tnt-hunter
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- Fisher CZ-21, Minelab Equinix 800, ,Garret AT Pro,
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- All Treasure Hunting
In recent years the winters have been mild and people actually got on the beaches and lost stuff between our October trip and our April trip. This winter was more like the old cold ones with more snow and the beaches didn’t get much use so the finds were not as good as past years.
BEACH 1
Bethany beach didn’t have much beach left. It was mostly wet sand at low tide and very little beach to walk on up against the dune fence at high tide. I went the first day for 4.5 hours and then covered most of the same dry areas after the weekend for 2 hours and found 2 new pieces of cheapie jewelry and 10 more coins. The second day I also spent 2.5 hours doing a small play area off the beach which had more coins than the beach
In my 9 hours with the CZ21 I found 114 coins with a face value of $12.83, a pair of keys, some jewelry, a squashed penny (BETHANY BEACH DELAWARE), 3 pieces of WW2 ordinance, some tabs and foil.
The tiny earring is silver and marked IBB 925 CN. The 3 pieces of ordinance are 20 mm traveling band (technical name, obturator) from an explosive shell. I normally find a pile of the stuff but this trip the beach was not very forthcoming.
The zinc Lincolns don’t do well in the sand and soil as you can see from this one.
BEACH 2
Ocean City was my next stop. Lots and lots of beach, but again not much traffic this winter. But if you know the best spots you can still find a few things. I spent 5 hours with the CZ21 and found 47 coins with a face value of $3.99, a pepper spray with a knife attached, some foil and a few tabs. I also found a number of large aluminum staples they use in the winter to hold a fabric barrier to wooden stakes to keep the sand off the boardwalk. They sound pretty good and are almost as bad as tabs.
I threw the old pepper spray away, but the knife is in good shape so I kept it to add to the yard sale.
BEACH 3
Rehoboth Beach was the next stop. A decent sized beach as usual, no big changes here. Again not much and all of the coin finds were fresh and looked good, no sign of staining from time in the salt sand and air. That might indicate that the beach is detected regularly and I got lucky to find what I did. The normal small spots off the beach were completely dead, not even a tab or foil.
I spent 4.5hours with the CZ21 and found 32 coins with a face value of $2.15, a toy motorcycle, some jewelry, a piece of ordinance, an aluminum cloth covered button, almost no foil and 2 tabs.
One piece of jewelry is a pendant or charm marked ALE S 925. The ALE is a Pandora mark and is on all their jewelry. The ordinance is another WW2 piece of brass traveling band from a 20 mm shell.
PLAYGROUND
I noticed a tot lot in a park behind our hotel at the beach. It is kind of out of the way and even though we have stayed here lots of time before this is the first time our room has been on the back of the building. (You can’t see the park from the road). There is a tot lot and several ball fields. The bleachers and concession areas are all paved and most of the tot lot has a rubber mat instead of mulch. There is a paved walking trail as well. I figured I’d see what was in the grass around the edges of the fields and along the sides of the path.
I had 4 hours before we had to check out and hit the road so I took the CZ21 for another walk. I brought my Equinox 800 with me, but I am just more comfortable with the CZ and I just didn’t feel like working with a less familiar detector on this trip. (I have been using the CZ for over 15 years with good success)
The ground had a lot of coins and not much else, not even a lot of tabs. In the whole 5 days of detecting at the beach I only found 33 tabs and 2 pencil ends. Altogether at the park I found 166 coins (99 pennies) with a face value of $10.59, a sinker, a gambling token, a wheatie, a button, a toy truck, part of a brass snap, a few tabs, a little can slaw and a few pieces of foil.
The wheatie is a 1953 D.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I always walk the parking lots while my wife shops at the outlets (I shop a little as well, but not nearly as much as she does). With more and more people using electronic payments and card for everything recent years have seen a steep decline in the amount of change I find in the lots. This year I only found 1 penny. I did however get lucky. As I was walking around I noticed a fancy piece of metal pressed into the tar in a crack patch. I pried it out with one of my keys and it is half of a ring. Where the other half is is anybody’s guess, but this half has the markings on it. It is marked 925 so I thought scrap silver. Not as good as gold, but better than nothing, I’ll take it. When I got home I used some mineral spirits to clean it up and discovered that it wasn’t just 925, but 925 585 (sterling silver and 14k gold). So the gold looking piece down the middle is gold. It has a makers mark D. YURMAN. David YURMAN jewelry is considered to be high end jewelry. Too bad I didn’t find the ring in better shape, but scrap has value too.
I spotted a pair of horseshoe crabs stranded on the beach after the tide had gone out hours before. I also found a little sand crab stranded as well. I rescued them and put them back in the water. They didn’t wash back up on the beach so I guess they made it.
In the new park there is a pier that goes out over the shallow part of the back bay. We spotted a blue heron looking for dinner and some horseshoe crabs in the water.
After we got home we went to the grocery store and I got luck in the coinstar. 5 modern pennies, 3 dimes, a 1918 wheatie and 3 silver dimes. The dimes are a 1957 and 2 1964s, one looks terrible and the other looks brand new.
So 2 silvers from beach detecting and 4 silvers (with a little gold) without the detector. A very good week considering my recent silver slump. This trip ends my 23rd year of detecting. My year runs from May 1 to April 30. The 4 silvers I found without a detector are not counted in my year end totals. The totals are just detector finds, the rest is just a little extra gravy on the side. I’ll try and put together my year totals with some highlight pictures soon.
Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
BEACH 1
Bethany beach didn’t have much beach left. It was mostly wet sand at low tide and very little beach to walk on up against the dune fence at high tide. I went the first day for 4.5 hours and then covered most of the same dry areas after the weekend for 2 hours and found 2 new pieces of cheapie jewelry and 10 more coins. The second day I also spent 2.5 hours doing a small play area off the beach which had more coins than the beach
In my 9 hours with the CZ21 I found 114 coins with a face value of $12.83, a pair of keys, some jewelry, a squashed penny (BETHANY BEACH DELAWARE), 3 pieces of WW2 ordinance, some tabs and foil.
The tiny earring is silver and marked IBB 925 CN. The 3 pieces of ordinance are 20 mm traveling band (technical name, obturator) from an explosive shell. I normally find a pile of the stuff but this trip the beach was not very forthcoming.
The zinc Lincolns don’t do well in the sand and soil as you can see from this one.
BEACH 2
Ocean City was my next stop. Lots and lots of beach, but again not much traffic this winter. But if you know the best spots you can still find a few things. I spent 5 hours with the CZ21 and found 47 coins with a face value of $3.99, a pepper spray with a knife attached, some foil and a few tabs. I also found a number of large aluminum staples they use in the winter to hold a fabric barrier to wooden stakes to keep the sand off the boardwalk. They sound pretty good and are almost as bad as tabs.
I threw the old pepper spray away, but the knife is in good shape so I kept it to add to the yard sale.
BEACH 3
Rehoboth Beach was the next stop. A decent sized beach as usual, no big changes here. Again not much and all of the coin finds were fresh and looked good, no sign of staining from time in the salt sand and air. That might indicate that the beach is detected regularly and I got lucky to find what I did. The normal small spots off the beach were completely dead, not even a tab or foil.
I spent 4.5hours with the CZ21 and found 32 coins with a face value of $2.15, a toy motorcycle, some jewelry, a piece of ordinance, an aluminum cloth covered button, almost no foil and 2 tabs.
One piece of jewelry is a pendant or charm marked ALE S 925. The ALE is a Pandora mark and is on all their jewelry. The ordinance is another WW2 piece of brass traveling band from a 20 mm shell.
PLAYGROUND
I noticed a tot lot in a park behind our hotel at the beach. It is kind of out of the way and even though we have stayed here lots of time before this is the first time our room has been on the back of the building. (You can’t see the park from the road). There is a tot lot and several ball fields. The bleachers and concession areas are all paved and most of the tot lot has a rubber mat instead of mulch. There is a paved walking trail as well. I figured I’d see what was in the grass around the edges of the fields and along the sides of the path.
I had 4 hours before we had to check out and hit the road so I took the CZ21 for another walk. I brought my Equinox 800 with me, but I am just more comfortable with the CZ and I just didn’t feel like working with a less familiar detector on this trip. (I have been using the CZ for over 15 years with good success)
The ground had a lot of coins and not much else, not even a lot of tabs. In the whole 5 days of detecting at the beach I only found 33 tabs and 2 pencil ends. Altogether at the park I found 166 coins (99 pennies) with a face value of $10.59, a sinker, a gambling token, a wheatie, a button, a toy truck, part of a brass snap, a few tabs, a little can slaw and a few pieces of foil.
The wheatie is a 1953 D.
NON DETECTOR FINDS
I always walk the parking lots while my wife shops at the outlets (I shop a little as well, but not nearly as much as she does). With more and more people using electronic payments and card for everything recent years have seen a steep decline in the amount of change I find in the lots. This year I only found 1 penny. I did however get lucky. As I was walking around I noticed a fancy piece of metal pressed into the tar in a crack patch. I pried it out with one of my keys and it is half of a ring. Where the other half is is anybody’s guess, but this half has the markings on it. It is marked 925 so I thought scrap silver. Not as good as gold, but better than nothing, I’ll take it. When I got home I used some mineral spirits to clean it up and discovered that it wasn’t just 925, but 925 585 (sterling silver and 14k gold). So the gold looking piece down the middle is gold. It has a makers mark D. YURMAN. David YURMAN jewelry is considered to be high end jewelry. Too bad I didn’t find the ring in better shape, but scrap has value too.
I spotted a pair of horseshoe crabs stranded on the beach after the tide had gone out hours before. I also found a little sand crab stranded as well. I rescued them and put them back in the water. They didn’t wash back up on the beach so I guess they made it.
In the new park there is a pier that goes out over the shallow part of the back bay. We spotted a blue heron looking for dinner and some horseshoe crabs in the water.
After we got home we went to the grocery store and I got luck in the coinstar. 5 modern pennies, 3 dimes, a 1918 wheatie and 3 silver dimes. The dimes are a 1957 and 2 1964s, one looks terrible and the other looks brand new.
So 2 silvers from beach detecting and 4 silvers (with a little gold) without the detector. A very good week considering my recent silver slump. This trip ends my 23rd year of detecting. My year runs from May 1 to April 30. The 4 silvers I found without a detector are not counted in my year end totals. The totals are just detector finds, the rest is just a little extra gravy on the side. I’ll try and put together my year totals with some highlight pictures soon.
Thanks for looking, stay safe, good luck and may your coil lead you to good things.
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