This was Thursday's take. Was surprised at the Queen Elizabeth $2.00 piece. Made
of nickel on the outside and the center was copper with gold plating. That part of the
coin was totally Green with hard sand that in cleaning took the gold plating off the center
piece. Have found many with this green "sand" and it almost always takes part of whatever
is attached to it when you take it off.
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This was Friday's take. Not a big trip for me as you can see. I wish I had taken a pic of the
beach so you could see the devastation the King Tides have done to the beach. Apparently
they are occurring more often than I am aware of because while I was down there Thursday
and Friday they had several streets closed down due to water too deep to drive down them.
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Not finding anything where it is normally found. Almost everything you see above was found
in a 45 minute period all the way to the beach grass that is protected by law. I was on the border
line of being illegal but stayed within the boundaries to stay out of jail. I spent almost all of the
2 days in the water at low tide on a rising tide and pretty much rode it in for the entire first day
I was there, the second day I spent more where the high tide mark was and the sea grass and
found a few things. But what was so surprising was the lack of trash. I actually hunted in a
completely open screen, ran a sensitivity of 18, then 24, then 26 and found most everything at
24. I dug a total of 3 pull tabs. The rough seas and high tides have cleaned the beaches of
almost all the trash. Spoke to many other detectorist and they all were having problems finding
even a coin. On Thursday one guy said he had been down there since last weekend and had
not found enough to buy a coke with and he was hunting with a CTX3030. I hunted many different
areas from Surfside south to Murrells Inlet as far as you can go.
By the way, these are the coins after I cleaned them.
of nickel on the outside and the center was copper with gold plating. That part of the
coin was totally Green with hard sand that in cleaning took the gold plating off the center
piece. Have found many with this green "sand" and it almost always takes part of whatever
is attached to it when you take it off.
[attachment 322163 Beach1.JPG]
This was Friday's take. Not a big trip for me as you can see. I wish I had taken a pic of the
beach so you could see the devastation the King Tides have done to the beach. Apparently
they are occurring more often than I am aware of because while I was down there Thursday
and Friday they had several streets closed down due to water too deep to drive down them.
[attachment 322166 beach2.JPG]
Not finding anything where it is normally found. Almost everything you see above was found
in a 45 minute period all the way to the beach grass that is protected by law. I was on the border
line of being illegal but stayed within the boundaries to stay out of jail. I spent almost all of the
2 days in the water at low tide on a rising tide and pretty much rode it in for the entire first day
I was there, the second day I spent more where the high tide mark was and the sea grass and
found a few things. But what was so surprising was the lack of trash. I actually hunted in a
completely open screen, ran a sensitivity of 18, then 24, then 26 and found most everything at
24. I dug a total of 3 pull tabs. The rough seas and high tides have cleaned the beaches of
almost all the trash. Spoke to many other detectorist and they all were having problems finding
even a coin. On Thursday one guy said he had been down there since last weekend and had
not found enough to buy a coke with and he was hunting with a CTX3030. I hunted many different
areas from Surfside south to Murrells Inlet as far as you can go.
By the way, these are the coins after I cleaned them.
