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  1. Hi Guys Just thought I would share my first trip with the GPX 6000 out near home. About an hour and a half in an old spot on the NSW Far South Coast AU. Settings on manual about 12 o"clock position in difficult. Hot ground but with a steady threashold. Down @ 6 - 8 inches. Cheers Jack
    15 points
  2. Went to a local park today after work. Only had a couple of hours to detect and test out my new home made arm cuff. I wasn't a big fan of the plastic, and it was a little too wide and flexy for me. At this point I only have about 5 hours on the 800. The first hour today netted me a handful of clad and some misc. corroded zinc. The next hour was the same thing clad and junk. With only 15 minutes to chicken parm, I got a really nice 28-29, not expecting anything great, I proceeded to find out what it was. For a split second I thought it was another odd piece of stainless, But I quickly saw Tiffany and co. Wooooo Hoooooo. Now I had a good excuse for being a little late for dinner. My wife would never get mad for a Tiffany ring. It is about 6.16 grams and polished to like new. Oh and the cuff was a winner too. fits my arm and no slop. I made it out of an old no parking sign and the factory bottom section. It took me a few hours to create, but I'm happy with it. Have to give a shout out to Kac for the hand digger, Still works great and hasn't failed me yet.
    14 points
  3. Finally got a chance to hit the steamboat landing on the water today. A coincidental lower tide and great weather made an opportunity for me. It's a beautiful place, but fraught with risks from the poison ivy ground cover to the soft sand/muck in the river. There are places here that look solid but you sink immediately should you step there. Really didn't find much but didn't expect to. What I was more interested in was getting used to the gear and the conditions, I was wearing waders and using my scoop as a "stabilizer" as well. There are pilings, underwater holes, even saw an engine block out in the river. I only went a little above knee deep today. The water is clear but silts ahead of you as you walk. Water parallax makes it a bit difficult to locate where to scoop, but lifting the coil straight up after pinpointing helps. Found some pretty cool stuff, the steamboat mooring line cleat and the old blue medicine bottle were my favorite trash, the cleat was a 36. Thought I'd hit the jackpot. 😀 I worked my way over to the area I found some completely corroded Indian Heads just before I quit, I was only there about two hours. Got a 9/10, and scooped this very corroded "V" nickel, sadly not enough detail to provide a date. Identified it by size and the bust that was barely visible.Going back soon! They're planting the fields so woods and river are my only local diversions.
    9 points
  4. Went to a different, flat beach for a change of pace. I was going to wrap the GPX in plastic and go into the water a bit but found out my Detech coil needs to be weighed down in order to not float. Not a big deal, as it is a great coil and my favorite. I will know better next time and will weigh it down. Because of how flat the beach is, I expected and was granted, lots of bits of aluminum 😆. The number of coins was in line with how things seen to go for me on my area beaches. Found a bit of silver as well. Also found a ring which is either nickel or white gold. It is not as clean as I would expect gold to be, but maybe it is a lower karat. Just somehow reminds me of how some clad quarters look when they are tumbled a lot, coming out looking clean and not that red/green/brown look. Reads a solid 8 on the Nox. I still feel there should be some deep gold and silver there due to the deep coins and deep lead that is still left behind. Also, the number of pull tabs could have been gold rings as well. I do have to say one thing about the GPX line. They are very durable machines. I just hope the GPX 6000 is as durable. My 5000 has done a lot of deep woods hunting as well as the beach hunts. Things do go wrong with it (like the cam locks), but it always powers up and performs well. So, nothing earth shattering, but a decent day at the beach.
