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WARNING ! WARNING ! WARNING !!!!!

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Ron Lord

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To all diggers who hunt Naples, Fla. Beaches,someone has dump 1000's of PENNIES in the water and shoreline between 15 th and 17 th ave south,they are every where.You can't move with out findding one,so if you like penny have at it.
 
Looks like the detectorist decided to get rid of his penny collection:laugh:
 
Sounds like somebody has gotten a little territorial and dropped a 'penny bomb' on their favorite hunting grounds. The area will be unhuntable until several winter gales have blown through. An interesting response to increased pressure on hunting grounds, interesting but not very nice.:nono:

Cheers,

BDA:cool:
 
bdahunter said:
Sounds like somebody has gotten a little territorial and dropped a 'penny bomb' on their favorite hunting grounds. The area will be unhuntable until several winter gales have blown through. An interesting response to increased pressure on hunting grounds, interesting but not very nice.:nono:

Cheers,

BDA:cool:
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You really think that is what it is? Sounds like a plausible scenario. First time I have heard someone doing this but it doesn't surprise me. We'll probably hear more about people doing this and other things in the future.
 
If someone dropped a penny bomb then it would make it unhuntable for himself. Just doesn't make sense to me. Could have been a kid's birthday party and the kids were given bags of pennies to play with on the beach. Some of our beaches have a lot of pennies and they are family type beaches where the parents give the kids a few pennies to go burry in the sand to see if they can find them...........needless to say.........we find them!
 
One of the guys at my metal detector club, prior to our last club beach hunt, threw out a number of buffalo nickles to test the clubs ability to cover a given area...He told no one what he did until the next club meeting. Everyone was puzzled why they all found the nickles. He announced his test and stated that the club recovered all but two of the nickles. Some people were not very happy...Not sure if this is what happened at your beach.
Sounds to me like someone is pissed at some of the metal detectorists...Perhaps someone isn't covering their holes and leaving a messy minefield behind.
SanDiegoJoe
 
I detect mostly on Cape Cod, MA. About a month ago I went to a beach at a fresh water lake with high hopes. I immediately found a Memorial Penny that had been neatly wrapped in tin foil in about 2 foot of water. All the features of the Penny were clearly visible. I thought it very strange that someone would do this. :surprised: Then I found another....then another. BUNCHES !!!! :confused: I really wanted to hunt the area so I decided to clean out the pennies. It took about an hour to recover exactly 100 wrapped pennies. :sleepy: After they were cleaned out I found a nice silver ring.
My conclusion......It was a diving game held by the beach lifeguard.......the tin foil made the pennies more visible...... all the pennies were in front of the lifeguard tower.....At the end of the season the lifeguard flung them into the drink. Only an educated guess !

:minelab: Explorer II
 
Well, to have all of these pennies, neatly wrapped in foil, it seems likely.

The purpose? And number of machines could correctly identify these particular signals and IGNORE them, leaving the hunter to be able to "cherry pick" everything else. While many hunters would hear (or READ) the signal of foil-wrapped pennies as potentially good targets and wear themselves out digging them.

Diabolical, if you ask me!
 
Heck ... if I were anywhere near you I'd help round them up. Pennies spend too and I certainly could use the exercise!!
 
Check and see if there are any nearby houses with a great view of the beach. If you see them,(the owners) on the porch drinking, laughing, and passing binoculars, you know you are the subject of a drinking game.
 
Thousand of pennies mean hundred of dollars, or a new.........! I would dig them.
 
If you drop such a bomb on your own favorite beach, say a beach that you've been hunting for years, you will spoil that area of the beach for several months until the pennies are cleaned up by other detectorists. You'd have to avoid that area of the beach for a few months, say over the winter when lots of tourist/detectorists are down hunting 'your' beach, by which time the tourist/detectorists will have cleaned up your penny bomb. Come the spring you could hunt the same area of beach without finding an unusual amount of pennies but the deeper targets would probably still be there. The pennies have a lower specific gravity so they should sit higher in the beach strata, thus masking deeper targets like gold which has a high specific gravity.
Theoretically, this makes some sense but most likely somebody is just having a go at detectorists in general. I sure hate to think that a fellow detectorist did this but it wouldn't be the first time that somebody went off their meds.:blink::crazy::razz:

Cheers All,

BDA:cool:
 
Whats Next15th to pier ??
Them Stinken Lincolns.
you might need a better ID detector that garret wont cut it.
GL HH
 
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