How to find old coins and artifacts at the beach

The answer to the title of todays blog is easy, you have to search where old coins and artifacts were probably lost.

There are beaches all around the world holding old coins and artifacts, from treasure coins and old jewelry to buckles, buttons and weapons. 

Research is obviously the first step towards searching for older finds at the beach, knowing the history of a beach and what you are like to recover in certain areas if you put your time in.

Anyone can recover modern coins and jewelry at the beach, but it takes a lot longer to become proficient at recovering old coins and artifacts on a regular basis.

It also takes a certain dedication and love of older finds to stay the course knowing you could probably find modern coins and jewelry a lot easier, but when patience and persistence pays off there is no better feeling than holding a treasure coin or artifact in your hand that was lost hundreds of years ago at the beach.

Committing to searching for old coins and artifacts means in my opinion buying into two basic rules of beach treasure hunting, treasure is where you find it and treasure is often where they say it is.

Treasure really is where you find it because you made it so and probably because you did a little search and decided to try searching somewhere different for something you would like to discover.

It really can be as simple as that, for example many years ago I read about ships timbers from the late 1500s early 1600s discovered when a large beachside construction project was being built.

Knowing the area, the next time that beach was eroded I recovered a Spanish silver eight real coin, the date on the coin proved the beachside construction treasure ship story was indeed true.

Research, rumored shipwreck, mother nature and metal detector all working in harmony to infect me with a "Spanish fever" I have never recovered from.

Treasure was and continues to be found where it should obviously be at a place with an historical connection.

You have to put the word hunt in treasure hunt searching for old coins and artifacts, following the clues discovered but probably never fully understood in the early history of an area.

The more historical area leads you follow the more old coins and artifacts you are going to recover because you put yourself in place to have success.

When other metal detectorists question where and how the heck you recover old coins and artifacts at the beach, it is almost certainly not at the beaches they search. 

Known treasure sites are not half the fun of unknown or rumored treasure sites, the finds are sweeter and more frequently available, assuming you have the savvy and will power not to post recent recoveries.

If like me you are into old coins and artifacts, research and compile a list of local areas of historical interest so when the conditions are right you can recover a piece of the past.

The more areas of interest you have to try the more likely you are to recover what you are searching for.

Remember treasure is where you find it and often where people previously said it could be, prove them right!

 

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