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  1. I bet your grandfather would recognize it quickly.... He was quite an antique information resource. @Zincoln, is Antiques Roadshow going to be coming to your area??
  2. Fishing bobber in one of his bags. Appears to be someone on a vacation/holiday to me. On second thought, looks a lot like geof_junk.... Hmmm. ?
  3. That second piece of farm machinery might have originally had steel wheels, too, and got retrofitted with the tire+wheel set. I agree with C_C -- not very likely part of a religious person's garb. (Didn't the Romans feed Christians to the lions? ?) Pretty sure Scoville made many buttons for civilian use over the years so maybe just a coincidence that it dates to the CW. Nice find, regardless. Excellent research that paid off.
  4. Reminds me of a candle snuffer, but your piece appears to have been attached to something much bigger. Besides, that would have to be a pretty small candle to work with this (1/4" ID) device. (Is it really that small??) Those two holes at the open end are important and figuring out what they were for would help....
  5. Both the 1912-S Cent and the 1899-S Quarter appear to be in nice shape. Both scarce date+mm and exciting finds, IMO. The other two coins shown seem to have some rim damage/deterioration, otherwise they would be competitive in condition. (What's the date+mm on that second Lincoln?) IMO, digging those iffy signals is why you got these goodies this time compared to previous hunts (by you and others). Would a smaller coil on the V3i do even better? I would think it won't have problems with those coin depths and it should see fewer nails.
  6. Just ran across this thread this morning. Looks like a lot of work, Jeff -- thanks for all that. The Deus 2 with 9" coil at 45.4 kHz does rather well for the larger gold pieces (is that a tiny gold coin from Africa?) relative the the Equinox and Legend, but not so much for smaller pieces. Are we seeing the effect of coil size (small coil better for tiny pieces; larger coil better for intermediate mass pieces)? Not wanting to pile on more work for you but the 5"x10" NOX coil on the Equinox would likely answer my question. Also, is the ORX coil circular or elliptical?
  7. Something I meant to add for completeness -- the Vaquero (along with Cibola, Tejon, and Lobo SuperTRAQ) take the 4-pin ('Delta') coil. Pretty sure other coils are incompatible, even if you change the connector to 4 pin.
  8. I think the answer is in the following (fresh) post by new member PSPR:
  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajra: According to Hinduism, the vajra is considered one of the most powerful weapons in the universe. Wow, even more powerful than a Long Range Locator (LRL)??!! And at a fraction of the cost!
  10. There were two Vaquero marketed versions -- the original came with a 8"x9" concentric. Later they had a 'black' version which came with a DD coil (don't remember its size). Something you may already know -- some of the Tesoro models were actually tuned to a particular type and size of coil. To get optimum performance you had to either use the coil that came with it or send the detector and preferred coil to Prescott and get it tuned. I don't know if the Vaquero was one of those models, though. I have the stock 8"x9" concentric, 5.75" concentric, and 5"x 10" DD. The two concentrics seem to work best for me in my coin and relic sites. @kac and @dogodog are a couple regular posters here who use Tesoros and may be able to provide better / more complete info. The world expert on all things Tesoro is @Monte Berry who has his own website and forum (here).
  11. Welcome, PSPR! Digging trash is just part of detecting. Sure, you can extreme cherry pick, digging only USA quarters and above (but making sure to avoid the very high dTID's which are usually some kind of iron). You'll leave a lot of good stuff in the ground, but if you're alergic to trash.... ? Below is a very good post on the gold jewelry detecting subject by one of our most knowledgeable detectorists which shows where gold jewelry hits on a couple different (top performing) detector dTID scales. I'll point out that below nickel is where a lot more aluminum trash in the form of foil will show up. And can slaw can be everywhere. Gold is rare and tough to find in nature. (And those who do dig tons of trash.) Seems to be about the same for jewelry. People drop valuables by accident. People toss trash on purpose. ?
  12. I was thinking along the same lines. Their distributors have detectors on inventory that aren't selling but for which they paid a hefty(?) wholesale price. For the dealers to drop down from the $499 (basic Green model), there might not be much if any profit left. (Some may still have models from when the retail price and MAP were considerably higher.) If Tek Direct shows a high price then the dealers' prices look like a good deal. Of course anyone who's followed the market even peripherally would know better than to get sucked in. That's all I can think of.
  13. But they can't advertise $50 off for detector only if the detector is already offered at the MAP price. They can (and apparently do) offer a package for the detector only MAP price. And they also can sell at lower than MAP price if you contact them and negotiate privately. Whether Serious Detecting negotiates, though, I don't know.
