The Seeker

Went to a rocky beach that I only visit during winter months and it paid off with a small 10k ring.  I only spent a few hours digging since it’s a PITA with all the rocks. The ring broke while I was rubbing the sand off. Thanks for looking and HH.

Gotta love the AQ. Congrats on the hunt.

Congrats on another great hunt Compass.  Hopefully one of these days you find the other half, good luck.

On 9/19/2020 at 4:56 PM, GB_Amateur said:

Nice!  Our tiniest USA coin.  What was the digital TID reading, and how deep was it?  Also, what was the coil size?

I just noticed looking in the Red Book that they actually made two compositional varieties, yours being the earlier, 75% silver version weighing a mere 0.80 g.  That was only 1851-53.  After that they were 90% silver, but dropping to 0.75 g.  I wonder how the two vary in TID's.  Your title says 'another'.  (You lucky dog!)  If you still have the other one(s), are they also Type 1?

Does the $1 gold coin not count for the tiniest USA coin (I guess if you go by weight that’s different)! The type 1 measures 12.7 mm and the type 2 is just a little bigger than the Trime at 14.3 mm.

Kac — Congrats on an awesome coin.

1 hour ago, Carolina said:

Joe did I read some where all metal pulls more juice than tones and mute? Maybe Willy or Alexandre?

All metal does consume more power than other modes since it’s the deepest.

That’s some nice looking yellow, congrats on a great hunt.

15 hours ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

That's one wild looking day to me! Gold was the topper too! Five Gold is Excellent for the amount of time you have had the AQ~!!

Thanks OBN, It’s not too bad considering there’s so much competition here. I need to go try the AQ in black sand to see I can get more gold.  I’m hoping I don’t have to lower my sensitivity any lower to get it somewhat stable.

14 hours ago, Compass said:

Awesome haul Seeker- congrats! That Frederick Goldman gold ring is beautiful!

Thanks Compass.  Although I have found two other FG but this one felt light when I dug it so I thought it was a junker/titanium.  I guess after digging so many holes and your muscles are bulging out it’s hard to guess the weight 😅

I got out for nice long hunt with the AQ. I found quite a few targets to keep me busy. Five of the rings are junk and the other two silver. One of the silvers has real diamond chips. The gold ring came towards the end of the hunt and weighs 4.7g. I have found 5 gold rings with the AQ and a small pendant, so not too bad.  Thanks for looking and happy hunting.

That’s a nice looking ring, congrats.

15 hours ago, Compass said:

Congrats Seeker! 3 golds is impressive as are the silver coins, especially, from the dry sand.

Thanks Compass, sometimes I just get lucky. I went out there just hoping to find just one silver coin and this happened. The only downside is that I have to cover more ground and it’s a challenge walking in the dry, for me at least.

14 hours ago, mn90403 said:

Yes, well done on those finds.  I can't remember the last time I found silver on my Santa Monica Bay beaches.  Where are your beaches?

I hunt Santa Monica and a few others and have found silver at all of them. I usually find the coins far from where all the dry sanders hunt.

12 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

That is a fantastic hunt, I will be lucky to be able to do that with my grandfathers 800. I have only found 3 coins with it so far, but I am cleaning out the trash from his back yard with it.

I think it is going to take a miracle to learn that thing, but I am working on it.

Thanks Valens and sorry about your loss. When it comes to the Equinox the best thing to do is stick to the presets, trust me they work very well.  When I’m hunting the wet sand I mostly use presets with some tweaks to pitch and I also reverse the tones. Keep reading these great forums and ask questions. You will become proficient in no time. HH

12 hours ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

Great day 0ut! That Nox is a work horse for sure, that's all I see at the beach here. 

Thanks OBN. Anywhere you go all you will see is people using the equinox.  Where I hunt there’s anywhere from 10-15 using the Nox. It’s simple to use, swing and finds the goods. If you swing it correctly, at the right places and some luck you will find what your looking for. There’s a lot of competition so sometimes you have to put extra effort. HH

I got out today for a little exercise and to give the Equinox a workout also since it’s been a while since I last took it out.  I can honestly say it didn’t disappoint. I only did dry sand since it was high tide. The large gold ring and the pendant are marked 14k. The little one isn’t marked but I’m guessing is 10k. The last ring of the bunch is copper and gave me the same VDI as a penny. I found $9.75 in clad and it was thanks to a pocket spill of $2.47.  Thanks for looking and stay safe out there. HH

I knew you would be cleaning up with those settings. On your next test let us know how it picks up that chain without the pendant at 4khz. Keep the precious coming, HH.

That’s a huge gold ring compared to the one I just found. Is the wire in the middle of the silver ring gold, I found one just like it last year. HH

Congrats on another nice gold.

9 minutes ago, Compass said:

Thanks Seeker, I'm not necessarily looking for earring studs but I definitely am trying to find more gold chains. I'll have to try that single frequency mode out and play with the recovery speed.

