Gold n Silver at iron beach

[therover]

My friend Matt and I hit a beach in NJ that is known as 'Iron beach'. This place literally has huge iron, medium iron, small iron and anything in between. I used my Gold Bug SE and he used his AT Pro for the first time. I think we picked the right units, since I believe our Minelabs may have been nulling every sweep, and my CZ may have falsed repeatedly with all the iron around.

I bagged 2 silver quarters, 6 dimes, a Buffalo and what looks like a really old gold cross. The cross is totally covered in iron residue, and I don't have a clue what the best way to get rid of that garbage. I got a little off to see if it was gold with a wire brush, but I think I may go the jewelry ultrasonic route first.

Matt got 3 silver quarters ( a Barber, Standing Liberty and Washington) 4 silver dimes and a 10K school ring from 1926. The only sad part was part of the bottom of the ring is broken off.

We also got about 12-15 beat up wheaties. Funny thing is, we only hit 2-3 clad coins between us. It was an old coin day for sure.

The Gold Bug and AT Pro ran super and with the super fast recovery speeds of those units, we got all these coins among loads of iron junk.

 

[southernstyle]

Nothing wrong with changing things up a bit. Sometimes it pays off!

Nice finds,
Chris

 

[Dig]

Nice finds Rover!

 

[crackerjuan]

looks like you guy's did great , cool cross !!!, something tells me you'll be back their again

 

[OldBeechnut]

You guys did Great, Amazing what you can get on that beach on any given day.....A Hunters dream place to live................congrads on all................

 

[ML]

Joe - It's almost unbelievable that it still produces the old stuff as often as it does. I was talking to another hunter on Friday and we're wondering how much old silver can possibly be left? Next trip to Jersey gimme a buzz. Matt

 

[bootyhoundpa]

an amazing amount of old finds for a beach thats probably been hunted a 1000 times.... sounds like you found the right tool for the job,,, who knows what else that iron is hiding.......

 

[synthnut]

NICE FINDS !!.....That's the beauty of a beach ....The wind blows a certain way , and it's a new hunt all over again .......Hunt it in another line , and it's yet ANOTHER new hunt !!......Changing up machines and as you see , yet ANOTHER new hunt !!.......and just think , the Summertime crowds are just around the corner !!......Congrats !!....Jim

 

[Crenman]

Nice work that's pretty cool to find old finds like that.
I am sure there was some work involved in those digs