Short visit to the beach ETracs first trip, ~ spooky sixpence find...

[SNOWY]

Got to the beach with my ETrac for the first time...
Only had 1 1/2 hours, but did pretty good!
That ETrac is just the smoothest most stable detector I have ever operated...
Much to learn! + Fun to learn !!!
4 $1 coins, 2 $2 coins, 1 penny,1 cent.

I was at the beach primarily to place Mums ashes into the beach her and her father used to beach comb way back in the 1920's.

This morning I also found a 1921 sixpence; ~ Mums birth year!!!

 

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[crazyjarhead]

Interesting finds you found

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

I'm sorry to hear about your mother. It's eerie but cool that you found a coin dated the same year as her birth. Hang in there and may God bless you and yours.

DANGLANGLEY

 

[SNOWY]

Thanks Crazyjarhead,
I dug a lot of screw caps and rotten/ripped aluminum cans, the section of beach was right near a storm water outlet.
So there was a lot of crap thrown up on the beach...
Most folks avoid these trashy beaches, but today I figured it was just the place to experience a lot of different trash/good hits with a new detector...

I let my wife/hunting partner do the premium stretch!
She got more keepers than me, and that made it a perfect hunt !!!

Danglangley, thanks for your response and good wishes.
I'm going to clean up that little magic silver coin, and mount it in a small photo frame __ together with Moms picture!

Take care over there!

 

[trikikiwi]

Hi Snowy, nice bunch of finds
Sorry to hear of your sad loss, but have heart in that it could have been your Mum leading you to the sixpence.
I lost my Mum in 2007 and for the next three/four months I experienced some very unusual - but happy - incidents which seemed to have Mum's influence involved.
It was as though she was sending a message - of Love.

Cheers, Mike

 

[RickyP]

Snowy,

Nice finds. Didnt know you were registered here. I see you on MLO quite a lot. Sorry to hear about your Mum.

Explorer @ MLO

 

[SNOWY]

Hi Ricky, thanks for the response !
I am seen in other places.
I posted mainly ( heaps ) on the original Tesoro operated forum a good while back...

I have a Corte's, and a Tejon, my wife loves her Cibola.

I have had all the Explorers, and updated as each new model came up, I've got to know and love them.

Don't know why, but after the old forum crashed,
but they eventually got it up and running again they seemed to lose quite a few of their old "regulars."

 

[49er]

Great set of finds and yes a spooky experience huh....

 

[SNOWY]

Hey 49er it blew me away !

 

[tinpan]

hi snowy Nice finds .Did let the ashes float away on the tide or blow off in the wind or bury them in the sand?

tinpan

 

[SNOWY]

Hello Tinpan, I shook them into the water from a low jetty, approx 1 foot off the water.

They just touched the water, sank ~ and drifted shoreward ~ ( sank before they reached the shore...)

Ya know Tinpan, this is absolutely true...
As I started up my ETrac; I whispered to Mum "ok Mum, now you have to help me out here."
The second coin was the 1921 sixpenny piece !
How often nowdays do you find any old pre-decimal currency within 4" of the surface at the beach...

Over 70 years ago Mum used to be with my grandfather while he sifted the beach sand through a sieve!
I guess that's where I got the bug for beach combing eh!

My grandfather later ( during the depression ) worked a gold mine at Creswick...
Until recently I detected for gold around Victoria, did a trip to Tibooburra a few years ago too.
The last detector I had was a GP 3500.
I stick to coin and relic hunting now...

I like your wedgie avatar !
You're a Bendigonian I gather...

Been through there lots of times on my way to Wedderburn mate!

Take care, Snowy

 

[kibitzr]

Nice beach finds , gotta love those $1 and $2 coins .

 

[tinpan]

Hi snowy My family has been in the bendigo area since before gold was discovered.Shepards on the Ravenwood sheep run. some settled at wanyarra, kingower,Inglewood.I stay away from Wedderburn to many mders.all the best gold is in the far north west these days, bit far for a weekend drive lol

tinpan

 

[SNOWY]

Thanks Kibitzr,
yes we are fortunate to have our $1 and $2 "goldies."

They certainly quickly lift the $$$$ tally in coin hunting,
the smallest coin we have is a 5 cent...

 

[SNOWY]

Tinpan, you've got gold running in those veins !!!

 

[tinpan]

Hi Snowy i did try my luck where John Dyson had his first claim above ST Just Point,didn,t find much.i can see why he went and found the "welcome stranger" else where .lol even tried his family farm out at Morong years ago but no luck there either.Only find was a 1900 hunter's marble bottle dumped in the tailings of the hard rock quartz mine in a later time.The shaft was part of the pearl mining company.The mine was called the Handy Andy.

i find lots of best relics under the roots of pepper corn trees,few bother with these sites as most sit in and around the town all over the place Hundreds of them.Mine dumps on crown land deemed unstable and unreserved.

tinpan

 

[Bavaria Mike]

That Etrac is getting a very name! May your mother RIP. HH, Mike

 

[Harry_Morant]

Hi Snowy, thanks for sharing your story. Its good to see a few more Aussies and Kiwis on the forum. Cheers HM

 

[mlhudson]

nice finds you have there, keep'em comeing

ml hudson

 

[SNOWY]

Interesting stuff Tinpan, there's a lot of dirt between those nuggets eh!

I haven't really done much coin and relic detecting on the goldfields...
I must get into it !!!