14.36g 14k Christ/Mary pendant with chain, 14k gold ring and some silver

Used noise cancel #11, audio gain = 30 with the 18”x15” SEF coil, Pro coil, and the Minelab 8” coil. Sensitivity level varied depending on coil.

During the last 4 weeks, got in 4 days at the beach. The 1st 2 days only produced a silver ring, and a worn silver 1950 dime.
The last 2 days produced gold and silver.
Day 3. Used the 18”x15” SEF coil with auto sensitivity running between 17 and 21. Did an area search of a productive area in the negative tide zone, and got a 14.36g Christ/Mary medallion with the chain still attached.
As the tide returned, followed the tide back up the beach, and got a light-weight 1.6g 14k gold ring.

Day 4. Used the large SEF coil again to search the location of the 14k medallion/necklace find, but no luck. Closer in, did get a 1941 mercury dime that was partially masked by iron.



ID = inner diameter (in millimeters)
Procoil auto-sensitivity = 16
Rings air-tested with ring parallel to coil, unless otherwise noted

carat ID   grams depth  FE-CO  max depth description
14k   17    1.6   4”    12-03    7”      gold ring
14k   21    4.5   4”    12-20    9”      Christ/Mary pendant (21mm outer diameter)

14k   ----  9.86  --    -----    ----    23” gold necklace

Note: the gold necklace was only detectable when the larger loop at the end of the chain was parallel to the coil, when a section of the chain was stretched out and swept across the coil, or the chain was in a conductive ball compressed between the fingers.



Here are before/after cleaning photos. The medallion and chain only had a slight reddish discoloration, only the clasp attached to the medallion had greenish corrosion.
The 14k ring came out the ground in good condition.



Here are some before and after cleaning photos of other beach finds.
The lock on the left has “Yale & Towne Mfg. co” and “Stamford Conn USA” stamped on the front and back.
The lock on the right has “Red Seal” stamped on one side. The iron part rusted away.
The bottom photo is some kind of a button that came in at the nickel range 12-13 on the E-trac.

Detecting since Feb, 2010
E-trac with 18"x15" SEF, 13" Ultimate coil, Pro coil, Minelab 8" coil, 4.5"x7" SEF, Sunray target probe
CTX3030 with 17"x13" DD coil, 11" DD coil

Excellent!

Beautiful finds... gold... silver... and nice relics, great photos and presentation digs_alot... this is what metal detecting is all about IMO... real treasure. Thanks for sharing this with everyone...

Jim.

Bravo! Very nice finds!! Keep at it

Fantastic finds. I too just the NC 11 on many occasions.

markg Wrote:
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> Fantastic finds. I too just the NC 11 on many
> occasions.


NC 11 does have its problems.
Mineralization, hot rocks, and tiny pieces of metal near the surface (that the E-trac cannot get a target ID on) causes a lot of 01-50 signal hits, requiring a discrimination dot at that point.
Also the U.S. coin target ID values aren’t as accurate as the lower NC numbers are.
But I’m guessing that the high NC numbers are more reactive to very low conductive targets, like small gold jewelry.