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I Love Digging Those Pennies Everyone Passes On

plidn1

plidn1

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I was with the MXT walking the tree line in my park. I have worked this part of the park many times with all my detectors.
As I approached a spot I had found a gold ring at in the past, the detector hit on a "Penny" at 6". I went around the target and it was bouncing between penny and bottle cap.
But it was a strong hit, and I dug a plug. At four 1/2 inches I rescanned the hole and it read pull tab at 6". I thought I was done at this point, but decided to get it out.
Going down about 6 1/2", I scanned the plastic pan containing the remaining dirt from the plug, and the target was there. The top clump of mud produced black hills gold (10 K).
Right with it was a 1" piece of foil!
This is why not only do you dig pennies, but you dig EVERYTHING else.

Sorry for the bad pics.
 
Nice find! You're right about digging everything if you don't want to miss gold but you're welcome to have all the Zinc pennies I pass up. Those corroded out pennies are worthless and any gold that falls into those VDI numbers you can have. :surrender:
 
Tom Slick said:
Nice find! You're right about digging everything if you don't want to miss gold but you're welcome to have all the Zinc pennies I pass up. Those corroded out pennies are worthless and any gold that falls into those VDI numbers you can have. :surrender:
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This ring VDI'd bouncing from 55 to 70 at 6".
When I rescanned the 4" hole, I got a VDI of 42, I was probably hitting the piece of aluminum and missed the ring. They were very close together.
 
Hay I am with you on that , and you know why
 
I dig cents, but prefer older non zinc ones. I can notch those out. I realize I may me missig some good finds that way? Well that is OK by me. Vongrats on your goldring. I bet though that If I had hit the target I would have dug it also. All IMHO, Beale.
 
Sorry Guys but to me a Coin is a Coin. I don't care if it is Zincoln or not I am digging it. Pull Tabs are to be avoided at all cost though.
 
I found a black hills gold and sterling silver diamond ring that came in as a zinc penny. I don't pass many up these days .. :detecting:
 
Nice ring! You found two gold rings in that area?
I would be hitting that whole treeline so hard!

I found a junk ring today. It was bouncing between pulltab, nickel, and iron.
I was thinking it was possibly a coin being masked by trash.
Saw gold. :happy:
Saw rust. :sad:

I dig everything that isn't iron. If I get any good tone out of a target at all, I dig.

But...
I'm still new to this, and I haven't detected anywhere but my own yard so far.
I think eventually I'll get tired of digging trash and start skipping stuff,
but not for a while. I'm still learning what is what
 
I dig all coin signals. Only time I will pass on zincs is when a billion are present and I'm not in the mood. Reason to especially dig the copper ones (and even the zincs) though is on my machines that can tell coins apart I've dug plenty of silver dimes that read like a penny due to being worn, on edge, in bad ground, masked, or because of dry conditions. That's why it doesn't bother me that the machine I'm using now lumps all coins above copper penny into one ID #, because when I'm old coin hunting if it's super deep or shallow but mixed in trash I just want to know it's a coin because I'm digging it. Only thing I care about being able to ID is zincs for when I don't want to mess with them and those do ID lower on the scale so I'm good.

I've dug quite a number of silvers that read as copper pennies in the past, and I've dug some that read as zincs too. The last one that comes to mind was a merc that had a galvanized short tack-like nail in the hole with it. Also, if say a bunch of nickles are in the hole with a silver they might average down to a zinc too sometimes in ID # on a machine. There ARE gold rings that make it up into the coin range too, so dig those pennies, zinc or copper! Oh...and there are a few old odd coins that read in the penny or even zinc range. Silver half dimes or 3 cent pieces I think off hand can read around there on some machines.
 
I forgot to mention in my previous post that this coin rang up as a zincoln at 5 inches deep in a park. I dug it as I do every solid signal that is deep. You really never know if you will get a coin, a token, a very old presidential pin or something great that is not a coin.

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I really think the meters and numbers are completly over rated and I have ALWAYS listened for sollid beeps to dig. I used to have a Whites Eagle SL 2 and it was a fantastic depth machine. Sold it for a Whites Spectrum and have always regreted it.
 
scubadetector said:
I forgot to mention in my previous post that this coin rang up as a zincoln at 5 inches deep in a park. I dug it as I do every solid signal that is deep. You really never know if you will get a coin, a token, a very old presidential pin or something great that is not a coin.

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I really think the meters and numbers are completly over rated and I have ALWAYS listened for sollid beeps to dig. I used to have a Whites Eagle SL 2 and it was a fantastic depth machine. Sold it for a Whites Spectrum and have always regreted it.
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" IF YOU DON'T DIG IT, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT IT REALLY WAS"
Nothing comes easy, but the gold is worth all the effort.
 
Several years ago I read on one forum or another that small gold jewelry would often ID as a zinc penny. I had quit digging zincs most of the time as they are so often corroded and cruddy. Anyway, on the next hunt I decided to dig zincs and damned if the second one didn't turn out to be a small, black hills gold ring. Just shows again that in the end digging and looking is the only sure way to know what you have.
BB
 
Black hills gold is alloyed with copper to get the rose color and is only 10K gold. Stands to reason it would show up in the penny range.
 
Wasn't aware of the Black Hills alloy, but I've begun digging zincs most of the time since.
BB
 
Alot of my IH pennies rang up as a zincoln....
 
I have always dug all pennies including zincolns, and have urged others to do the same.
Lots of reasons, but here are 5 of the best ones...all zinc signals.
 
REVIER said:
I have always dug all pennies including zincolns, and have urged others to do the same.
Lots of reasons, but here are 5 of the best ones...all zinc signals.
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Those are the five best reasons I can think of. Beautiful Rings.
My initial education with digging pennies was when I dug a heavy sterling bracelet. I was so stunned that every time I think my back hurts too much to bend over and dig that last penny, It flashes thru my mind to remind me not to be stupid and dig.
 
A Penny is a Coin and that is what I came to do is dig Coins.
 
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