Written by the TreasureGuide for the exclusive use of treasurebeachesreport.BlogSpot.com.
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| Gold Coin From Recently Completed Sedwick Coins Auction. |
The winning bid for this coin was over $28,000, about twice the selling price of any of the escudos.
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I ran across a YouTube video showing a fellow trying out a borrowed ATX in bathtub calm water at Miami beach. In a short time he dug a few targets, including three coins and two bobby pins.
You are going to hear bobby pins when using pulse induction detector. Although PI detectors don't have much in the way of discrimination, those that I've used, including the Whites Dual Field, will allow you to identify bobby pins and other junk items if you use them enough to learn how to identify the distinctive signals. (In a previous post I showed once how the pulse delay setting on a PI detector could be used to discriminate out bottle caps.)
I can identify fish hooks when using a PI detector. Fish hooks sound similar to nails or other long thin objects, but yet give a signal that is different enough to identify. I don't know how to describe the distinctive signal from a fish hook, but, like I said, it is a little like the signal given by a nail, yet different.
I've explained in previous posts how long thin objects such as nails can be identified by many detectors - not just PI detectors. When sweeping over a nail or similar thin object in one direction you'll get a broken signal, while sweeping in the other direction you'll get a solid signal.
You'll can learn to identify many types of signals by sound, but it takes time. Sometimes when I don't use a particular detector for a while it takes a little while to relearn it, but relearning is fast.
Another thing I noticed in the video is that all of the targets were dug very near the surface. It won't argue against a good deep-seeking detector, but depth is highly over rated in my opinion. It is not nearly as important as many people seem to think. That is my opinion and is partly the result of some of the search strategies that I use.
If you keep track of how many good targets are actually dug at a depth that is near your detector's maximum capability, I'll bet it is a very small percentage. I'll also bet that if you ever dug cobs on a beach, the vast majority were found within the top two inches. Keep track of that. Figure out how much a couple more inches would actually help you. It might surprise you - especially for beach hunting. And some targets that seem to come from great depth, actually don't. They slip deeper as the hole gets deeper.
People often talk about wasting time digging junk. Digging deep holes can be a big waste of time. You say that the good targets are deep. That can be true, but a big part of my strategy is to find the areas where the good targets are near the surface. I'm not so interested in digging a few deep targets as I am interested in finding accumulations of good targets that have been uncovered. Of course, you can't always do that.
The fellow that was using the $2000 plus ATX dug only items that were near the surface during the video. It only took a couple seconds to dig and sift each of them. Once again, my point is that depth is often over-rated.
Even more than good targets, most junk on a beach will be found near the surface. It can take more time to ID junk items than it takes to simply scoop them up and remove them, especially if your pinpointing and recovery skills are good.
A detector that will detect deep gold will also detect small gold, such as gold chains near the surface. That is more why I like a deep seeking detector. It is not as much that I want to dig deep holes, but a good deep seeking detector will also do a good job of detecting small shallow targets. Considering beach hunting, if I had to choose between getting all of the good small surface targets or the good targets found in the last inch of depth that I could get out of my detector, I just might choose the first.
Keep track and try to answer that for yourself.
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According to the most recent issue of Kovels Komments, here is the order of most frequently used price search terms.
1) Fenton, 2) Coca-Cola, 3) Occupied Japan, 4) Stoves, 5) McCoy, 6) Wedgwood, 7) Bavaria, 8) Depression Glass, 9) Delft, 10) Capo-Di-Monte, 11) Lamps, 12) Pepsi Cola, 13) Hull, 14) Banks, 15) Belleek, 16) Scales, 17) Satsuma, 18) Trunks, 19) Haeger, and 20) Red Wing.
That tells you something about what collectors are interested in and what you could probably sell easily.
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Here is a mesmerizing GoPro video Searching For Heroes, which shows top-notch underwater search technology being used to find WWII planes. I should have had this one for Veterans Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wB6i7i7fKU
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The surf on the Treasure Coast will be near flat Thursday and Friday. Then it will bump up a touch.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@Comcast.net
