18kRonin
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Had a storm go through and strip off most of the light sand and light trash leaving a mixture of gravel and big stones covering heaps of iron but not much in the way of keepers. Then a month or so later went and had a look the day after another storm had been through and found it had replenished a good sized section with heaps and heaps of round crusty things.
After a run of 6 trashy skunks where I was lucky to get 10 coins a hunt, I was feeling REAL hungry
Shallow coins EVERYWHERE, never had it so good, hardly any non ferrous trash the only downside was where the coins were most were mixed in with hard packed wet sand, stones and iron. Nearly twisted my ankle a couple of times while trying to kick the scoop in.
When I hit a real dense patch of coins and started to grid, thought it wouldn’t last for long but NO took me 20 hours of feverish digging over 4 hunts in the space of a week to get to the end of it.
The first hunt was as close to the surf as I could go without getting swamped by triple deckers. Only had 4 hours before work so dug like crazy without a break thinking that it might be the one and only chance I’d get.
10mins before I had to go did some cherrypicking in an area at the top of what remained of the slope. Was painful hitting coins and not digging them but no time, gave in to a couple of good sounding mid tone coins then hit this sweet mid tone and Yellow!!! to top of a fantastic hunt.
3 silvers, a 2g 18K and 229 coins.
Two days later hit it again before work. Got there super early so I could get 6 hours in. Found the surf was slowly filling in the wet area I had hunted last time so had to move a bit higher up the slope and still heaps of coins in amongst the nulls. Went home with even more crusty coins and silver than the hunt before.
Total for the day
8 pieces of silver including my first silver spoon (found in with the trash while taking the pics) and 416 coins.
The next day woke up before the alarm went off and headed back
giving me 6 hours of hunting time before work. Tried to keep a steady pace but that went out the window when I hit a white gold 14K ring with a heap of silver
Then just after the 4 hour mark the clad started to thin out so went for a walk digging the odd target as I went looking for another good patch. Was only wearing light dive boots so not a good idea walking a long distance over stones At 5 and a half hours in had to call it quits and rest my battered feet
Total for the hunt
11 silvers, a 2.8g 14K and 397 coins.
Had two days off due to yet another storm going through found most of the area I’d been hunting was closing up fast with heaps more sand and stones filling in the wet area and pull tabs starting to move back in again.
The last storm had taken more sand off the top of the higher section of beach I had been griding so hit that again from another angle scoring even more coins amongst the now partially exposed iron. The Excal wasn’t picking up coins until I’d kicked the sand and small iron around a bit. So spent most of the hunt digging and kicking sand and iron around.
Finished that section and went looking for another patch but found hardly any keepers (my feet weren’t that enthusiastic even with better footwear on ) so called it a day.
Haul for the 4.5 hour hunt 6 silvers and 212 coins.
Total from the 4 hunt 20 hour coin digging frenzy: an 18K, a 14K, 29 pieces of silver and 1,254 coins.
The coins weighing in at 5.6 kg / 12 lb 5.5 oz.
Could be a couple of silver coins in with the clad just haven’t had time to tumble them.
By far the best I’ve ever had it on the clad at any beach and the best I’ve had it at this beach for finding silver and gold in such a short time.
One week I’ll NEVER EVER forget
Thanks for viewing
HH&GL
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A cool find. First one I’ve found from WW2. Was made in 1944 at the Twin Cities Ordnance plant in Minneapolis. Most likely dropped from a fighter or bomber.
Good site for 50 cal head stamp info
http://www.nebraskaaircrash.com/50caliber.html