After the Storm Beach Hunt

[Fitzwilk]

About a five hour hunt yesterday (Thursday afternoon). Dug about 150 targets. Darn cold for florida. Can't swing the axe more than about three times without a null on iron. A silver quarter, a 14K ring and a 14K pendant for about 5 grams of 14K.

 

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[Tom_in_CA]

Thanx for bringing us along. Love the green clad and greyish silver quarter. Shows that you're dealing with deeper down non-fresh target stratas.

 

[WaterScoop]

Sweet older treasure! Let it take out even more sand back into the ocean.

 

[toddbbq]

Is that gold ring a James Avery? They can fetch a nice $$.

 

[RudyT]

Nice finds!!

 

[Fitzwilk]

Is that gold ring a James Avery? They can fetch a nice $$.

Looks like the ring may have been resized where the maker mark was located. Only the 14K hallmark is visible. Getting ready for another hunt after I finish lunch.

 

[flgliderpilot]

Nice work! All we got on the other coast is more sand.

 

[redcobra8u]

Looks like a great hunt.

 

[Peyton Manning]

what year is the half penny? looks good

 

[Tired Rooster]

Really good hunt. Very nice bunch of finds.

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

Man, You were busy that day given all the targets, good, bad and ugly you recovered. One heck of a workout as I look at it and once in a while you're paid-off in gold.

 

[Fitzwilk]

what year is the half penny? looks good

The British half penny is 1965. Almost 100 million minted that year, so not much value. Regarding the silver Washington quarter; for me, finding a silver coin on the beach is actually much rarer than finding gold jewelry. I've probably found less than a handful of silver coins over the past 5 years and usually only after big storms. That layer of old silver must be Deep-6! My hunt yesterday afternoon (Friday) wasn't as productive, yielding only two junk plated items and an interesting City of Pembroke, Ontario token from 1971. Looked it up and it is a 97 on the rarity index.

 

[cntrydncr1]

Nice looking ring! congrats!

 

[JC Florida]

No kidding every step there is an iron signal here in Florida. In 2 days I dug $11.52 in clad a ton of trash, junk jewelry, keys lead sinkers and one cool item that I think is a bronze ship spike. I am beat. Congrats on the GOLD makes braving the cold weather worth it.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice finds!

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

Congrats on the gold. I like to see what others dig up and yours looks typical of the junk I dig on the west coast of Florida. When I moved from the Excal II to the CTX 3030, I eliminated the bottle caps from my scoop - a really big deal when maximizing swing time. My next hunt will be the first for me in water with the CTX 3030...we'll see how it goes...

 

[Bodkin]

Nice finds! Looks like you did a lot of digging. You never know what you're going to pull out of those FL beaches. EVEN the iron stuff can be pretty cool. Enjoy every minute of it!!! I'm stuck in Maine for this winter. The only digging I'm doing is the driveway, again, and again, and...