Lots of Silver on the Beach

[redcobra8u]

Last month I found 100 silver coins in an epic 2 day hunt in Southern California. I came across this area about a month or so prior to finding these coins when I wasn't having any luck at the popular swim spots. After about 15 minutes, I scored 6 silver in a relatively small area. The tide and time ran me out and a week later it's sanded back in. Flash forward about a month, I went back during some high surf and saw a decent amount of sand gone so I went at it. I was hitting coins at almost every step and the silver to clad ratio was pretty close to 1 to 1.

I'll post some before and after photos. It took me approximately 7 hours to clean everything using electrolosis. Some came out better than others. One thing I found useful to speed up the cleaning process was to use an eraser with baking soda to rub. Saved time and my fingers.

Grand totals: 7 half dollars, 25 quarters, 51 rosies, 16 mercs, and 1 nickel.





Thanks for looking.

Sal

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A Handbook of Civil War Bullets and Cartridges - Grab it through Amazon!

[History Hunter02]

Nice finds!

 

[Blak bart]

Wow....now thats good stuff. Congrats !

 

[Terry Soloman]

Well first.. Wholee Batman, Batman! Congratulations, and way to bring that silver back!

 

[dfallis1]

Wow I'm sure you had a blast for those two days. Great work. I was at the beach today with no luck but did witness a fellow detectorist score a 1906 five dollar gold.

 

[redcobra8u]

Wow I'm sure you had a blast for those two days. Great work. I was at the beach today with no luck but did witness a fellow detectorist score a 1906 five dollar gold.

I'd trade for that!

 

[BigWaveDave]

Top right Washington.... 1932?... s mint?

 

[redcobra8u]

Top right Washington.... 1932?... s mint?

Looks like a 2 but it's a 7.

 

[OBN]

Amazing Silver count! A Big Congratulations!!

My last two years were like that with over 300 a year, But this year Silver is just not there.. Amazing how things move around and you have to be there when it happens.

 

[ynpto804]

Where is the old gold at??

 

[redcobra8u]

Where is the old gold at??

Good QUESTION!

 

[DrJoePrime]

Some wild hunting there! Congrats!

 

[Obsessive]

Whaaaaaaat... amazing. Nice job on the clean up too.

 

[Twinkletoes]

Awesome! Absolutely Fantastic! Hi-Yo tons of silver! Tt

 

[dsdigger]

Nice silver haul! Congrats on the finds and you just had to hit it right. Guess the gold is next Enjoy!

 

[CASPER-2]

 

[Carolina Tom]

Congrats to you sir.

That is just incredible. It would take a me a year and half to do what you did in a couple of days. WOW.