  14. You might want to look more closely before taking a swipe at them. Serious Detecting actually offers detectors in many packages, including just the detector itself. (I didn't list the T2 at $486 since it was sold out.) E.g. Equinox 800 for $899, Makro Legend for $549. Sometimes simultaneously you can get a package for same (or even lower) price as the bare model. That's the case for the Eqx 800 and Eqx 600 currently.
  15. You make two strong but qualitative statements without any references. Care to include some kind of link? Wikipedia is my go to source so that would suffice (i.e. if you don't want to hunt down a journal reference -- although Wikipedia usually has those included anyway).
  16. Price increase hasn't shown up at Serious Detecting: And for those of you who got rid of your stock coil..., maybe not the wisest thing you've ever done: And, no, I didn't doctor up the ad -- that's what was posted on their site when I looked.
  17. Interesting thought.... According to Wikipedia entry, the current satelites orbit at an altitude between 540 km and 570 km (about 340 to 350 mi). That's above the atmosphere. A quickie standard atmosphere calculation indicates about 70% of the atmosphere is above 10,000 ft and 85% above 5000 ft. Assuming Starlink signal attenuation is proportional to atmospheric depth (don't know if that's a good approx or not), would a 15% change in signal strength translate to the differences Jason (and Jeff?) are experiencing? And the Wikipedia entry does say that at least some of the satelites service (parts of anyway) Australia and New Zealand.
  18. Out of focus to protect the innocent? There's a possibility that piece is valuable to a doll collector, although with the broken collarbone, maybe it's too far gone. Still a neat find.
  19. I assume the 1847 coin is a half dime. I don't understand why the 'half-trime' would read higher than an entire one. I think half dimes are more in that low 20's range though. Size matters on the dTID scale which is why trimes are so low relative to say dimes. Silver 5 center is in between in size and in between in dTID. Quarter is higher (~31 for a silver one) than dimes (~27 for a silver one). (Those are ML Equinox readings in air.) The surprise is the Merc that only showed up in the high teens. Did you check that after you dug it? I suspect something nearby was dragging it down when in the ground. Regarding the %-age of silver in the trimes, good point although the mating alloy in both cases is another high conductor -- copper. Delving a little deeper, we've shown here before that you can't just take a weighted average of 100% copper conductivity and 100% silver conductivity to get the alloy's conductivity, though. It's way more compliated than that. You also can't do that kind of weighting to get density, either, although the latter does sometimes work out. It's all about electrons which not only determine the conductivity but also the separation between nuclei. You'll have to go to the quantum mechanics website (quantumprospector.com ?) to be able to predict alloy conductivity (and density). Nice to see your 2 1/2 trimes all together. I have one (not found detecting) and it's amazing how tiny that thing is.
  20. You guys got me thinking I need to return to one I hunted not long after I got the Eqx (and 6" coil). It was gnarly with overgrowth which discouraged me at the time. The camp was supposedly not opened until the mid-1950's and I rationalized I wouldn't find much in the way of old coins, but I've since hunted several schools from that same time period which did produce silver. Thanks for the reminder -- when the leaves are off the bushes I'll give it a go with the 5"x10" Nox coil -- it's due to produce something for me. ? I'm going to have to rig up a closed bottom cover (at least) for it, though. The vegetation there will drive an operator with an open coil right up the wall (err., tree).
  21. Sounds too good to be true. Seems like the above might be (I'm no RF 'pert) inconsistent with the following (and BTW I'm no Mackie Messer, either): It’s also much lower latency–we don’t have real-world figures just yet, but codecs like SBC and AAC often have a total latency of over 200ms, while LC3 has a default frame time of only 10ms, so even with a full encoding and decoding pipeline the latency is likely to be well under 100ms. (Cut and pasted from this July 2022 article: https://www.macworld.com/article/797884/bluetooth-le-audio-lc3-codec-airpods.html . Maybe this author is just being extremely careful not to overstate expected performance?) It's good to get some clarification as Lawrie never seemed to want to go into detail on this topic while on his European Tour, leaving us (well, me anyway) confused. I think the proprietary wireless (via WM08 module) on the Equinox was 17 ms while the Bluetooth LL APTX was in the high 30's(?). Presumably aftermarket headphones, earbuds, etc. will be available which will make a lot of users very happy not to be held hostage to ML pricing.
  22. Here's the one I use with the WM08 of the ML Equinox. First one lasted 2.75 years. (Originally got it for another detector setup.) Current one still going after almost 2.5 years. But I do have to put four 1/4" plastic washers on the Pro Gold 1/4" plug to get that to mate securely to the adapter, otherwise it's loose and the sound cuts in and out. I've tried other less expensive ones and they were crap. I don't know if these will just plug-and-play with the GPX6000, though, so maybe someone else can give you advice/link of ones that work for them. Also, I don't have the CTX version of the Pro Golds -- the standard version works fine for my Eqx setup.
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