Very Nickely Beach.

[Garabaldi]

I found 4 more V-Nickel today 1912,1910,1906,1902, which brings my total at this location to 16. I have also previously found a Shield Nickel and 14 Buffalo Head nickles. Interesting that there is so many nickels, but not much silver.
I also found a 1908 IH, Lead Seal, Army Air Corp Button, Collar link, cool spoon etc...
Thanks for looking.

 

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[seger98]

That's a heck of a beach you have there, I have a hard enough time finding a V-nickel in old logging camps & what not, let alone a beach.

 

[Deepdiger60]

Back in the early 1900,s at Coney Island Beach in NY a Nathans hot dog was .5 cents on a roll with mustard and sauerkraut but i guess your not in NY ? nice V,s HH Jim

 

[Kanyontreasures]

great finds!!!

 

[Digger1980]

super finds!

that IH is in great condition!

 

[Nate in Ohio]

Maybe someone made a quick hunt through the place and dug the higher tones and got a good portion of the silver already. Cool finds. Hope there's plenty more goodies left for you.

 

[Garabaldi]

Maybe someone made a quick hunt through the place and dug the higher tones and got a good portion of the silver already. Cool finds. Hope there's plenty more goodies left for you.

I thought the same thing Nate. I know when I put my M6 in Coin mode it discriminates nickels. Maybe someone was just looking for coins.

 

[terryinr.i.]

Maybe someone made a quick hunt through the place and dug the higher tones and got a good portion of the silver already. Cool finds. Hope there's plenty more goodies left for you.

I thought the same thing Nate. I know when I put my M6 in Coin mode it discriminates nickels. Maybe someone was just looking for coins.

Awsome, how did those nickle's tone?? what # did thay come up? and what machine are you useing. great find i have found very few V's.

 

[rmptr]

Very interesting assortment, Garabaldi !

IMO, you are doing an excellent job of retrieval. If there was gold, you would NOT have missed it.
Well, unless it had dived real deep...

Good spot.
Keep workin' it !

Best
rmptr

 

[Garabaldi]

I am useing a Whites M6. The V's have come up as quarter, dime or (.5,ring). I don't even look at the screen anymore at this site. I just dig solid sounds. I think the salt is confusing the machine.

 

[SkyPirate]

People sure dropped a lot of stuff back in the day!

 

[Garabaldi]

Very interesting assortment, Garabaldi !

IMO, you are doing an excellent job of retrieval. If there was gold, you would NOT have missed it.
Well, unless it had dived real deep...

Good spot.
Keep workin' it !

Best
rmptr

Thank you rmptr.
I agree skypirate.

 

[dfx willy]

man your the king of the north shore beaches and whyda gets the south! willy

 

[49r Relics]

I found 4 more V-Nickel today 1912,1910,1906,1902, which brings my total at this location to 16. I have also previously found a Shield Nickel and 14 Buffalo Head nickles. Interesting that there is so many nickels, but not much silver.
I also found a 1908 IH, Lead Seal, Army Air Corp Button, Collar link, cool spoon etc...
Thanks for looking.

Not sure if you are finding these on a beach but . . . I can tell you from experience of finding lot's of old silver here on the Pacific Ocean beaches after big storms, the old silver dimes and quarters I find are black and most have some degree of major destructive corrosion to the point where I have found barbers and mercs as small as a kernal of corn. Most silver coins I can't even identify. The salt just eats them up. However, I find buffalos and V's fully intact as far as size and mass goes, just worn on the obverse and reverse from rubbing around in the sand for decades. I always assumed that I find so many old nickels compared to silver because most of the silver has completely disinegrated. It's definitely not what I am at the beach looking forward to (like I do on turf) because I know how destroyed the silver coins are going to be when they come up. That's why I go for Gold . . "I love . . Gold, it's my thing" - Goldmember (Austin Powers).

Congrats on some very nice finds

HH, BeachBumm

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Nice finds.!

 

[texjim]

good job...

 

[Garabaldi]

Thank you everyone.
Beachbumm. I have found some silver and your right on with the destruction. Once in a while I will find one in good condition, but for the most part they are trashed.

 

[Lazy J]

Great finds. Gold panning works because the agitation sorts the material by density. Gold being densest ends up on the bottom. A salt water beach also gets agitated by the tides. Nickle is a different density than silver or copper. Start your search pattern looking at the water. Detect down to the water leave your holes filled but easy to see. After a few rows up and down the beach see if there is a patern to your finds. Make a right or left turn and detect parrallel to the water and find what your looking for. Also on marginal or crappy signals use your foot to scrape a way a few inches of sand, meter again. Amazing what removing two inches of overburden will reveal. Remember there are three kinds of signals, good, bad, and good enough. On an easy digging site I have a tendency to dig far more signals. Why not? It's easy. I hope this isn't a post where my tips are painfully obvious.

May G*d bless you and happy hunting

 

[Garabaldi]

Ty LazyJ, I have noticed the same things you are saying and agree 100%.

 

[september]

Nice find!