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The Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger Is A Good Coin Hunter Also :clapping:

John-Edmonton

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I don't have tiny nuggets to find in and around Edmonton with this detector, but it sure seems to find the coins. I have been saving this area for the Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger to see how it would pan out. Well, it again surprised me. I set it up as the manual suggested, and ran my sensitivity a little higher then the default setting. You don't hear a loud bell tone on good targets, but what you hear is a nice soft smooth sound in all directions on good targets. I search in the deep true all metal mode, then when I get a target, I flip the switch to motion discriminate. If the audio maintains itself, or decreases slightly, I dig it. Here's a 6 1/2 hour hunt yesterday.

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My first target was that heart locket with a chain still attached to it. A nice find too! My daughter will be thrilled once she gets her paws on it. I continued searching, even when it started raining. That other round thingy is stamped .925, has a couple of jewelers marks on it and a number. I am baffled by it??? A passerby stated "dam companies even make you work in the rain" :rofl: I just agreed with him.

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Here's the best of the best. Nice old silver quarters, a large cent and some nickels. That 1925 penny is a rare mint one.

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Here's a copy out of one of my coin books depicting the mintage and value of that penny. Darned blind luck with that find. :)
 
Very, very nice! I have a 1906 Canadian large cent, beautiful coin and one of my favorites in my collection (although not a MD find)...What are the vials in the last pic? Looks like either gold dust, or sawdust
 
The vials are each filled with about 3/4 ounce of flour gold from the North Saskatchewan River which runs through Edmonton. I used to sluice for gold many years ago. I would go down to the river for a couple of hours after work each day, which was only 5 minutes away.
 
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