Passing over zinc cents?

[OkieDigger]

I've noticed myself doing this more and more lately. My MXT is great at picking out zinc cents from regular copper ones. I find myself just passing over them as they just don't seem to be worth the effort. It's possible I could be passing up an older coin underneath. What do you think?

 

[Cfmct]

I do the same thing OD... Just not worth the effort for me... BTW I dusted off my MXT yesterday and today... My today finds are soaking

 

[TerryEastTexas]

I hate zincs too but at old sites I keep them notched in because IH's show up there.

 

[OkieDigger]

I do the same thing OD... Just not worth the effort for me... BTW I dusted off my MXT yesterday and today... My today finds are soaking

Hey, let's see some pics!

 

[mountainman]

I was hunting a schoolyard in a 1950's neigborhood where wheat cents and a little silver was found. A zinc penny reading only about two inches down turned out to be a I.H. You never know for sure where older coins will turn up.

 

[Cfmct]

Epi, I can't believe you talked me into posting these piddly finds

3 wheats a kids whistle ring and I believe a button or a whats it lol.. its made from copper and is fairly heavy for its size...

The place we detected was near a home we had permission to detect last year and we found out of place shrubs so a foundation was somewhere on that property but it was over grown and we only detected a small area for about 1 hour because Digger had to get ready to take his family skiing... I was LMAO because it was 60 degrees and I told him to have fun skiing in the slush... Digger told me I was a real friend for wishing that on him Digger found 3 wheats and really nice 1952 half dollar...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/Cfmct/P1010491.jpg

 

[hoser]

I'm with Terry. I hate zincs too, but the thought of passing up a potential IH, just keeps me going at it.

 

[mega]

The kids whistle ring is nice. :P

 

[Treasurekidd]

I don't pass up pennies at all. Hey, they're coins, right? Besides, the ACE250 isn't all that great at telling the difference between zincs and coppers. If I wasn't digging pennies, I wouldn't have found my 1882 IH penny a few months ago (3" deep in a school baseball field). You never know what'll come out of the ground, and if it's just a penny, well, than I'm one cent closer to retirement, lol!!

 

[Waterman]

I would think that if you pass up on "zinc's" you may pass up on some of the small ladies diamond rings on the beach's too. So depending where you are digging you must decide on what to dig! H.H.:-)

 

[farmall]

I dig them all. They way I see it is I am one cent closer to that DFX.

 

[glenny]

I'm with treasurekidd, anything that gets me closer to retirment is ok in my book. dig them all :duh:

 

[TonyinCT]

Just as in "Don't reject the pull tabs you'll miss rings and nickels" I think it would be best to accept the Zinkers too.

 

[OkieDigger]

I see what some of you are saying, but my detector picks the zincs out really well. I guess I'll leave them be and let someone else get them

 

[OkieDigger]

Yes. When it hits an IH it comes up like any other copper cent. When it hits a zinc, it says ZINC on the display. It hasn't been wrong yet.

 

[Treasurekidd]

Okie, the ACE250 doesn't really tell the difference between zinc and copper pennies. It may a little, by hitting the lower edge of the penny range, where a copper cent read solid penny, but I've had plenty of the copper ones ring down there too, maybe if they're at weird angles in the ground or something.

I will basically dig anything that reads in the silver, copper, or gold/aluminum/nickel/foil range, and only dig iron signals if they are good, solid, repeatable tones.

I'd probably skip the zincs if the ACE250 were able to point them out well like your machine, but it doesn't. Oh well, a penny is still money! Anyone who doesn't want their pennies, send 'em to me, lol!

 

[darnsober]

small ladies gold rings will ring up under zinc as will indians and flying eagles just something i know that you might want to know i wish i could find this one post some guy posted all his gold rings from 4 years it was like 300 of the 500 rang up under zinc.

 

[phantom]

since you first posted this, okie, my mxt came. in the few times i have got to play with it i have scored a pocket full of zinc pennies, but on 4 occasions the mxt swore it saw a zinc penny at 1 inch. i dug and dug. at slightly more than a foot i got a zinc canning lid. (the kind with a glass liner in the top.) there was nothing under any of these lids but some day..........


i think i'll keep on digging them for a while, until i can figure out how to tell the difference.

 

[Keith]

I pass over them at new sites! [edited by admin] But, I guess I dig a lot of them at older sites because I have 26 IHs in my collection. Keith

 

[OkieDigger]

Yes phantom, that's true. However, I don't expect there to be many mason jars full of coins at the city parks and schools, lol. But at old home sites I dig EVERYTHING.