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    John-Edmonton, Question?

    John, was wondering if you could provide a list of canadian coins, by year, and silver %, thought this may be handy, not only for me, but others, as I have found several canadian quarters, dimes and nickels, but have no idea of which contain silver and which don't, any information would be...
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    What kind of digital scales are best and where to acruire

    Would appreciate any help you could give me on this subject, such as different weights in grams, grains, oz etc, also how large a scale 300 gram, 500 gram etc, cost if you know and where to acquire, thanks.
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    Does anybody know if?

    The mouth pieces of the older band horn instuments are silver plated, I have found several of them and they come out of the ground bright and shiny, with what looks to be like silver, but can find no markings as such and have no way of testing them, any info and knowledge you have would be...
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    GTI user's, ever have this happen to you?

    Went out this morning, after a 2 inch rain, back to a school I had hunted to death back in the 80's, started to hunt on a grid pattern, on the third pass, I hit a target, showed low on the scale at tinfoil-nickel, at 8", thought I'd better investigate after finding my first 2 gold rings of the...
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    Willy or John, is Garrett

    coming out with a new machine this fall, have heard rumors they are, if so do you have any info on weather a update or new machine, also would like to know if the Scorpion is similar in operation as the old ADS series of detectors, where it is equiped with TR, haven't seen any field tests on it...
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    OOPS, I forgot to tell ya all!!

    Last summer my wife wanted to go rock hunting for her flower garden project, so we jumped in the vehicle and set off, there's a dirt road close by so we took it, seen several nice sized rocks going up one of the hills, so we stopped and picked them up, got home and was looking at them and there...
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    What to do with dirty clad? turn it into silver.

    When the weather got bad last Nov., I thought I'd try something, so I went down to my bank and bought $300.00 dollars worth of dimes and started going threw them, I was surprised to start finding silver Rosies in the rolls, so I started trading the worthless clad dimes for silver and have...
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    1 year with the GTI2500 and THANKS TO ALL FOR THE ADVISE.

    One year ago, I asked for everyones advise about the GTI2500, and you all recommended it very highly, glad I took your advise, had a great year, took some learning on my part and seemed to get it down pretty good, have dug a lot of foil and tabs looking for gold but to no availe to date, but did...
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    What kind of cleaning material to use in Lyman tumbler

    I have a Lyman turbo tumbler, used to clean shot brass, have been told some people use them to clean coins too, was wanting to know what they used for grit or cleaning compounds, mine is a 1200 turbo, dry cleaner, any help would be appreciated.:detecting:
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    Anyone know if there's a Iowa token book

    Am trying to find out if there was ever a token book printed on Iowa Good for Tokens, and if so by whom and if available, haven't had any luck checking out Ebay, if anyone knows, please advise. If anyone has one and would like to sell it, please let me know, thanks.
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    Double bling on dimes with 2500-is this common?

    I have dug several dimes and have noticed that they seem to have a double bling on some and not others, is this normal for the 2500, also do one sided bling sounds, indicate that the coin is slanted in the ground, and that is the reason for the one sided hit, any imput would be appreciated.
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    Does anyone know if Garrett made a 9or10 inch coil for the old ADS series

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    Question about 2500-need imput

    As I am still in the learning stage with this machine, was wondering if a silver dime locks on the dime icon the same when found in the ground as it does in air testing, or if it is different, also, I know from air testing that a nickel does not produce the coin sound, was wondering if when...
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    GTI 2500-great machine-found first silver on 4th time out

    REceived the 2500, Apr 5th, then winter made a comback, and couldn't get back out till the 9th, went to the ghost town, I had permission to hunt and found a 1902 IH at 5" down, then another round of bad weather and when it straightened up, turkey hunting season opened, not a good time to be...
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    My wife has questions about ACE250

    My wife was wondering what kind of depth she could expect in the coin mode, coin and jewlery mode and the all metal mode, also was wondering if the bell=tone for coins was the same in the all metal mode. :rolleyes:
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    Thanks everyone.....ordered new GTI2500

    Wish to thank you all for you replies and thoughts, just ordered new 2500 from Ron in Tenn. That makes a total of 3 Garrett's for me and my wife, got her a ACE250 and now me with the 2500 and the old reliable ADS 111, should have taken my wifes advice in the beginning and ordered the garrett...
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    Ever found a U.R.A. button-any information?

    Found a button with U.R.A. on it with, what looks like a dove flying on it, may be a cuff link also, approximatley 1" around anyone know who made them, time period produced or what the letters stand for, any information would be appreciated, thanks.::clsoedeyes:
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    Just joined, which is best GTI2500 or Whites DFX

    I've been a detector enthusiast from the 1960's, and used basically garrett detectors, had to give it up after the mid 1980's, now I tried to get back, bought a DFX, very displeased with it, won't even give a repeatable icon of the same on a target, it sounded as if it could be good so dug it, a...
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