Welcome To Coin Beach

"So you are looking for treasure and you came to the right place. There is miles and miles of sand, and you just might get lucky. Have you bought a metal detector with you?

People have found valuable coins on the sandy banks of this beach. Legend has it that the ship was carrying a massive commercial cargo that included 400 barrels of British and Irish copper half pennies and gold rose guineas. As the vessels broke apart in the pounding surf, the coins were scattered along the coastline.

To this day, the stretch of land just north of the inlet is known as "Coin Beach,"because centuries later, storms still occasionally wash these eighteenth coins ashore for beachcombers to find.

When Did It Happen

The merchant ship The Faithful Steward ran aground and broke apart off the coast of Delaware near Indian River Outlet, near modern-day Delaware Seashore State Park, south of Rehoboth, on September 1,1785.

Voyage

Departed from Londonderry (Derry), Ireland, bound for Philadelphia, carrying crew of249 passengers and cargo.

The Disaster

Stranded on a shoal about 100 yards from the shoreline, in roughly four fathoms (24 feet of water, Strong Winds and rough seas, caused the ship to capsize and break apart on September 2, 1785.

Casualties

Out of 249 people on board, 181perished(including 93 women and children), while only 68 survived by swimming or drifting ashore on wreckage.

Coin Beach

As rotting wooden barrels broke over the decades, storms washed these eighteenth century copper coins, giving the stretch of coastline, near Indian River outlet, leading the locals to call it COIN BEACH!!

I HOPE YOU FIND A GOLD COIN OR A COPPER HALF PENNY