Can You Do Better???

[Deep Seeker]

Not to brag, but...

I went to the beach two days in a row after a recent storm and found:

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  5 IH pennies
  67 Wheat pennies
  7 V-nickels
  25 Buffalo nickels
  4 War nickels
  3 Barber dimes
  21 Mercury dimes
  6 Silver Rosevelt dimes
  1 Barber quarter
  2 Standing Liberty quarters
  4 Silver Washington quarters
  2 Walking Liberty half dollars
  1 Sacawagea $1
  3 Silver Religious Medals
  About $12 in other change
  Some other little neat metal objects
  
  And all of this was in two days of hunting.
  
  
  Can You Do Better
  
  Let's hear what you found.

 

[Deep Seeker]

I'll try to get some pictures up next week, but I put most of the coins in holders already so the pics probably won't be the best ones you've seen.

Not being a competition, but some people do like sharing what they got.
While I was detecting, probably eight or nine other detectorist came up to me, asked me what I found, then showed me everything they found, which was waaayy more than me. That seemed like competition, but when I'm done for the day, I don't worry who found more or less than me, I just worry that I did good.

 

[Deep Seeker]

I'll get some pictures of everything. I don't know how to describe the other little things, but you'll see them in the pictures when I get them.

 

[Felinepeachy]

What beach? LOL Good job!

 

[Jeep]

Sounds like another light day

Was that it? No rings, necklaces or watches?

As long as you had fun I suppose it's OK

 

[mlayers]

If I was finding that kind of stuff I would be hitting hit everyday for a month....Matt

 

[Deep Seeker]

Sounds like another light day

Was that it? No rings, necklaces or watches?

As long as you had fun I suppose it's OK

I knew I forgot something. I did manage to find two nice silver rings each about 75-100 years old from the designs and tarnish. Plus I got a small silver cross.

 

[Iron Patch]

Can I do better? .... not today I can't!

 

[desert dog]

COOL HAUL

 

[Tom_in_CA]

wizard-man, what state are you in? My personal best, was during the 1996-97 storms that hit the CA beaches. On one day, I had 466 coins, of which 46 were silver (back to a few seateds, but mostly mercs, washingtons, a few walkers, etc...), over 100 wheaties, a 1914 $2.50 gold piece, etc... Most came within a single 3 hr. or so window, where targets were so thick, I couldn't move (multiple coins in each basket). But those days are rare. Any beach erosion day with target counts like yours, is a good fun day

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Pictures or it didn't happen.....



That's quite a haul there, guy......

I don't personally view it as a competition.
It stops being fun when you do that.

Hehe

 

[Deep Seeker]

wizard-man, what state are you in? My personal best, was during the 1996-97 storms that hit the CA beaches. On one day, I had 466 coins, of which 46 were silver (back to a few seateds, but mostly mercs, washingtons, a few walkers, etc...), over 100 wheaties, a 1914 $2.50 gold piece, etc... Most came within a single 3 hr. or so window, where targets were so thick, I couldn't move (multiple coins in each basket). But those days are rare. Any beach erosion day with target counts like yours, is a good fun day

I can't tell you exactly where, but I'm all around the New England coast. Finding so much is so rare today because more people have metal detectors now. I think a lot of people really started metal detecting because of the economy, but what do i know. Nice job though. I haven't gotten any gold this year and have never gotten a gold coin.

 

[Bootyhunter1971]

wizard-man, what state are you in? My personal best, was during the 1996-97 storms that hit the CA beaches. On one day, I had 466 coins, of which 46 were silver (back to a few seateds, but mostly mercs, washingtons, a few walkers, etc...), over 100 wheaties, a 1914 $2.50 gold piece, etc... Most came within a single 3 hr. or so window, where targets were so thick, I couldn't move (multiple coins in each basket). But those days are rare. Any beach erosion day with target counts like yours, is a good fun day

I can't tell you exactly where, but I'm all around the New England coast. Finding so much is so rare today because more people have metal detectors now. I think a lot of people really started metal detecting because of the economy, but what do i know. Nice job though. I haven't gotten any gold this year and have never gotten a gold coin.

Or a camera

 

[Goes4ever]

wait a minutes, you found a haul like that, AND didn't post pictures?

 

[LuckyLarry]

Mr Wiz

If you flash a wad of $100 bills and let everyone see it, you might get your pocket picked.

Someone crawled through my doggie-door one day and completely wiped out a jewelry box of goodies, including the ancient Chinese coins I had. Silver, gold rings, old coins, etc gone forever. Lucky for me I had others stored in a safer place. It had to be a small person who did that.

This is why I don't post pics for the public to see, the internet is not a safe place, even for online banking. My name is splattered all over the internet now, and it even tells where I live, my age, ph number, hobbies, political preferences, etc.

I do remember finding as much as $5 of coins in a short time, but haven't seen those days in at least 20 years - when the ground was full of stuff. Nearly all the copper hippy things are gone now and people are adding after-market coils to their Minelabs and White's, not necessarily because they aren't deep-detecting - but because they can't find as much any more and hope they can go deeper to find what's left. Unfortunately scrap steel, aluminum, and iron mask so much that we'll never find all of it unless we actually screen it all..


http://dankowskidetectors.com/painful_truth.htm
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Read Thom's tests and you will see what I mean.

But there is ALWAYS the chance that many things can be found if there is little or zero iron, steel, or aluminum items in the soil. This may well have been the case for your rather unusual success.

LL

 

[Montauk3]

Hey, I did better. Here is my list.

Total of 31.5 ounce of gold coins

7 lbs of .50c silver

1.5 lbs of silver dimes, all Barbers.

13 crematorium tags

1 leather shoe lace

1 broken chop suey stick

5 paper clips.

All in one hole at 3 ft deep.

See! I did better!

 

[Deep Seeker]

Here are the pictures everyones been waiting for.

First pic: IH pennies on top, V-Nickels + Buffalo nickels 2nd and 3rd rows, 3 barber dimes, Barber quarter 1904, Standing Liberty quarter 1930, and silver Washington quarter 1935. Then two Walking Liberty half dollars 1920 + 1945.

Second pic: Mercury dimes + silver Rosevelt dimes.

Next few pics: other small things - some easily identified but others hard to tell.

Then rings!!

 

[Deep Seeker]

BTW: the other thing that looks like a coin that has a hole in it has the Empire State Building on one side and the Statue of Liberty on the other. Couldn't find anything like it anywhere on the internet. Maybe old, don't know what it's made of. I assume it traveled from New York to the beach where I found it in MA/NH.

PS: The merc that looks real clean came out of the sand like that. I did not clean it in any way other than run it under water when I got home.

 

[Keppy]

BTW: the other thing that looks like a coin that has a hole in it has the Empire State Building on one side and the Statue of Liberty on the other. Couldn't find anything like it anywhere on the internet. Maybe old, don't know what it's made of. I assume it traveled from New York to the beach where I found it in MA/NH.

PS: The merc that looks real clean came out of the sand like that. I did not clean it in any way other than run it under water when I got home.

Was you useing a Water or Land detector?

 

[Deep Seeker]

BTW: the other thing that looks like a coin that has a hole in it has the Empire State Building on one side and the Statue of Liberty on the other. Couldn't find anything like it anywhere on the internet. Maybe old, don't know what it's made of. I assume it traveled from New York to the beach where I found it in MA/NH.

PS: The merc that looks real clean came out of the sand like that. I did not clean it in any way other than run it under water when I got home.

Was you useing a Water or Land detector?

It was a land detector. A Minelab Sovereign