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Got My ID-Edge yesterday that I traded for

MarkCZ

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And I have already found the oldest coin I have ever found "With It". So the detector has a real good start for me right out of the box.
The coin is a "1868" nickle and its in pretty good condition to be 144 years old.

And what's even better, is to find the coin I didn't even have to turn the detector ON! or even put it together :wiggle:

See pictures below.

Okay, the above is true, but its twisted just a little LOL!
When I was unpacking the detector and getting all the past two month of the Sunday Tribune out of the box I seen a little dark disk laying flat in the bottom of the box, at first I just ignored it thinking it was a piece of cardboard. Well, before I started sticking the classifieds back in the box for trash, I again saw the disk, I thought that's round enough to be a coin, probably a penny (it was kind of dark looking).
I reached in and picked it up and it wasn't no PENNY! I started looking at it VERY close to find out that it was the 1868 nickle below WoW I thought, a little extra that was put in the box just to sweeten the deal.
Then I thought about that, why wasn't it in some kind of wrapper or other little package?
This thing almost got tossed in the trash the way it was just lose in the bottom of the box?
Jason in our contacts didn't mention anything about treasure hunting the box for any extra surprises?

So, contacted him about the mystery nickle and he told me that he didn't put it in the box? nor did he really know how it got in there?
It had to be his, there is No Other Way for it to have gotten inside the box!
He did suggest that maybe his kid may have dropped it in the box?

It just goes to show how easy stuff like coins can get lost!
I do pan on putting it in a wrapper and sending it back to him.

And for the detector I was really surprised just how much smaller it was than the Coinstrike. (A good surprise). it seems to work good but I've only did some indoor air test.
Mark
 
That right there is amazing and mighty honest of you many people wouldn't have been that honest you are a standup guy and I believe that deed will be rewarded ten fold!! Good luck with your new detector!! Keep us informed how well you do with it!! (88junior)
 
Looks like that nickle was never in the ground. Unusual looking, should be easy for Jason to recognize. The Edge is one fine detector. Picked up about 8 ticks in a cornfield yesterday, no more cornfields or woods for me till next winter. Today searched a 300 foot section of sidewalk strip in a fair sized city, poorer neighborhood. Found a 44 Merc and plenty of clad dimes, clad quarters, and copper memorials. Can't go where the ticks are so might do more sidewalk strips this summer.
 
Hahaha, I never saw this post. I still don't know how it ended up in the box. It was dug actually in a boulevard near my folks house when my brother and I first started detecting...I think he tried cleaning it and that's why it looks like that. I do appreciate Mark sending it back, not that I needed it...I just appreciate honest folks.
 
The ID Edge is a great little machine, I just never got the depth from it that I needed. I would say if you were at a site where you didn't need more then 6-7" of depth, it would be a GREAT detector. Does well in iron, nice TID, and it's the lightest TID machine made. Not to mention that it breaks down pretty small, so great for hiking, AND it's hibmountable, so great for water hunting or whatever floats your fancy!

Good luck, I kind of miss mine.
Brian
 
My Edge goes deeper than 6-7" for a coin size target. I was in a park and got a mixed signal, meter was jumping wildly, I knew it was very deep and had to check it out. Saw a brass flat button (quarter size) still lodged in the bottom side of the hole at a depth of 9.5" measured. Was using the 10" coil. Edge goes deep, about as deep as my C$. Another time I brought both detectors to a park and buried a silver dime exactly 8" deep. Both detectors picked it up but the C$ gave more positive numbers, the Edge gave more negative numbers. The C$ came out ahead only because the numbers were more accurate.
 
I have a 8" test garden with a US Large cent buried, its been at rest for a little over a year now. The Edge will hit it pretty good, but the headphones need to be sensitive.
I really like the modulated audio of the Edge, but I could see that with the external speaker or certain headphones that some deep targets could fall out of the hearing range.

Now, the Coinstrike with its massive audio is a different story!

Mark
 
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