Merc dime found today on the beach

[underwatermetalman]

I went to a heavily hunted beach and found a merc dime in about two feet of water and it was down around three inches. It rang up as a 12-45 an easy target for any Etrac or CTX user. I cannot believe this wasn't found twenty years ago. It wasn't in a trashy area nor has anything of significance changed from what I can tell.I am trying to figure out how it was missed all these years.Perhaps the CTX magically brought it up from the depths?

One thing I will say the CTX finds a lot more targets than my Excal II, when scuba diving my search area is greatly reduced due to the number of signals I am now hearing. I found a silver ring I missed with my Excal- too bad we can't dive past ten feet with it.

HH

Joe

 

[Nes (south Coast-CA)]

On some Southern California beaches they sometimes replace lost sand by pumping it in from off shore. About a week after they did this years ago, I was hunting one morning at Pacific Beach in San Diego and I dug a coin at about 8" that looked like a zinc penny because it was caked so much. I put it in my pocket and when I got home I started chipping away on the caking with my finger nail and the coin turned out to be a seated lady dime. I don't remember the date, but the coin was so thin that it took a magnifying glass to identify the coin and date. My point in this story is, think about how many old coins are buried off shore that will never see the light of day again except under special circumstances like this.... nes

 

[poljana]

I too was surprised when after pulling 5 copper pennies, I found an 1899 Indian head near a stone pylon tide line at a beach in NJ at around 4 inches. I'm sure Storm Sandy had something to do with it, but I checked the entire surrounding area and didn't find any else worthwhile.