Today's Best Metal Detect Find...

[TJ]

I knew it was a nickle by the size but that's all I knew. Completely covered in junk. So it went to electrolysis, round 1, and it's a 1930 Buffalo. It's back in electrolysis round 2 to clean further. If it turns out great, I'll take a lousy picture of it.

[Bruceswar]

sounds like a neat find....

[goose3]

see if it's got 5 legs!

[TJ]

It's a 30-S Goose and the details aren't good on the legs or any other area for that matter except the date and the words "Five Cents".

[JamminJ]

What's your usual coin to bottle-cap find ratio?

 

-JamminJ

[TJ]

What's your usual coin to bottle-cap find ratio?

 

-JamminJ

Well, with my superior Fisher metal detector, most bottle-caps are ignored by the machine. Pull-tabs however (from the days when they came apart from the can) register as $ (silver) even though they are "notched out" on the machine. I'm thinking of upgrading to Fisher's newest model "Coin$trike" and I am going to snipe one that Mrpawn is selling on Ebay (see metal detecting forum across the street).

[JamminJ]

I was going to use "pop-tops" as an example of junk you might find with a metal detector but envisioned that desending into another discussion of David Hall's teeth so I switched to bottle caps.

 

Good luck on your snipe.

 

-JamminJ

[gmarguli]

I was going to use "pop-tops" as an example of junk you might find with a metal detector but envisioned that desending into another discussion of David Hall's teeth so I switched to bottle caps.

 

 

 

[JamminJ]

 

 

-JamminJ

[goose3]

TJ

I saw MrPawn's post. A 1,000.00 machine! I wouldn't mind having an old clunker to experiment with. That one guy over there sure finds a lot of neat stuff.

[braddick]

I was going to use "pop-tops" as an example of junk you might find with a metal detector but envisioned that desending into another discussion of David Hall's teeth so I switched to bottle caps.

 

 

 

[TJ]

TJ

I saw MrPawn's post. A 1,000.00 machine! I wouldn't mind having an old clunker to experiment with. That one guy over there sure finds a lot of neat stuff.

Goose, even at $500 for a Fisher Coin$strike that would be a bargain. That's their latest model, top of the line. I'm guessing the bidding will get fast and furious for this by the final end day.

[spy88]

most bottle-caps are ignored by the machine.

 

Back in the early 70's when I was very active in metal detecting, there were no discriminator models yet invented. And although they may save you from a lot of unnecessary digging, it can be to your loss.

 

I was lucky enough to be the first to detect a grade schools front and back playgrounds...all grass and original from the early 1900's when it was built. I found everything under the sun, junk-wise and coin wise. But this one time, I got a "hit", dug down about 6" and pulled out a wad of aluminum foil. Felt heavy for its size, so I unwrapped it. Inside was an old bottle cap...inside the bottle cap, some kid had put two Mercs in! Both BU as I remember!

 

Now, would I have found them with a discriminator model? Probably not. Should you always dig up a hit? Probably not. But I do not think that what the kid did with his dimes is the only possible way where you could pass up a coin find.

 

I would personally opt for a discriminator model, but I think I would go back over an area already covered with it in non-discriminating mode, just to be on the safe side!

[TJ]

That's true Spy88. Fortunately, with a press of a couple buttons I can tell the machine to accept all signals from rusty nails on up the junk chain.

 

Also, if someone buried an ammo box of coins I probably would miss it as the signal would be an overload noise and I would assume it's a big piece of iron or something.