Some Of My First Finds In Northern Canada.

[fogrider]

Greetings from northern Alberta, Canada.

This is my first post on this site.

I used to detect back in the early 1980s with a Whites Coinmaster 5000. I decided, at the age of 64, to get back into the hobby, so I purchased an Equinox 600. 

I practiced using the detector on my old farm, and found a few coins from the 50's and 60's. 

The local area was only settled in the 1920s. In the last few weeks I've ventured out onto some local old properties (with the owners' permissions) and had some success.

The most interesting coin I found so far is an 1899 English penny in an old school yard that was active from the 1930s to the late 50's. It's an odd coin to find in a small northern Canadian community, but it goes to show you never know what you're going to find!

Interesting coins include:

1899 British penny, 1918 10 cent, 1915 US cent, 1922 5 cent, 1938 10 cent, 1946 25 cent, 1951 25 cent, 1943 tombac wartime 5 cent (x2), 1938 1 cent.

 

 

[geof_junk]

Some nice finds there, well done. How would you like to have had the Equinox 600 back in the early 1980s.

[schoolofhardNox]

Nice finds. I love the old Canadian 5 cents. Great condition coins. I also had a Coinmaster V and loved it. Hated the weight and batteries, but loved the machine. A lot different from the weight of today's machines 😄 Nice chauffeur badge as well.

[fogrider]

I like the 600. It does everything quite well. Now that I've learned it's "voice", I can often exactly tell what I'm detecting. It works well for coins-on-edge (it hit a dime on-edge at 6 inches deep).

Yes, imagine if I had this machine back in the 80's! How many coins did I miss?!

The settings that seem to work best up here are Park1. Accepting 20-40, 12, -8 (The 12 is for gold and the -8 is for Canadian 5 cent pieces on-edge). 5 Tones, Sensitivity 25, 15 kHz, Recovery 2. 

I found an old Garrett for 20 bucks at a garage sale a month ago. It's pleasantly nostalgic, but quite the "beast".

 

 

Edited September 25 by fogrider
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[schoolofhardNox]

4 minutes ago, fogrider said:

I love the 600. It does everything so well. Now that I've learned it's "voice", I can tell exactly what I'm detecting. It works so well for coins-on-edge, and it hit a dime on edge at 6 inches deep.

Yes, imagine if I had this machine back in the 80"s! How many coins did I miss?!

The settings that seem to work best up here are Park1, 22-40 Accept, 5 tones, Sensitivity 25, 15 kHz, Recovery 1.

I found an old Garrett for 20 bucks at a garage sale a month ago. It's pleasantly nostalgic, but quite the "beast".

 

 

Is that a Master Hunter? I had one of those for a couple of days. Never clicked with it, so it went back to Kellyco.  The Equinox is a good machine. It has a lot of pluses but some minuses as well. But it does work well.

[F350Platinum]

Welcome to the forum! I have a 600 as well, you might consider the Coiltek 10x5 as an alternative to the 11" for tight spaces and farm hunting with stalks.

Beautiful coins, either they come up like that or you are a cleaning master 👍

Great stuff, looking forward to future finds!

[Rick N. MI]

Some great finds. You got the right detector for the job. I like the Canadian coins. I find quite a few in northern Michigan. I found a few Canadian Large Cents and some Fish Scales, thin silver nickels.

[JCR]

Very nice condition finds, including the Garrett!

Welcome from East Texas.

[geof_junk]

8 hours ago, fogrider said:

I love the 600. It does everything so well. Now that I've learned it's "voice", I can tell exactly what I'm detecting. It works so well for coins-on-edge, and it hit a dime on edge at 6 inches deep.

Yes, imagine if I had this machine back in the 80"s! How many coins did I miss?!

The settings that seem to work best up here are Park1, 22-40 Accept, 5 tones, Sensitivity 25, 15 kHz, Recovery 1.

I found an old Garrett for 20 bucks at a garage sale a month ago. It's pleasantly nostalgic, but quite the "beast".

 

 

I had to buy one of the first Garrett ADS for the wife when they were released at a cost of 4 ounces of gold but it paid for it self many times over. At $20 I might be able to pay for it with finds even today as that is less than a ¼gram now. 😄

[Valens Legacy]

Welcome to the forum and glad your here!

Beautiful finds for sure and glad that you saved them from the earth.

The 600 is a very good unit, I have the 800, and I also recommend the 10x5 Coiltech coil.

I know that it works very well for me and some others here actually talked me into getting it. I promise you that it was well worth it. I did noticed that it changed some of the ID's but once you get used to that you will like it very much.

Good luck on your next outing and thanks for sharing your story.