    9 points
  5. surface find in the leaf litter a nice silver earing
    6 points
  6. Never thought of getting flowers for my therapist. 😉 Good idea.
    6 points
  7. Thought of one thing to add. When you have someone supporting your obsession with this hobby/occupation, never forget to show your appreciation. Probably my favorite find of the day, they grow wild here. 🙂
    6 points
  8. So, just some observations from your excellent video on a very iron sand rich beach.......I could not tell if you were in Beach 1 or Beach 2. Did you try both in that damp sand? Did you ground balance your Equinox or just use 0? Do you get the same results with your 11” coil? in your video your sensitivity is above default 20, most of your black sand target responses are -9 and -8, your depth meter on those black sand targets is basically pegged and you are swinging really fast. All I can say is if you are getting that strong a response from the black sand at that beach you may need to compromise on your settings. Do you want to hear actual targets or mostly hear tiny iron sand targets that are reading 8 to 12” in depth because they are so small? The extreme sensitivity for small targets that the Equinox has is a really good thing but it can cause issues like you are running into. Turning up the sensitivity is just going to amplify the ground noise even more and make it really hard to tell if you have a real target. Swinging really fast is also not going to help you pick up actual coin sized targets in those conditions. So, I would lower the sensitivity enough that most of your target responses will be actual targets and the tiny iron sand targets will not be heard as much along with swinging slower. You can also compromise by rejecting -9 and -8 or so and hunt with every other target ID accepted to eliminate much of the ground noise and still hear actual targets. You can also hunt in 2 tones with your ferrous/non-ferrous tone break set at zero.......... I would take a US nickel and a dime, bury them at 6” or so and see how they sound and how they respond with that setup. Can you lower the sensitivity enough to eliminate most of the ground noise and still hear 2 direction, repeatable responses from those buried coins with enough non-ferrous responses to know that your target is non-ferrous even though you may have a few responses in negative numbers on those coins which may be either rejected (-9,-8) or in the iron range IDs that are still accepted?
    5 points
  9. Fat Bastard Prospecting, all his videos are entertaining unless you're offended by common Aussie prospector language. He does a quick run with the new 6000, not a great deal of new information but entertaining none the less.
    4 points
  10. Many, many hobbyists can have a difficult time distinguishing ferrous targets from non-ferrous. Part of that is due to the particular shape of the ferrous object, how man shaped the alloyed object into something that enhances conductivity, such as those blasted crown-type Bottle Caps. You also have Iron Nails that that are not a nice-and-proper straight design and best oriented to the coil. Instead, they might be bent, positioned at an awkward angle, and the Nail 'head' is 90° to the Nail-body and all those variables can have a challenging impact on the EMF as it encounters the hidden object. ALL manufacturers should be working on improving the performance of their product line, and it isn't always so easy. Many tasks were easily handles with some of those earlier analog-circuitry detectors that are more of a challenge today with a lot of the digitally-designed circuitry models, and to often make things tougher is that most manufacturers have followed the trendy move to Double-D search coil types and do not offer, or only have a limited offering, of Concentric coils. Concentric coils will generally provide more accurate Target ID than a DD, better Discrimination than a DD, and even slightly more depth-of-detection than a comparable-size DD. We, the consumers, have to deal with some of the so-called modern trends in detector design, and that means learning to ignore some of the marketing hype, then select the best coils we can for the types of sites we hunt and trash-target challenges we typically face, and a detector that we happen to like and enjoy using.. Learn each detector well, really well, to know their strengths and weaknesses, and my decades-old encouragement is to own two or more detectors that can complement each other in order to select the best tool for the task a-at-hand. I have a couple of Nokta / Makro devices, and my two all-time favorite Tesoro's, but my primary-use TID / Tone ID detectors are my three Garrett Apex devices, sporting different search coils. Monte PS: All of my Apex models worked well recently, and the first I updated the .25 software models to .28. I compared them with my original Apex that I got immediately upon their release which had the .23 software. After comparing all of them, my original Apex still worked fine, but I could tell some subtle enhancement differences favoring the new update. Last Friday evening we updated my 'original' Apex to .28 since it is my primary-use detector, and I am leased.
