fwcrawford
Well-known member
Since it has cooled down quite a bit here in Virginia, I decided to take the Sovereign to a local park that has some age to it and I'm sure it has been hunted hard in years past, but from my results today, apparently there is little interest in hunting it now since it is "hunted out".
I figured this would be a good place to get some more time in with the Sovereign and I wasn't disappointed with its performance.
This machine really hits and IDs nickels and I ended up with 21 of them.
I did get fooled by pulltabs about 4 or 5 times which I didn't mind compared with the results.
I did manage to find 4 wheat pennies which is a good indicator that there is still some silver here, but the suface coins and junk needs to be cleared out so I can concentrate on the softer signals.
I was amazed at how many coins I found that had nickels in the same hole with quarters, pennies, dimes and yet gave a decent 180 reading most of the time.
I also found many of the coins to be on edge which may explain why they are still there.
The ID reading was very good on this machine even though the coins were on edge
I still have much time to put in with this detector, but now I am starting to understand why so many really love it and won't give it up.
All total, I ended up with 190 coins and a grand total of $15.52 and the wheaties were dated: 1910, 1935, 1940, and 1952D.
For a machine that has to be swung somewhat slow, I am very happy with todays results.
Thanks for looking,
Felix
I figured this would be a good place to get some more time in with the Sovereign and I wasn't disappointed with its performance.
This machine really hits and IDs nickels and I ended up with 21 of them.
I did get fooled by pulltabs about 4 or 5 times which I didn't mind compared with the results.
I did manage to find 4 wheat pennies which is a good indicator that there is still some silver here, but the suface coins and junk needs to be cleared out so I can concentrate on the softer signals.
I was amazed at how many coins I found that had nickels in the same hole with quarters, pennies, dimes and yet gave a decent 180 reading most of the time.
I also found many of the coins to be on edge which may explain why they are still there.
The ID reading was very good on this machine even though the coins were on edge
I still have much time to put in with this detector, but now I am starting to understand why so many really love it and won't give it up.
All total, I ended up with 190 coins and a grand total of $15.52 and the wheaties were dated: 1910, 1935, 1940, and 1952D.
For a machine that has to be swung somewhat slow, I am very happy with todays results.
Thanks for looking,
Felix
