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Looking for numbers for gold coins on Sunray meter.

M

Macaco

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Hi All,

I use a Sov XS with a Sunray DTI II meter.

I'm hoping that someone who has a Sov and the same meter might have numbers for $5, $10, and $20 gold pieces.

There's a location where some guys found quite a few gold coins back in the 80's and I have the opportunity to go work the area. I tried it once a couple months ago and there is a lot of trash. Tons of tabs, shredded alumimum, brass sheeting, foil and other various junk.

The area is huge and I want to really work as much of it as I can. If I stop to dig every good signal my chances of digging a gold coin is minimal because there's so much trash and the area is so big. All I care to find there are gold coins. If I leave clad and silver in the ground that's ok with me at this location.

So, if I had a really good idea of the gold coin numbers I would just dig targets that show up at those numbers. There are probably tabs and other pieces of junk on those same numbers but that's ok with me. I don't mind digging some junk but I only want to dig targets that show up on the same numbers as gold coins.

Also, what kind of audio tones could I expect with gold coins of the denominations I listed? High, medium, low? Smooth or brash?

The meter decal shows numbers for gold coins as follows:

$20 177-180
$10 173-176
$5 169-172

The ground is really clean (little mineralization) and I can run the sensitivity at full throttle. I found clads and copper coins that all hit at a solid '180' so I'm thinking the gold coins should should all hit on single numbers based on their size.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.
 
a 1 dollar gold would probally be 132 ish with the other demonitaions beiging 159 and higher ........its tough to say .depends how long they have been sitting ,and if they are near trash they wont id right ......if gold coins were are comming out ,you should find out how deep they average and dig all signals in that range ,if its loaded with moderen junk its gonna be a tough hunt ,,,,,,good luck
 
Thanks for the input Adam,

There is a lot of trash but clads and coppers are a solid '180' on the meter. The nails and other junk don't blur their conductivity so I was hoping gold coins might be the same.

I got nickles at the location too and they all lock on at '145'.

Do you think American gold coins won't reliably show up at a reliable number even though clads and nickles do? I don't have any American gold coins to test against the meter.

If gold coins are going to show up all over the meter and I have to dig all the junk I'll just skip the spot completely. It's a long way from where I live and I just can't spend a whole lot of time there.

Thanks again.
 
plus with the sov. you have the tone to help you as well ,,,,,,I bet a twenty dollar gold piece would melt the headphones........good luck .....
 
All the coins found were 5's, 10's and 20's. More 20's than 5's and 10's.

The chart says that a clad quarter or dime will read between 177 and 180 but I can't remember the last time I found either one of those that didn't hit a solid 180.

I was hoping that someone had single numbers for each of the three bigger denomination gold coins where they tend to lock on.

BTW, thanks for making those DTI meters. Mine has been a huge help to me over the years.
 
The reason you see the different numbers on the face of the meter for the coins is because in some cases trash can make the number lower that is close. The meter can get out of calibration a little with the heat or cold too, plus some ground minerals too.
Now you see by the number that these same numbers are where most of your coins come in at, so if there is gold coins there you will dig them if you are looking for pennies, dime, quarters or halves. The $20 will read like any copper, clad or silver coins will read. The $10 will read like the new zinc pennies or the IH will, but the $5 which is the most common gold coin found will read like a pull tab will, but if like a gold ring will have a smoother tone to them than a pull tab. Most pull tabs will not have the nice tone to them as they are not even or round like a ring or coin will. The only gold coins will be the $2 1/2 and the $1 one that will read lower and may be harder to find as you don't see many of them being found.
If this site has any $10 or $20 gold coins and you are looking for any coins you will find them, the $5 you will have to listen to the tones a little better and dig the smoother sounding ones and I think you will also find them weaker sounding too as they should be deeper than pull tabs unless this site the ground has been turned like a farm field.

Good Luck

Rick
 
Gold coins are not something that was lost much like other coins were, so the chances are very slim on finding one, but they are out there and unless you find a site that hasnt been worked too much your chance are very very slim as they would have been picked up already by other coin hunters because of where they read on the meters or where they read on other detectors..
 
Here's the deal.

There were several guys who worked the area in the early 80's. I talked to them and it turns out they found all the gold coins in an area they worked looking for regular type stuff.

They found a few gold coins, did some research and found out that this site had been a ranch in the late 1800's. The owner died, the property had been aquired by the municipality, bulldozed flat and put to other uses. They went back a few times and found more gold coins.

What these guys are sure they found was the spread of a gold coin cache which was dispersed by tractors. This area now (and when they found the coins) is a huge, public area. They worked it with detectors which were state of the art in the early 80's, back in the 80's. They pretty much figured they worked it out.

I want to go back and grid the several acres there and see if there are more gold coins. I can't do it effectively if I'm digging every signal that might be "something" (see what I'm saying?).

I'm not a neophyte in the sport. I'm just asking if anyone has numbers. That's all........
 
Thanks Rick,

I want to work a huge area with my big 'coinsearch' coil. I'll dig '180' if that's where $20.00 gold will be.

If a $10.00 piece shows '176'...well....I'll dig everything at 176. I don't mind digging some zincs if that's where eagles show up on the meter.

What I'm asking for, more than anything is, if you wanted to work an area where good numbers of gold coins were known to be have been found and that's all you really wanted to retrieve from that area (all you care about is digging a gold coin), what numbers on the DTI meter would you dig?

Thanks for the input. I can use what you gave me for sure.
 
I'm not the master of the gold rings by any means, but what I've noticed with the few I've dug is that they seem to be much more consistant numerically than "junk" when you sweep them from different directions.

I think that amounts to the about the same thing as a "smoothness" of sound.

How about I follow along behind you and dig the iffy signals? ;)
 
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