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The idea of another 14 kHz machine has been simmering on the backburner for quite some time. But which one to get, nose heavy At-pro, troubled MX Sport, all new Impact, depth challenged F75 DST, new white coiled Deus version umpteenth,... problems, problems,... the sheer agony of it all. So I stumble upon this nice looking second hand MXT All Pro. It's got Eighties Design written all over it. LCD reminding me of my Hewlett Packard Scientific Calculator, Black metal box with the field manual printed on it. Nothing touchy screeny or I-tector to be had. Am I as my stepdaughter often says becoming "Vintage", longing for the days when switches clicked, knobs turned and machines didn't great you with a goodmorning message. Goodmorning,... you've got to be kidding. Haven't had my coffee yet! So impressed with my TRX, tactile, functional, well thought out. My brain and mostly gut feeling pulled the trigger on the deal. Here's to 30 year old tech, 25 year old whiskey and most importantly,... I'm really hoping this one is spot on,... most importantly high quality LP record sound quality.

The wife and I got out for a little detecting today..... Pretty bleak. She found a dime and a quarter, both clad and I got skunked. So I console myself in that I did my good deed for the day in helping to clean up the little park we detected.....

"(Reuters) - An 1804 U.S. silver dollar sold for $3.3 million in one of a series of auctions that brought in a record total of more than $100 million for a renowned private coin collection, organizers said on Saturday. The silver dollar, one of only eight of its kind, was snapped up at auction on Friday in Baltimore. It was one of more than 200 coins sold at the event." Full Story Here

You may have... This is a neat site to compare with graded coins: https://www.pcgs.com/photograde/#//

The little woman and I decided to get n a little detecting since it was such a nice day .... So, we loaded up the rig and hit the road... found a little park that yeilded up some clad... No silver or jewelry but it was a great day anyway. The little rectangular pendant had me going there for a second because I have found 14k gold that had the same coppery look.... But it was just copper. Her finds on the left, mine on the right. She has adopted my MXT and I use the V3i. and yes there was trash too. I think I dug 3 pull tabs and a little foil. The wife did a few more pull tabs.

Hi all One of the coins my friend send me photo off. Nice find and such a beautiful coin to find. ( going to a museum) REFERENCE HERE: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s7932.html Looking forward to join him soon. Europe here i come. Long time overdue holiday. GoldEN

HI all Was detecting with couple of friend and it was not my day.I couldn't get not even smallest nugget. Nothing.Zilch. That is quite rare for me cos on my detecting trips i rarely come home without at lest couple little ones. Well got this huge signal and here it is. Was on a surface between all other rubbish. I touch it with a pick but happy with a find.: GoldEN

A few guys up in Sonora California have been on a roll finding some really good stuff recently found a jar half full of Mercury dimes

Got out for a couple hours today. 1893 s Barber dime, slightly-semi-rare, has xf45+ detail if it weren't for the environment damage. My oldest Chinese coin 1662-1722 Sheng Tsu reign. and my favorite of the day, the heart boot plate, Wild West prostitutes' business card of sorts :)

