OMEGA FINDS 5 WEEKS

[tmanly]

I have had my Omega for 5 weeks now. here is what I have found with the unit. 467 MEM pennys, 42 clad quarters, 1 Kennedy half, 83 clad dimes, 1 Merc dime 1944, 18 1/2 wheat pennys (1- 1914D)
1 ball of silver (low grade), 2 rings, 1 watch, 3 charms, 1 Shell oil token 1960, several metal buttons, 4 keys, 22 nickels (3 1944P)

 

[tmanly]

Here is the 1914D

 

[bugg]

Its a real coin grabber! What has been your deepest find so far? What tones do you usually run? Inquiring minds want to know! Good job

 

[tmanly]

10" is about the deepest signal that I have dug. I usually run all metal with 16 on Disc. I like the three tones. Might could get deeper with a higher sensitivity but will run around 80 unless there is a lot of
power lines or other interference. It seems like this unit likes any metal object that is round, does not matter the size. It is a really fun machine. I started this hobby to get exercise and I find that I can not wait to go out with it. When I am out all I think about is what the machine is telling me. It is a great stress reducer.

 

[D&P-OR]

Congrats on that '14-D! -----The only "1914-D" Wheatback that I ever found with a metal detector was a counterfeit one (a counterfeited '44-D).---I thought I really had something till a coin shop owner friend of mine looked at it and "let the wind out of my sails" --------Del

 

[bubbadirect]

Holy cow tmanly! Where in the world are you hunting to find all this money? Seriously, where?

Congrats,
bubbadirect

 

[Joenaz]

That's quite a collection. Congrats on collecting a hoard.

 

[tmanly]

I have been hunting two parks and one TOT lot. There are lots of sidewalks and I have found that around two feet to each side tends to have a lot of coins. I have about cleaned them out now but still go because it is about 5 minutes from home to each site. Big festival this next weekend with kid rides and all. Will go back after that.

 

[twoscoots]

n/t

 

[twoscoots]

Have you noticed any difference when the ground is wet? I ran under my parents clothes lines after a rain and pulled 3 coins that I had misses a week earlier.By the way, Great finds! I run the f5

 

[tmanly]

Sure the wet ground makes a difference. Seems to get a little better depth but in bad soil with high iron it makes it worse. So it is good and bad. I have been around water with the Omega several times and do not think it likes it very much. Just my thoughts. I am waiting on permission to hunt a shut down Fair Grounds. I am excited about this and hope it comes to be. Wished I could find
a buddy close by that was into detecting. I believe that would open up a few doors as everyone always hunts the family yards first. We could hunt some of mine and theirs.

 

[BH_Landstar_]

This is mine since Jan 2010 ......... Most of the finds using an F4.

1 Silver cross (belly button ring)
1 Silver pendant
1 Silver quarter (1960)
1 Silver Half Dollar (1964)
1 Walking Liberty Half Dollar (1942) Found 05/23/10
17 Silver rings (925 / Sterling)
1 Gold ring (14k)
and .... $475.75 in clad coins (05/24/10)

 

[UtahRich]

Tmanly,

Congrats on the 1914-D Penny. That's a keeper.

Rich

 

[j3cwill]

Good luck on the shut down fairgrounds. It is always fun to hunt an exclusive site. My wife's uncle and I have exclusive access to a local race track that has been around forever. They have tons of people camping out for each race weekend, so plenty of coins to dig

 

[bubbadirect]

tmanly, I tried hunting the local park within 2 feet of the sidewalks for a section of about 50 yards one way on 1 side, then back on the other side. I found a BUNCH of pennies! But no silver. ughh. I know that it is still out there!

bubbadirect

 

[tmanly]

bubbadirect, sure there is more, go slow and try sweeping in different directions, I will go north to south on one trip and on the next I will go east to west. It makes a good cross pattern and I find I miss very little. Also overlap the sweeps. The signal is like a funnel. The lower the target the more likely you are to miss it with a narrow signal at the deepest end of the detector's signal. Think of a V
this is what the signal looks like in shape. Great machine Omega, a true joy to operate. Good Luck and let us know what else you find, Pictures too.....