    4 points
  11. GB-amateur , as the others have said: Excellent post ! It is a common observation that gold-nugget hunting is more profitable. From a daily "melt value" perspective (given a skilled hunter, in each venue, that knows what he's doing). And let's be honest : Even if you factor in key-date old coins, that the odds are: It's rare that any old seated coin (even the key date S and CC mints !) will merit you $1k. And a cool collectible buckle or button might net you $1k. And so forth. Contrast to the guys who have strictly drifted to gold nugget md'ing: It can have much higher dollar values for their accumulative value. Than ANY coin/relic guy could have had in the same period. This is why many Sacramento area hunters, back when the nugget-specialty niche of the hobby first took off, tended to "leave coins/relics behind", and focused STRICTLY on nuggets forever more thereafter. It became an addiction unto itself. I know we can debate: "What about the coins that were found, that were worth $10k ?" Well , gee, so too : "What about the nuggets that were found that were worth $10k ?" But at the end of the day, we all can't deny that if money were the only driving factor, and skill-levels-were-accounted for, then: Nuggets seem to be more profitable. HOWEVER, as Raphis-Dan and others point out, there is NO substitution for the thrill of the history (strategy, skill, story, etc...) that the old coin or relic presents. A nugget is strictly a monetary object. But a coin or relic holds a story. Not sure if that's making any sense. This is all-so-timely for me. Since: My wife and I are looking at taking our central coast insane real estate market nest egg, (since I'm not on the ugly side of 60), and thinking of G.R. area real estate living. And as such, I'm pondering learning the nugget hunting aspect/side of our hobby. Great post GB-amateur !
    4 points
  12. What did they feed the pigs ? restaurant waist, what got in with it ? some of the tips
    4 points
  13. How tall do the vases grow in the wild,I was thinking about planting some for my girlfriend. The flowers are nice also. Seems like you had a nice hunt and have checked out the area for future hunts. Good luck and happy hunting.
    4 points
  14. I really like the finds and location very much! But, the credit and flowers given to your wife💐, is the treasure of the day! A much needed reminder for me to remember! 🌺 Thanks!👍👍
    4 points
  15. I’m not sure there’s a part I’ve not broken on a water machine. Joe knows me best he’s fixed a lot of um for me. I’ve split coils, broken ears, shafts, cuffs.... but hey from it all I’ve learned a lot. I can also say I never broke anything to my knowledge when dirt hunting. That’s why I’ve always said .... plan for ... stuff breaks in the water especially... thank goodness we find some gold.
    4 points
  16. An old site as in I havent been back to it for some time and thought I would give the 6k a run over. Went over it with a GP3000 and I may even have put the 4500 over as well. I dug some nice pieces out some time ago but yes may have missed alot too with the 3k/4500 ...obviously. The 6000 hit hard on these pieces which were down in the pipe clay. Cheers Jack
    4 points
  17. I have some unexpected extra time on my hands and am going to give metal detecting another try after quite a few years. I was on a couple of forums that might not exist anymore. I took the detectors out of the closet and brushed off the cobwebs and dust. I have a Troy Shadow X2, Tesoro Bandido II, and a Whites GMT. I mainly used the Shadow for hunting for relics and found a few. I recently sold a Tesoro Eldorado to a friend and hopefully he'll get the detecting bug and we can go out and find something interesting. I'd like to resume the hobby and search for relics, gold, and meteorites out here in the desert. This is a great forum with expert reviews on detectors and many informative posts. I hope to learn quite a bit and enjoy the hobby.
    3 points
  18. Finds like that your xmas shopping will be done by july😁
    3 points
  19. Luckily I didn't dig one of their lamps, My wife would have a hell of a time trying to put it on her finger!!!
    3 points
  20. As far as I can tell, Coiltek packages them in clear plastic display bags. Some sellers ship them boxed and others ship them in mailing bags. Mine was in a mailing bag that had damage on the outside and when I opened it, the coil was damaged too. I can't understand why a vendor wouldn't spend an extra $1 to box such an expensive coil to guarantee it arrives to the buyer in good condition. I won't be shopping there again.
