Anfibio & Canadian clad

[voyager32]

I’m wondering if anybody in Canada has the Anfibio and how it performs on our clad coins, also how it is in salt water, I have an Equinox 600 it’s a great machine except for clad.

 

[Sven]

I am the Canadian field tester for the Anfibio.
I have found the Anfibio Multi to be one of the "best" detectors I have used for Can. clad hunting.
Consider the Anfibio, was programmed testing coins from 30 countries, coins similar in content to Can. clad coins.
The new 11" DD coil works great if its the only coil you will buy with it. The 7" concentric is my favorite coil for the Impact, MMK, and Anfibio.
There are some videos regarding saltwater detecting.

 

[voyager32]

I am the Canadian field tester for the Anfibio.
I have found the Anfibio Multi to be one of the "best" detectors I have used for Can. clad hunting.
Consider the Anfibio, was programmed testing coins from 30 countries, coins similar in content to Can. clad coins.
The new 11" DD coil works great if its the only coil you will buy with it. The 7" concentric is my favorite coil for the Impact, MMK, and Anfibio.
There are some videos regarding saltwater detecting.

Thanks Sven, I’m certainly interested in the Anfibio, looks like a very good unit, I like the shaft design as well, with it shortened it looks to be a good length for diving, and the vibrate feature will be handy, any idea when it will be available here? I know a lot of single frequencie VLF machines don’t do well in salt water so looking for tests in that environment.

 

[Sven]

The distributor is in Ontario, any Nokta/Makro product can be ordered in. Not sure what he has in stock. Since you do not currently have the PM permission, google Canadian Treasure Seekers, he is not a forum sponsor here so I can't post a direct link to his website.

 

[dfmike]

Sven, Did you try the Anfibio with a concentric to see if it was even better on our clad than with the stock 11 DD ?

 

[Sven]

The 7" works better if the area has more trash where the 11" DD can't separate it. I prefer smaller coils for coin and jewelry hunting and the places I hunt. In that case it works better for me. But, don't discount that new 11" DD coil, it will surprise you. Also, its excellent if you want to cover more area in a short period of time. The 7" concentric makes a perfect accessory coil. Also, the smaller 7" coil seems to find more in the way of smaller items, larger coils will tend to miss.

 

[dfmike]

Thanks Sven. I have the Anfibio on my radar for next year. CTS doesn't seem to have it yet anyway.

Either the Anfibio or I'll wait until Nokta gets their simultaneous multi frequency unit out.

 

[Druid]

So... If I bought an Anfibio with stock 11"coil, just add the 7" concentric and good to go?
What say you Sven?
Cheers,
Drew.

 

[KindManTall]

I like the "24" = 9.5 x 5" coils for the Nokta / Makro Detectors

 

[Sven]

So... If I bought an Anfibio with stock 11"coil, just add the 7" concentric and good to go?
What say you Sven?
Cheers,
Drew.

Yup, you'll have a killer combination. Think those two coils will cover all your bases..............

 

[Monte]

The standard, round 11" DD and the round 7" Concentric are quite probably all the coils anyone might need ... unless ... they also want to hunt very trashy sites, especially any with a high contamination of nails and other ferrous debris. For that the best coil for the Anfibio Multi is the round 5" DD coil.

Drew, you and Sven are more than welcome to pay a visit here in Eastern Oregon where Oregon Gregg & I will gladly take you to some very challenging gold mining era ghost town habitations where you might find an interesting array of older US or Foreign coins and other smaller artifacts of interest. Of course to do so you would have to be ready to tackle some very challenging conditions where you would definitely be better outfitted with the 5" DD coil. The oldest dated US coin so far is an 1836 Capped Bust Dime, and Gregg followed my lead of three months when we recovered 1853 and 185? Large Cents. There have been mainly 1800's coins recovered and some very interesting artifacts as well.

For more day-to-day urban type hunting or beach work and places that are more open with sparse targets, the 11" DD and 7" Concentric are the 'perfect' 2-coil combination.

Monte

 

[Druid]

Hi Monte,

I have and use the 5" round coil on my FORS Relic and it is certainly a "scalpel" for serious trash work.
Definitely learning to like the smaller coils; larger stock coil to locate a "hot spot" target wise then swap to the small coil to hunt/grid small parcels of land.
For my parks the 7" concentric is mostly used on the Impact.
Cheers,
Drew.

 

[Druid]

I expect I could run with just the stock 11 and 7" coils for the Anfibio and turn to the FORS Relic with its 5" coil for extreme trash locations.
Save a couple of $$$ too.
Cheers,
Drew.

 

[Monte]

And that's why I like to have several 'doubles' in my model line-up. I simply grab a different detector & coil set-up that's ready-to-go instead of doing the coil swap thing when afield.

Two Nokta CoRe and two Nokta Relic outfitted withy coils to make life very enjoyable.

Monte

 

[cladcanada]

anyone use the fors relic or core in canada? pros /cons ? seemed like a good bunch to ask ...

 

[SeaScene]

I have the Anfibio multi ordered direct ... no problem, no postage, arrived 6 days. I am embarking on the learning curve. So far so good. The beach mode (salt water) seemed to disappoint a popular youtube poster in the UK. I have not found much info on beach mode as yet. I am on Vancouver Island so plenty of opportunity given plenty of beach and mild winter temperatures (Comox area). Suggestions about beach mode would be appreciated.

 

[Druid]

Hi Clad,
I use the FORS Relic and love it, great ergonomics and very good in trashy sites with the 5" dd coil, Bit of a specialist machine as it runs 19KHz, it will find extremely tiny targets so definitely requires use with a pin pointer.
It can also go pretty deep with the 9x11 stock coil.
Cheers,
Drew.