LawrencetheMDer
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Spent 5 hrs and 40 minutes hunting dry sand with my Equinox 800 today at a beach I call “Coin beach”. Oddly, I only find coins there and there is (almost) a total lack of jewelry. Not sure why. One possibility for the large number of coins is that the shore slope is very mild and when storms and high waves occur the coins surf to the beach and dry sand where I find them. This would explain why there are so many quarters; their real surf kings. Just can't explain the lack of jewelry... Any ways, last 2 yrs pulled something like 1,000 coins from the beach and either zero or perhaps one silver ring. No gold. In past yrs I’ve averaged 1 gold piece and about 2 silver pieces per 200 coins on “normal” beaches I hunt – so now you know why I call it Coin beach.
Today was special, in terms of number of coins; I totaled 134 coins; 35 quarters, 31 dimes, 11 nickels and 57 cents. That is 23.6 coins/hr! Every coin was dug separately – no pocket drops. Also pulled out a silver Pandora ring and a junk SS ring with odd symbols; a circle with a horizontal line through the middle (any ideas?).
The 2 bullets (7mm or 30/06?) fused together was also an interesting find and a lot of people on the beach thought the bullets were cool and couldn’t believe I found them there.
Absolutely love when I break another personal best; in this case total number of coins in a hunt. Topped it off with another silver ring; something like number 20 for the year. Now that I’ve basically cleaned-out Coin beach, I think I’ll leave it alone for a while to heal. Happy Hunting.
Today was special, in terms of number of coins; I totaled 134 coins; 35 quarters, 31 dimes, 11 nickels and 57 cents. That is 23.6 coins/hr! Every coin was dug separately – no pocket drops. Also pulled out a silver Pandora ring and a junk SS ring with odd symbols; a circle with a horizontal line through the middle (any ideas?).
The 2 bullets (7mm or 30/06?) fused together was also an interesting find and a lot of people on the beach thought the bullets were cool and couldn’t believe I found them there.
Absolutely love when I break another personal best; in this case total number of coins in a hunt. Topped it off with another silver ring; something like number 20 for the year. Now that I’ve basically cleaned-out Coin beach, I think I’ll leave it alone for a while to heal. Happy Hunting.