    3 points
  21. This year is a good year beach wise for finding older coins. It takes a couple of storms to remove sand as well as very windy days to remove some more sand, little by little. Most recent hunts, I have averaged around 50 coins I think. I lucked out and bought the GPX used for around $2500.00. The bad part is I spent almost that much again on Minelab and after market coils 🙄 It would pay for itself if I would stop buying coils 😄 Solid nickel rings probably don't even exist, but that is what it looked like to me. It probably is white gold, but is a bit weathered looking. Nickel, even shaped like that ring, probably should read a bit above 8 on the Nox I would guess, but I bet it would be close. I think nickels read 12 or 13? Thanks about the photographing. I figure some people may want to see what New England beaches have trash wise. It also shows you that, if you dig it all, this is what you can expect junk wise. Not sure on the S/S hex nut. It looks tapered, so maybe some kind of pin for some machinery they may use on the park grounds next to the beach. But I also saw a windshield wiper in the water as well, that I threw out. It is kind of a trashy beach in some parts.
    3 points
  22. Excellent thread, GB. 🙂 As a noob I'm still in the romantic phase where finding anything is a pleasure. I wonder when it will end, or if it ever does. Haven't had a total "skunk" day yet, but I fear them in my future. I am hoping my research skills and ability to "read" a place sharpen in proportion to the lesser amount of finds. Thus far I haven't found much silver, but it really makes my day when I do. A silver coin ended my last hunt. I'm trying it all, farm, field, random, beach, and soon parks or county owned properties. Gold might be out of the question where I am other than coins, but I'm not expecting them. I'll be thrilled If I find one! Didn't expect to get a gold ring first time at the beach, but my wife loves it. I have no problem giving away my finds. I'm glad people post thoughts on this site, it makes it unique among the choices.
    3 points
  23. I've just been informed that the 26" GPZ Concentric I ordered will now be a 30" The designers believe this will be the ultimate manifestation of the ZVT CC and it should have some serious depth. I replied that I will now have to grow a right arm like a lobster. Oh well! what the heck! Exciting times! Could be like the old "Bismarck" days all over again?
    3 points
  24. For anyone interested in seeing how a Dual Field is put together, I recently did a video on making one after reading a lengthy thread on the Geotech Forum. Cheers
    2 points
  25. The scoop is very strong, I can lean hard on it or use it to pull me out. Someone asked me why It is 6' long, that's one of the reasons. I may add a second Raptor handle facing in the other direction. Walk softly and carry a big stick! 😀 I'm wearing chest waders so my boots won't get removed by the muck. Waders are inherently dangerous so I use a Mustang auto/manual CO2 type II PFD from my boating days. The water is barely in the 50s right now. My phone is waterproof and in a floating waterproof bag. The rescue squad isn't far away, but I'm not the type that throws myself on the good graces of others. The nickel is and was a 9/10. 🙂 It's about as thin as those reales I dug! Weighs 2.5g. It looks just like it did when I scooped it. Your question prompted me to think of other safety stuff I could use, and it occurred to me that I also have a portable aluminum spring loaded anchor that I used when kayak fishing. It would work like a grappling hook. Saved me once when a large Rockfish pulled me out into another river.
    2 points
  26. The 12 inch coil is awesome in the iron. Still no silver. But I just haven’t gotten over top of it yet. That small flat button was at least 12 inches down and next to iron!
