vtcoinhunter
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I've been reading a lot of tesoro forum post about none TID detectors.My question is how can you NOT dig zinc pennies ?I went crazy with my old G Sabre digging the new Lincolns.
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On my Sovereign I had a Sunray numerical meter.
Clad pennies mostly read 176 on the meter so I could avoid most of them. Sometimes they would show up at 172 or 174 though so I still dug plenty of them.
On days where I decided to dig everything I discovered that quarters and dimes occasionally read 176 on the meter so I had been missing good coins while skipping clad pennies.
Clad pennies mostly read 176 on the meter so I could avoid most of them. Sometimes they would show up at 172 or 174 though so I still dug plenty of them.
On days where I decided to dig everything I discovered that quarters and dimes occasionally read 176 on the meter so I had been missing good coins while skipping clad pennies.
simply increase your discriminate level to knock out nickels, pull tabs, 95%+ of all gold jewelry, most screw caps, and the plentiful zinc cents.
If, however, you are hunting a site that is older and you want to get the older coins, then keep the discrimination low. Most all Indian Head cents and many early Wheatbacks from 1909 to about the early 1920's will fall in a similar conductive range as modern zinc cents.
Personally, I recover virtually all coin range signals, even blasted pennies, because the do add up and I don't want to miss something potentially good.
Monte
If, however, you are hunting a site that is older and you want to get the older coins, then keep the discrimination low. Most all Indian Head cents and many early Wheatbacks from 1909 to about the early 1920's will fall in a similar conductive range as modern zinc cents.
Personally, I recover virtually all coin range signals, even blasted pennies, because the do add up and I don't want to miss something potentially good.
Monte
Michigan Badger
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[quote Monte]simply increase your discriminate level to knock out nickels, pull tabs, 95%+ of all gold jewelry, most screw caps, and the plentiful zinc cents.
If, however, you are hunting a site that is older and you want to get the older coins, then keep the discrimination low. Most all Indian Head cents and many early Wheatbacks from 1909 to about the early 1920's will fall in a similar conductive range as modern zinc cents.
Personally, I recover virtually all coin range signals, even blasted pennies, because the do add up and I don't want to miss something potentially good.
Monte[/quote]
I agree. Dig it even if in your wildest dreams it might could be something worth digging.
If, however, you are hunting a site that is older and you want to get the older coins, then keep the discrimination low. Most all Indian Head cents and many early Wheatbacks from 1909 to about the early 1920's will fall in a similar conductive range as modern zinc cents.
Personally, I recover virtually all coin range signals, even blasted pennies, because the do add up and I don't want to miss something potentially good.
Monte[/quote]
I agree. Dig it even if in your wildest dreams it might could be something worth digging.
Uncle Willy
New member
Yeah my buddy over on my forum picks up all pennies and buys a gold coin each year with them. HE has a bunch of gold coins.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Yeah if you ain't digging the crap you ain't digging much else either. The good stuff is right in there with the crap.
Bill
Bill
Like Monte said, most Indian Head cents and many early Wheaties will be in the zinc penny range, but so will some other desirable goodies.
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The ring below is 18 k. and although it's hard to tell from the poor photo that's 1.5 cts of crushed diamonds on it. Huge ring, seated quarter is for size reference, and appraised for over $1,500. That ring, and the 3 class rings in the above photo, ID in the zinc range on most detectors with ID meters, and so did most of the 14 other boys class rings found and returned in the last 17 years. All of the class rings I've found, except one found in a park, were found on local athletic fields along with hundreds, if not thousands, of zincs. The ring below was found near a walking track, many zincs were also dug there. I don't like digging zincs at all, but there are too many goodies in that range to pass them up.
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The ring below is 18 k. and although it's hard to tell from the poor photo that's 1.5 cts of crushed diamonds on it. Huge ring, seated quarter is for size reference, and appraised for over $1,500. That ring, and the 3 class rings in the above photo, ID in the zinc range on most detectors with ID meters, and so did most of the 14 other boys class rings found and returned in the last 17 years. All of the class rings I've found, except one found in a park, were found on local athletic fields along with hundreds, if not thousands, of zincs. The ring below was found near a walking track, many zincs were also dug there. I don't like digging zincs at all, but there are too many goodies in that range to pass them up.
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Yes, I have a website at http://jb-ms.com. I keep a couple of forums archived there, a page for Discovery Electronics Treasure Barons and some other detecting related stuff. I need to upgrade the finds pages for the Treasure Bag, NMHRRA and Baron pages but I've been working so much I haven't had the time or energy. Plus I'm also old and lazy
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.I don't mind the zincs, in fact I hope to get a few each hunt. And then you never know, a few times I think zinc and got surprised with something better, but most cases it wasn't.
I have had times in the last year or so, if it wasn't for zincs, then I would had considered the hunt skunked.
There was a time when I got tired of them, not so now - oh well. Never know...
I have had times in the last year or so, if it wasn't for zincs, then I would had considered the hunt skunked.
There was a time when I got tired of them, not so now - oh well. Never know...
BarberBill
New member
I have two thoughts and experiences concerning zincs. One, on several of my non-tid detectors I have marked where zincs fall out on the disc dial and thumb it to that point to see if the target falls out. If it does not, then the odds are very good that it is a copper or silver coin/target. Two, several times I've dug small gold rings that came in as zinc pennies and have seen other posts on the same thing. I thought it was bad enough that many good targets come in around tabs, but finding out that some also hover around zinc penny settings is one more reason to dig nearly everything if you don't want to miss any jewelry (and have the patience and persistence to do it).
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I was using my XL Pro one day a while back. meter showed Zinc penny. Tone was just a little different, so I dug it and out came a .925 silver women's ring.
After that I dig almost everything. If Zinc's are so bad I just throw them away!
I love my Tejon, I may be digging more junk but that were all the gold & silver lies
After that I dig almost everything. If Zinc's are so bad I just throw them away!
I love my Tejon, I may be digging more junk but that were all the gold & silver lies