Fridays finds with GT & WOT

[Ytcoinshooter]

I really like the WOT on the ocean beach and it seemed to hit the deepest in the wettest sand or maybe I just didn't walk over any as deep stuff in the dry . The small pieces of copper shrapnel / jacket really show how well it hits small stuff. Some dimes were down a ways, I would estimate both silver dimes came from 7 - 9". Soft "round" signals I knew were good. The 2 wheat cents were up in the drier stuff and not so deep. There may be a third wheat cent but it's just a cent fragment with a hole, not a zincoln. The zincs are in a pile, nasty lil buggers. Been trying to decide if I need both the 15x12" SEF and the WOT. I think if I could pick up a nice used 12x10 SEF for my SOV I would let big SEF go.
HH-Bruce (there is also a piece of sea glass in the pic)

 

[bootyhoundpa]

good to see someone is getting out hunting... I hope to hit the field tomorrow if ground don't freeze tonight.... thats a fair amount of targets for this time of year... I have used the wot at the beach and it does seem to hit deeper in the damp sand.. I have on occasion found clad dimes well over a foot deep with it.....happy huntin...

 

[xwyokid]

n/t

 

[hydraglide]

Why a pain ? I'm guessing they are like the UK penny/2p in that they have a steel core that the Sov either ignores like iron,or at best gives a broken crappy signal,am I correct ? Merry Xmas to all.

 

[Rick(ND)]

Ours over here are a zinc core with a copper coating, so they seem to get ate up from being in the ground too long. These were made from 1982 up to present date, those before were mostly copper. On the Sovereigns with the 180 meter the zinc ones will read 176-177 along with out Indian head pennies and some of our first wheat pennies, the copper will read 179-180 so we can tell the difference using a meter.

Rick

 

[GeorgeinSC]

Here is some photographic evidence of why the Zinc pennies Suck. The top rows are ones I dug yesterday at the beach. The bottom rows are the same type after cleaning. Worthless and a real pain. It is frustrating to dig down a foot or so in the wet sand and come up with one of them.

 

[hydraglide]

Your zincs look even worse than our steel cored pennies, like yours our older ones were mostly copper giving off a great signal which no way could you not dig.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Nice finds.HH Ron