BarnacleBill
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Two days ago I took the CZ-70 for a six hour expedition in a beach area I have just recently begun to hunt. I was in deep hunt mode, which means the CZ-70 was set to 10 on sensitivity(& stable), and I was looking for small weak iron tones which are coins right at the fringe of detection. There is an overburden of sand to about 8 inches, but below that it is basically a pile of rocks you have to fight your way down through with a spade shovel. Recovery time per target is about 8 minutes, as opposed to the usual 2-3 minutes, and by the end of the day you feel like a rented mule.
Scoops are a total waste of time on these rock banks.
I know the area pre-dates 1900 as a children's camp, so I was looking for that deep silver, but by the end of the day there was no deep silver and the oldest coin was a 1944 penny. The beach sets exposed to several miles of open water and I know the wave action can be ocean-like on this shoreline. I then began to analyze what I had found and the depths it was found at.
Facts:
--I found many coins from the 60's at 8 to 9 inches.
--I found only one quarter pre-1970.
--My dime to other coin ratio was completely whacked out, a natural dispersion doesn't happen this way without an intervening factor.
[attachment 43051 CoinMix.gif]
Therefore based on the facts that I found only modern quarters, and too many dimes(difficult coin to detect),I concluded someone(s) preceded me to this location. From the depths modern coins were at, I believe most of the older stuff has simply sunk too far to be recovered. I may go back with a 10.5 inch coil but there is a fair amount of iron around. The following is the date spread of the pennies which should have been heavily weighted towards the 30's-50's.
[attachment 43053 Pennies.gif]
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BarnacleBill
Scoops are a total waste of time on these rock banks.I know the area pre-dates 1900 as a children's camp, so I was looking for that deep silver, but by the end of the day there was no deep silver and the oldest coin was a 1944 penny. The beach sets exposed to several miles of open water and I know the wave action can be ocean-like on this shoreline. I then began to analyze what I had found and the depths it was found at.
Facts:
--I found many coins from the 60's at 8 to 9 inches.
--I found only one quarter pre-1970.
--My dime to other coin ratio was completely whacked out, a natural dispersion doesn't happen this way without an intervening factor.
[attachment 43051 CoinMix.gif]
Therefore based on the facts that I found only modern quarters, and too many dimes(difficult coin to detect),I concluded someone(s) preceded me to this location. From the depths modern coins were at, I believe most of the older stuff has simply sunk too far to be recovered. I may go back with a 10.5 inch coil but there is a fair amount of iron around. The following is the date spread of the pennies which should have been heavily weighted towards the 30's-50's.
[attachment 43053 Pennies.gif]
HH
BarnacleBill
