Thank you! Thank you! :crazy: :smile:

[zeekeys]

Thanks to all you guys that notch out those zinc pennies... I still have another bucket full to clean..... Thanks for looking....Z

 

[REVIER]

I also would like to thank those kind of hunters.
Along with a boatload of my own zinc penny hoard, these are 3 of my best zinc signal finds...

 

[MrBranton33]

Nice rings. I dig a lot of zink signals as well. It has landed me some nice Indians this year.

 

[jim tn]

Good job Mud. It takes a persistent man, or men and gals, to continuously dig all those zinc readings. And yup, gold, particularly hefty class rings, come into the zinc range. Funny, those suckers do spend just like money. HH jim tn

 

[MarkCZ]

Well on the zinc's your welcome! here unless you catch one falling out of someones pocket they explode pretty much on ground contact!
What a crap coin!
Very few I find can be taken anywhere and cashed in, they are not identifiable.

Indian heads around here are closer to the 7" to 8" depth range, a zinc'er will never hold together here past the 3" range unless you bury it.
I'm thinking the soil here may be a little acidic for zinc'ers.
Coppers hold up good!
Silver most times will be shinier when you dig them than they were when they got lost?
Indian Heads just corrode and any attempt to clean them other than rinse them with water and the surface of it crumbles away.

Mark

 

[Tajue17 @ Home]

we are waiting for our first fisher F2 just ordered this afternoon with the 2 coil deal from Kellyco, its going to be my wifes 1st machine and she never did this before but what number is the zinc showing on the fisher machine so I can let her know.

 

[MarkCZ]

we are waiting for our first fisher F2 just ordered this afternoon with the 2 coil deal from Kellyco, its going to be my wifes 1st machine and she never did this before but what number is the zinc showing on the fisher machine so I can let her know.

I don't remember what the numeric ID was, but the F2 has a "Zinc" range scaled into it (notch in/or out item)

Mark

 

[mudpuppy]

I remember when REVIER found those big class rings last year in the zinc penny signal...boy, I'm way overdue for gold of any sort. MarkCZ...thats the truth about all the newer coins...shallow stamped, real cheap, and dont age well at all...just like todays kids!
Mud

 

[REVIER]

we are waiting for our first fisher F2 just ordered this afternoon with the 2 coil deal from Kellyco, its going to be my wifes 1st machine and she never did this before but what number is the zinc showing on the fisher machine so I can let her know.

Zinc pennies can come in on the F2 anywhere from the high 40's to the lower 60's...and they do.
Most of the time 61 is a zinc penny for me.
Those class rings were in the 48-51 range.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Always remember the fellow with the large diamond tennis bracelet after a bad storm on a NJ beach...Came up zinc penny so darned if you do and darned if you don't.
With price of gold large gold rings will easily pay for a new detector and lts not forget those nice sterling silver religious medals which are an added bonus...

Most parks are loaded with zinc pennies but also pulltabs so what else is new...

 

[zeekeys]

Gad Zooks Rivier those are some nice rings. You are not supposed to let people that. It is far better that we dig those guys.

Jim I had to throw about 30 of the zincs away because they were too far gone. I look at them after I count them to see what zincs are worth tumbling.

Tajue I don't know what the F2 ID numbers are but on the F70 it can be from 57 to 61. Usually 60-61. I usually find that the ones hitting around 57-58-59 are pretty far gone to try to spend or clean. But I still dig them because like Rivier you can find some pleasant surprises. Remember these are numbers that go to around 4" in depth on the F70. I am also using the 6.5" coil all the time because it is light and I can swing it all day every day. I am not a fan of deep tunnel digging.

MarkCZ coins are like everything else, not made to last.

Mud I can count on you to see threw the shallowness of things now a days. 19 of my friends want me to be on face book. I don't want my face to be on a book. I have enough trouble living with my face and I certainly don't want others to try to live it. Gad that is scary...

Thanks guys for replies....Z

 

[jim tn]

My bad, Z. Your zinc's and cents, not Mud's. I thought at the time that that was a lot of stabbing, even for Mud. HH jim tn

 

[zeekeys]

Dan-Pa: It is hard for me to pass up a penny. Almost 62% of my finds are pennies. Sometimes I will have 40-80 or more pennies and only 20 nickles, dimes and quarters. And another thing is that a number of the pennies are just sitting there on top of the ground all I have to do is pick them up.

Jim welcome to my world. I have those moments that I am no longer in this world and I come back and it scares the crap out me. Kind of like the guy in the book, "The Time Travelers Wife." That is why I like metal detecting so much. I can drift off out of this world because I am with the headphones on and far enough away from people and traffic so I won't wonder into anything dangerous while I am out of this world.

Thanks guys......Z

 

[MarkCZ]

MarkCZ coins are like everything else, not made to last.

Hemm, I've dug 100 year old quarters that was fine!
I've dug 75 year old nickles that were discolored, but still fine!
I've dug 100 year copper pennies that were okay!
Even earlier clad like 1966 quarters and dimes that were discolored, but fine!

Below is a zinc'er that was maybe an inch deep! that means that this puppy is NEW! So, what would you do with a tub full of these? You can't even junk these things LoL!
Oh, that's not dirt on the coin, that's its exploded guts busting through the copper paint!

Around here where I live to get a bucket full of nice shinny Zinc'ers would be to either,
Get them from a bank in rolls! or
Go through a school yard full kids and turn them all up side down and shake them out of their pockets!
Or, rob the kids piggy bank!

 

[WV62]

MarkCZ coins are like everything else, not made to last.

Hemm, I've dug 100 year old quarters that was fine!
I've dug 75 year old nickles that were discolored, but still fine!
I've dug 100 year copper pennies that were okay!
Even earlier clad like 1966 quarters and dimes that were discolored, but fine!

Below is a zinc'er that was maybe an inch deep! that means that this puppy is NEW! So, what would you do with a tub full of these? You can't even junk these things LoL!
Oh, that's not dirt on the coin, that's its exploded guts busting through the copper paint!

Around here where I live to get a bucket full of nice shinny Zinc'ers would be to either,
Get them from a bank in rolls! or
Go through a school yard full kids and turn them all up side down and shake them out of their pockets!
Or, rob the kids piggy bank!

Little brother that one looks like it came out of a proof set compared to the 2 I found today.

Here is a couple more WV zinc pennies I found in the park today and this is why I would just as soon leave them in the ground.

Ron in WV

 

[MarkCZ]

The reason many of us don't like to "DIG" zinc'ers is because we can't spend them, you have to throw them in the trash! I would rather dig rusty nails than zinc'er, at lest you could junk them.
So, I dig them and throw them away. Now if I find some that was dropped yesterday I'll keep and spend'em.

Here is a little better picture of the same coin, this one is headed for the trash. This one is not as bad as a lot of them I find, many have holes through them. For me these are not coins but really cheap tokens!

Mark