The Wife's away, this mouse did play!

[Mick in Dubbo]

Hi All.
The things a man's got to due to enjoy this hobby of ours!
Kicked the wife and kids out yesterday for a couple of weeks of peace and quiet. Sent her to her mums'. Would have gone detecting then, but got distracted by another interest:Ultralights. had the national ultralight fly in, in a neighbouring town.Life is just too hard sometimes.
Anyway; after church and lunch today, I finally got the XT-30 out this afternoon, for a bit of play time.Walked down to my favourite park
for 3hrs of strait detecting time.Life just seems to get harder. After hunting in pattern1 for a bit, I seemed to be digging up junk only, I switched into the all metal mode.What a difference that made.Started hearing lots more signals right away.End result.Dug 50% less trash and started pulling coins out of the ground!Even had a signal from a $2 coin that would have been masked by 2 other very close signals if I was in coin mode.Lesson. more signals=less trash.
Still seem to struggle with probing especially on our $2 coins because they're so small, but the solution should arrive on Tuesday in the form of a pocketUniprobe from Dave at "Dixie's" (can't buy coin pin-pointers here in Oz). Looking forward to using that baby! but not next weekend, on account that a friend of mine has helped to organise another full blown air show in another neighbouring town 130kms on the
other side of town!Oh life, you can be so cruel sometimes!
Anyway,back to this hobby.The end result for the day, was a total amount of finds being $23.40, one set of keys and one Easter egg!
Coins found were,$2 nine, $1 five, 20cents two, missed coins on account of bad probing technique, about $7! Had to include "the ones that got away stories".
Anyway, enjoy the holidays, more detecting time!
Mick Evans.

 

[BOB VALDEZ]

I read your post and I understand your 2 dollar coins is small. But I thought you didn't have a 2 dollar coin ? At least, that is what I understand after all my posts with my finds in Euro. We have a 2 Euro coin and a out of a few reactions I thought you only used smaller coins.

So, this is my question : where can I find the coins that you are using NOW in the US ? A picture, I mean ?

Or can anyone post a picture with the coins you are using (NOT the old ones, please, that is TOO confusing for me).

Just being curious...

Thanks in advance !

BOB VALDEZ, Belgium

 

[Gadget]

No $2 coins in US that I'm aware of unless there's some very old ones. I think Mick is in Australia (guessing) and they do have a $2 coin.

Try this one for US coins... Just obverse shown, but that will get you started. http://mistupid.com/currency/index.htm

 

[BOB VALDEZ]

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[Mick in Dubbo]

Hi Bob.
Yes, I do live in Australia. Dubbo is 400kms(250miles) north west of Sydney. We Have both $1 and $2 dollar coins.The $1 coin,from a collectors point of view, is the more interesting.There are at least 27 different designs on the back of it.It is 25mm(1inch)in diameter.It's composition is:92% Copper,6% Aluminium,2% Nickel.It weighs 9gms and is gold in colour. It was introduced in 1984.
The $2 coin on the other hand, has only one design.It is 20mm in diameter(they look smaller than that) and it's composition is:Cupro Nickel 92%, Aluminium 6%,and Nickel 2%. It weighs 6.6gms. They are also gold in colour and were brought into circulation in 1986.They're obviously more fun to find due to their higher value. The other thing about the $2 coin, is that due to their smaller size; when they are dropped, they only make slight chink sort of sound and not the typical ringing sound you might associate with a coin falling out of your pocket. All us Aussie detectorist can say about that is.......YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Typically these coins read 32 on the X-Terra30.sometimes they can fluctuate between 32 and 28, and sometimes they can read 28. Mostly it's the $2 coin that will do that.Occasionally a $1 coin will come in at 32 and then fluctuate up to 36 a bit. If you get an even fluctuation between 32 and 36, then it is a one cent coin(now out of circulation).
I think that you would love our fifty cent coin. They read 24 on the 30's TID. They have many different designs; possibly over a hundred, and a lot of the designs are very beautiful. Why so many. The 50c coin is the coin that is used to mark special occasions.
I tried to post a picture of some of my finds about a month ago, which had lot of $1 and $2 coins, but couldn't figure out how to attach the photo.Tried the photo upload. Sorry about that. Just wish I could do it.If your keen to see what they look like, then the best suggestion I could make is, type in "Royal Australian Mint" into your search engine.The site there should tell you anything you want to know about Australian currency.
Sorry if I confused you into thinking I was a Yank! No offence fellas! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Mick Evans.

 

[BOB VALDEZ]

Hello Mick !

Sorry, my mistake about those dollars. I thought you were talking of
US currency.Hey, how about posting a few pictures of your Australian coins ?

I sure would love to see them !!!

Our Euros don't score so high on the ID of the X-Terra 50. 1 Euro = 27 and the 2 Euro coin is also 27 but not always "convincing". I must have missed "a lot". At least, that is what I keep telling myself, lol ! Our 50 cents = 33, the 10 and 20 cent are 27-30, I believe...

