Lots of luck after hurricane Irene (pic heavy)

[gumbo]

Went to a local beach that I frequent quite often, usually with mixed results. I find a lot of clad but have found one wedding band there in the past month, I think it's a heavily picked beach and I rarely find silver. But I got out there during the hurricane and just after it with my BH 3300...so eat that you professionals with your ETracs!

We had about 3 feet of erosion along the tide mark, and to make things even better, a bulldozer knocked out another few feet along the peer to use as a barrier against the storm surge, leaving a nice, flat stretch of clay (tough digging, but clearly very old).

I went out twice, first at about 5PM (low tide, 60 mph high winds, rain, etc.). My wife called me crazy. This hunt was four hours, I brought my headlamp and my pro pointer because I couldn't see a thing. The second hunt was yesterday, for about 6 hours (I decided to take the day off after the success I had had the previous night).


In total, I managed 20 silver dime (14 mercs, 4 Rosies), 5 Silver quarters (4 Washington, 1 SL), on silver Franklin half, 7 buffalos and 1 shield nickel, 3 indian heads and 50 wheaties...lol...that's more wheaties than lincolns, various religious pendants and trinkets (what are they made out of?) 2 Gold ring (one 9ct&silver with marcasite, one 14k Claddagh wedding band), one old MTA (pre-MBTA for you Bostonians) subway token, a silver bracelet, a few silver plated spoons, and about 7 bucks in clad.

It was crazy, I was finding mercs face up on the ground! I don't know when I'll ever have a hunt this good again, but I'm heading to upstate New York to my old town of Guilderland for a hunt with my dad this weekend in an area with some really old (pre-revolution) homesteads. Should be fun.

Thanks for looking at my first real post!

[stewart73]

Wow!! That's a lot of precious metal there sir!

[gumbo]

I actually just rechecked the "clad" and found a 1943 nickel with a large P mintmark...silver...that's a lesson for me to always check my dates.

[Cfmct]

Good job on the finds... were the feet finds as well?

[Dave in PC]

That is insane...congrats

[gameoftag]

What a hunt. That's awesome. congrats!!!!

[adeptr]

Love the finds you made........and the view of the bare foot as well (-:

[milco]

WTG on a fantastic hunt and seizing the opportunity the weather created. I am sure it was a thrill to keep hitting old coin after old coin.

[gumbo]

I would have stayed out all night (I live about 100 yards from the water) but my wife came out with "the look" at about 9PM.

[NHKeith]

what state are you in? MA?

[JBEXPRESS]

wow lots of goodies there!!! Congrats !!!!! You Cleaned up nice!

[BaldAssCat]

Thats a great hunt! I had no idea the local beaches still had anything like that left.

[Florida Tabdigger]

Nice digs!!! Have you seen anyone else detecting? I would think the beaches up there would be swarming with detectorists.

[snf101480]

Great job on the two hunts, you did awesome on all the old finds!

[gumbo]

I'm in MA, I've seen a couple detectorists at my beach, usually just like me - getting clad mostly. This was a unique situation with the storm surge, and when I went out again after two tide cycles (last night), I got skunked. I think the hurricane just temporarily took 18-24 inches of sand off the top layer and then redeposited it back after a few tide cycles. It was a perfect opportunity in a crisis.

[Rusty Nails]

That is awesome! Some close up pics of
the silver coins and old jewelry once you
have them cleaned up would be great.

[steve in so az]

Good thing you took advantage of things. These opportunities are rare - good job ! Steve in so az

[joee5]

I'm convinced now that I am definately hunting the wrong beaches.

Nice haul.

[RyanChappell]

Next time wear some clothes when you are taking pictures. The bottom photo shows your foot at the bottom on the floor and a smaller appendage. I hope that is your other toe.

Nice haul

[Bonesquat]

Can we see pics of the coins all cleaned up? All I see is dirty clad.