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Many times I don't dig the zinc pennies. But here is a picture of a very large ring that read in the low zinc pennies range. Besides the ring it was worth a $200 Whites certificate for the story I wrote about it. So you never know. Rob
 
I don't think you're being a "snob". This hobby if supposed to be fun, whatever that means to YOU. I tend to bypass zinc pennies anymore as so many are in poor shape and not worth cleaning. As mentioned, that means we may miss a goodie now and then, but that's a choice we all are free to make.
HH
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I have to tell you that I do pass up the "zinc" targets specially if they are only an inch or two deep. I'm guilty. Just like Rob's big class ring, it's going to have a high VDI number since it's so big and the amount of gold is a good karat weight. It's a beauty. Larry found a gold wedding ring 1" deep and the VDI was 60 something. Old? Yes. We both probably passed it up, but then when we thought it had been hunted enough, Larry went back and hunted it more.....coming home with a beautiful woman's wedding band. It's not hunted out till you can't hear any more targets. :))) Then you go back after the winter freeze and hunt all over again. Snob? No, we've all been there. HH, Nancy
 
It was a signal that was zincolin all the way and some days I don't feel like digging zincs but on this day I was digging a few if they weren't too deep. Right under the surface was a junk skull ring, but attached to the ring was a 10 K rope chain. I think I dug zincs the rest of the day.
 
MANY of my silver rings especially have shown up as pennies. Skip the pennies and you will be leaving rings behind for the rest of us.
 
Will a person lost silver dimes that way? I also hate new pennies and like to knock them out but some goodies fall in that range too. They say the E-Trac is pretty surgical at knocking them out.
 
After reading about rings coming up as zinc pennies sometimes, I dug several just make sure they were pennies -- and one did turn out to be a ring. A cheapie, but a ring nonetheless. Found another nice ring on another hunt that was reading as a nickel, so as they say, "the only 100% identification is digging and seeing.
HH
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Glad I read this post! I was just thinking today after digging up a few deteriorated zincs (in the 55 range) that I've never really found anything but zincs at a steady 60. I was thinking that maybe as a birthday gift to my aging knees I would stop digging a 60 signal. I have found plenty of silver rings (the majority this year actually) that read as high pennies/dime range. I too am a snob and although might think of stopping will keep digging the zincs! Maybe I'll invest those hard earned cents in some ibuprofen....:wiggle:
 
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