    2 points
  27. I think it's specfically the silver 3 cent piece, at least here in the USA. We also had a nickel-copper 3 cent piece which superceded the silver one. That wasn't very popular either. Finding either is an accomplishment but the silver one is so tiny that it's even a better feather in one's cap than a nickel 3-center. In the mid-19th Century the USA experimented with several non-standard denominations: 2-cent, 3-cent and 20-cent. None came even close to catching on. They all share a pattern -- the first few years had (relatively speaking) high mintages but their failure to be popular led to a few years of low to very low mintages and eventually their demise. The years of mintage were: 2-Cent (95% copper) -- 1964-1873 (10 total, with almost 75% being in the first two years), silver 3-Cent (90% silver) -- 1851-1873 (23 years, but 1864 and later are all rare), nickel 3-Cent (25% nickel) -- 1865-1889 (25 year, but from 1877 on all are rare except 1881). 20-Cent (90% silver) -- 1875-1879 (5 years, all quite collectible and except for two with mintages specified below, rare to extremely rare.) Of special note for the 20-center is that of the above oddball denominations it's the only one to bear a mintmark (i.e. only one minted outside of Philadelphia). All five years had coins minted in Philadelphia. 1875-S and both 1875-CC and 1876-CC are the exceptions. The 1875-S has by far the highest mintage (1.115 million) followed by the 1875-CC (0.133 million). I've never read of a metal detectorist finding a 20-Cent piece. Anyone here ever found one? You don't even hear of it being a bucket lister and most people, detectorist or not, probably don't even realize they ever existed. Quite an asterisk in the history of USA coin minting.
    2 points
  28. Love the red stone ring! I've found several nickel rings but they have that clean look but nickel colored. I have one I found that is marked Nickel / Silver. (which is German Silver) When I found it I though gold but for some reason it looked different. Very clean but just not the right look. See if I can find the picture... You should be able to tell the difference if you scratch it on the testing stone. Gold is soft, NIckel will be hard...Nickel/Silver.. I'm not sure.
    2 points
  29. Went on a couple of hunts this past week trying to put my new Coiltek 10x5 Nox coil through its paces and then using my trusty Deus at my favorite relic farm site with numerous iron patches and high mineralization. Tested the Nox coil out on a Colonial site and scored a couple of keepers at decent depth in sandy soil including a flat Tombac button and a brass makeup case with a fancy "wreath" design. Snagged a tiny flat button there when switching over to the Deus and round 9" hf coil. in thick iron. A week later it was off to my relic paradise site we have been pounding regularly for a few years and steadily since November when I got the privilege to hit it after harvest and deep discing and snagged a $1 gold piece and about 30 other relics - perhaps my most productive single day ever. The site "refreshes" itself with every plowing. Anyway the finds were tailing off and this was the last trip before spring planting. Took the Deus out and got on the board quickly with a minie ball. Started pulling different types of minie balls including a .69 caliber "fatty", a confederate Gardner, and a really rare dropped .54 cal Merrill carbine, as well as some "generic" 3 ringers. But the highlight was an iffy high conductor signal - hoping for any silver at this point because they have been few and far between at this site, lately. Little did I know that I would be checking off a bucket lister that I have been hoping to snag for some time now. Flipped the plug and knew what I had with just a glimpse. Welcome to the finds pouch my freshly dug 1835 Capped Bust Liberty Dime. Some non-metallic eyeball finds and miscellaneous brass and lead fragments including a porcelain 4-hole button rounded out the day. Enjoy the pics...
    2 points
  30. Here’s what it is like with Horseshoe enabled (all metal). https://youtube.com/shorts/lsC6B7xG-4o?feature=share
    2 points
  31. Not sure what you're asking. I got waders for river hunting early in the year when the water is cold, there are a few spots I want to check out. Soon the people who have summer houses will be here, and boats will be everywhere. Just testing today. I wanted to see how difficult it would be.
    2 points
  32. Here is a 5000 beach video we all have to like!
    2 points
  33. Great post & great pix as usual. And I love how you are sure to post the junk pix as well. Just so it's not like the bass-fishing channel, where "every cast is a lunker" 😆 To show the good, the bad, and the ugly. You worked for your rewards 🙂
    2 points
  34. Killer cuff dog, and not too shabby of a ring! 👍 ht
    2 points
  35. If only that dime could talk...😱
    2 points
  36. It's like the Big Lez Show... but with gold nuggets. On ya for sharing, mate.
    2 points
  37. Good little detector, a few teething pains, and why we need update functions on new detectors. No update capability.... just say no.
