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In most cases you can discount pennies, as they will pinpoint as a much larger targets, so that just leaves you with the smaller silvers which can vary on ID, depending on how they sit in the ground. I'd still pull all the BB's out, that's one less shallower target that could possibly be masking a deeper weak coin signal. :)
 
To a point GP. I probably am missing a couple of silvers here and there, particulary the small pre 46 thips but saves me digging a lot of targets I just know are BB's. You are right in the fact that they could be masking other targets but I've done so well at this site I'm happy to let some stuff slide to dig less holes. I still dig quite a lot of BB's, but nowhere near as many as I used to.
 
rocketaroo said:
An advantage the ctx must have then, I can call an 89 one cent, and 94 a two cent on the deus, but it can also be silvers or pennies.
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Same with the CTX rocket, all those coins can come up with similar conductive numbers on the CTX, but yeah the ferrous number just gives you that little bit extra confidence to walk away from a suspected BB, took me a while to get a proper feel for the way it behaves on BB's though. As I said though I will admit to probably missing a few good coins too but I think my method allows me to cover more ground cherry picking the certain good targets out. I'll go back over these spots eventually too, especially the certain areas I've found more good stuff.
 
Last few weekls of silvers cleaned up. Not many hunts due to the rain and wet ground but still some coins. The NZ sixpence was really crusty with dirt concreted onto it, few days in a CAB sorted it out though.

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Had a pretty good day on the silvers. Was doing some testing as well, such as testing myself on picking the BB's. Pretty mixed results, I called quite a few of the BB's I dug but one I thought was a BB ended up being a coinspill of 2 x threepence and a sixpence all stuck together, bit of an exception but lucky I didn't walk away from it as the TID's were a bit random just like a BB. I called another 1c that ended up being a threepence. So yeah dig everything if uncertain..... :)

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Sweet! Nice haul Heatho, looks like someone got handy with a pair of tin snips on that sixpence, or maybe an unlucky victim of a mower. :)
 
Much better hunt today at the honey hole after yesterdays lousy haul of $4 at a different spot. Today managed $15, 2 shillings, 2 sixpence and a threepence, lost a sixpence somewhere though, buggered if I know where either, oh a few penny's and half penny's were found also.

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Sure is mate, such a big area it's getting hard to tell what areas I have and haven't done there. I should use the GPS on the 3030 but always forget to.

Anyway today was more of a random wander there just hoping to find a bit of a patch, it worked out well in the end. :)
 
Hit a spot at one of my local honey holes where I've found plenty in the past, I was testing my new Coiltek 10x5 DD coil in a severely trashy patch that I had abandoned due to too many ringpulls and other stuff like pulltabs and canslaw. Anyway the coiltek ran perfectly allowing me to get right in between junk targets and isolate some good ones, such as the 1948 shilling in the pic, it was about 2 inches from a ringpull which explains why I probably missed it originally with the 11 inch coil as I know for certain I would have swung over it in the past.

You can still cover a decent bit of ground with the 10x5 and it still punches pretty deep too, pinpointing with it is spot on. Very happy with this coil, it's paying it's way nicely already. I got about $5 of the total in the pic at Queenscliff beach the other day and the rest today from the trashy park area. Will be revisiting a few other similar patches over the next week or so.

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