 

[bubbadirect]

tmanly, my question comes in with the 10" stock coil, how do you weed out the screw caps and pull tabs? What do they read on your machine? I have been using the 11" DD coil and someone suggested that I go back to the 10" for better discrimination of them nasty screw caps. What readings tell you to dig?

Thanks,
bubbadirect

 

[Monte]

You made a statement below that really sums up what is required with ANY make or model if we want to be successful. You said:

"When I am out all I think about is what the machine is telling me."​

It's very important to learn all we can about any detector and coil combination we use, and this suggests why you're having he success you're reporting.

Okay, now a few observations and comments with regard to "Coin Shooting." As I read your comments in this post as well as others who responded or on other posts and forums, I note that quite often there will be comments about "not finding silver coins" or I'll note a percentage breakdown that really favors pennies. Sometimes the posts are about finds made in a wood-chip or sand-filled Playground (Tot-Lot), or others from working an open park lawn, a private yard, sidewalk easements (between the street and sidewalk), or maybe coin-shooting an old fairground or old picnic grove or other old-use site.

Over 45 years of detecting confirms my beliefs/opinions of the following:

1.. The "hey day" of metal detecting from the very late '60s thru the '70s and into about the mid-to-late '80s saw a LOT of people hunting every public-access site. This includes not just parks and schools and well known older sites, but in many locations the parking strips.

2.. Those of us who were the "early birds" got the worms, and many of those were silvery or older "worms" disguised as coins. "Silver Shooting" is a lot tougher now, but that make the recovery even more special and a bigger reward than it used to be.

3.. Most of the typical hunting sites used to only have lower-conductive or iron-based "trash" to deal with, such as hair pins, a few nails, small gum wrapper foil, bottle caps, etc. Today, and over the past quarter of a century, the amount of higher-conductive trash has grown, and the types of litter challenges that cause target masking or fool us with copy-cat signals can be quite frustrating.

4.. In some locations the lowly penny is just meaningless to many who don't want to pick them up if they are sighted, but their color lets them blend in much faster than a shiny nickel or dime or quarter, and the result is a higher percentage of pennies in our coin counts. This means that site selection will make a big difference.

5.. There are still older silver coins to be found. They are definitely not in the quantity they once were, but let's fact it, they last made them 46 years ago in regular minting. Older sites got thinned out and our challenge now it to seek our potential sites, hunt more patiently, and remove a lot of the shallower masking trash.

As I reflected on your reported finds from the first 5 Weeks with the Omega, I see that you have found a total of 634 coins. This breaks down to the following percentages by denomination:

50

 

[tmanly]

I always felt that the larger coins such as quarters and halves are harder to find because if someone drops them,
1. they are easier to find or see on the ground
2. they are worth more and would be more likely to look longer for them.

That is a great breakdown. I would have thought the nickles would have been a lower percentage. It took me a little longer to understand what the Omega was telling me and eliminate digging
a ton of pop tops.

Thanks for all the math. I will see if I can work on some of the lower percentages. Please continue to update your totals also.

Tom

 

[bubbadirect]

Monte-wow! What an amzing post! Thank you for your break down of why it is harder to find silver these days. You said, "I note that quite often there will be comments about "not finding silver coins" or I'll note a percentage breakdown that really favors pennies." That nails it! My omega seems to lock onto the newer pennies, but I have a conspiracy theory that someone littered this park with pennies one day just to tease people like me detecting!

No seriously, I just need to research this more and find out the potential places that will still produce silver for me! I am trying to go to different parks here in Indianapolis to see which ones are good ones. I found 49 cents right next to the ball diamond today, and only dug a few pull tabs and only 1 screw cap, so I think I am finally "starting to understand this machine a little better", and to do what you recommend..."When I am out all I think about is what the machine is telling me."

bubbadirect