Total of coins for the year so far with the Quattro!

[Golden]

Hello all, thought it was time to add how much money I've found so far with the Quattro for the year. This is also for you John (Australia), as my email department is playing up again, and won't let me send you my answer! The total in coinage is $75.64 in 125 coins. plus 1 copper bracelet, 2 copper rings and 4 earrings, not to mention a myriad of sinkers and junk! I wonder how everyone else in going with their tallies here on the Quattro forum?

As for the Excalibur, may as well put it here too! underwater detecting tally of: $63.01 in 165 coins. Plus 3 silver rings, 2 gold rings, 4 junk earrings, 1 pair glasses, 1 copper ring and a heap of fishing lures and sinkers, plus trash.
HH golden

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

G'day Golden.
It looks like you are having in the same boat as I am this year with a bit of a slow start. I'm hunting with an Ace at the moment, and my finds for this year are around $85.
I went out to the local show ground at the week end to have a go at it (I've only tried my luck there once before) and bumped into a fellow there who was swinging A Quattro. Didn't do much detecting, just exercised the gums for over an hour. I've got to say that I was impressed with the Quattro. The sounds are just superb, and I was able to get a much clearer picture how effective the Quattro is. I had put it in the to heavy basket till Saturday due to a previous injury, but after handling it, it's the first in a couple of years that I've felt able enough to swing it.
I was able to pass on some of the tips that you and others have posted here so that he will be able to get more out of his machine. He has only been detecting for about 10 months, yet despite his lack of knowledge (as it's his first machine) he has already amassed an amazing $6000. Not bad for a newbie.
I'd just like to say, keep up the great posts and I hope you find a sovereign or two through the year.
All the best.
Mick Evans.

 

[John (Australia)]

Hello Golden, I was wondering what had happened to you. I think we will be way behind those that mainly hunt coins but I have 207 coins which includes 19 pre decimal and 5 foreign coins. The decimal value is $112.64 and the oldest this year is a 1877 English halfpenny, not doing real well on the old stuff this year.
John

 

[Golden]

Hi John. Yeh, I'm not having a great start to the year, unlike last year, but with last year's total, I kind of spend a lot of it before recording all the coins I finds! I didn't think about the pre-decimal coins actually. I should go back and add them up too, but it won't be much, hardly worth mentioning!
Angie

 

[Golden]

Hello Mick. If it wasn't for the fact that since I got the Excalibur, and have been water detecting so much with it, I may have got more with the Quattro! That's amazing that felow picked up so much in coinage. Good on him. Did you happen to mention the forum here? It'd be interesting to hear how he does with his detector.
Well, yes, I'm still looking for the elusive sovereign! I know I'm going to all the likely places where one has to have been dropped for me to pick up. Maybe if I got an X-ray machine for the ground and ran it over, I might find something!!Just kidding, but when you tell a friend about a great spot you go to a lot, then he finds and American gold dollar, in MY spot, after I thought I'd worked it fairly well, it kind of irks me. I think it should have been me. Oh well, them's the brakes as they say! (Hope I said it right, or I know you;ll pick me up on it John!).

 

[John (Australia)]

That was very close Golden, just got the wrong (break) brake.
John

 

[Golden]

Okay, you got me there John! I can't believe it, I thought, "not again"! Golden
I was thinking of entering one of those on-line peotry competitions, so may call on you to spell check for me, seeing I'm too lazy to do it myself. just kidding. Oops, did it again!

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

G'day Golden and John. That's what I like about the forum. You can talk about detecting or just have a bit of fun with each other.
Yes Golden, I did tell him about this forum. I even wrote down the web address for him. Part of the reason he is doing so well, is that he lives in a converted bus with his wife and everywhere he goes, he detects. I guess he has a bit of an addiction, but we wouldn't know about that ourselves now, would we. If I didn't get enthusiastic, whenever I get the chance to meet another detectorist, then I'd probably get mad at all these interlopers that come into town for a few days, hunt the town dry, and leave us locals who have got to go work for a living, with nothing to find He found $30 at the show ground and nothing at the race course ( Good! Now I'm not the only one getting skunked in town.)
I know too well what you mean about other people hunting in 'your spot' A friend of mine owns the local YHA hostel, which was built in 1880, with the servants quarters next door. The servants quarters and the old house that was next to it, 'mysteriously' burnt down (they were heritage listed) After spending six weeks organizing permission to hunt there, and finally getting it,; I was riding home from work, only to find someone else hunting there. When I approached him, he'd just pulled up a 1878 US silver trade dollar! It turned out to be worth around $6000. (I seem to have a fetish for that figure). I was happy for him, if also a little annoyed, as he hadn't sort permission. He is a Quattro user as well and had hunted the site out before I had a chance to get my coil any where near there. Despite this, we have struck up a good friendship and have even had the chance to go out and hunt together. I have been able to pass on some of the tips from this forum, which he has found to help him.
As far as sovereigns go, I haven't found one either, however, I've taken the liberty of buying one, so that I can put it under my coil to hear what they sound like.
Anyway good luck and hopefully one will come your way soon enough.
Mick Evans.

 

[John (Australia)]

That was a sad tale there Mick, could have been you finding that token, especially after putting in the hard yards getting permission. I guess once we clean out our own areas and wait for some regrowth of coins we will have to go further afield and even maybe do over another "patch".
Golden your Woodpecker relic has been identified if you look on the relic site.
John

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

G'day John.
Yeah. That's life. The good thing about detecting, is that you can always find other spots. I'm not able to get out of town much due to family commitments and tend to have a fetish for $1 and $2 coins. There are quite a number of opportunities just out of town for hunting sites of yesteryear, but find it a bit hard to get the time to get out to them. Mostly this year it's just been a matter of finding some time whenever I can.
All the best.
Mick Evans.

 

[Golden]

would you believe it but, yesterday I went to the library and borrowed a book titled: "Bygones of Yesteryear", and having a browse through it, on page 75 a photo jumps out at me and it's the same identical relic I'd found! Of all things! It's a cast iron bobbing bird match dispenser as used in public houses, Circa 1880!!! Well, was I rapted, and what a fluke. My mum has a plastic one, and it was my son who mentioned it to me, that gave me the idea it might have been what I thought it was. (That was a mouthful!). Anyway, going to check out the relic forum and see what they came up with. Hope it's the same conclusion!
Hi Mick! Nothing more depressing than going through the motions of getting permission to detect a site, and some else bet you to it, without permission too. I'm happy you were stillable to strike up a friendship though, Quattro detectorists in arms!! Yep, $6000 is a nice rounded figure in anyone's books. I've also bought two gold sovereigns, so I could swipe under the coil to get readings. One full and one half sovereign. But yeh, I really, most heartedly want to find my own. I've been at it for a few years now. The only other thing I's like to find a few more of are tokens. I think they're very interesting.

 

[Golden]

Here's a photo of the relic from the book.