Ocean City MD Beach Hunt and First Gold Jewelry

[Trokair]

Due to having an amazing fiance and equally awesome sister-in-law I spent the weekend in Ocean City MD doing my first ever winter beach hunt. I ended up having amazing weather for both days and came away with my first piece of gold jewelry in a nice little 10k butterfly pendant. I also nabbed my first foreign coin, a 25 bani from Moldova!




I spent over 12 hours on the beach between the two days. Even did some night detecting with a headlamp. The beach was extremely clean due to the recent beach rehab (that I didn't know about) so targets where hard to come by, even trash. I dug 4 tabs and 3 bottle caps the whole time, and I dig everything non-ferrous. I plan on going back later to see how the beach looks after the rehab settles in. For now I am really pleased with my little butterfly. This one is going in my display case at home.

I also pulled up a piece of plated jewelry (looks like the top to a ring missing it's stone) and the obligatory handful of clad. I got lucky with wave action because they formed up several little sand bars at low tide and I hit a lot of the clad and the jewelry in the troughs between the shore and the sandbars. Great start to 2018 !

 

[Johncoho]

Sounds like a nice hunt, but not seeing your pics.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[pepperj]

Nice hunt, congrats on the gold butterfly/

 

[Trokair]

Sounds like a nice hunt, but not seeing your pics.

Thanks for the heads up. They weren't acting quite right for me. I gave it a second shot and they are coming up correctly for me now

 

[vpnavy]

Nice finds Trokair. Thanks for sharing...

 

[The Urban Prospector]

Congratulations on the gold!! TFS and HH