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I'll Put The Omega Back Into The Teknetics Forum LoL

MarkCZ

MarkCZ

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The best that my records are, I believe this to be my oldest find to date, oldest silver for sure.
I found this Quarter in our local city park, the coin predates the park a few years (park goes back to the 20's)
The park has been a battle ground for metal detecting sense the late 70's the park is a large one and heavily hunted!

I found the quarter at about 7" with the Omega and the 11" DD coil. I was also using my SunRay Gold Headphones.
The quarter ended up getting a couple of scratches because right at its depth was a gravel bed and between the small plug, deep hole, and having to stir the gravel and almost giving up on it altogether out it came. You can tell from the wear that it was carried for a few years before it got lost.

It wasn't an easy find, but its a good find for me from this park.

Mark
 
Very nice. I just got a gamma yesterday and still learning it.gonna take awhile. I can't wait too pull up my first old coin with it..
 
Awesome find! just curious what setting you were on and what kind of signal and vid you got out of it. I found a nice silver pendant last week and apparently lost it again before I got to the truck, anyway trying to re-find it I dug up several iffy signals and to my surprise found several coins, mostly on edge. But all had bouncy tids that I normally wouldn't have dug up, just been wondering how much good stuff Ive been missing since then.
 
caleb said:
Awesome find! just curious what setting you were on and what kind of signal and vid you got out of it. I found a nice silver pendant last week and apparently lost it again before I got to the truck, anyway trying to re-find it I dug up several iffy signals and to my surprise found several coins, mostly on edge. But all had bouncy tids that I normally wouldn't have dug up, just been wondering how much good stuff Ive been missing since then.
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I actually found the quarter near a week ago by this time.
But here is the settings that I can remember.
I was going for as Hot of settings I could go but stable and quite.
Sensitivity was 65-69 (just below the noise level mentioned in the manual)
Disc was just below the nickle range = 51
Default tones.

The Quarter hit pretty good with multiple repeatable signals, not solid and not every swing, but it was faint enough and the high tone signal was one that you wouldn't want to pass up.

The Target ID was in the Quarter range with some bounce but it was hanging in there enough to hint that it was a good chance of being a good target along with the somewhat faint response.

The Omega read the depth at 6" but the quarter was at lest 7" to near 8" range. I have found that even in my test garden the Omega read shallow on depth beyond 4" but that's fine with me.

In my search for metal detectors I keep this park in mind, I know that the really good stuff (coins) from the later 40's to the early 60's run about 4" to 5" deep and when you find silver that's the most common years. This is also the depth range for the beaver tail pull rings which were in use from 1965 to 1975. So, I know that the earlier coins from the 20's to the early 40's will on average be deeper and more towards the 6" to 9" range. So, in detector shopping the unit has to be able to hit good on targets at the 8" range, if it don't its not a keeper (unless for something like tot-lot hunting, or for hunting fresh dropped clad money)
So, I have what is now a pretty well aged 8" coin garden for testing my detectors and coils, I have other gardens as well but for detecting our local park the detector has to hit good in the 8" garden.

Mark
 
Beauty find and good write up...I also noticed that depth readout shallow on deeper sounding targets...good thing a fellow goes by ear and not the screen!
Mud
 
Thanks for the info, Ive been using the heck out of my omega Im on my 3rd battery and have only had it two months. Still getting my ears tuned for the machine. So far the only things I have found more than 6" down are cans and a wadded up staple.
 
Congrats on the silver Mark!! Great to know there is still finds like this out there still waiting to be found!!
 
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