I've been following this forum with great interest and am close to making the leap to owning one. Only question still unanswered in my mind is how it "sees" our modern Canadian clad. Since 2000, our nickels, dimes and quarters are a thin nickel plating over a steel core (pennies are copper plated steel or zinc core). Has anyone had any experience with these coins, or if you have some on hand , be able to do some testing to see how the Deus responds to them?
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Canadian Clad
- Thread starter GpSnoopy
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MHirschmann
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GpSnoopy, I was partially wrong in my reply to your post. I just did a test on the Canadian quarter year 2000 and 1987 both responded the same. Within 3-4 inches the steel core emits enough of a signal to mask out the coins. At about 4-5 inches and more, the quarter responds like a coin in reverse. A standard US quarter ID will rise as the coil is moved further from the coin. The Canadian quarter ID will drop. so at 4-5 inches it is 98 and drops to as much as 89 at about 10-12 inches. That of course is in air and earth will be somewhat different. The Canadian Quarters sound good from a depth but surface clad up to 4 inches deep will sound like trash.