A bucket of silver eagles buried at 12 in

[Wanjman59]

I just purchased a Minelab Equinox 900 and as a newbie It will take a while to learn this machine with its many options. A friend of mine came upon a plastic bucket filled with silver eagles while digging in his yard. It was buried at 12 in in sandy soil. What would be the best way to configure this detector to locate any more without destroying his yard digging holes all over finding other smaller targets? I understand that the lower frequencies are better for depth but there are so many options and adjustments on this machine.

 

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[pepperj]

I just purchased a Minelab Equinox 900 and as a newbie It will take a while to learn this machine with its many options. A friend of mine came upon a plastic bucket filled with silver eagles while digging in his yard. It was buried at 12 in in sandy soil. What would be the best way to configure this detector to locate any more without destroying his yard digging holes all over finding other smaller targets? I understand that the lower frequencies are better for depth but there are so many options and adjustments on this machine.

If there's more targets as in a bucket full of silver eagles, the signal footprint will be very big.
A single silver eagle at 12 inches will be a good target.
When you use the pinpoint mode you can determine if the target is small or big.

Use a probe also to determine the depth/size of the target.

Now a query: How big was this plastic bucket filled with silver eagles?

Kind of a strange thing using such an holding vessel to bury a precious metal.

 

[Wanjman59]

The container these were buried in is the size of a large shoebox and the coins were in the original Square plastic holders perhaps about 10 coins per holder and buried at about 12 in

 

[Wanjman59]

I am looking for the best configuration on my machine multi-frequency or perhaps a single lower frequency between 4 or 7 kilohertz I don't want to start digging random holes on this guy's property mistakenly pulling up smaller trash targets

 

[releventchair]

Call the utility companies to mark utilities.
Then I'll rent you a tractor to remove the top 2 feet of sand before using the detector.

A bucket of Eagles would scream.
About an hours practice you'll be good to go.

Plastic buckets have not been around long vs silver coins.
And are an odd choice to retain weight and durability underground through varied season and for wanting a sealed top.
So what's goin on there in the line of "coming upon"?

3-5 gallon pails?
Gamma seal lid? Duct taped?

 

[Wanjman59]

I am reluctant To post Actual Photographs Of this find For obvious reasons But there were Close to 2000 Coins, Uncirculated.

 

[Wanjman59]

This is the exact type of containers that the coins were found in

 

[pepperj]

Now there is also a possibility since the initial Target was found in the area he was pouring his concrete patio that he may have poured the patio over additional targets a concrete patio that contains rebar so now I would need to discriminate between the rebar and the silver when searching over the concrete

Seems that this story is getting better all the time.
Common sense screams that if these were discovered in sandy ground @ 12".

Your friend has too much money, to not explore the area before pouring the concrete patio filled with rebar.

Most modern floors/pads use 6 inch concrete mesh. More efficient, cost effective and your detector is probably useless for finding items under it.

Best of luck

 

[Wanjman59]

So is this forum legitimate? No one has actually answered my question regarding how to configure my EQ 900 to properly search for this type of target. I could always reach out to Minelab support.

 

[Tedyoh]

So I've done this test before....but anyway....that's a Monster Box from The US Mint...holds 500 coins, 20 coins per plastic sleeve....believe it or not, with a NOX or Deus, just the opposite occurs, the detectors have a hard time picking up a large number of silver coins stacked on top of each other....hence why we really never see real caches ever posted here....lay a sleeve on its side and the detectors will do better but when the sleeve is vertical (I just did one roll of eagles, didn't feel like digging my other 4 out of the safe) the Deus calls the 20 silver dollars ferrous and the NOX will hit the roll but only as the outer edge of the coil leaves the 20 silver dollars...just a slight blip with a VID of 18.....so I would say go dig all the 18's.
Same thing happens with rolls of silver dimes and quarters....odd but it is what it is....going to try and figure out a solution with the Deus soon as this is my primary machine

 

[PetesPockets55]

Excellent find and question.
Wow, four monster boxes. Were they all the same date?

 

[Wanjman59]

Yes 2010

 

[Wanjman59]

So I've done this test before....but anyway....that's a Monster Box from The US Mint...holds 500 coins, 20 coins per plastic sleeve....believe it or not, with a NOX or Deus, just the opposite occurs, the detectors have a hard time picking up a large number of silver coins stacked on top of each other....hence why we really never see real caches ever posted here....lay a sleeve on its side and the detectors will do better but when the sleeve is vertical (I just did one roll of eagles, didn't feel like digging my other 4 out of the safe) the Deus calls the 20 silver dollars ferrous and the NOX will hit the roll but only as the outer edge of the coil leaves the 20 silver dollars...just a slight blip with a VID of 18.....so I would say go dig all the 18's.
Same thing happens with rolls of silver dimes and quarters....odd but it is what it is....going to try and figure out a solution with the Deus soon as this is my primary machine

Not familiar with those machines as this EQ 900 is only my 2nd one in 15 years. How did you have it configured ? What size coil were you using, what frequency were you scanning at or is it a multi-frequency? I guess I'm going to have to bury one of these monster boxes and see how the target shows up under various configurations. Thanks for comments.