I've gotta new search project that I need some advice on.
I know of an area that some old spanish coins were found on back in the 1970's. The coins at the time were approx 240 years old! Now I'm sure that the shore has been metal detected lots of times over the years(to my knowledge nothing has been found since), but there has never been a shipwreck found anywhere near here. I want to start underwater metal detecting a little off shore(5-50 ft of water). What would be the best metal detector for this kind of search. Looking for silver/gold of course but pewter and lead too. I would like a detector that would ignore ferrous metals if I needed to. Also I think any coins would be heavily encrusted, what is the best way to clean them up( assuming I found anything, but you gotta be positive!) It is rocky area and rocky underwater terrain. I pretty much know how to lay out grids to search, but just not sure of what equipment I would need. I am assuming that the spanish coins came from a spanish ship(?), that wrecked nearby. How else would they have gotten there? The age of the coins would have made the wreck from the early 1700's. If someone looked for this wreck(?) back in the 1970's ,underwater, what metal detecting equipment would have been used and how can modern detectors give me any edge over the previous searchers( if there were any). any advice, knowledge, ideas, opinions, or expierience would be greatly appreciated!
I know of an area that some old spanish coins were found on back in the 1970's. The coins at the time were approx 240 years old! Now I'm sure that the shore has been metal detected lots of times over the years(to my knowledge nothing has been found since), but there has never been a shipwreck found anywhere near here. I want to start underwater metal detecting a little off shore(5-50 ft of water). What would be the best metal detector for this kind of search. Looking for silver/gold of course but pewter and lead too. I would like a detector that would ignore ferrous metals if I needed to. Also I think any coins would be heavily encrusted, what is the best way to clean them up( assuming I found anything, but you gotta be positive!) It is rocky area and rocky underwater terrain. I pretty much know how to lay out grids to search, but just not sure of what equipment I would need. I am assuming that the spanish coins came from a spanish ship(?), that wrecked nearby. How else would they have gotten there? The age of the coins would have made the wreck from the early 1700's. If someone looked for this wreck(?) back in the 1970's ,underwater, what metal detecting equipment would have been used and how can modern detectors give me any edge over the previous searchers( if there were any). any advice, knowledge, ideas, opinions, or expierience would be greatly appreciated!
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