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.

 

[Toby1858]

OH YEA!!!! I can do better than that................just give me 20 to 40 years to do it.

 

[Cool Hand Fluke]

I've found similar stuff after storms on the Northern California Beach's. One thing that bugs me about storm/beach silver is the fact that much of it is fried from the sand and salt. Coins look as though they've been through a rock tumbler. Gold (rings) on the otherhand tends to come out in pretty good shape. I've seen coins as thin as paper from years of water action and pounding sand. Still, you got a pretty good haul. Nice going!

 

[Deep Seeker]

I've found similar stuff after storms on the Northern California Beach's. One thing that bugs me about storm/beach silver is the fact that much of it is fried from the sand and salt. Coins look as though they've been through a rock tumbler. Gold (rings) on the otherhand tends to come out in pretty good shape. I've seen coins as thin as paper from years of water action and pounding sand. Still, you got a pretty good haul. Nice going!

I've found that too. I went to the beach today after all the rain had finally stopped. I found 4 silver quarters. One Barber was beautiful. It looks liked it was dropped yesterday. I could easily determine two others as silver Washingtons. But the last one that came out was so thin and destroyed, I can't make out any details on it. This one must have been in the surf for some time before I found it. Actually, I don't know if you can see from the pictures, but most of the silver dimes are like this.