Long Gone are the Silver Coins on the Beach

[DaytonaGold]

I remember having a white's back in the late 80's and finding tons of silver coinage on the beach, oh those where the good old days. Now that I have the ctx and can venture out into the surf (provided it is calm) it's a possibilty I may just snatch one. The only issue is that the water is never really calm enough here, I need a submarine, lol.

 

[Nes (south Coast-CA)]

I was thinking the other day that what we need out West is another El Nino decade. The storms we had in the 1990's decade took out about 15 feet of sand on the Central Coast area of California, and in Pismo Beach the sand was gone from the shore line down to packed clam shells. My scoop wouldn't work, so I went to a hardware store and bought a small shovel which would cut through a target rich environment. In the Los Angeles area there were cuts of about 12 to 15 feet which were scary to go down, and you worried about rogue waves, because getting back up fast was a chancy thing. The CTX would be a marvelous machine in those environments. I can just imagine what the conditions were after storms like Sandy back East... Nes

 

[stitchlips]

I remember having a white's back in the late 80's and finding tons of silver coinage on the beach, oh those where the good old days. Now that I have the ctx and can venture out into the surf (provided it is calm) it's a possibilty I may just snatch one. The only issue is that the water is never really calm enough here, I need a submarine, lol.

I would have loved to have hunted back then. That must have been incredible!

 

[G. E. Edwards]

Heah Nes, what we need here in California is the state to stop dredging three foot of sand up on the beaches every year. Gene

 

[Nes (south Coast-CA)]

Hi Gene.. that isn't counting the sand sifters that clean the beach every morning in most areas. I didn't mind it too much when they pumped up sand from about a half a mile out at Pacific Beach Beach one year because I found a seated lady dime there about a week later that you could still read the date on. I also found some additional silver for awhile, until the beach went back to normal with modern clad and of course rings and such... nes

 

[G. E. Edwards]

About two months ago two guys were detecting where they dredged the sand up on the beach, and apparently they were never in the military, they dug up a live grenade, in stead of leaving it there and keeping people away till the bomb squad got there, they picked it up carried it over to the life guard station and threw it on the sand saying look what we found. There was at least 60 people and kids real close, that could have died that day. the life guard flipped and got everyone away from it while calling the police on his cell phone. I think those two dummies really caught it from the police and bomb squad. A month later another device was found in the same area, so be careful when digging the pumped in sand, they sure don't sift it first. Gene

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

The silver coins are still present on the beaches maybe not like it once was in the middle 70's when I started but after a good storm they show back up. After Hurricane Sandy the beaches were loaded with silver coins. Problem was the storm cause so much damage we only got a few days in before they shut the whole area down for nearly 6 months. The day of and day after the beach was down to the clay and you could pick them up without a detector. Each tide brought back 4 inches of new sand. By the time we were able to get back to public beaches it was a hard fought battle. Once they started the boardwalk rebuild we had a heyday of silver going back to the middle 1800's, this shows that the coins are still present just out of reach. It two days of hunting one beach I had 80 silver coins. On other beaches there were so many hunters each with pouches full I can't even guess how many coins came up. One full time hunter posted earlier this year she had 500 silver coins off one beach. I know she's not lying as I had several hundred working the same area part time after work each day. I can still go work the dry sand in some of these towns with the 3030 and come home with 5 to 10 a day. I just choose to switch over to wet sand hunting for the summer, but each time I walked through the dry I would have 2 in each direction. It now requires a slow coil swing as they have gotten deep and a walk won't bring up the signals but a wiggle will! But like Mr. Edwards pointed out a couple of idiots dug ordinance in some locals and brought them in the Police Station, by me they shut the beaches that were open down. If you just don't bring attention to the stuff it will be reburied in just a few tides and never seen again, till the next storm. The stuff was in red clay that was once covered by 15 feet of sand! Ror the life of me why some have to be hero's?
BCNJ