With the higher frequency and lower recovery no gold will be safe from you 😎

11 hours ago, cuniagau said:

Sweet dig on the 18K!  My iPhone today just needed to be charged.  It had a picture under the cover and a picture on the startup screen after charging but it is locked so finding the owner will be a challenge. 

From all the IPhones I have found only one was working. To make things simpler the owner call me since she was looking for it and we met up for a return. HH

13 hours ago, Joe Beechnut OBN said:

That's a worthy AQ hunt!! NIce 18k! 

My AQ is the same, I found when the water is rough I really have to work at getting it stable. Like today...Crazy day, I though I had switched the Delay but I had switched it to Mute and for 3 hours...After I seen and went to All metal and readjusted a few times it was silent. That's what I get for adjusting the settings by feel.. 😞

Thanks OBN. That’s a bummer on the adjustment on your AQ, but being in the water and with thick gloves is challenging. With all my other detectors I just set it and forget it, but with the AQ I have been bouncing between all metal and tones. Keep the nice AQ gold coming OBN, HH.

That’s quite a unique ring. Congrats on all the nice yellow. HH

You’re a true pirate Compass, I would have quit after the 5th bottle cap. If you want all the other small gold like earring studs just hunt in 40khz and lower your recovery speed as low as you can without falsing. Congrats on all the nice gold.

4 hours ago, Johnny Crunch said:

What's that tiny coin? Thanks for the pictures from this hunt!

It’s a metal replica of the $1 gold coin.

Got out for another night hunt today, started at 3am and stopped about 7:30. I did a zig zag from the wet to the waters edge of the low tide and I couldn’t find a line to work no matter how much I tried. I decided to pick a line that has worked for me in the past and has kept me from getting skunked on a few occasions. This hunt was no different, my first crisp sounding target was a nice little 18k ring that weights 4.7 grams. This is my first 18k ring ever, for some reason I always find 10k gold when I do find gold. About 30 minutes later I found a dead/drowned watch. Towards the end of the hunt I found the iPhone, which I figured that’s what it was before digging it. It’s been months since I have found a phone and this one doesn’t turn on just like all the others.  I was swinging the AQ for this hunt. It’s weird how sometimes it works like it should and others it likes to false, during the same hunt. Thanks for reading and happy hunting.

1 hour ago, Skullgolddiver said:

Could be a stupid comment, but I see more than the gold beauty there.... Congratulations for that, but my question on it, is a bit strange...

Have You noticed a clear, really noticeable sound difference between all those sizes and shapes?

You have picked up five pieces of different grams and size too...I'm courios to know how this affected your ears on it...

Had You even a vague idea of a gold piece with the signals, before to dig it?

I only have about 20hrs on the AQ but I’ll try to give you some info. I hear people say that they can tell when there’s a round (ring) object under the coil but I can’t. If the object is ferrous, a certain length and not too deep I can tell.  Bobby pins are one of the objects easier to recognize when they aren’t too deep and I’m sure with more time I will recognize them deeper. You are actually able to tell when there’s a larger size object by the sound but I like to run my coil in a circle around the signal to paint a better picture of its size.  Very rarely do I do the lift the coil method for sizing/depth although is very useful.

As far as knowing if it’s gold under the coil that’s way beyond my expertise. When I had a TDI SL I could tell when I had a dime or quarter but that was it. The AQ in tone mode does seems to give a different signal for quarters and it sounds like a deep bass sound but I still need more time swinging to say with certainty. Hope this info is useful. HH

1 hour ago, Compass said:

Thank you Sir! Maybe so but it's still nice to hear about gold finds with the AQ by someone not named Joe or Alexandre. 

I will try my best to keep posting AQ gold finds. I can’t wait for winter to get here and take some sand away to get some deeper/older gold 👍

1 hour ago, Compass said:

Awesome hunt Seeker!!! May I ask what detector you ended up using?

Thanks Compass.  I used the AQ so I can get some more time under my belt with it but any other detector should have been able to pick up all the gold finds. 

A buddy of mine wanted to hit the low tide last night so I said why not. The only hard thing was deciding what detector to use this time. After I picked one I headed out and got to the beach by 11:45 pm for the 2am low. I wasn’t expecting much but within half an hour I had my first piece of jewelry, although it was junk but we were on the right track. At 1.5 hrs I dug the 18k pendant with real diamond chips. Another hour later I dug the 10k 18gram class ring. This is only the second class ring I find without a name. A few more minutes later I dug an unmarked 10k ring with some real diamond chips. The rest of the jewelry was junk but did get the heart pumping since it looked good at night. Dug about 80 pieces of junk not pictured and very little clad. My buddy dug quite a bit of lead and nickels but just couldn’t put his coil over some gold, I guess there’s always next time. We had fun and the weather was great to be out swinging. Thanks for looking and good luck out there.