QUESTION ON WHERE INDIAN HEAD PENNIES

[Anonymous]

register on the Explorer XS screen: Do they show at the same place on the screen as Wheaties or zincs? I am curious about this as I have found my share of old silver, Wheaties and zincs, and I know that there HAS to be Indianheads in my area, but as of yet have not found one with my XS. Any input is greatly appreciated! Thanks! ~Larry~

 

[Anonymous]

the bronze ones will read anywhere from just below zinc to wheat penny area.. keep digging those signals and you will get some eventually

 

[Anonymous]

Most will hit about the same area as a zinc penny amybe a hair lower. Old fat ones hit about pulltab area.
Seek and you shall find. They are out there

 

[Anonymous]

I have found only maybe 30 Indianheads compared to 500 wheats and 100 silver coins. Of the 30, 10 where from one site where a bulldozer had scraped off a foot of soil and exposed a very old layer. Indians are there but they are mostly deep, which tells me that by the 1950's there were relatively few in circulation, in my opinion. Maybe someone who was spending coin in the 50's could tell you for sure.
I cannot detect coins below 6" in local ground conditions, which is why I believe I have found so few Indians.
On the XS Indians will ID very close to or the same as zinc pennies. Experiment with a few Indians and zincs.

 

[Anonymous]

I have got one each time I went out this last week (1886, 1888, 1889 and 1907)and find they will read like a zinc penny. I have been using digital on my XS II and they will read from 24-25 conductivity and 7 ferrous, but 2 of them did read as low as 23 conductivity. I also find some of the older wheats also read this too, but most wheat read 27-28 on conductivity.
If you are in a area that you are getting older wheaties in the teen and 20s you should be finding IH.
Good luck as when you leat expect it a IH will show up.
Rick

 

[Anonymous]

If you have a local coin shop where you live I would recommend you go buy an Indian Head penny for testing purposes. It won't cost much, but what it tells you when you scan it will be priceless.
marty-il

 

[Anonymous]

Hey Larry,
You might want to buy a couple indian head pennies and experiment with them.
Also, if you learn in an indian head penny, you can use your coin program to find the easy IH hits.
But if you are going for deep IH's or IH's next to trash, you probably will need to go by sound only since the screen can be corrupted by deep coins or coins next to trash.
Mike

 

[Anonymous]

Don't forget IH fatty's hit on the very edge of the pulltab range. I usually dig anything that hits in the area where a wheatie hits. The IH's is close to the wheatie. For the most part if something hit on the upper right of the screen I dig it. What I did was take a transparency and taped it to the front of the Explorer's LCD. Then I found a clean spot in my yard and laid each coin down and marked (on the transparency) where each one hit with a green marker. I mostly hunt by sound anymore but it helped me alot in the beginning when I relied on the LCD more. I would recommend starting to learning sounds on the Explorer. I makes alot of difference is getting deeper coins.
-Bill

 

[Anonymous]

I have to agree with Rick(ND) I use the digital screen and mine came in as ferrous 7 conduct 25-26. Dig anything 5 inches or deeper too.

 

[Anonymous]

Really close to like a zinc penny for the bronze IH's. I've found older corroded wheaties that hit like this sometimes too. If you hit a signal lik that and it's shallow, DON'T just take it for granted that it's a zinc!! I say this because I've dug 2 nice IH's from less than 2".
For Flying Eagles and Fattie IH's, they hit close to a pulltab or sometimes like shotgun brass. I just found my very first Flying Eagle the week before last and it sounded a lot like a pulltab but it didn't make sense because it was deep and also because I was hunting an area very unlkely to contain many pulltabs.