Target City !!

[Surfdigger]

[size=medium]It has been awhile here at the Jersey shore since we have had a halfway decent storm come through and do some significant cutting.....I hit a part of the beach today that had lost roughly 3 feet of sand after the Noreaster. When I arrived there was a huge cut and the place looked like a minefield (as I was nowhere near the first one there). Folks had been hunting this 2 block wide cut for the better part of the last two days. The area is loaded with Iron and is a constant null on my Sovereign GT....I had to work real slow and dig the partial blips that all the people with Fishers and whites machines seemed to just be walking over. even the people with the Minelabs were missing alot of coins if they made the mistake of swinging too quickly over the area. No Jewelry was found but I did manage a few silver coins, a Buffalo nickel and 9 wheat pennies plus about 100 clad coins and zinc pennies.
Well as Max would say "here's the spin".....

See any potential here?
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or here?
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Looked like it could be a silver dollar when I looked at it in the scoop....turned out to be a silver dollar sized lead slug.
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silver rosie dime.
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1896 Barber Quarter.
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My minefield!....
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To be continued.....[/size]

 

[Gulf Hunter]

Wish it would cut out here like that, because there's no telling what would be found! It never happens, that I've seen. Maybe when a hurricane hits directly! I don't want any part of that though! Nice finds, hit it again, you mighta missed some too!

 

[Stacey in West Palm Beach]

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[Surfdigger]

[size=medium]Here it is after they were sorted and the silver was cleaned.....

But first, one last look at that wonderful cut!!
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The silver cleaned up.
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1896 Barber quarter (obverse).
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1896 Barber quarter (reverse).
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My three hour total take....
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Happy Hunting.....Brian[/size]

 

[PaPa-Joe-Fla.]

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[Sanddigger]

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[Bobbie]

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[Surfdigger]

.....that I have talked to that have hunted this site since the storm have only found coins....it has been a bit baffling.....the only thing is that most of the coins have come out of the eroded dunes and we think that maybe the dunes were constructed from sand brought out from under the boardwalk area.....most of that sand we have found contains only coins as those are the only objects that can slip between the cracks of the boardwalk when lost by strollers over the years....we just never find all that much jewelry in "under boardwalk sand".
HH.....Brian

 

[Beachcomber]

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[Surfdigger]

.....I get there yesterday and there were two ATV's on the beach from the Army Corp of eng. checking out the damage.....they seemed like they were just chomping at the bit to fill that beach right back in.....hope they have lots of redtape to cut away before they can do that.....atleast a couple of more noreaster seasons anyway....HH....Brian

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

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[bdahunter]

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[deerman]

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[David from Suffolk]

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[BEACH HUNTER]

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