BOB VALDEZ, Belgium

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

I'd love to oblige you Bob. I Have a couple of pictures stored on the computer.How do you post them? If you let me know, I'll try and post them after work tomorrow. It's 11.15pm here, so I'm going to bed now.
Cheers.
Mick Evans.

 

[brissietex]

Mike,

Good to see someone else here that has an X-Terra in Oz. Last week, I picked up a XT-70 (to replace/supplement my CZ-70 which got swamped and is a bit on the unreliable side) and tho Easter weekend was a bit of a NDH "No Detector Holiday" (turns out that we were camped in an ideal location for some gold prospecting. always the optimist ), I am looking forward to stretching my legs over the ANZAC Day holiday. Hmmm...reminds me, better put my holiday form in for Monday to get that extra day off this weekend. 4 days up and down the coast sounds like heaven right now. Need to go work off those Easter Eggs...

I chose the XT-70 for amongst other things, the beach mode. The Gold and Sunshine Coasts are just begging for a swing.

Did you ever get a chart for the Aussie Coins? I got one thru David Cooper at Treasure Enterprises that I need to put to computer.

cheers...BrissieTex

 

[BOB VALDEZ]

Mick,

If you have taken the pictures, go to :

http://www.imgfree.net/

and load the ones you want to load. You can load up as much as 20, but I think you'll just have a few. I would chose "width 600"...

Uploading the pictures can take a minute. When done so, go to the lower frame and click right mouse button + copy.

Then type your post here and "paste" the link. I hope you understand it. In fact, it is very simple but I must be honest : it took me A WEEK to understand it !!!
But then, English is only my 3rd language...

I hope you can manage. Sure would love to see the Australian coins !

BOB VALDEZ, Belgium (had a good hunting day, will post a few pictures later on)

 

[BobH]

This may help Mick.

1. Press the <b>Upload Photo</b> button.
2. Press the <b>Browse</b> button (This allows you to navigate your computer to where your photo is stored).
  2b. <b>Click on your photo</b> to highlight it then Press the <b>Open</b> button.
3. Press the <b>Attach Photo</b> button (This uploads your photo to Findmall's computer).
4. Press the <b>Insert Into Post</b> button (which inserts your photo into the message area with something like this: <font color="red">[attachment 29999 yourphoto.jpg]</font> - (including brackets).
5. Press the <b>Preview</b> button now or go to step 6.
6. Add text and/or another photo(s) and press the <b>Preview</b> button if necessary (you may have to add some HTML tags to get things the way you want).
7. When satisfied with the preview(s) press the <b>Post message</b> button.

Send me an email or personal message if you need help.

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[Mick in Dubbo]

G'day Brissietex
Welcome aboard the findmall site.
I take it, that from your post and name that you live in Brisbane?
I think that you will have a lot of fun with the X-T70. I'm quite interested in how they deal with hot rocks. I'm not sure if they have that ability, but they sure will go great on the beach. Hopefully Minelab will make some larger coils so that you can find even deeper targets.
It's a shame you couldn't smuggle in the detector and try your luck at a bit of gold.
I'm a bit envious of you having all those lovely beaches to detect. I'd love to have a good crack at that.I'm trying to justify a good excuse to get myself down to Newcastle and hit the beaches down there. I've already identified about 40 hot zones away from the beach that I'm just busting to get the detector over.Might have to take a week off work and have a detecting only holiday Hopefully in the next 12 to 18 months We might even get up to the Gold Coast for a holiday and take the kids to all the theme parks(and pack the X30).
Keep an eye out for where all the events are going to be held on ANZAC day. You might surprise yourself with how many sites that might be worth detecting later.
Thanks for the info about the coin chart. I didn't know that David did that.Not surprising really, when you consider some of the info on his website. Quite a labour of love and his allowed all of us to benefit from it. I bought my first detector from him.
I hope you have a good long weekend and post your finds.
Thanks, Mick Evans.
P.S. Bob Valdez. I haven't forgotten to post those pictures;Still figuring it out. I'll post them as soon as I can. They're a bit blurry, but they're all I've got at the moment.

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

Finally Got it there Bob's.I still don't know how I did it, but it was a combination of both your ideas! Thanks heaps for the help!
Both the 20 and 5 cent coins are normally silver in appearance.
Sorry about the picture quality. I'll try and do better next time.
This picture was meant to accompany my post of about 4 weeks ago, tittled "A fifty Dollar day" These are the finds of that day.
You will notice that I have labelled six different $1 coins. The one on the far left (three kangaroos on it) is the standard $1 coin and by far the most numerous, and the others (also fairly common) are celebration coins of various occasions. They have no extra value, but they are nice to look at.
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Enjoy,
Mick Evans.

 

[BobH]

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