would like everyone's opinion

[SamHain70]

what would you say is the best detector a person could buy for around $600 for coin hunting ?

[Iron Patch]

That's like asking what someone's favorite color is.

So my answer it's white, like the color of my explorer, which is also my answer to your question, but would have to be used.


You really have to read and research yourself because the next 10 posters can have 10 different answers because that's just how it goes.

[SamHain70]

I kind of figured that would probably be the way it would go. I use to own a Garrett GTI 2500 and that thing found everything under the sun but this time around I don't have a thousand dollars to spend. The only detector I have ever used is a Garrett so I'm not really all that familiar with any other brands.

[tater]

Originally Posted by Iron Patch

That's like asking what someone's favorite color is.

So my answer it's white, like the color of my explorer, which is also my answer to your question, but would have to be used.


You really have to read and research yourself because the next 10 posters can have 10 different answers because that's just how it goes.

X2. Minelab

[Terry Soloman]

Originally Posted by SamHain70

what would you say is the best detector a person could buy for around $600 for coin hunting ?

I use a Tesoro Lobo Super Traq (17.8Khz) for coinshooting right now and I am very pleased. I am thinking very seriously of getting a Tesoro Cortes http://www.tesoro.com/product/detect...tes/index.html which operates at 10Khz.

Comes down to what turns you on. Lifetime warranties and technology that works always makes me hot!

[nittany1]

Another one to consider is the Tesoro Tejon. It's a classic 3-3/4 turn manual ground balance design. The headline feature is the dual-discrimination. If I were to use it for coin shooting I'd set the DISC LEVEL to iron and the ALT DISC LEVEL to tab. Using it that way you can skip most iron, get most jewelry and coins, and if you feel like you're digging too many tabs you can check the target with ALT DISC level to see if it's better than a tab which means dimes, pennies, quarters, 50c, $1 should still be found but you'll miss nickels. I think at the highest discrimination, SCAP, it'll still get all silver. You'd want to test with a few coins first before you hit the field of course. Also if you turn off discrimination with the DISC level knob it goes into slow retune all metal. If you pull it's trigger you'll get into fast retune pinpointing all metal. If you push it's trigger you go into ALT DISC LEVEL.

Or maybe the best way to use it is set the first disc to iron, wave a silver dime in front of the coil and find the alt disc level where it's still seen but cuts out everything below it, ground balance on ground without targets, then go at it.

Another nice one would be the Garrett GTP 1350. It's got a target sizing feature where targets are classified by size, small, medium and large. It considers small targets as coin-sized targets. When you first turn it on it's in COINS mode. If you wanted to look for jewelry too just switch it to JEWELRY. It's got automatic ground balance and you an optionally turn on it's beach mode to help cancel out salt at an ocean beach. It's got a trick up it's sleeve, you can hip mount the battery pack with the built-in clip and in that config it weighs about the same as a Tesoro. With the GTP 1350 the best thing for coins would be to leave it in coins mode then dig all your A-sized targets that are solid and repeatable, or the faint targets that may give an audible tone but unsure display until you dig some ground up and give the electronics a better chance to get a better reading at what might be down there.

Both of these machines are just under your $600 level. You didn't mention new or used, so I assumed brand new machines.
You'll read about all sorts of suggestions for coin machines, I just wanted to add my two cents. Best of luck in your search!

Coinshooting tip: I noticed that zinc pennies and Indian head pennies sometimes come in at similar discrimination. If you don't have an Indian head penny handy and you're trying to setup your discrimination, use a zinc penny and you will usually get Indian head pennies too if they are in the ground. For some reason the copper pennies newer than Indian heads, like your wheaties and copper memorials come in higher than Indian heads.