Greetings from England.. Have been to many places over the last month, at least 18 trips around the coast. It started ok with high winds doing their stuff on the places I expected except for a favourite ring beach when the wind changed direction overnight before I left early the next day. Only a small area was exposed the rest having covered up in just a few hours. About 2 hours work on the remaining exposure resulted in a few coins and a small 9ct & a hollow silver band which was very welcome. Always have a plan B for these most distant trips and moved a few miles to a cove that can be good but often not (went four times last year & all write offs) but very different now. The best ever beach hunt I had was here after the 1989 hurricane when 2 of us had over 600 coins in one day. In pre war times motor carriage trips went here continually throughout the summer months. The cove was wiped out no sand in sight except at the cliff base. Coins everywhere (very few modern coins as I like it) with 180+ easily found with an unusually high number of silver with nearly 30 pre 47 and half a dozen pre 20. English silver Pre 1947 is 50% silver and Pre 1920 is 92.5%. A single broken 9ct signet was very happily bagged. I drove home with plans to return the next day with my tent, to far for daily trips from home. The end result after four days was a good average of 80-100 coins but the silver was still very high with and end total of 61- 1 halfcrown, 2 florins, 17 shillings, 34 sixpences, 5 threepences and a a couple of foreign silver, great for the scrap silver bag. 2 18cts topped it off plus a lovely collar stud. Its years since I found anything like this, but 30 years is a long time since the hurricane! I later found out there were many stalls selling all sorts of stuff at one end, and changing huts at the other. I did cheat on the last day a little by clearing a large area of rocks & detecting and digging with great success down to the clay with bigger silver appearing there. Equinox performed perfectly as expected with using 11" & 6" coils. Did a lot of other places with mixed average results but an IOM 9ct pendant from 1958 was the most interesting. I shall remember this first trip as one of the best ever shore hunts. I know that these occurrences are rare. Lost count of the hours but somewhere around 70-80+.
I dedicate this post to my beachcombing mentor who passed away recently, he took me under his wing when I was 14 and I miss him terribly. His photo is shown using my old Tesoro.
I dedicate this post to my beachcombing mentor who passed away recently, he took me under his wing when I was 14 and I miss him terribly. His photo is shown using my old Tesoro.
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