Is it possible to disc wheats ...

[Anonymous]

when looking for silver dimes? or should I just be happy to dig them wheats? I'm currently hunting a trashy area that contains mercs and rosies (probably few older silvers), but I seem to be finding loads of wheat cents lately with a dime sprinkled in every 12 wheats or so. The ground is hard clay and roots so digging isn't much fun. Since I usually only have an hour or two to hunt I'd like to find a way to cherry pick the silver, then go back and get the wheats and iffy signals when I have more time. Has anyone figured out how to reliably skip wheat cents without missing silver? Based on the number of silver some guys find, I gotta figure that someone has figured this out to some degree, with all the silver that gets found. I fiddled with the variability settings today but it didn't seem to help. I can distinguish the high pitched ping of silver with the stock coils, and when I go to the X-1 I'm usually 100% certain what I have in the hole, but the corroded wheats sometimes give close to the same sound as a dime, and put the cursor over the edge like dimes. I think the only risk of digging silver dime-only signals is losing out on a heavily worn dime, which I find get close to the same reading as a wheat. Thanks for any help.

 

[Anonymous]

on the other board. Looks like I need a new set of quality headphones.

 

[Anonymous]

Just remember that some wheat cents are great finds, though! Good luck discriminating out cents!

 

[Anonymous]

Scott, have you tried setting up the XS as described by Andy Sabisch in his book 'Mastering the Explorer'. On page 78 he describes how to set up a search pattern for old coins...in this case you could teach the XS to accept only the silver dimes you want (Rosies, Barbers, etc,) and possibly silver quarters, if you don't mind digging them along with the dimes. Just a thought that this might be of help to you. Good luck and good hunting. Jim <IMG SRC="/forums/images/35stars.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=";;"> <IMG SRC="/forums/images/ml.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="m~">

 

[Anonymous]

Jim,
I think if you set up a pattern like this to reject the wheaties and just get the silver you also will miss a lot of silver dimes and still get some wheaties. With any target if it is next to a trash item or even 2 or 3 coins together will throw off the crosshairs so you would not get a signal on it. Just something to think about as many of my silver finds do not read like they should on the crosshairs, but the tones sounds like a coin most of the time.

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Scott,
In relatively clean soil(only one target at a time, no signal averaging) and clean copper coins I think you could fairly easily cherry pick the silver. But if wheats are corroded they tend to sound and ID as silver. This last summer I detected an area along a river that has flooded on a regular basis. All the copper coins were highly corroded, even the newer lincoln memorials. Everything sounded like silver. Think the soil was also quite acidic. All the clad came out with a reddish/pink tinge similar to what I've seen on coins cleaned with acid.
So good luck, nothing wrong with wheaties, and let us know if you figure out a technique.
Chris

 

[Anonymous]

I am happy to dig all wheats. I found two 1922 plains this year and that makes up for the newer zinks I have to dig all the time. I would never intentionally pass up an old coin.

 

[Anonymous]

I don't mind wheaties anyway. And if I find 100 stinky zinkies in the process then that's just another buck for my clad jar......I'm sick and tired of fighting with the depth indicator so I just dig 'em all and sort 'em out later. I've had what I thought was a deep wheatie or IH that turned out to be a zinc at 2", and then on the same day I thought I had a shallow zinc and almost passed on it.....until I dug it up to find an 1892 IH at 6". The depth indicator is definitely the Explorer's Achilles' Heel. Good thing that's the only gripe I have about it, Its pro's outweight its con's by a long shot.