Hobojo
Sr. Member
- Joined
- Dec 9, 2013
- Messages
- 344
- Reaction score
- 275
- Golden Thread
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- Location
- South Orange County CA
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 1
- Detector(s) used
- Tesoro Compadre, Vaquero, Outlaw ,Cibola, Sand Shark,
Minelab Xterra 705, Minelab Safari.
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
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Pirate treasure....
For the past few months I have been laid up in the Hobo home. Why you ask? I broke my foot chasing my Rottweiler who was chasing a coyote, and now I'm chasing my Dr. bills
I've been watching my wife come home with treasure after treasure that she has brought home after cleaning out her father's belongings. He passed away about two years ago. I have posted some of what she has found on the main forum, WW1 medals, some very cool old coins, a Lincoln half dollar and some gold coins.
But these are closet finds and don't really fall in the metal detecting (MD) category. After 8 to 10 weeks the time came to get out and some more digging.
We packed up our gear, one Tesoro Sand Shark , Minelab Safari , sand scoop , plastic snow shovel , two Whites bullseye pin pointers, water, and then headed for the iron laden sand of sunny So Cal. We have miles and miles of beaches and coves to dig. We have area's that have been searched over and over by generations of MDer's so most of our finds are the typical things, pull-tabs, cans, coins, jewelry. On a rare occasion we will find knives and dive tools.
We hit the beach at mid tide, I was working the tide line with my SS and my wife was digging the high tide mark in the dry sand with her Safari. With the SS you have to keep some distance from other machines as they will cause it to start chirping.
I was about 20 yards down the beach when I turned to see how far my wife was from me, which at that time she waved and held up the 2---5 cent sign. "GOOD", I thought. I kept working my way down the beach. After about 30 mins I thought what the heck is she digging back there? She had been in the same place for the whole time. My first thought was she has likely come upon some large object and needs some help digging it out. As I got closer to her she gave me the thumbs up sign and looked very excited. She was in an area about 8x8 feet square and had not left.
She said "there are too many signals and you are not gonna believe what I just found". Yep she was right ! She found a Walking Liberty Half. She located it wedged between some rocks about 8" deep . We NEVER get this kind of stuff unless someone drops it from a piece of jewelry, but there it was!
Next she said, "I'm getting so many signals: 35,36,38,40 all high tone stuff, can you help "? The Safari was struggling with all the Info it was picking up on. I had her shut it off and started going through the area with the Sand Shark. The SS started picking up all kinds of signals, something must be wrong, too many signals in such a small area, something large, "its got to be black sand" I said. She had already dug about 4 coins and thought that there were more , so she just start moving her pin-pointer and picking out targets and digging. She dug out a Wheatie and then a few more coins. "Keep digging", I said.
We spent the next two days digging the same 8x8 patch of beach, we pulled out about 125 coins!
1 Walking liberty
1 Ben Franklin
1 Mercury Dime
1 1944 "P" Nickel 35% silver
3 pre 64 Rosies
1 1960 .25 cent
1 1940 nickel
7 wheaties.
The oldest that we could read was the 1940 nickel and the newest was a 2014 roosevelt dime. The Liberty and Mercury are unreadable.
Also found 2 bullets "spent" and a headless Mermaid pendant. And a sterling silver turquoise bracelet.
The area was found using the Minelab, but most of the specific targets with the Sand Shark. Some of the coins were found under large slab type rocks; a few in the So Cal beach tar. There are more targets there I'm sure and we will be going back as soon as the crowds are gone. There is still Pirate treasure out there. HH.
For the past few months I have been laid up in the Hobo home. Why you ask? I broke my foot chasing my Rottweiler who was chasing a coyote, and now I'm chasing my Dr. bills
I've been watching my wife come home with treasure after treasure that she has brought home after cleaning out her father's belongings. He passed away about two years ago. I have posted some of what she has found on the main forum, WW1 medals, some very cool old coins, a Lincoln half dollar and some gold coins. But these are closet finds and don't really fall in the metal detecting (MD) category. After 8 to 10 weeks the time came to get out and some more digging.
We packed up our gear, one Tesoro Sand Shark , Minelab Safari , sand scoop , plastic snow shovel , two Whites bullseye pin pointers, water, and then headed for the iron laden sand of sunny So Cal. We have miles and miles of beaches and coves to dig. We have area's that have been searched over and over by generations of MDer's so most of our finds are the typical things, pull-tabs, cans, coins, jewelry. On a rare occasion we will find knives and dive tools.
We hit the beach at mid tide, I was working the tide line with my SS and my wife was digging the high tide mark in the dry sand with her Safari. With the SS you have to keep some distance from other machines as they will cause it to start chirping.
I was about 20 yards down the beach when I turned to see how far my wife was from me, which at that time she waved and held up the 2---5 cent sign. "GOOD", I thought. I kept working my way down the beach. After about 30 mins I thought what the heck is she digging back there? She had been in the same place for the whole time. My first thought was she has likely come upon some large object and needs some help digging it out. As I got closer to her she gave me the thumbs up sign and looked very excited. She was in an area about 8x8 feet square and had not left.
She said "there are too many signals and you are not gonna believe what I just found". Yep she was right ! She found a Walking Liberty Half. She located it wedged between some rocks about 8" deep . We NEVER get this kind of stuff unless someone drops it from a piece of jewelry, but there it was!
Next she said, "I'm getting so many signals: 35,36,38,40 all high tone stuff, can you help "? The Safari was struggling with all the Info it was picking up on. I had her shut it off and started going through the area with the Sand Shark. The SS started picking up all kinds of signals, something must be wrong, too many signals in such a small area, something large, "its got to be black sand" I said. She had already dug about 4 coins and thought that there were more , so she just start moving her pin-pointer and picking out targets and digging. She dug out a Wheatie and then a few more coins. "Keep digging", I said.
We spent the next two days digging the same 8x8 patch of beach, we pulled out about 125 coins!
1 Walking liberty
1 Ben Franklin
1 Mercury Dime
1 1944 "P" Nickel 35% silver
3 pre 64 Rosies
1 1960 .25 cent
1 1940 nickel
7 wheaties.
The oldest that we could read was the 1940 nickel and the newest was a 2014 roosevelt dime. The Liberty and Mercury are unreadable.
Also found 2 bullets "spent" and a headless Mermaid pendant. And a sterling silver turquoise bracelet.
The area was found using the Minelab, but most of the specific targets with the Sand Shark. Some of the coins were found under large slab type rocks; a few in the So Cal beach tar. There are more targets there I'm sure and we will be going back as soon as the crowds are gone. There is still Pirate treasure out there. HH.
