Maybe MineLabs are the best.

[jabbo]

Bought an X-Terra705 only three months ago and already it found me a U.S silver 1820 bust dime yesterday. (Posted in Todays Finds forum). Been hoping to find a silver bust since the 1970's and it's my first one. It was about 6" deep in the loose rocks/gravel/stones at the waters edge that I can walk on during low tide. I doubt it was laying perfectly flat. Thank you MineLab for getting me into the silver bust club in such a short time. Will do more searching there because there was a 1700's mill a little way upstream, now it is completely gone. During low tide the water is only knee deep, fast moving, and a solid shale bottom. No mud at all, but lots of rocks/gravel/stones pile up in places at the waters edge. Was using the ML 9" 3khz coil. Also have CoilTech 6" 3khz, and ML 9" 7.5khz coils. When I wade in the water I will be using the CoinStrike with the control box in my small backpack, this coil has an 8 foot cable. Any coins in the water can't sink through the shale bottom, but will be behind any drops in the red shale where gravel collects. That's where I find scrap metal and fishing sinkers, some sinkers I found with the CoinStrike are old, made from musket balls. Hope to find more goodies. HH, Jabbo

 

[mapper65]

Congrats on finding busted. Within the first month of getting my 705 I found my first bust dime. Mine was an 1834 and I believe only my fourth silver. I found an 1831 this past fall. Those things are so small and thin that it's amazing that this detector is able to pick them up.

Good luck!

 

[7centsworth]

Congratulations on the great coin find. I really like my Minelab too.

 

[jabbo]

Mapper, Unreal that you found two bust dimes so quickly. Took me about 40 years to find my one and only silver bust coin. Strange, but I found it three months after I got the X-Terra. Jabbo