1700th US Coin Found Using My Bounty Hunter Detectors

[BH505Man]

On the 16th of September I reached a new milestone with exactly 1700 US coins found using my Pioneer 505 & Legacy 3500 metal detectors.
The coins break down as follows;

JFK clad half dollars - 3 = .2%
clad quarters 160 = 9.4%
clad dimes 300 = 17.6%
nickels 68 = 4%
cents 1170 = 68.8%

Most of these coins were found using all metal mode with no discrimination. I also dig all the coins including the zinc cents because I don't want to miss valuable finds which also ring in the zinc range.

HH all.

Walt

 

[Rebel1]

Way to go, you are cleaning up with that BH of yours

 

[Monte]

On the 16th of September I reached a new milestone with exactly 1700 US coins found using my Pioneer 505 & Legacy 3500 metal detectors.
The coins break down as follows;

JFK clad half dollars - 3 = .2%
clad quarters 160 = 9.4%
clad dimes 300 = 17.6%
nickels 68 = 4%
cents 1170 = 68.8%

Your decimal for the Half Dollar percentage is a little off. Of 1700 coins the 3 halves would be 0.[size=small]00176[/size] so you could round that to 0.[size=small]0018[/size]%.

I cringed when I read your 1¢ percentages because for the past 15-20 years my cent-counts have been about 50% to 56.[size=small]5[/size]%. This past couple of months has been close to annoying for me as I've encountered more pennies and fewer dimes than I usually do. I'm in a dinky town of about 600 people and few places to hunt so I have to get in what time I can on trips to Pendleton or Portland or ??

Still a few days left this month to hunt up change other than pennies and lower that percentage, but my August/September count for Lincolns is very close to yours.

1 dollar = 0.[size=small]0016[/size]%
0 halves = 0%
84 quarters = 12.[size=small]5[/size]%
118 dimes = 17.[size=small]6[/size]%
54 nickels = 8.[size=small]04[/size]%
414 pennies = 61.[size=small]7[/size]%

Only 671 coins, face value of $40.64 makes a PCV (Per Coin Value) 6.[size=small]06[/size]¢ Unless I punched some wrong numbers myself, your face value was $86.60 so the PCV was 5.[size=small]094[/size]¢ all thanks to having high penny counts/percentages.

Most of these coins were found using all metal mode with no discrimination. I also dig all the coins including the zinc cents because I don't want to miss valuable finds which also ring in the zinc range.

I also recover all coins, including pennies, but I am more selective as to when I use the All Metal mode instead of a Discriminate mode. Most typical Coin Hunting sites tend to be trashy and using Discrimination sure helps to deal with the lower-conductive targets like nails, other ferrous trash, or sometimes small foil. I rely on visual VDI read-outs to alert me to likely foil encounters, but I hunt with iron nail rejection.

So you leave me curious why you do most hunting in the All Metal mode? What types of sites do you hunt the most?

Monte

 

[BH505Man]

Monte,
I hunt mostly parks, old homesites, playgrounds, RV parks, and picnic areas. I have tried a few roadside rest areas but have found mostly junk items in those places. I avoid using discrimination because I don't want to totally miss good targets that are masked by junk that is discriminated out.
HH.

Walt