    2 points
  38. Me and a hunting buddy happened upon a CW firing range. We thought, great, we'll dig a few minies and move on. But when we swung it was immediate target after target. A rare unexploited hot spot. Limited only by how fast we could recover the targets. Another buddy made it over to the area coming from a different field and joined in with the Deus. But this was hot Culpeper dirt so I had the advantage with my GPX 4800 PI detector. My other buddy fanned out to look for the likely firing line holding drops and buttons, but no joy. Likely cleaned out by others who were there beforeMe and a hunting buddy happened upon a CW firing range. Anyway, it kind of became an obsession and challenge for me. I would either be continuously recovering a target or checking/confirming one of my buddy's Deus targets. Would the minies dry up or would I drop from exhaustion? The minies won. 81 minies, one button, and 7 hours later, I called it a day with plenty of targets still heard as I walked out of the 20 yard by 20 yard patch. If you did the math, that is one minie recovered on average every 5 minutes. So now I have that out of my system, can take the memory of the day I dug minies at will, and will probably never have a day like that again, which is probably a good thing. P.S. The minies with the star marking in the cavity mean they were manufactured at the Washington Arsenal.
    1 point
  39. Wow!! Mine has never done that….it has blanked out on me, but I figured out that was the battery cover wasn’t on tight enough. I would reach out to Tarsacci or Aaron and ask about that issue.
    1 point
  40. Another great hunt, and I also think that the ring could be white gold. Good luck as always and keep the pictures and stories coming.
    1 point
  41. I bet it still doesn't smell as bad as some of the coins from my grandmothers back yard. Nice hunt, a friend who owns several hogs told me that he loses a lot of tableware all the time. Good luck on your next hunt
    1 point
  42. Yikes, 56 coins in one day, rings and things. Great job! Guess the GPX will pay for itself. 😁
    1 point
  43. Brian - Mine came from Seriousdetecting.com
    1 point
  44. My modded 4500 is superbly quiet with all mono's I've used so I'm assuming the CC coils will be similarly smooth. The limited tests I've done against a 7000 using a 14" Elite mono gives me expectations of substantial depth on multi-grammers+ using a big concentric. The low frequency mod allows better energy saturation on deeper, larger targets. I'd have to do some serious tests on a test bed using the X coils big concentric when its ready...
    1 point
  45. Looks like everyone has had their say now so hopefully this X coil thread can continue on in a positive direction moving forward. 😇 It seems to me two important things have happened in parallel, one was the major shake up with all the different entities and the other is the release of the Concentric coils. Both have had a profound effect on the situation and the many discussions around the subject. 🧐 The entities thing is less meaningful now than it was a month ago and will probably continue that way as all the friction points have been largely removed. My friction points were multi faceted and have been discussed ad nauseam, so with the personal character stuff now put aside I would like to examine the BIG changes in the form of the new Concentric X coils, because they really are a game changer especially when considering my concerns based around Ferrite balancing etc. From my perspective I REALLY have changed my opinion of X coils, Rick (Araratgold) first brought to my attention the differences in the new CC coils but at first I was a bit skeptical based on experiences with Concentric’s back in the early ZVT prototype days, but I was willing to listen because he has my respect. I will admit though I was a very skeptical because Rick had not complained about the spiral wound DOD Coils even without ferrite balancing, I’d say most likely due to the ground types he works. This is not in any way a criticism of the way he detects or the ground he works, (Australia is made up of a lot of different extremely diverse ground types) I was thinking the CC coils might behave similar over the ground to the Spiral DOD’s which in the ground I work would be problematic. The video he put up of his 17” CC coil in action really made me sit up and take notice Meerkat style 😝 and also made me realise I might have to ‘Eat Crow” due to my cautionary comments when they were first announced, so fair enough I stand corrected