208 coin day.

kane23 · Jan 12, 2009

Hi,
I went south again yesterday,started off well at an elementary school,within 2 hours I had over 100 coins. I moved on to other sites that were not so good, the other 108 coins I found took me another 5 hours, still it was a 200 plus coin day. totals for the day;
Cents; 75(one wheat a 1957)
nickels; 6
dimes; 66
Quarters; 59
foriegn coins; 2, a canadian cent and a 1954 australian half penny.
Rings; 1, It was a mans walmart special,lots of glitter and bling but no real value.
3 trips south( december 29th,Jan 1st and Jan,11th) a total of 535 coins. good hunting to the rest of you, Kane 23

Woodland Detectors · Jan 13, 2009

Holy cow kane! that much digging as much as I love this hobby would give me a migrane headache! lol hope you had fun!

Narthoniel · Jan 13, 2009

Kane, you are a beast! I think I am going to head out and see if I can dig a few today. You are an inspiration.

I am wondering tho, are you only digging dime, quarter, and copper penny signals? Or are you looking for whatever else may be there. Also, are these newer locations where you are only expecting to find clad? I know you have found many gold coins, and I am wondering what I should do so I can try and find some myself. Maybe its all location, but I wanted to know your expert opinion.

Thank you,
Anthony

kane23 · Jan 13, 2009

Narthonial,
If i'm after large numbers of coins I usually don't dig the nickels and especially the zinc cents. If i'm at a Ghost town or somewhere else that there is a good chance of a gold coin, I turn it down below foil. I also prefer detectors without ID meters. I find with meters I pass up stuff I would otherwise dig. Also if looking for gold rings I turn the detector down to foil. In areas heavily searched I look for gold rings more often.
If your after gold coins, go to areas used before 1930, especially 1800's locations. I found some of my gold coins sifting in dumps and ghost towns,but I also found a couple in old parks usually 8 inches or more deep, good luck....Kane23

pookie-princess of rust · Jan 13, 2009

wow. thats alot of coins.

thrillathahunt · Jan 13, 2009

Pictures, pictures we want pictures!!! Just kidding......

Hey, you must not have much competition in your area.

It seems like everybody and their uncle detects around here

Keep it goin!

Rick

Narthoniel · Jan 13, 2009

kane23 said:
Narthonial,
If i'm after large numbers of coins I usually don't dig the nickels and especially the zinc cents. If i'm at a Ghost town or somewhere else that there is a good chance of a gold coin, I turn it down below foil. I also prefer detectors without ID meters. I find with meters I pass up stuff I would otherwise dig. Also if looking for gold rings I turn the detector down to foil. In areas heavily searched I look for gold rings more often.
If your after gold coins, go to areas used before 1930, especially 1800's locations. I found some of my gold coins sifting in dumps and ghost towns,but I also found a couple in old parks usually 8 inches or more deep, good luck....Kane23

Thank you for the information. I tend to beach hunt, but someday I hope to get some good old dirt to dig into, and ill keep your tips in mind.
Anthony

Harry_Morant · Jan 14, 2009

Wow - a great haul!

kane23 · Jan 14, 2009

Theres always a decent chance of a gold coin ring or pendant at a beach,but then again most of you beach hunter's use PSI units,which my VLF can't compete with on a beach. HH Kane 23

Narthoniel · Jan 14, 2009

I despsise digging iron at the beach. I use a VLF and most do that hunt the beach. Some PI guys are here, but not many. Everyone has a preference. As for gold coins, not here, beach renourishment killed that. I do find a few gold rings, earrings, pendants now and then. But like everyone else, a gold coin is way up on the dream finds list.

JoeIN · Jan 15, 2009

Man that's a lot of digging.

kane23 · Jan 15, 2009

Narthonial,
I'm surprised to hear about few people using PI units,I thought it would be the other way around.Very few beaches here in Utah. I have found a couple of gold rings at lake beaches before, including one last year. What exactly is beach renourishment?
Most of the time I don't have big coin days, yesterday I only found 31 coins and the day before 21. If I don't go south i'm chipping them out of the ice, even though the snow is melting here...Kane 23

Narthoniel · Jan 15, 2009

Beach renourishment is an awful urban theory. Man's way of trying to conrtol the beach costing the tax payers millions for temporary beach. The pump in millions of tons of sand from offshore onto the beach in an effort to make the beach wider. While there is that slight chance something good offshore could be brought in, it is a slight chance. But it also buries anything currently on the beach deep deep under the added sand. So any old coins become unreachable, as well as any other jewelry that had not been discovered. The sand pumped in is also different in nature, and is not as packed as the usual sand. So any gold rings sink quickly out of range. I have heard it said that there is only a 24-48 hour window to find the good rings before they sink out of range. After that you have to pray for erosion to expose them which only occurs in winter or after storms. Beach hunting is a very tough critter. I have only been hunting for 6 months, and it is daunting. I know someone who has hunted here for 40 years, and he does not always understand the beach and the way targets are distributed. The beach is alive, and the targets are always moving in and out, here and there, and only sometimes are they in a detectable location. I have found one old coin this summer, and it was an 1884 morgan during a storm. It is almost completly smooth from being tossed about by the water.

Yikes, that went on too long. So much extra to detail renourishment, sorry to have rambled on. If you have any other questions, feel free.
Anthony

kane23 · Jan 16, 2009

Narthonial,
Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me. I find it strange that they would spend so much time and money to accomplish so little. I also empathise with you beach hunters,nothing like that would likely happen with a lake beach here in Utah. Do you have the means to search beaches in other states where the renourishment does'nt happen?
Good job on the Silver dollar though,that is a good find. yesterday I chipped 25 more coins out of the ice,at least it's warm enough to go outside here,unlike the frozen midwest and northeast. HH kane 23

Narthoniel · Jan 17, 2009

A largely expanded beach appears luxurious to tourists and draws them in to spend money within it's boundaries. The beach is 300 feet wide now, where 50 years ago the waterline was where the current boardwalk is now. A few years and a good storm or two will give us great hunting

. While there are beaches in other states that I could hunt, I live blocks from this one, and I am partial to it. But, I do know one local hunter who does well, and never frequents it. There are old inland beaches he knows the locations of, and he finds and hunts them. A little erosion makes for great hunting. Just takes timing and patience.

Anthony