Can a detector find only silver??

[nad]

Have this very strange site, Wheat cents, up the wazoo, nickels, clad, and one silver dime....The percentage of silver finds is too low unless on a detector you could knock out everything except silver..Then the Mercury dime would have been a miss?? Found one large ring, do not know the composition ....Thanks for your ideas , cordially NAD

 

[Beale]

Well it depends? On my X-Terra I can notch out pennies and still hit dimes. Heck if I wanted to I could hunt for just quarters. But I would not do that. In general the more you notch out the more a detector has to work to find what you want. IMHO I think you would tend to miss even good high hits.

It sounds like you have a good site. Why not just keep digging all those finds? I really think you may be suprised what you find, Beale.

 

[Bill in Texas]

I have used a Tesoro Inca enough that I can just about tell what is silver before I dig it. It just sounds different! Vaquero, Inca, Silver Umax

 

[coinhog]

with the XLT I am using I thought for sure I was passing over silver,, and only finding clad,, but I was finding wheaties also,, then last week,, two silver dimes,, reading exactly the same as clad dimes,, so I dont think I;m passing them over,, they might be just out of range for me right now,,

 

[Mr.Bill]

That's a little tough to do with 100% reliability. The closest to that would be the Goldscan 5C, by Eric Foster, and the Whites version of it, the TDI. There both PI detectors that can discriminate. Setting them up to respond to high conductive targets only, ( just a matter of throwing a switch ), would accomplish a high reliability of high conductive targets, mainly coins.

Neither one is inexpensive. The Whites TDI is at $1600., and the Goldscan at $2700.

Not from experience, but from user reviews, the Minelab Explorer should do a good job at it being a VLF discriminating detector with a infinite adjustable window.

Some carefull adjustment of the numbers on a Whites XLT should produce results also.

There is a few to look at ????

 

[BarberBill]

A detector that finds only silver or is set to find only silver seems to be at cross purposes to me. How many gold items would be missed? And even nickels and pennies eventually add up. And how would it react to some of the really old coppers, indian heads etc.?
BB

 

[bigolhorns]

Can a detector find only silver??
Simple answer........... No

 

[coinhog]

Added another silver dime last night,,, same area as before,, about 5 inches down,, 41 Merc,, So again, I dont think i ;m passing them over,, there either there or there not, but in the back of my mind, I wonder if I am passing over a few,, SIGH,, and I have to say my Steelers took a severe physical beating today,,

 

[jim tn]

There are to many other good varieties of coins out there that would be missed by digging only silver coins. Not to mention, a whole lot of gold jewelry. My thoughts, anyway. HH jim tn

 

[Nick A]

Well, I set up two programs on my Explorer. One for silver quarters and one for silver dimes. I created the programs by using the LEARN feature. The silver quarter one is awesome. I went to a really trashy play area where it's nearly impossible to detect and got a 1955 silver Canadian quarter. I also dug many clad quarters. With the the Explorer though, silver usually hits in the top right of the screen, so it's pretty easy to guess when you have a silver coin. But if you discriminate like this you are going to miss a good deal, but you can definitely cherry pick a site.