Give Me Some Advice

[B_Geo]

What detector do you recommend I buy to find precious metals, coins, artifacts, etc.?

[B_Geo]

I have selected the appropriate areas where there are settlements and treasures buried by my ancestors. Which ones will be useful for this task?

[Jeff McClendon]

5 hours ago, B_Geo said:

I have selected the appropriate areas where there are settlements and treasures buried by my ancestors. Which ones will be useful for this task?

So you have permission to hunt in those areas?

What are the ground conditions in those areas: farm land that has been heavily fertilized, volcanic soil and rocks, lots of rusting iron, charcoal, and fired pottery fragments near the surface, or just normal soil conditions?

What is your budget? There are detectors that may complete your task that cost less than 1,000 euros. If you are looking for a deeply buried cache you will need to spend more. If your ground conditions are really bad........again, you may need to spend more.

There is no single detector that can do everything. One kind may hit a buried cache at 2 to 4 meters but completely miss a valuable small coin near the surface. Another kind will scream on that tiny coin near the surface and miss the 2 to 4 meter deep cache.

[broadfield]

Whatever happened please and thank you.

[B_Geo]

Thank you for sharing these details. The land belongs to me and my relatives, so I have full permission to search there. The area consists of typical residential yards with a few vineyards. I also find old clay fragments on the surface — as far as I know, a clay artisan used to live there. The soil is dark and standard — nothing unusual.

I was initially thinking that the Ajax Primero might work for me, but someone recommended the Minelab GPZ 7000 as a better option. What do you think?

My budget is around $10,000, give or take. There really is something there, so I don’t mind spending the money! 😄

[B_Geo]

Please give me advice.

[F350Platinum]

XP Deus II or Minelab Manticore. You don't need a $10,000 detector in that sort of environment.

[Jeff McClendon]

I agree with F350Platinum. A simultaneous multi frequency VLF detector like the XP Deus 2 with 11” coil would be a great detector to start with in your described situation. If you eventually like detecting and make some discoveries you can buy XP’s XTreme hunter accessory and go much deeper. 
 

Very often new detector users are fixated on big and deep targets along with imaging and ground penetrating radar. This forum is not going to give you any advice on those detector types since we don’t use them. The same is true of machines like the Ajax Primero but for a different reason. Any machine with a description that includes finding gemstones/diamond deposits is not going to be recommended at all on this forum. 
 

The GPZ 7000 is a fantastic gold prospecting specific detector. Is it also a good detector for coins, relics, jewelry and cache hunting?  I have no idea since I have no experience with it apart from gold prospecting which is what it was designed for. I have done those types of detecting with Minelab GPX 4000, 4500, 4800 and 5000 model pulse induction detectors as have others on this forum. They have the ability to go deeper and find coin sized targets even in difficult ground conditions by changing settings and by changing coil sizes. They have a basic type of iron identification also. The coil selection for the GPX models is huge compared to the GPZ 7000. 

[IBMe]

I’d recommend “Minelab X-Terra Elite Expedition Pack” or “Nokta Triple Score PRO Pack Metal Detector Kit”   $600, $500 US.

Spending more doesn’t mean you’ll find more. Due to the complexity of more expensive detectors, you may find less.

Both are simple to use, very important starting out. Both are very good at identifying targets. It will take you years to outgrow either.

After you gain some experience, you’ll have a better idea of where to go from there.