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Hi everyone I'm fairly new to metal detecting and am using the Fisher F22.  I would like to give it to my daughter to use with me so im in the market for a new detector.  I like to hunt mostly parks for Canadian Clad but do vacation in florida and would like to hunt the beach.  I was thinking of getting the Equinox 600 but read it does great in almost everything except Canadian clad, can anyone recommend a detector my max budget is 1000.  Thanks guys.

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The problem is not the Equinox and Canadian coins. It is Canadian coins and any metal detector since modern Canadian clad is basically a steel (ferrous) target.

After 2000 - 4.4 94% steel, 3.8% Cu, 2.2% Ni plating
$1 1987- 7 91.5% Ni electroplated with 8.5% bronze plating
$2 1996- 7.3 outer ring = 99% Ni Inner core = 92% Cu, 2% Ni, 6% Al

This means that most Canadian coins read the same as trash and are hard to detect for as a result. You will run into this with any detector.

Equinox Canadian Coin IDs

 

 

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I have two newer Canadian coins with a Caribou ..the first one I was going through a park with my CTX and I seen the coin (quarter size) laying flat on the grass...ran the detector over it and not a sound was made...That was my awakening on silver colored Canada coins...the second one was one that I actually dug...same quarter size coin but it was pressed into a button...dont know why the CTX heard that one...it's somewhere in my piles one day I'll run across it and look at it more closely. 

strick 

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