Saturday morning beach combing session

[Paulmarr]

Hey everybody

Bogan and I went for a three hour session this morning and here is the best of what we have found ....

Today's tally was 3 x large penny, 1 x 2 cent brown bugger, 2 x modern 10 cents, 2 x shillings, 2x six pence, 1x three pence, a ring that is possibly silver, and the usual stuff.

I got my personal best coin today, a 1873 English Shilling in pretty good condition....

Talk about hot rocks

The other shilling also an old one - 1920

All in all another great session... Still amazing to be finding old silvers!

 

[Teemore]

Well done guys ........
Nice bit of variety there, I the water or on the beach?
Cheers Tom

 

[Paulmarr]

Both in the water and on the beach - the English shilling was 30cm deep on the beach

 

[Heatho]

Well done fellas.

 

[Paulmarr]

Thanks guys - Bogan picked up a brand new CTX3030 today so it will be interesting to see how we go with that bit of kit on the beach! Stay tuned!

Carbon fibre

Bring it on

 

[Heatho]

Drooling, best of luck with it.

 

[Robert Le Mal]

the CTX3030 is very cool. First time you immerse completely you'll be pooping bricks sideways (then eventually you won't freak out).
I found a small 925 stamped ring at the beach with mine today - very happy with it. Good luck to SA Bogan with his.

 

[Paulmarr]

Following on from yesterday ... Today we headed down to the beach with the Sovereign GT and the new CTX 3030. As a first time observer, it is like watching something from Star Wars compared to what I am using!

Bogan was in learning mode so really wasn't a fair playing field ... We found lots of junk targets and these finds...

There is a florin and a half penny in amongst the coins, a couple of big bullet slugs, two rings, and a very ornate lead dog with a Made in England stamp on the back ....

Here is a personal best find for me and the Sovereign.... Is it gold?

I think it might be! This will be my first gold ring if it is!

We shall see when it is all cleaned up - must have been in the water quite a while - a Masonic symbol on the front.

The CTX proved to find the smallest of targets - which while Bogan is learning the machine it is to my advantage - I covered quite a bit more ground while he struggled to find the rivet head... . I am sure in a couple of sessions he will be showing me up one again.

 

[Ramjet]

A couple of good days out at the beach. Well done.

 

[gtol29]

Nice ring looks like a Stone Masons ring

 

[Heatho]

Well done, sure looks like Gold, hopefully it will be.

Having a more sensitive detector can be a pain sometimes as it does slow you right down on those fiddly small targets which are usually junk. I had a read of the 3030 manual today and there is a lot to get your head around. Sure Sa will have it sorted in no time. Must be a setting to discrim out the tiny stuff like that.

 

[Goldpick]

Hope it is gold, my last masonic ring turned out to be common old brass unfortunately. Good to see you trying a few detectors, what has happened to the Sovereign, has it been retired?

 

[Sa_bogan]

nah he is still using the sovereign, im the one who picked up the ctx I still have the excalibur but not sure what to do with it

 

[Goldpick]

I suppose hold onto it until you are 100% happy with the ctx, some days you may prefer the simplicity of the excalibur, who knows.

 

[Paulmarr]

A little toasty but here is how the 1873 shilling cleaned up