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Nice Evening For A Clad Hunt

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Went to a nearby town for a change. I hit a sports field and a small hill, probably used for tobogganing. Two hour resulted with 72 coins =$4.73. Also found a 1968 Australia 2 cent piece. Just a super night for a hunt. <img src="/metal/html/grin.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":grin">
 
John, good finds the past while for you. I hit an isolated homestead and got 20 pennies from 1933 to 1949. The 1c and 2c Australian coins are no longer made. The 5c is their smallest now. Maybe Canada and the USA will quit making 1c pennies, so they will increase in rarity more than face value and we will not have to dig so many.
You once told me that I person should never try to discriminate out pennies. I see that out of your 72 coins that 50 of them are pennies(about 2/3rds).
I am sick of digging newer pennies myself and still thinking about a program to knock them out. Of course I will loose good targets in that range too.
The 2500 I have is not that surgical to do such a good job with 24 notches. But I have heard the Minelab Explorer II is more surgical with about 1000 discrimination notches and can differentiate the new pennies from the old ones so a person can leave the new pennies in the ground. Does anyone know if this is true??
Thanks!
 
Bruce,
I am an Explorer II user. It is very easy to tell the new pennies (1982 and later) from the older ones. You do not have to discriminate them out. You can tell by the tone if its a newer penny. I use an overlay on my two dimensional screen with a small dot where new pennies, dimes, older pennies and quarters hit. This was an aid while I was learning the tones.
Hope this helps,
HH, Glenn
 
Bruce, new cents, old cents, wheat cents, zinc cents and Canadian Cents, all read in the coin range, +/- a notch or two. Depending on how long, and what type of soil they are in, gives them a variance of oxidation, which has a direct effect on how the machine reads them. Even a Minelab can incorrectly ID a penny. You have to remember that the machine reads what is on the surface of the coin (oxidation?), not what is underneath. So the surface may NOT truly ID which type of coin it is. Now, the obvious double beep shallow coins in the penny range are most likelypennies, BUT...I have also got rings and silver dimes in that same range. A better scenario is this: Last summer, I covered about 90% of a junior highschool just around the block from home. I knew there were tons of pennies, as those kids throw them at each other. So, out I went with a screwdriver, popping those coins out as fast as I could. Sure, over 80% were pennies, but out of those 1800 coins, I also got 8 rings, earrings and other clad. The total was around (???)$40.00.
So, my advice to you Bruce is to get very profficient at popping those shallow pennies, and save them. Dig them all! You will also find other surprises there too. I buy a gold coin every year with just my pennies. I am planning on buying my 9th gold coin this year! Get the drift <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":)">
 
Depending on the soil and the time spent in the ground my 2500 rings in between 7 & 8 for pennies. But I have also dug a penny signal and out popped a dime. To me coins are coins and they all spend the same.....kinda like free money. Although I'm sure my credit union and my bank hates me when I bring in 40 rolls of pennies and 3/4 of them are so corroded ya cant hardly tell they are pennies <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> But hey it's all good to me. John has the right idea as far as buying a gold coins with them. You have to remember that 90% of the time you go out to hunt it's gonna be pennies you find. I think the reason for that is when you drop a penny on the ground it blends in real well, while a dime,nickel,or quarter shows up when you drop it......Just my 2 cents worth (pun intended) <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol"> <img src="/metal/html/lol.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=":lol">
HH
Steve
 
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