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JOHN ... THIS IS THE RECORD ! ! ! for coins :wiggle: :clapping:
- Thread starter OscarSE
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silversmith
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Oh gosh. I wonder if the Canadian boy will take this as a challenge 
Let the games begin 
Let the games begin 
And Euros are worth over $1.00 each....that's a lot of loot. I bet you were in a little pain after all those digg'ns. Tylenol works well.! 
I believe....I believe......I believe
gilfordberry
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Probably is a modern record. But many years ago, I witnessed a lady who had to have help to carry her coins to the car ... twice! There had been a heavy surf and she was literally scooping coins up by the scoop full. She probably had thirty or forty POUNDS of coins - and this was when they were SILVER!! This was long before I got into the hobby, but I have never forgotten that haul. It was unbelieveable. By the way, this was at Huntington Beach, CA....not too far from where I now live. I have seen good days after a winter storm makes a nice cut along the shore - but never anything like that since.
gilfordberry
New member
No old silver. These were modern (at that time) WW2 era to date - and I think it was about '62 or '63. A high surf had cut the beach and left about a ten foot cut. The coins were near the surface below the cut. If this happened today you wouldn't be able to find a parking place near the beach because of all the detectorists already out there. But there were only a few into the hobby then.....I have seen similar beach erosion leave a lot of coins and jewelry since, but never like that.
It's amazing how the surf will move coins around - and SORT THEM OUT. I guess because of similar size/weight, the same domination of coins tend to accumulate together after a surf event like that. At one distance from the water's edge you'll find pennies, at another distance quarters, etc, etc. My hunting buddy and I found a little over $100 together in quarters and dimes one day after a winter storm racked the beach. The quarters were in a strip of beach about 20 feet wide by 60 feet long...and there was literally nothing anywhere else along the beach. I'm waiting for that day when all the diamond rings are clumped together. lol
It's amazing how the surf will move coins around - and SORT THEM OUT. I guess because of similar size/weight, the same domination of coins tend to accumulate together after a surf event like that. At one distance from the water's edge you'll find pennies, at another distance quarters, etc, etc. My hunting buddy and I found a little over $100 together in quarters and dimes one day after a winter storm racked the beach. The quarters were in a strip of beach about 20 feet wide by 60 feet long...and there was literally nothing anywhere else along the beach. I'm waiting for that day when all the diamond rings are clumped together. lol