Some more brackish silver coins

[toasted]

Not as old as I like but still finding silver from multiple spots along the Chesapeake Bay. Just trying to stay cool out there. Its hot

 

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[pepperj]

Very nice results, well done.

 

[Digger RJ]

Very nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Megalodon]

Nice finds! Recently got a Nox 600 to hunt tidewater shorelines - but too darn hot here as well, across the Bay from you.

 

[erfranks]

Nice saves!!

 

[CoinFetcher]

Fun! Nice coins - quarters too, whew!

I will go out and say it. Those are SaltWater coins. The brackish water theory Doesn’t add up to me :0

I suppose any bay with a stream going into it could be brackish…

 

[scruggs]

Good hunt with nice finds!

 

[toasted]

Fun! Nice coins - quarters too, whew!

I will go out and say it. Those are SaltWater coins. The brackish water theory Doesn’t add up to me :0

I suppose any bay with a stream going into it could be brackish…

Im hundreds of miles from ocean. Its mostly fresh. Like 90%. Coins would be much worse condition if all salt

 

[Megalodon]

Fun! Nice coins - quarters too, whew!

I will go out and say it. Those are SaltWater coins. The brackish water theory Doesn’t add up to me :0

I suppose any bay with a stream going into it could be brackish…

Ocean waters are about 32ppt salt on average. Tidal waters can have some salt depending on how far one is from the ocean and how much freshwater input occurs there. At the uppermost reaches of our tidal rivers, the salt content is so low to nonexistent that it is considered tidal fresh. In many places, the salt wedge flows back and forth with the tides and pushes the freshwater further upstream upon flood tide. Its not unusual in our tidal rivers to have 0 ppt salinity at low tide (ebb tide) and a few ppt at high tide (flood tide). Brackish is used to denote waters with some measurable salinity lower than ocean waters. As a marine biologist, now retired, I sampled all of our tidal rivers - including the ones being hunted by Toasted, since the late 1970's.

In the last few years, our rainfall has been so high that tidal waters are very low salinity. Among many other things, it has reduced the quality of the local oysters - which are dying out, to the point that we no longer buy them. As a special treat, I'll get oysters from high salinity (Chincoteagues) but they are more than twice as expensive and hard to find locally.

 

[oldmxrat]

The silver coins I've found at Lake Mead look just like that, and I'm pretty sure there's not much salt in the Colorado river. Anyway, nice haul, Congrats!

 

[Hunk-a-lead]

sweet, love the silver, especially that slq, wtg

 

[islamoradamark]

Good way to stay cool and find some loot