I have written in the past about hitting pennies and dimes with similar numbers….I hit plenty of pennies from 41 to 46…..The dimes would hit from 45-47…What I did was to hunt in 4 tone, and I adjusted my last tone break at 45 instead of 40….I went back to hunting, and when I heard a cracking tone that went back and forth in between the 2 last tones, I would dig….Many times the number would read 45, yet crackled from the lower tone to the higher tone….EVERY TIME this would happen, I would dig a dime….I dug ZERO pennies !! I was so tired of hitting 45/46 and digging pennies when the tone break was set to 40…Setting it to 45 made all the difference in the world !
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My Penney/dime dilema
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Odanscoils
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Nice work. Thanks for posting.
Thank you !!……I hope Nokta comes out with a Legend Plus that comes with a 0-100 scale instead of the 0-60…..with all the adjustments already offered (tone break adjustments, pitch adjustments, etc) an extended scale would be the icing on the cake !
sprchng
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Of course different soils change TIDs a bit but I would never kick out copper pennies. I detect with full tones , no bins just a little disc. Too many good things fall in the 42 to 44 range like thin silver rings and charms and any low conductor near quarters , halves or dollar coins can pull them below 45 without much trouble. I'll blow a lot of scratchy 40 to 42s off as zincs but feel compelled to dig any thing in that range that sounds clean. I have close to 60 pounds of copper pennies just waiting for a method to melt them down
That would a great thing to have. Wonder if it would require a hardware change or is it in the firmware
Odanscoils
Well-known member
Make your own bullets.Of course different soils change TIDs a bit but I would never kick out copper pennies. I detect with full tones , no bins just a little disc. Too many good things fall in the 42 to 44 range like thin silver rings and charms and any low conductor near quarters , halves or dollar coins can pull them below 45 without much trouble. I'll blow a lot of scratchy 40 to 42s off as zincs but feel compelled to dig any thing in that range that sounds clean. I have close to 60 pounds of copper pennies just waiting for a method to melt them down
Corbin swaging dies.
For whatever reason, if you run 4 tone, and adjust your last tone break to 45 instead of 40, clad dimes will come in as either a higher tone, or a higher/lower tone mixed….Your pennies will come in at the lower tone with no high tone mixed in….This has worked wonders for me as hearing the difference is nice if you want to avoid a pocket full of pennies…Some are worried about losing Silver, but your still hearing a tone and seeing a number, so you clearly don’t miss anything
Wouldn’t it be nice to take a little bit of technology from each of the old detectors that we all swung and loved, and put together a LIGHT WEIGHT detector for us old geezers !….After all, we’re the ones keeping their lights on !!
