was gone and left a blackish harder sand in spots that was loaded with silver coins............ Ah, was hoping for that today, but did not happen.........
Don
Hi Don......well you can thank the Beach replenishment back 5 years ago for the lack of targets.......the beach has been radically changed and we still need more storms to bring the beach down to where it was pre-replenishment......do you want to know the key to it??......find those beaches that haven't been replenished it the last 10 years or better (not many left....but they are there) these beaches hold much much more accumulation (in range of our searchcoils) than a recently replenished beach......I pretty much stay out of Atlantic City after the fall season as it can be pretty barren.....anyway....sorry you didn't find all that beach silver that you expected to dig....HH....Brian
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You were real close to us, oh well next time. Congrats! The beach looked fine where we were, should have been a sign to move on...... It was great meeting Don.
Originally Posted by Don in SJ
