Those newer Canadian Quarters must be made out of iron. HH Ron
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Has anyone ever notice that the Sovereign doesn't work well for Canadian Quarters
- Thread starter Ron from Michigan
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pistolpete
New member
Exactly Ron. Our clad is pure rubbish including Loonies and Twoonies. I dig them with my Excal all the time. They have a real broken up signal. I can tell a US quarter vs a CDN quarter quite easily. You must have a certain amount of copper or similar content in your coinage
Pete,here in Michigan I have found a lot of old Canadian silver,but no new quarters. Wow after testing a Canadian quarter the Sovereign will almost reject it completely in disc.I thought our zinc pennies were bad,but now I change my opinion on this coin.Thanks Ron
pistolpete
New member
Hey Ron. I usually run my Excal at about 3 on descrim and CDN quarters will still blip off. Same goes for 1 and 2 dollar coins. It's worth it to me to dig the broken blip signals because of the high coin value. To me, the quarters sound the same as loonies and twoonies......
Pete,I've noticed with the disc.and notch at the lowest settings the newer Canadian quarters will null out.My guess the Sovereign probably isn't as popular in Canada for this reason.Thanks Ron
dewcon4414
Well-known member
.940 Steel, .038 Copper, .022 Nickel Plating.....this is the composition from about 2000 Ron. You had a period of silver, then silver copper, then totally nickel i believe.
As you have seen that some times a air test don't read the same as a actual in the ground target with the Sovereigns, I know I have seen this over the years myself. My best gold ring read like a beaver tail and after it was out of the ground it got no signal or broken up more, the problem was I was running my disc at around 10 position to get rid of small alum foil. Now with the Canadian coins I have got some of them to, that is those from 1977 on up like the dimes and quarters only because I get signals that are different and not like the normal iron trash would read. Granted not all of these signals turn out a Canadian coin, but do find some once in a while. This is why I feel that in many cases a target in the air will read different than a actual target in the ground.
Rick
Rick
Rick and Dew thanks for the information.
Ya the newer coins up here in Canada are made of garbage metal .If you go slow you can here something ,then flip machine to pin point . and recover . Only the 2 oonies ($2.00) coins and older coins with copper and silver are recognized by the sovereigns and excalliburs .good signals usually mean gold and siver . - mike
Mike it's sad they make those coins so cheap.Thanks Ron