I broke a Record

[Beach Papa]

I wish I could say it was for gold, but alas it is not. Wife and I took a little vacation to the beach and I took the detector along for the ride. First day, I hunted an area and hit what I thought was a pocket spill. However, by the time I had pulled the 7th quarter out of a 10' diameter circle, I thought this was a real nut to carry that much change to the beach. By that time I had gathered a crowd and a woman said a group had been to the beach the day before and as they were about to leave they all threw quarters into the ocean. Not sure what kind of a group does that, but I enjoyed finding $13.27 that day, the cell phone, ring and 10k earring. The ring is not marked but the gold rope scratch remained on the stone even after 18k solution, so who knows. There were still quarters everywhere so I went back the second day and found 127 more quarters. Went back the third day to look for a 14k chain someone told me about as I was leaving the day before and found an additional $2.50 in quarters. As I headed off the beach I was still getting quarter signals that I had to walk over because we were checking out of the campground that morning and I was really only there looking for gold. All told I found about $47 in quarters.

 

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[lorraine]

Very interesting post, Beach Papa

Congrats on the gold and quarter finds!

Lorraine

 

[cdv1]

WOW........

 

[sponge]

WOW........

I second that

sponge using smoke signals.

 

[bigscoop]

I guess you can call that a cache! My luck they would have all been pennies.

 

[BigWaveDave]

That's awesome!! My man down in Naples found $47 in pennies

 

[Doc Arey]

Nice

 

[jbc465]

Wow that's a lot of quarters.

 

[kezhk]

Some people have more money than sense

 

[mcogan / L.I. Mongo Mike]

Nice.

 

[WaterWalker]

I went to one beach with another detectorist...found a bunch of quarters that were thrown in the water for the kids to dive for. My detecting buddy scooped up 40 of the all still in the paper roll. Someone should have been nice to you and left them in their roll.

 

[lookindown]

Holy clad Washingtons Bat Man.

 

[RustyGold]

4th on the Wow! Let me know if you have to fly me down there to help out!

 

[PI PETE]

Nice work