Wrightsville/Topsail Beach

[Kirk]

Hit Wrightsville Beach yesterday. First day of free parking. Found 36 cents. Headed over to Topsail Beach with low expectations. The beach has really sanded up the last 2 weeks. Walked for over a mile with nothing, then hit a section that I picked up about two dollars in change. But included in that was a silver dime from 1963 and two wheat pennies. Slowly but surely building up to buy an excal.
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[Steve and Bia]

is this picture only showing the better stuff. Judging from these finds something seems wrong. There's no clad and where's the nickels? I can't see any.

BTW: Thats the first dollar coin I've seen from the beach!

 

[Kirk]

Sorry let me clarify. The coins to the left side of the car where found at a small playground on the way to the beach, including the $1 coin. All of the coins to the right of the car where found today at Topsail Beach, the only silver coin was the dime at the front of the pile. There maybe one more, but I will have to wait for my son to get home from school to eyeball it for me, presbyopia is catching up with me. My machine is an ACE 250, which is a great little machine for the dry to damp sand, but just does not cut it in the really wet and black sand we have here.

 

[Steve and Bia]

Ahh... That explains it. I still have yet to see or get a dollar coin from the sand. The ones I get from the dirt are so quickly decayed I wonder if they would even last 2 years. Machines that don't like nickels usually don't do well in the sand.


Your machine?
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[beachguy777]

If you want a great beach machine, look at the Minelab Quatro. I own one and it'll work in any kind of conditions, deep ,deep, deep, but.... don't get the main housing real wet. A little spray is ok, but don't dunk it. You can dunk the coil and shaft, but don't dunk the housing. Otherwise this thing kicks ass anywhere.

 

[David from Suffolk]

Steve and Bia check out my post from yesterday I have 1 dollar pc in pic I found in surf at va beach

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

n/t

 

[Steve and Bia]

n/t

 

[David from Suffolk]

No it was my second

 

[Kirk]

I really like my ACE 250 but it is limited to dry/damp sand. But first couple of weeks after Ophelia came through this really has worked well for me. Lots of places on the Island lost 10 to 20 feet of dunes exposing coins from the 1940's and 50's. But the last 2 weeks new sand has been building back the beach. Just lucked into a spot today that for some reason had not built back up to much.