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Gold Religious Pendant

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Treasure Mike

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Searched a playground in the wood chips and found about a dollar in change. Got a 10-12 hit on my MXT with the Bigfoot coil and about a 1/2 inch down I find this 14K religious pendant. It weighs 2.3 grams. The karat marking on the bail was not readable but it tested as 14K on my Mizar Electronic Gold Tester. Thanks for looking. Mike
 
Another good find, mike do you plan on opening a jewelry shop any time soon? Your jewelry finds are fantastic, you found more jewelry then all the people in this little town own. Keep up the good work. Chuck-AZ:super:
 
[size=medium]What a great find Mike. Do you think the broken necklace could be out in the playground also? [/size]
 
My thoughts exactly. I searched real carefully in the area where I found the pendant but was unable to locate the necklace for it. It was probably a futile effort anyway. Small necklaces and small chains are so hard to locate but I checked anyway hoping I might get lucky. Mike
 
Were you in the coin and jewelry mode? What did you have your discrimination and your gain set at and what did it come in on the meter? Just wondering what works best for you in the chips. Really nice find.
 
I use the Relic mode all the time. I like the mixed mode where everything above your discrimination setting is a high tone and everything below that setting is a low tone. I set my discrimination between 2 and 3 so that targets respond with a high tone at about 5 on the VDI meter. A lot of small pieces of gold jewelry will be in the 5 to12 VDI area. Small gold chains will read even lower down into the minus numbers if they register at all. The few small necklaces and chains I have found had pendants attached to them and the MXT read the pendant and not the chain. I have been running my gain in the playground wood chips at the preset (9). I use to use it higher into the +2 range but I kept getting the overload on shallow targets less than an inch deep which is the depth of a majority of wood chip finds. This particular find registered at 10 to 12 on the VDI meter but I have found similar ones that have registered as low as 6. Hopes this helps!
 
[size=medium]Those broken necklaces, etc. are stinkers to find. Glad you tried though. :thumbup:[/size]
 
I'll be gone for a week so I won't answer your reply until then. I run my MXT exactly the same. I like the smoother theshold in the relic. I know some people think it sounds too busy. I found the same results in the chips. My ground hear is good so I run the + gains in the open fields.

When I dig up a piece of jewelry it's a surprize for me. I don't find them regularly enough to notice if they sound or act any differently than the junk. Have you noticed any difference in the sound or in anything that makes you think you hit gold over the trash it usually is. Rob
 
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