Metal detector finds

Side note,the 2010 Yellowstone quarter I need for my album,but I don't think I'll put it in there. Those 2010s are hard to find in circulation.

 

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Below average, but the silver dime from yesterday saved the pitiful hunt.

 

I stopped at my mother in law's house and did a little hunt just to see what I had missed in the past. All zinc and the lone nickel.

 

When the cents are like that, I put it in my mutilated coin jar. I have been able to redeem them the last 3 years in a row.
The one on the bottom looks like an MAD. A couple of those brownies, would probably work in the coin acceptor at the store. But the mangled ones won't.

 

I just dug this baby up beside an old abandon house beside my mother's. I think I might find some good stuff here that my other machine missed.

 

From now on I'm going to be posting everything I find through the week in one post on Sunday. I'm always on the hunt and sometimes I may find a few things but don't post them because it's only a few coins. So,to make things easier on me and all of you guys lol, I'm going to see how this works out.

 

Good signals almost always turn out to be good indicators of something worthless in most of my digs. Never considered the stereo aspect but I'll be more observant on my next go round. I default to the headphones to avoid people irrespective of anything else.

 

The only thing I ever found of value turned out to be Colonial counterfeit, best I can tell. Supposedly the counterfeit too has some value but it's so worn it's devoid of anything of substantial. Never ever found silver. I'm quite envious of those that do.

 

Time,time,time!! I'm always looking for new spots and i take my machine everywhere I go so I'm always whipping it out for a hunt beside the lonely soda machine or the air pump. Just get out and have fun and that next plug could have that silver shine in it. HH.

 

Will do! I guess I need to stop hoping for that 16D Mercury too. Maybe settle for a War Nickel.

 

I use high discrimination and the settings I have are basically for coins.
I do hit some trash of course, but I can usually tell. Some I have to dig because a nickel signal will have similar signal to trash, junk rings and even low carat gold. Also rusty coins sometimes give a bad signal.
So maybe you can tweak your settings and miss some of the junk. I can't use all metal, because it will ring constantly, and there's nothing there. (Tiny pieces of junk.)

 

I started using all metal and the iron discriminator helps eliminate a lot of the trash. This machine gives a tone for coins only,everything else has its own distinct sound. Earlier I hit a trash signal and a coin signal together and it made me not want to dig it. But it was a quarter,2 pennies and an old Pepsi screw on lid in the same hole. I've found that if that coin tone rings,8 out of 10 times it's right. But I'm still learning everything and I just love this hobby so much.

 

Never stop hoping for that one thing you feel is unattainable. I'm going on a hunt Sat that I think is going to put some good stuff in my find box. I'm hoping beyond hope that it works out the way I think it will. There was already one good piece found there so fingers crossed. I wish everyone a great weekend and Happy Hunting. I look forward to all the great finds everyone will have to show.

 

Found this at the Goodwill for $2.00. Best 2 bucks I've spent in a while.

 

Friend of mine, fellow detector claims that using discrimination almost certainly guarantees that I'll miss something. Consequently, I've always been afraid to use any. Thing is, he uses about the cheapest Garrett detector ever made I think. Old green thing with a single pot with one single tone that can only squelch (to some degree) the signal. He can walk along and predict (with great accuracy) what something is before digging it. The big kicker is he pulls silver out of the ground left and right. Quite annoying. For the life of me, I can't seem to develop an ear for it so I need all the additional features that can be added to a cheaper machine. I can't afford the high dollar machines so I'm stuck trying to learn my machine.

 

Found a small gold ring. It's stamped 10K Mex which means it's closer to 9K but it's gold. And a gold plated quarter.

 

Man that's AWESOME!!! There's gold in them hills.... Can't wait to find some gold,one day. How does gold signal on your machine? Pop tab and gold are on the some line on mine.

 

This one, because of the low gold content, gave me a signal as I was telling you in the conversation pin pointer.
"When I get the low tone it is either a nickel, the end of a pencil, or a pull tab. But the nickel tone is usually more solid. Junk jewelry will give that tone. But sometimes so will 10K gold. Because if it is alloyed with something crappy, the crappy metal gives the dominant tone."

 

I understand now,thats why I've been digging a lot of pull tabs. I just thought I have to dig all these it's the same.

 

Well I get a similar sound from a pull tab and a nickel, but the nickel sound is more solid and the pull tab is thinner. This signal was either a nickel or a junk ring. But I dug it up popped out the dirt that was in the hole and I could see some lettering on the inside of the band, which is a good sign. And it looked good too.
As for the high discrimination, I'm not missing too much. The discrimination is just filtering out trash and tiny, thin nothing metal. The solid objects like coins and rings are still going to be solid tones. I can't use the "All Metal" setting. Everything rings and there's nothing there. On my old machine I tweaked the discr. down a little bit.