Explorer 2 Silver Ring find.

[Doctorcoinz]

Got this 925 ( 92.5%Silver) ring the other day with my dusted down Explorer 2, first time out with the explorer 2 in about 9 months. Plus 4 pound coins all this in a 90 minute hunt. Using the Garrett Zlink wireless headphones which in my opinion work pretty good with the Explorer 2.

 

[BigTony]

Congratulations, too-bad you can’t redeem those pounds now, or can you?

Tony NJ

 

[Sweeping-4-junk]

Yes you still pay them into your bank no problem. I have several hundred to pay into my account from 2019. The new pound coins with 12 sides have a very slight increase in conductivity i think because they are just a tad bigger and probably had a few changes to the metal "mix" . The old round ones (and the new ones) have a unique tone and with practice i have a 90% success rate at knowing it's a pound coin before digging, the only targets that can fool me and the explorer are the occasional aluminium screw cap. The numbers that virtually guarantee a pound coin is most likely under the coil are 6 - 26 or 7 - 27. Other numbers to look for and easy to remember is a 9 - 9 often a 50p coin , dreaded pull tabs are close in numbers to the 50 p so i dig tabs too. (For uk hunters only or USA guys visiting us! )

 

[BigTony]

Good to know thanks! Plenty of folks go there to detect for hammered coins.

believe it or not I found three pound coins here in NJ over the years - its a heavy coin for sure

Tony NJ

 

[Sweeping-4-junk]

Beware of planted Roman & Hammered Coins. I have heard some of the those expensive holiday detecting sites in the uk for american visitors do plant the odd coin here and there.
Don't hold me to it , it is just what i heard from some one.. ..my own sites have given up not a single hammered last year and i am meaning farmland in "good area's". the main problem is the fields i have been on
have been heavily hammered out by detecting clubs. Fields that have produced coins worth over £2000 each. Once field gave up a £2000 rare gold coin to some one i know. Trust me that field has absolutely nothing
in the soil that is detectable. The field has been wiped clean by hundreds of guys over 40 years..When people say a site can never be cleaned out 100% maybe that is true in some cases but you would need a JCB to dig out a few feet of soil first. The detectorists take home all the trash too so there is on that field where the £2000 coin off absolutely nothing left to find except maybe the odd foil .. I personally think some fields have zero good finds left...