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Went over the 1000 qtr mark for the yr!

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cintisteve

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I have officially went over 1000 qtr mark for the yr. My count stands at 1002 including todays finds.Im at about 2110 coins for the yr.Found 21 qtrs today and a Susan B. Anthony dollar; a broken lock; some junk metal.HH
Steve
 
If I found as many quarters as you I think I would adjust my discrimination and hunt nothing but quarters. I think your total dollars would really rise.
 
I agree with jackintexas! Why not "cherry pick". We do that when we go to high school fields. We've found over $50 in one day many times over. That's one L-O-N-G day, but well worth it in the end. We save our "freebie" money and use it for something special. Four years ago we put $1400 down on a Sea Ray cabin cruiser.... Yep, love that free $$$.
 
I know I did that for part of a couple of months a few years back just 'cruising' the sports fields. The XLT has great Tone ID performance, especially on the higher-conductive targets such as dimes and quarters.

Also, I know several people who do not like to dig pull tabs and 'junk' so they crank the discrimination up to reject nickels and pull tabs, and a few who also use discrimination or visual TID to ignore hearing and/or recovering screw caps and zinc cents.

I am curious what you other coin totals are of that 2110 and the percentages? Are you intentionally going after quarters? Whether you are or not, with the number of quarters you've recovered, and if you were going after ALL coins, then using my "averages" from over the years you should have recovered about 8946 coins.

This year I am running at 16.8% quarters since May 17th, but over the span of 10 years I have numbers for, I only 'averaged' 11.2% quarters. During a number of those years I was hunting especially with the XLT in parks and sports areas, and I used the 11.2% 'average' to estimate what your coin total could be.

I will also comment that my gold jewelry averages didn't suffer too much when I hunted with the XLT, but that was because I didn't always use Tone ID. Quite often I hunted with Tone ID turned 'Off' so that I got a quicker and better response on lower-conductive targets as well.

It would be interested, at least to me and some others, to see what your totals include in the way of pennies, nickels and dimes, and to know if you're deliberately going after quarters.

Keep it up on the halves and dollars. Since those newer dollars real like quarters you ought to be getting a decent number of them as well. I am only at 6. Heading out in 10 minutes to try and get some hunting in before the rains arrive today and tomorrow.

Good luck!

Monte
 
For the last 8402 coins my quarters are 11%. Rob
 
Monte:
I have to admit that I put more emphasis on finding qtrs. I do dig other coins. I just try not to dig the pennies.As for my other coins I hav 456 dimes;195 nickels;451 pennies;3 Sac dollars;2 Susan B Anthony dollars;1 George Washington dollar;5 Kennendy halves. 4 of which I found last week. I have to admit I intentionally pass over alot of pennies.I have found about a dozen or so rings; 7 or 8 silver ones; a few gold earrings;1 gold bracelet.I have found 2 large cents so far this yr as well. Plus a whole bunch of cars; and misc. other things.

Steve
 
Those that will hold a good supply of quarters and such. I have chatted with a couple of people who concentrated on quarters after they went to Target ID and a good Tone ID model only to pass over a lot of coinage. They didn't have as many open parks and sports areas as they though they might and after a couple of years had pretty much quartered-out most of them.

They ended up selling their detector and getting out of the hobby because when they started to go coin hunting to get all that they had left behind, they didn't get the number (percentage) of quarters like most of us in the overall 'mix'.

With 47.5% quarters, 21.4% dimes, 24.4& pennies and only 9.2% nickels, your "average percentages" are certainly going to be quite different from those of most readers and especially newcomers. A couple of months ago I had considered doing the same thing, getting another XLT and concentrate on dime/quarter signals ... and I still might within about 6 months depending on how I feel and if I want to do that or concentrate more on going after silver coinage.

For now I am content to recover the "averages" I am because that way I know I am leaving little behind, AND because the gold and silver jewelry recoveries will be better and that can convert to $$$ without all the time and effort to clean up dirty coins. :)

One thing your numbers do reflect that I have seen is the number of copper (higher-reading) pennies is about similar to my dime recoveries and modern zinc cents are making up the bulk of the pennies. It's about 37.5% copper pennies and 62.5% zinc.

The main thing is that you're getting out and having fun, and that's what it is all about. :detecting: :thumbup:

Monte
 
Since 69% of your recoveries have been quarters and dimes, how many of those have been silver?

Monte
 
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