because when I received a 17” I too was very surprised by how well they behaved. All three CC X coils I’ve used ferrite balance well, not perfectly but more than adequate where the ground signal is far greater than the tiny bit of residual X signal I’m hearing on the ferrite, so its a big TICK ✅ from me on that score ( X signal was always a major pinch point for me). Secondly there is minimal saturation signal (unless the ground is really bad), amazingly even less than the GPZ14 so another BIG tick ✅ from me on that as well. Next was touch sensitivity and even in General Difficult I was impressed, it was easily as good as the GPZ19 and GPZ14 coils. Amazingly the bit that really surprise was salt signal, that really came out of left field and I can only put it down to a few things but I need to ponder on it some more. 🤔 So there you go, I’m eating some of my words, the latest Concentric X coils get my tick of approval on many fronts, they have very good sensitivity on even the tiniest of stuff at quite surprising depths. I have not dug anything amazingly deep yet or on the larger side of the scale with a 5 gram piece at 14 inches being the biggest so far, but all in all they have definitely improved a lot, to the point where there is probably no longer any need for the DOD spiral wound coils (unless they have improved a lot since I last used them as well). So is this a plug for X coils? No its just me being honest about what I’m experiencing and also owning my previous publicly expressed negativity. Do I sell X coils? NO I do not, if you want an X coil go to the web site and order one. JP Gold found on the first session with the 17” Concentric X coil in extremely variable ground
    1 point
  46. Us west coast guys are green with envy about your east coast colonials and LC's. That's for sure. Our consolation is we have a fighting chance at a gold coin, and ... yes .... a high percentage of S mints. Was just doing a country picnic site a few weeks ago, and got a 1901 quarter. My buddies and thought "we're about to have a heart-attack", since the 1901 s quarter is a BIG BUCKS quarter. And seeing as how we were only an hour from SF, I was already counting my chickens before they were hatched. Alas, it was only an "O" mint. AAaarrggghhhh When we're in a spot giving up 1910, '11, '12, '13, '14, & '15 wheaties, they are almost invariably all S mints.
    1 point
  47. On the east coast I am running about the same 50/50 for pre 1850 silver (Capped Bust / Seated) vs Reales. What is really hard is Draped Bust silver in my area. On the lower coast they find them occasionally, but interior wise I haven't found one yet. The most common Spanish I have found is in the 1770's - 1790's Carlous varieties. Occasionally the 1800's stuff comes up. What we drool over from the western part of the country is the "S" mintage coins, the gold coins, gold nuggets and the meteorites.
    1 point
  48. Thanks. You're probably right, Chuck. I've seen a lot more 1700's reales dug than early 1800's US, but have only managed a Mexican First Republic 1/2 Reale from 1830. Still looking to dig my first 18th century coin of any denomination. Very happy with my dime - I knew that if I had a chance to dig it anywhere, it was at this site. A few have popped out here previously.
    1 point
  49. Just from the short video detecting your car, your Equinox sounds and acts like it is operating perfectly. Mine will do the same thing within 3 feet of any large piece of metal. Default Beach 1 for most of the beach, dry or wet. Default Beach 2 when Beach 1 becomes unstable or for use in the surf. If your beach has a lot of black magnetite or basalt sand you may want to hunt in 2 tones instead of 5 or especially 50. The same goes for if 50 tones is causing personal audio overload which sometimes happens to me. I often like to hunt beaches with nothing discriminated and -9 to +40 accepted. At some of the San Diego area beaches I have hunted, I had to reject a little bit of the iron range to deal with the black sand. I ended up hunting them with -3 or -4 to +40 accepted and used 2 tones. I also owned a CTX for awhile. The tone lengths on the Equinox and CTX are very different no matter where you set the recovery speed on the Equinox since Equinox is a very high gain, very fast detector which comes remarkably close to XP Deus speeds and sensitivity considering it is an SMF detector. It will detect one millimeter sized targets even below the surface. It will never sound or operate like a CTX.
    1 point
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