Pick the best coin machine – for this purpose...

[mrwilburino]

You will be spending the day searching all areas of a small popular old city park. Your purpose is to find as many old (1964 and earlier) coins as possible. Ground mineralization is low but trash levels run from medium to fairly high. You will be searching for all denominations equally. No denomination will be singled out or passed over in favor of others. You will be provided with the detector and recovery tools of your choice. You may keep this detector afterward but only if you find enough old coins. You must choose the detector that you feel would be best for this purpose; not necessarily the one you want, or your personal favorite, or the one you are most comfortable with. It must be the machine that you believe would find the most old coins under these conditions. This detector must be a new 2010 model that retails for under $1,000. Any training that you require to become completely proficient with this detector will be provided beforehand. What model will you choose?

 

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[stefen]

Ace 250...close to being a popular performer and a consistant winner...

Master Hunter also mid-level and quite reliable, and a consistant winner also...

 

[Sandman]

There are some that would choose a Explorer SE or Safari but I choose the Sov GT with the small 5" Sunray coil. It nulls on most iron with zero disc while getting max depth. I just don't like screens.

 

[bigscoop]

There are some that would choose a Explorer SE or Safari but I choose the Sov GT with the small 5" Sunray coil. It nulls on most iron with zero disc while getting max depth. I just don't like screens.

Case in point. For reasons I've explained in other forums I've been limited to hunting a few older parks in the area, not areas I would normally hunt much. Lately I've been taking my Sov GT and it has a 10" coil and to my surprise I was still able to work around a lot of the trash that was everywhere. I've never used a smaller coil on this unit but I'd sure love to have one after seeing what I was able to do with this machine inspite of the larger coil. Still found several deep coins and didn't dig a ton of trash. I'd hunted these little parks in the past with other "favorite" machines that I thought were top notch for the job but now I'm really questioning that. The Sov GT can be a little complicated to get use to but once you do get use to it it's a fantastic machine.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Something very light ....Like a Tesoro. A Golden Umax

 

[miser]

Something very light ....Like a Tesoro. A Golden Umax

Agreed. And get a smaller coil to help block out the trash. The whole package would come in well under $1000.

 

[Felinepeachy]

Ace 250. Light weight and a popular choice in coin shooting competitions.

 

[bazinga]

Did anybody even read his post? He is looking for the best machine to find OLD coins. Not modern clad.

 

[Felinepeachy]

Well heck, the Ace does a great job of it. I am sure lots of machines do. Truth be told, a lot of finding old coins is user experience. It takes time to learn the machine no matter what machine.

 

[ivan salis]

delta 4000 with a 5 inch coil --being a 0 - 99 number based display type machine---realcopper and silver coinage reads at 82 and up (pre 1964 can be sorted out) - from zinc cents reads as 76 -77 (post 1982) while coin shooting -- at $279 and $145 for the 5 in coil -- (small coils are better at sorting thru trash ) the cost is well under the $1000 mark

as a added bonus it reads lots of pull tabs as a 60 --while 10k gold rings up as 58 and 14k as 67

 

[mrwilburino]

Interesting. Different brands and price ranges.

 

[stefen]

Interesting. Different brands and price ranges.

MD machines are like cars, everybody has one for different reasons...

 

[lafatlife]

I would use the Omega 8000. It is a great coin machine, old or new doesn't matter.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Well heck, the Ace does a great job of it. I am sure lots of machines do. Truth be told, a lot of finding old coins is user experience. It takes time to learn the machine no matter what machine.

Wow, a moderator that knows nothing about detecting.

How did this happen?

When it comes to finding old coins on a REGULAR basis in public parks, an Ace 250 is not the machine for the job.

Not a very nice comment. This moderator feels that this is the best machine for finding old coins.
It's her opinion

 

[mick56]

Well heck, the Ace does a great job of it. I am sure lots of machines do. Truth be told, a lot of finding old coins is user experience. It takes time to learn the machine no matter what machine.

Wow, a moderator that knows nothing about detecting.

How did this happen?

When it comes to finding old coins on a REGULAR basis in public parks, an Ace 250 is not the machine for the job.

I have used a 250 for 4 years and I like it. Have found a lot of clad and also a lot of old coins. I haven't noticed any signal differences between old coins or clad. If it indicates a quarter, it might be clad or it might be silver. So why do you say that it is not a good old coin finder?

 

[ivan salis]

the 250 is a great overall coin finder no doubt --however if one is solely targeting OLD (PRE 1964) COINS -- THUS SILVER And old wheats --being able to cull out modern zinc cents is a plus * the ace 250 lumps new and old together as well as pulltabs and gold (being its limited to 8 "sorting" slots) --- where a delta 4000 being a 0 -99 numbers machine has in effect 100 slots --so it can tell them apart numbers wize * older copper cents are 82 --zinc modern cents are 76-77 range that is a plus in my book -- plus while not a issue for this thread --a delta 4000 sorts many pulltabs as a 60 --with 10 k items as a 58 and 14k as 67 --thus it to a certain degree can sort lots of tabs out --making gold ring hunting easier .---- the 250 is a decent lil machine --i used one for years but the delta 4000 i my veiw is better-- but its a bit more costly $279 vs $212 ($67 but worth it) ==ps my old 250 is my loaner / back up by the way.

 

[diggummup]

Wow, a moderator that knows nothing about detecting.

How did this happen?

When it comes to finding old coins on a REGULAR basis in public parks, an Ace 250 is not the machine for the job.

So we have a moderator that has no experience detecting. People are going to see the moderator status and her recommendation on an Ace 250, go buy one, and then be disappointed when it's not finding old coins in hard hit parks. That is what bugs me.

So who are you the detecting god? Mighty overseer of all things detecting? No wonder you changed your username.

 

[lucky1777]

Well heck, the Ace does a great job of it. I am sure lots of machines do. Truth be told, a lot of finding old coins is user experience. It takes time to learn the machine no matter what machine.

Wow, a moderator that knows nothing about detecting.

How did this happen?

When it comes to finding old coins on a REGULAR basis in public parks, an Ace 250 is not the machine for the job.

What would you recommend Brian. Let me guess, your minelab. The same one that my MXT put to shame in Missouri.

 

[ShovelNose]

Fisher CZ3D with stock 8" coil. Made for what your looking for, old coins. 5" coil would help if alot of trash but not always required. Dual Freqs.(5 and 15) makes it sens. to small deep objects like coins.

 

[bazinga]

Well heck, the Ace does a great job of it. I am sure lots of machines do. Truth be told, a lot of finding old coins is user experience. It takes time to learn the machine no matter what machine.

Wow, a moderator that knows nothing about detecting.

How did this happen?

When it comes to finding old coins on a REGULAR basis in public parks, an Ace 250 is not the machine for the job.

What would you recommend Brian. Let me guess, your minelab. The same one that my MXT put to shame in Missouri.

Not sure how you put it to shame, but ok. We hunted a field with no trash. So whoever went over a signal was the one who got the item.

No, I don't recommend the minelab anymore. I enjoy hunting next to other machines because they walk right over silver and other old coins. At our latest club hunt in an old park, my buddy and his minelab found 5 silver, i got 4 silver and 5 indian heads, and 6 or 7 non-minelabs found a total of 1 silver and no wheats or indian heads.

You are more than welcome to come here to Indiana and pit your MXT against the Explorer in a park. It won't even be a contest.