USA vs Canada coins

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Stevek

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• Jan 23, 2006

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My son-in-law receive a metal detector for xmas and lives in Canada. We have talking much about finds and target signals, but he claims that the quarters up there seem to fall in the trash ID range both with the tone and visual. Does anybody know if the Canada coins are that much different than US?? Or could it be his machine which is the MPX Pro.??

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SteveK

 

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• Jan 23, 2006

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I do believe so Stevek. I know the vending machines at work won't take a Canadian quarter at all. I have found several here in Mich, and they do read as something other than quarter.

 

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• Jan 23, 2006

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Steve, absolutely our Canadian coins don't read like the U.S. clad. With my sovereign the newer quarters here will actually null out, most other clad also gives a very poor signal at least 1/2 of the time. However other machines will give a good signal on them, notably the garretts, troys and tesoros.

I'm not familiar with his machine but if he is getting a good signal with just the ID being off he'll soon get used to the areas the coins read in.

 

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OkieDigger

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• Jan 23, 2006

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Isn't because Canadian quarters are made of steel?

 

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SharkHunter

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• Jan 23, 2006

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They do stick to magnets !

They do stick to magnets !

 

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Stevek

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• Jan 23, 2006

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Thanks gents,
that clears things up.

SteveK

 

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seas1to2

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• Jan 25, 2006

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yes they are all now about 90% steel, pennies, nickles an dimes, do a search on the coins an you will see the amount of steel in each coin... i dug a dime a few weeks ago an I kept getting a iron number an a good number at the same time, so I dug an it was dime.

 

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• Jan 25, 2006

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I find that Cdn dimes are extremely difficult to find in heavily mineralised ground. I find tons of the things that have been disc.'ed out by other detectors. ...Willy.