I headed out of Edmonton late this morning to another popular snow hill. I dug some more coins and fortunately, some one and two dollar coins were found to really bring up the totals. You can see some of the coins starting to rust. Our latest clad - nickels, dimes and quarters are nickel plate over steel punched planchets. The ATX is hot on nickel, which is close or at some of the gold targets we find. And of course the ATX is tweaked to hit hard at those conductive levels. Our loonies give a nice softer audio and out toonies give a nice strong confusing signal due to the outer nickel ring and the center which is made up of mostly copper. Our mint quit making pennies two years ago, a real blessing too! Kids used to throw them at each other, and they were often found scattered in large quantities all over school and sports field.
Here's my coin totals found only with the ATX so far this year. I keep my sensitivity set at about 8, as I really don't want to try and hack out deep signals in the ground. The modulated audio makes it so easy to accurately guesstimate depths of coin sized targets. I dig all Low-high good sounding signals, as they could be a silver coin or ring or penny.
Here are a couple of rings I dug up so far this year. They are quite rare at this time of year. Not gold or silver, but I was just happy to get them anyways. The coin on the left is 5 rupees from India and the one on the right is from the UK.
