Forget Brand! Of The Best Coin Machines, Which Is The Best At Finding Nickles?

[Neil]

All of mine do well and all always have as far as I can remember. nickels are a fairly thick round coin, what detector would have a problem with that? why would any detector be a nickel specialist

Well I know what your saying, if I hunt in all metal or foil up and dig everything then I'll get nickles also, but like this weekend, I would have spent the six hours cleaning out a ten foot square area.
Being a good "Nickle Get'er" I meant picking out nickles from the tabs, can slaw, ect.....
I have a CZ-7a Pro and I've never done very well with it and nickles, those pull & Toss tabs will almost always hit the nickle zone?

I can set my 1266x up to hit the nickle range and up, but man in many area's I feel more like a garbage collector. I dug 16 coins this weekend (no nickles) but I bet I dug 40 peices of junk (trash),
Can slaw,
One shell case,
Two bullets,
Two belt buckles,
One key,
One aluminium pipe and 6" long,
One good size piece of iron,
three or four pull & Toss tabs, (beaver tail rings)
A couple of sta-tabs,
pop cans. or section of them,
Pencil eraser ends, (the metal part)
ect... ect........
No Nickles!

In the old days of coin hunting getting nickles meant digging a couple hundred pull rings to every nickle, so the coin hunters ran the disc up past nickles to keep from digging those tabs. Old habits are hard to break!

So, for calling out nickles and not digging all metal what detector gets the most votes for being a "Nickle Get'er" ??

Mark

Mark what Im saying is a nickel is simply one of the easiest targets to find because of its composition/density and its ROUND. Round alone fools detectors and that says something for a target being round. Im no believer that theres a nickel special machine out there, Ive used about every make and its more where the nickels are than the machine. I guess its fun conversation though

 

[Jerry-Wi]

There are several points of separation in the VDI scale on both my Grand Master Hunter and At Pro. Pull tabs are often 55-56 on both machines where pull tabs are more like 52-53 with 53 being the most dominate. (Other brands will have different numbers) The thing that strikes me about the At Pro is if it locks on to 53 and does not waver regardless of direction on swing, it is probably a nickle. I said probably because nothing is 100% certain in this game. There are some new pull tabs that are nearly round, and also about the size of the nickle being one exception.

I think Neil has it right about the round part. Pull tabs being more square do not give exactly the same reading as the direction of swing changes. Nickles do.

I think any machine that has good resolution on the VDI scale is going to be about as effective as any other with similar capabilities.

Jerry

 

[7centsworth]

Xterra 70 with high frequency coil really like the nickels.

 

[Crispy Critter]

When I had it, I can remember finding a lot of nickels with the F75. Maybe something about the tone, that immediatly said...... "nickel"?

 

[mudfoot]

I'd have to say my Vaquero is my best nickel getter.

My Compadre would be next, beating out a Silver umax and a Garrett 1350.

But for some reason the Vaq really hits hard on nickels.

 

[JB(MS)]

My nickels to other coins ratio has always been higher when using detectors with transmit frequencies from 12.5 to 19 khz. Below is an excerpt from an article by George Payne that probably explains why I did better on nickels with detectors in that frequency range, but it only addresses the optimum frequency without any consideration as to the person using a detector, how a detector is used or ground conditions. For those who don't know who George is, he designed the first detectors with manual ground balance, preset ground balance, auto ground balance, ID meters and many of the other features found on current detectors.. The last sentence in the article addresses nickels.

The target signal returned to the receive coil can be thought of as composed of two components, one we call x and one we call r. The polarity of the x signal (its direction) tells us if the target is ferrous or non-ferrous. The r signal has only one polarity. Also, the ratio of the x and r signal tells us the targets phase. In addition, the signal magnitude (which relates to sensitivity) of both x and r are a function of operating frequency.

The x and r target signals are frequency dependent and obey very predictable characteristics when the operating frequency changes. We know that the x component decreases as the operating frequency decreases. Above a certain frequency the x component reaches a maximum. The r component acts differently. It is maximum at one particular frequency and decreases if you go up or down in frequency. We call the special frequency at which the r signal is maximum the target

 

[Woodchuck]

The Fisher 1270 I had loved nickels ,I 'm using a Troy X2 right now and it loves nickels even more just don't use coin check on it or it will cancel em out..

 

[khouse]

Exactly as I thought. OK. Well I really didn't understand most of it. But I do know the CZ's run at 5 and 15 kHz and for sure the nickel was one of it's favorite targets. Yes the ATpro runs at 15kHz and the MXT, and M6 run at 14.7 so yes they also love nickels.

 

[Neil]

My nickels to other coins ratio has always been higher when using detectors with transmit frequencies from 12.5 to 19 khz. Below is an excerpt from an article by George Payne that probably explains why I did better on nickels with detectors in that frequency range, but it only addresses the optimum frequency without any consideration as to the person using a detector, how a detector is used or ground conditions. For those who don't know who George is, he designed the first detectors with manual ground balance, preset ground balance, auto ground balance, ID meters and many of the other features found on current detectors.. The last sentence in the article addresses nickels.

The target signal returned to the receive coil can be thought of as composed of two components, one we call x and one we call r. The polarity of the x signal (its direction) tells us if the target is ferrous or non-ferrous. The r signal has only one polarity. Also, the ratio of the x and r signal tells us the targets phase. In addition, the signal magnitude (which relates to sensitivity) of both x and r are a function of operating frequency.

The x and r target signals are frequency dependent and obey very predictable characteristics when the operating frequency changes. We know that the x component decreases as the operating frequency decreases. Above a certain frequency the x component reaches a maximum. The r component acts differently. It is maximum at one particular frequency and decreases if you go up or down in frequency. We call the special frequency at which the r signal is maximum the target

 

[amcjavelin]

ultimate nickel freq is 16khz so any one around this freq will do well!

 

[Jerry-Wi]

ultimate nickel freq is 16khz so any one around this freq will do well!

I agree. I have a home made one that runs at 14.5 Khz that gets deeper on a nickle than it will a dime or quarter. The At Pro runs at 15 Khz but I think the software is doing some tricks because it is also good on dimes and quarters, whereas the home built one favors nickles. Have not tried one at 16 Khz yet.

Jerry

 

[CaptEsteban]

I find my CZ3D works well on nickels as it puts them in high tone with other coins.

I agree !!!

 

[BH_Landstar_]

Out of all the detectors I've used, the following finds nickels with ease...

AT Pro (Garrett)

Gold Bug Pro (Fisher)

F5 (Fisher)

I've listed them in this order beacause the AT Pro has been the top nickel finder for me followed by the Gold Bug Pro.

 

[Dirty Money US]

I have found my DFX to be very good on nickles.

HH

 

[D&P-OR]

And HERE is the most sought after answer to the tough question!!! (drum roll please)---------G2, G2 & G2 (19 kHz)

 

[CaptEsteban]

CZ3D