Happy New Year everyone! Here is my 2016 detecting year review. This was my first full season running the CTX 3030 and I used it almost exclusively for all my detecting. The Makro Gold Racer is responsible for a few of the finds and I plan on giving it more swing time next year. In fact, besides my Chinese coin my Gold Racer found my oldest coin of the year. An 1875 Deutsches Reich 2 Pfennig. Almost all hunting was done in Public Parks with a few curb strips and private home sites thrown in but I would say over 90% of the finds were from parks.. My goal for the year was 100 Silver Coins and I just made it with 106.. Next years goal is to NOT set a goal. It kind of took some of the fun out of detecting towards the end of the year with the pressure on and unusually bad fall weather cutting in to hunt time as I was trying to reach 100. Once I hit my number everything was good again. I was able to slow down and enjoy the hunt. I didn't get a chance to do any nugget hunting this year so I hope to change things up a bit in 2017 with some nugget and relic hunting too. 2016 Totals: Wheat Cents 328 might be missing some Indian Head Cents 30 Silver Coins. 106 V Nickels. 9 Buffalos. 8 Silver Rings 11 Misc Silver Jewelry 10 Gold Rings. 2 Key Date and better date coins 1921 D Mercury Dime 1895 S Barber Dime 1917 S Buffalo Nickel 1931 S Wheat Penny 1909 VDB Wheat x2 1911 D Wheat x2 1912 D Wheat 1912 S Wheat x2 1913 S Wheat x2 1914 S Wheat 1915 S Wheat x2 1926 S Wheat x2 Foreign Coins No Date Victoria Quarter 1870-1901 1907 1956 Canada Dimes 3 Fish Scales (5 Cent)1892 1909 and a no date 1875 Deutsches Reich 2 Pfennig. (Gold Racer) Chief Lung Tung Pao 1736-1795 Several older Canada pennies My favorite finds of the year are probably my Key Date 1921 D Mercury Dime (VF-XF) And my Sterling Type 1 Eagle Scout ring 1930-1940. I also remember the Sterling pocket watch belt clip being an exciting find also with its booming high tonesand lots of silver flash when I opened the plug. Although my area in the Pacific North West lacks some old history and does not produce really old coins like other parts of the country, it kind of makes up for it a bit with a lot of S and D mint marks.. A lot of the key date pennies I found are really nice and should still have some good value even after coming out of the ground. Coins hold up well around here for the most part with a few exceptions. I found quite a few VF XF coins. I moved mid year so lost a lot of hunt time and am missing some of my misc. finds like buttons, keys, pins and tokens. I'll find them eventually if I ever get fully unpacked. The more serious I get about old coin hunting the more I don't care about the quantity but rather the quality of my finds and the hunt itself. Might not ever find a hundred Silvers again in one year and that's ok with me. Funny how you perspective of things can change over a year. Thanks for looking and enjoy the hunt. Bryan

New to metal detecting and a little apprehensive about putting a hole in the grass at a park or other locations..... What is everyone's thoughts here?

I watch every video I can on each detector I've got to learn more about it. I've seen all about recovery speed and separation and that all looks so good. With the power in me and my detector I can notch out anything I want. Now that don't fix what I want I can apply my super power and discriminate it to a unknown place. I watch this one video showing how I can enhance one signal over another so the signal on the ring was more pronounce. I really love it when I see a depth test on one of the detector I got and how good it is. All I've said above was done in a perfect world of detecting. The trouble that I'm having is when I walk out my door to go detect all that perfect went south. Look at any depth test and you will see they check to make sure you don't have any trash around are in that hole. Not one time will you see them throw a hand full of trash in with that coin. I don't care what the size of coin they always check the hole first to make sure it's clean. Now here I dig up a coin but my big coil has trash under it too. Oh my recover speed not so good because I didn't have two nails to put down just right but I do have lots of trash. Another good one showing how to enhance the signal of a ring so it's more pronounce over the trash next to it. This is great but like the ring I found the other day I couldn't see what it was before I dug it up. I know each of you is asking what is my problem. I've come to the conclusion if I don't walk out my door I will be in the perfect world of detecting Chuck.

My 1st silver coin in 10 years and found with an ancient Detector Pro Headhunter Diver VLF detector in a bedrock bottom river in Indiana. My friend pinpointed it with the Whites TRW waterproof pinpointer in a small divot in the bedrock. He had to use electrolysis and Limeaway to get the crud off. We are pretty sure its an 1873 Seated dime. Hmm, my photo seems to have disappeared??

I have never met Steve Moore but have communicated with him in his role as Director of Marketing at Garrett Metal Detectors. A plus for Garrett is having actual detectorists like Steve on the team. Here he makes a big score. I always pay attention to gold coin finds as I have yet to find one myself. One of these days! And big congratulations to Steve Moore!!

Headed out for a quick park hunt in the afternoon, not really expecting to find much. I've hunted this particular park many times, as have many other detectorists. Classic story.....heading back to my vehicle, ready to call it a day and picked up a 12.45 signal on the e-trac and popped this 1871 "S" seated liberty dime. It was a shallow two inches deep, next to the curb and ten feet from my truck. This is the oldest coin to date for me! Rob

