How Many Coins/hr? For Real

[LawrencetheMDer]

Ok, just got back from 4 hrs of metal detecting a seldom scanned beach on the west coast of Florida. I know for a fact that it is seldom scanned because I averaged 22.3 coins per hr! WHAT!


On the normal sanded beach, east or west coast of Florida, I average 7 coins/hr. Well scanned beaches - I may only see 2 coins/hr. A great beach for me is around 10 - 12 coins/hr. But over 20 coins/hr! Also found a nice stainless steel (China) Men’s wedding band and a really nice looking women’s ring of hearts with diamonds (?) in each of the 20 or so hearts. It is a white metal with no markings based on the naked eye. Have to investigate the heart further…and return to the beach.

 

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[bill from lachine]

Pretty good haul for your efforts let's hope the ring is good.

Regards + HH

Bill

 

[A2coins]

I would love to detect a beach in florida never know what the ocean will spit out. Something Mel Fisher missed. great Job

 

[redcobra8u]

Nice hunt! I'm all over the place with coins winter vs. summer here in Cali. In winter, average 10-15 /HR. Summer I double that very easily. Low total is $.22 and high was around $23, not including pennies.

 

[Chug And Red]

What about our not so friendly finds pull tabs and Bottle caps Sweet finds hopefully you average is better than mine 4 to 1 pull tabs bottle caps to Coins

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

The seldom scanned beach had very few junk targets - about 1 bad for 4 good. This compares to a near by beach where the ratio is reversed and a guesstimate is 3-4 bad for 1 good. Also, over the last few yrs my coins have averaged about 50% cents.

 

[tony curnick]

Not bad for 4 hours,love to know the distance one covers during.that time.

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

When I want to go for distance, I average about 1 mile/hr, say along the high tide line. In the recent 4-hr hunt, I gridded-off part of the beach and hunted about 150yds x 40 yds - went so slowly because I kept busy digging good targets and very few bad ones. However, found both rings in the trough, created by waves, just about 2 yds from the high water mark. Discovered it late in my hunt and ran out of time...I'm sure more of them are just waiting for me and my Excalibur to return. Nothing wrong with eating from the trough...

 

[Fletch88]

That is a pretty good average. The best I've ever done was with the 3x18 cleansweep coil at a local school.

 

[WaterWalker]

Looks like you have found a beach where the replenished sand has washed out.
Older and green coins...I would definitely go back!
As for coins...I have never really counted, but I have gone an entire hunt usually 4 hours with out a coin.
I have also pulled up over 130 coins in a day's hunt, probably 6 hours or so.

 

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Wow, those are some impressive numbers.
I started tracking my finds here on the beach.
I'm new and maybe slow but on this urban beach I've spent 13.5 hours, dug 350 junk items (191 pulltabs) and 19 coins.
No jewelry so far except a few pieces of junk costume stuff.

I am stuck in the dry sand for now so I am hoping that later this year with a new detector and more experience it'll get better.

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

Nice hunt! I'm all over the place with coins winter vs. summer here in Cali. In winter, average 10-15 /HR. Summer I double that very easily. Low total is $.22 and high was around $23, not including pennies.

What is your coin to gold ratio on the west coast? Over last four years, on the Florida east and west coasts, I have averaged 200-250 coins per gold (including platinum).

 

[LawrencetheMDer]

Wow, those are some impressive numbers.
I started tracking my finds here on the beach.
I'm new and maybe slow but on this urban beach I've spent 13.5 hours, dug 350 junk items (191 pulltabs) and 19 coins.
No jewelry so far except a few pieces of junk costume stuff.

I am stuck in the dry sand for now so I am hoping that later this year with a new detector and more experience it'll get better.

Sounds like you're in the upper wash area where lighter items are washed-up. Go more towards the water and wet sand (and trough) if possible. I always figure if I'm finding nickels and sinkers gold is close by. Also make sure you have a detector, if VLF, with a frequency (e.g., ATPro is 15Khz) of 12Khz or higher. Low frequency machines won't even detect gold!

 

[redcobra8u]

What is your coin to gold ratio on the west coast? Over last four years, on the Florida east and west coasts, I have averaged 200-250 coins per gold (including platinum).

It's about right there on average. In a decent cut at some of the beaches I hunt, you can pull 3-4 rings in a 4 hour hunt making it more like 75-1

 

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Sounds like you're in the upper wash area where lighter items are washed-up. Go more towards the water and wet sand (and trough) if possible. I always figure if I'm finding nickels and sinkers gold is close by. Also make sure you have a detector, if VLF, with a frequency (e.g., ATPro is 15Khz) of 12Khz or higher. Low frequency machines won't even detect gold!

My BH can't operate in the wet sand. By the time I detune enough to stop falsing in the wet sand it can't see Brazilian coins. It might see a huge item? But testing shows that any coin 1 inch into the sand is invisible. :-( So, new detector coming later this year. :-)

 

[Sandman]

My BH can't operate in the wet sand. By the time I detune enough to stop falsing in the wet sand it can't see Brazilian coins. It might see a huge item? But testing shows that any coin 1 inch into the sand is invisible. :-( So, new detector coming later this year. :-)

A AT Pro won't be any better than your BH.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Congratz! That is a lot of coins! I hunt Mississippi beaches every 4-6 weeks. Last trip was my best coin day, and it was about 5 coins per hour. I hope I can increase that number as summer rolls back around and I'm identifying better beaches.

 

[flgliderpilot]

A AT Pro won't be any better than your BH.

Nah. I used my AT Pro in the water up until I got the CZ. In pro mode it has a very faint hum of chatter ... but good targets (big or under 8") are loud and clear. I've dug sunglasses so deep I've almost broken my scoop. It works fine. I did a comparison in wet sand with the CZ and surprisingly the max depth was not much different.

The big difference and reason I upgraded is that at max depth the AT Pro gives a very faint tone which can easily be lost in the faint chatter. The CZ gives a very loud clear tone (when boost is enabled) even at max depth, and there is no chatter to listen through. Also, the AT Pro is more susceptible to corrosion and more sensitive to small bits of rust.

Now, if you are on a heavily mineralized beach (black sand and bits on magnetic debris) yeah the AT Pro will annoy you to no end. : |

 

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Now, if you are on a heavily mineralized beach (black sand and bits on magnetic debris) yeah the AT Pro will annoy you to no end. : |

... and there is the issue. Black sand in stripes from the surface down as far as I have checked (at least a foot).

I would really like to get an AT Pro, my budget would love it. But I may have to spring for a CZ 21. It is a multi-freq VLF correct? So it works well in dry sand too?

 

[Captain Caveman]

5 & 15kHz. Yes, it works well in dry sand as well.