Cal_Cobra

Joe I'm sure that Minelab has performed a post mortem on these design weaknesses, and is cognizant of improving these design flaws in future releases, provided it makes $$$ sense. There certainly has to be a top ten list of opportunities of improvement, like: Better coil ear design Better water proofing Better weight balance (not coil heavy) without increasing weight Better shaft design Better designed button layout ? ? ? ? ?

When Minelab originally announced the Equinox at Detectival, it was only an announcement that it would be available the following year. So while they may be focused on releasing gold machines this year, that wouldn't preclude them from announcing or showing a pre-release version of the next gen EQX at Detectival at the end of this year, for release sometime next year right?

As oddles of Equinox warranty's are expiring, it's been relatively quite on the Equinox forums. On the Dankowski forum there was a call from Mr. Dankowski himself requesting feedback for features to be implemented by Minelab on the next Equinox iteration. He and Steve H. appear to be two of the main beta testers in the U.S. Do we expect to see the next incarnation of the Equinox revealed at Detectival 2021 (if Covid doesn't shut it down a second year)?

Okay, thought you guys were talking about the EQX, not the GPX, threw me for a loop. All good 👍

Nice hunt! A breast plate, box plate belt buckle, etc., are on my bucket list! Not easy to find on the left coast, but it does happen. Believe it or not, I've found two hammered fractional reales in California at a Spanish site. Both were early 1800's hammered copper fraction (1/4) reales from the same site, one's in great condition, the other is okay. I was surprised when I posted them that Keith Southern posted that they were actually valuable as they were a rare mintage from Sonora, MX. Apparently there's a collector market for them.

I'd be curious to know the source of this information (GB disabled)? That's not what the EQX manual states, it says it's constantly receiving ground feedback with M-IQ to adjust for ground conditions. For me, that's worked so well that I rarely do a ground balance, except for the most mineralized ground.

I agree, I think Minelab missed an opportunity here, an integrated wireless pinpointer that used the audio of the EQX would sell like hotcakes! There's a reason some of the FBS users are holding back and one is the inline probes.

Awesome hunt! That trime and bust dime, are in great condition and coins that are rarely found, congratulations!

That's awesome, so much fun and making great memories! My daughter will be 3 in May, so she's not quite ready, but in a couple of years I'm hoping she'll take to something like this:

BIG CONGRATS! I've only found one Spanish 2 reale, a 1776 at an old Spanish outpost site in the west, they don't pop up often!

Super find!

Nice find, I’ll take a Barber half any day 👍

Love that Civil War era San Francisco minted seated quarter 👍 Nice assortment of military buttons. What period are they, WWI?

I wasn't a big fan of the Detech Ultimate on my F75 LTD2.

Nice gold:silver ratio 👍

I've never been a big fan of notching. Heck if I have a machine with iron audio, I'll run it wide open, drop the iron audio so I can hear it without audio fatigue and let my ears be the discriminator/notcher.

Hey Dan! Sounds like a great scrape, especially if it's porking out barbers and seateds 👍 Seem like we get a good one up here about every other year, so we're due for a good one in 2021 🤠

Nice digs! Starting to see some beach erosion, might be a good winter!

I know we've been over the ground where I dug my $1 gold, so I can't help but think there was probably .22 shells or rusty tin in play around it, and being as deep as it was, the surface targets detracted anyone from digging it (or perhaps even hearing it), but once they were removed, and the ground was moist (better conductor) it finally lit up, or maybe the Equinox 800 just kicks butt, I don't know 🙂

Congrats! Yes they do come out of parks, I've heard of several being found around here, but I think more come from relic hunt type sites (stage stops, ghost towns, mining camps, etc) might have more. I love hunting park demos, frequently parks are doing landscaping that involves moving dirt and I've found 1800's coins in those little scrapes, but I relish the BIG park scrapes. It's amazing how many gold coins have come from "worked out sites", especially smaller denominations (sizes).

Same here buddy, I've pulled some great keepers out of the iron abyss 👍

Absolutely, these are the kind of places with lots of low and mid conductors, most of which are munitions casings from rim fires to modern, lead from the same eras, bits and bobs, etc., but when you work out a nice high conductor in the midst of the iron, it stops you in your tracks.

TONs of iron, machine gun sea of nails, along with big stuff too, and lots of that flat rusty tin thrown in for good measure 🙂

Absolutely not meant as a slam or put-down at all. i started off park hunting, believe me I know the amount of effort and skill (and sometimes just dumb luck) it takes to be successful turf hunting. Tom's very good at deep silver turf detecting, it's a special kind of skill for sure to be able to slice and dice through a sea of modern junk and drill down to the oldies. BUT once I started relic hunting, touching Western history, and finding coins that predated the United States as a country, I was hooked. I love park demos too, but the hunt mindset is more that of relic hunting, and if there's a demo in an old park In San Francisco, you'd be surprised what turns up, cobs (yes you read that right, cobs have been found), reales, busts, large cents, seateds, gold rush era buckles, some great buttons, tokens, and the usual suspects like barbers, mercs, rosies, and jewelry. A good demo is a blast to experience, and I've been fortunate to be able to get in on a few epic park demos. Our history definitely doesn't go back as far as that in the Eastern USA where Tom always tongue-in-cheak jokingly says that every sand box and tot lot are loaded with large cents, but we do have history here, from the early fur-trade and Spanish Mission influence to the gold rush and great railroad expansion, but as California becomes the most populous state in the United States, it's disappearing by the day as it's being turned into a cement jungle. GL&HH, Cal