Mick in Dubbo
New member
G'day all.
Took the Ace at for a hunt yesterday and finally hit some pay dirt with it. It's been a fairly quiet year for finds, so it was nice to have a good coin count. Even scored a couple of rings and a letter opener in the bargain. Total for the day was $39.09.
Given that I figured that I'd be out for a while, I left the car to the missus and used the tredley. It doesn't take long to brake down the Ace. Sure wish I'd packed the sniper coil today though. I thought I'd try my luck at the local show ground, but it was just wall to wall with rubbish signals in the ground. Only managed to pull out 3 coins in an hour for $3.20.
When I located the Gold coloured ring, I was getting some funny behaviour with the pinpoint mode. Can't quite explain it, but something about it told me to persevere with it and it turned out that there was also a $2, a $1 and a 20 cent coin all within about 8 inches of the ring. Perseverance pays.
I thought that I would include a couple of photo's to give you Us detectorists some idea of coin size comparisons, both of our modern coins, and our pre decimal coins. You will see a dime at the top of the bottom 2 photo's as well as a US cent. There is also a US cent at the bottom of these photo's. Every coin in the photo, was found with the Ace bar the Shilling, which was found with the X-Terra 30; that includes the US coins! The pre Decimal coins are not the full set of what we used to have, just what I've got on hand. You may note, that there is 2 different designs of three pence's and half pennies. They are not the only ones with more than 1 design.
I hope you enjoy them
Mick Evans.
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Took the Ace at for a hunt yesterday and finally hit some pay dirt with it. It's been a fairly quiet year for finds, so it was nice to have a good coin count. Even scored a couple of rings and a letter opener in the bargain. Total for the day was $39.09.
Given that I figured that I'd be out for a while, I left the car to the missus and used the tredley. It doesn't take long to brake down the Ace. Sure wish I'd packed the sniper coil today though. I thought I'd try my luck at the local show ground, but it was just wall to wall with rubbish signals in the ground. Only managed to pull out 3 coins in an hour for $3.20.
When I located the Gold coloured ring, I was getting some funny behaviour with the pinpoint mode. Can't quite explain it, but something about it told me to persevere with it and it turned out that there was also a $2, a $1 and a 20 cent coin all within about 8 inches of the ring. Perseverance pays.
I thought that I would include a couple of photo's to give you Us detectorists some idea of coin size comparisons, both of our modern coins, and our pre decimal coins. You will see a dime at the top of the bottom 2 photo's as well as a US cent. There is also a US cent at the bottom of these photo's. Every coin in the photo, was found with the Ace bar the Shilling, which was found with the X-Terra 30; that includes the US coins! The pre Decimal coins are not the full set of what we used to have, just what I've got on hand. You may note, that there is 2 different designs of three pence's and half pennies. They are not the only ones with more than 1 design.
I hope you enjoy them
Mick Evans.
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