Wooohooo I'm rich!

[Sturgn]

Hi all,
I just wanted to stop in and say hi and introduce myself, I am John from Oregon and I just got my new to me Sovereign Elite and took it out for the first time. Thanks to everyone who posted settings for this machine, using the basic settings I was able to dig up 13 cents, my girlfriend was asking why on earth would you spend that kind of money to find pennies and dimes? I told her its a learning curve and cut me some slack.
I was able to pinpoint without any problems, but what I am having a hard time with is telling if something is burried shallow or deep, is there a common practice to determine older deeper coins?
I will be practicing alot at thh beaches and I hope to be giving some good reports in the future.

Anyone in the SF bay area that could point me to some good spots? I will be there on a business trip for 2 weeks in April and again in June I will have from app. 1pm on off everyday and weekends. I was thinking abotu going to Santa Cruz for a couple days.

Thanks!

John in Oregon

 

[Art (NWOH)]

Toss a coin on the ground and start sweeping close over it. Note that the response is wide and loud.

Lift the coil a few inches and note that the response gets narrower and cleaner.

Lift until you barely pick up the coin. Note that the response is still narrower and weaker.

The tone tends to drop off faster with all the air under the coil than it does with actual in ground coins, you should get the picture about the response at different depths.

You can also lift the coil to see how far above the ground you can get before losing the target. The less you can lift, the deeper the target.

Also the really deep weak ones will tease up as you wiggle the coil over them. They start low and work their way up in tone and meter reading. They may come up just a bit short of a correct reading.

HH

 

[doublet2a]

As always Art, you explained it perfectly
I was gonna reply, But it's not needed now



HH TIM

 

[Art (NWOH)]

Thanx, Tim.......

Never know if my answers are perfect for everyone or not. Always the short, fast, and dirty .

HH

 

[Sturgn]

Thanks Art thats excatly what I was looking for! Now for my next 13 cents, heck with it I will ahoot for 20 cents!

John

 

[ikon]

n/t

 

[Big Mo]

Hello Sturgn,
Welcome. Where are you in Oregon? I am in Eastern Oregon, Pendleton, to be more exact. Hope your finds are plentiful.

Mike (Big Mo)

 

[Sturgn]

I am in Corvallis.

 

[padigger]

Welcome John,

Congradulations on the finds, when you come up with some really old coins or a gold ring the hobby gets a little more interesting, sometimes even profitable.

Their are a lot of recreational hobbies out their but this is one of the few that do have the possibility of payback in money even though it is not about striking it rich.

13 cents is a heck of a lot more that I have made back from my $6000.00 boating hobby and don't even want to guess how much I have in fishing tackle, now with the price of gas, gonna be a great year for metal detecting.

Looking forward to seeing you finds in the near future, HH