Hello everyone.
I'm a newbie looking to purchase my first detector. My budget is up to 1.000 €. I'm in Portugal, Europe.
I'm looking to primarily look for gold nuggets as I live in areas where gold has been mined before (granite with quartz veins abound around here. The soil is highly mineralized and several streams cut through these granite rocks). But as I also live near the beach and also possible historical sites, I would like to try my luck with some coin / jewelry / relic hunting. I would say 70% gold hunt and 30% coin/relic/jewelry hunt.
Will a more specialized gold hunting machine be able to also find coins? I don't quite seem to find that answer.
Preferably I would like a machine where I could switch frequencies without having to change the coils. But I guess that throws me into a much higher price tag?
I narrowed it down to the Makro Gold Race and the Minelab X-Terra 705 Dual. I'm slightly more inclined to the Makro because its coils can be submersible. Any other suggestions within the set of functions I'm looking at? Having two machines is no option for me, not only because my time is limited, and also because my wife might divorce me ;)) (unless I get rich doing it, that is...)
Thanks for your tips.