"In 1879, America's minister plenipotentiary to Austria, John Adam Kasson, successfully persuaded the Philadelphia Mint that the U.S. needed a four-dollar coin. The exact logic of the argument has been lost to time, though its thrust was that America needed a coin that would work as a form of international currency, and a gold coin that (roughly) measured the same weight as a French napoleon or a British sovereign would do the trick. The project was given the green light, and the coin, which features a giant star on one side, was minted in a limited run of two versions. One version depicted a female personification of Liberty with her hair up, the other with her hair down. But despite Lady Liberty's multiple coiffures, the coin was a flop. "People never fully got on board," said Paul Song, the director of coins and banknotes at Bonhams. "It was too much of a reach to say that the average citizen in 1880 was thinking about international trade. They just lost interest." So Congress refused to approve the coins' widespread release, the original strike of 425 coins was sold to various politicians at cost, and the mold was scrapped. Now, one of these 425 coins is headed to auction at Bonham's LA, estimated to sell for $50,000 to $60,000 on Sept. 6." Read the rest of the story at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-05/there-is-a-4-u-s-coin-and-it-s-now-worth-60-000 Stella (United States coin) - Wikipedia The Scandalous Stella - GovMint.com

This is something you do not see very often, a $1 gold coin found metal detecting. A lot of traditional coin hunters would pass on something like this because it gets identified more as trash (it reads as foil) than a coin. Lots of $1 gold coins were lost but few are ever found. A good example of what digging all non-ferrous targets can accomplish in the right locations. Great find, one I would be thrilled to make. Link deleted since Findmall Forum update broke all old links

I'm not saying you will become rich over night but it can pay off. Today was not my first time to look down at my change and take a look over it. When I did I could see it was a wheat in it and with a date of 1925. I've have had the luck to find silver in that change in the past. So if you be a coin hunter are just a trash and treasure hunter it pays to look. Chuck

This thread is so people don't think metal detecting is just digging good stuff. I do a lot of detecting where I just toss stuff in a pile for sorting later. Time to clean house so here are a few piles and some notes. First up - learning session with Minelab GPZ 7000 at Lake Tahoe beach. Fresh water lake but very mineralized beaches, loaded with magnetite sands and hot rocks. Just digging everything, and did find a ring, but just a little silver one with fake stones. Basically coins except nickels and zinc pennies go lo-hi tone. Only other lo-hi tones normally nails. Everything else hi-lo tones. First photo the pile, next photo sorted out so you can see most common trash items. Call this BEACH TRASH Next up mostly stuff found nugget detecting, but also some park detecting snuck into that pile. The sorted pile shows trash you might find nugget detecting. Nuggets of course got pocketed as found so nothing to show there. Call this NUGGET DETECTING TRASH. Extra photo showing volume of small trash targets not worth trying to sort out.... And finally some park detecting with various detectors, mostly DFX and Gold Racer plus Racer 2 and Deus. I am digging a lot of trash items for educational/learning purposes while comparing machines. The sorted pile only shows common trash; I discarded all the weird stuff. Call this PARK TRASH. Anyway, I hope this shows that it is not all digging "good stuff" and also an idea what the most common trash items are for people who have not done this sort of thing before.

I know that this question is subjective, but I am going to ask anyways. For the guys out there who have found, and continue to find, old silver coins, how deep on average are you finding them? Just a question that came to mind as I was out this afternoon picking off "surface" targets at a local park. I know that there can be a lot of factors involved, and I doubt where I am at that I am going to be finding buffalo nickels or anything of the sort. Just a curiosity.

I was searching today for something online and came across this Utube video and thought this was a pretty smart way to put your Deep seeking PI detector to good use. In the video they use it to locate deep targets, mark them and go back over with an etrac to determine whether to dig or not.

Managed to get out today for a couple hours in a local park and was excited to pop a nice silver ring and a little over $7.00 in clad. Happy Hunting! Rob

A couple of days ago I went to my buddy's house to go detecting. Before we wandered off I asked him if I could try my ctx and small coil on some gold coins. As I asked this question I remembered a previous post where coin drops and old purses were mentioned. Now his family never threw anything usable awy so I asked if he still had one of those little snap purses. The kind that men and women of older generations carried. Yes, indeed he had one, and three one oz gold coins, a 1/4 oz and a mexican dos peso. Also several silver quarters and 50 cent pieces. So first I laid the gold out in a line. Nice signal from 12/9 for the dollar size,12/12 or so for the 5 dollar size and 12/45 for the american oz and the mexican oz...the Kuggerand read 0/45 and went way up to the right hand corner. The silver read as you would expect. The real surprise came when I put the purse down and spread the silver and gold coin over it...no audio signal in discriminate and very odd signal in all metal...the reading was 12/30 as i recall. I was amazed...and wonder how many lost coin purses filled with gold and silver I may never have heard.... Not many I am sure but only one would be a real heart-breaker...at least it would be if I knew... fred