Safari users...dig those low tones!

[Ray in WA]

Hi folks,

Haven't posted my finds for a while and thought I'd better drop in. I visited a park yesterday and because I mainly shoot for silver coins I have a tendency to ignore low tones unless they register +13 or +14. I have dug lower values before but for the most part they generally turn up as pull tabs, foil, and other miscellaneous junk items. Well, to make a long story short, I decided I wanted to see if I could find any gold items using the jewelry mode and conductive tones. I got a lot of the usual suspects and then I got a jumping signal--one showed +11 and the other +17. Intrigued, I decided to dig and just a few inches into the plug I spotted a huge marijuana leaf pendant. Well, I thought, that's a first. But then I noticed it still had the chain attached to the pendant. So I meticulously removed it from the clod and wound up with a nice 18 inch .925 silver chain. The leaf pendant is junk, however. I have noticed that on the Safari very thin silver items can register very low on the numerical scale. Not long ago I found a really tiny wire silver ring that registered only +16 on the screen. So this just goes to show that you never know what might pop up when those low tones start singing on the Safari.

Attached are also a couple of recent silver coin finds: a 1941 Australian florin and a 1934 Walker, both firsts for me.

HH,

Ray

 

[geoff]

Good one,here in the uk,I often use conductive sounds with nothing discrimed out,minus figures with a high tone are iron,but minus with a low tone are always non ferous,a lot of small hammered silver coins get found this way,especialy cut halfs.(has to be in conductivity),but it separates the iron from the non ferous as clear as day!

 

[hershey1]

Good finds and good information. I myself am bad to hunt the sweet silver tones but I usually check out those low repeatable tones and have been pleasantly surprised a few times. But like everyone else I get the junk also. HH

 

[croakersmoker78]

me too but i did pull a silver bracelet at 9 that was odd but gold also shows up around 9 so i guess you have to dig it to find it

 

[Ray in WA]

Went back out today for about an hour to the same park, and about six inches deep I get a +9 on the Safari with a nice low tone. When I pulled it out I thought it looked like a pull tab at first, but then I realized it was a ring. It is a little corroded and looks like it had been plated gold at one time. I doubt there are any markings on it but I've yet to clean it up.

Ray

 

[SeniorSeeker]

Awesome Finds! WTG!