And with a very inexpensive machine. Went to our favorite Delaware spot. People have been all over it this last week or so. Low tide, and all we got in the washes were sinkers (English translation, not hunted out). Anyway went down and up the beach. Then I noticed a BUNCH of dig holes. They were in a dense black sand area. We took our Black sand eating Tesoro's over on the sands and started working a few patterns. So my daughter says I got One! Sure enough, a King George II copper. She worked around and we moved some really large iron items a few feet away, and reworked the area. About 10 minutes later she says I got another one! Sure enough, another copper. She no more than turned around and found a third. In the meantime, in real life, I am saving the universe from pull tabs and sinkers. Lots of them. When we got back to the hotel, I realized she had found a fourth, but it's only a piece of the rim of a copper. She gave that one to me. Yeah!At the end of the day she had 3 (unreadable) but identifiable coppers, an old button and a 19th century horse or utility buckle.
I had a penny and four pounds of sinkers and pull tabs. She had to go home early so I went on down to Bethany beach and dug two of those really cool (I guess) 50 caliber machine gun bullets and some coins and a bunch of shrapnel from the shore batteries that used to fire there during WWII.
Great weekend. I'll have to download the pic from my cellphone. All her coins were in a tight little area polluted with huge iron. We moved the iron and out came the goodies. And pulltabs. And sinkers. Did get some nice seaglass.
Ocean city gave up a few modern coins, but we weren't there long.
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