Ace 250 and Gold

[B|lker]

Has anyone ever swung over gold coins or 24-kt gold?
I know on mine 14-kt rings come in bouncing between pull-tab and nickle until it`s out of the ground then a solid nickle.
My 10-kt rings and small jewelry bounces between a nickle and the foil reading and then solid nickle when its out of the ground.

Now for the big question: Do gold coins come in according to there size? IE: dime, quarter, half, dollar in the silver range on the scale?
Or do they come in where there marked on the scale in the brass area?
Opp`s i almost forgot, do they jump around or remain a solid figure on the scale. assuming no trash around?

Thanks everybody in advance.

Yours truly,
NEVER FOUND A GOLD COIN / YET

 

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Has anyone ever swung over gold coins or 24-kt gold?
I know on mine 14-kt rings come in bouncing between pull-tab and nickle until it`s out of the ground then a solid nickle.
My 10-kt rings and small jewelry bounces between a nickle and the foil reading and then solid nickle when its out of the ground.

Now for the big question: Do gold coins come in according to there size? IE: dime, quarter, half, dollar in the silver range on the scale?
Or do they come in where there marked on the scale in the brass area?
Opp`s i almost forgot, do they jump around or remain a solid figure on the scale. assuming no trash around?

Thanks everybody in advance.

Yours truly,
NEVER FOUND A GOLD COIN / YET

Hey B|ker - I've haven't found any gold at all with mine! I did get lucky at an auction, and let my Ace give it all a good sniff.
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,339490.0.html

Those pieces ran the almost the full spectrum. The tie tack, mangled beyond recognition in the pic was fixed at low pull tab. The bracelet dinged like a zinc penny. The cufflinks at nickel.
I used to disc out zinc cents, not so much recently. These were all air tests, of course.
HH!

 

[Swartzie]

Opp`s i almost forgot, do they jump around or remain a solid figure on the scale. assuming no trash around

Sorry, I don't really have an answer to your main question. But, the deeper an object is the more the signal tends to bounce around. Or it may give a signal one way and then if your turn 90 degrees it may give a different signal. I have seen both many times on coins and other stuff. Best thing to do is dig it to find out what it is. I always tell myself, "well, there's only one way to find out what it is - dig the dang thing up!" instead of standing there swinging my coil trying to analyze it.

-Swartzie

 

[B|lker]

Finally got to swing over an 1800`s 20 dollar St. Gaudens gold coin this weekend while selling some jewelry i found.
I was so surprised it rang as a dime and not a dollar. I even made sure the salesman wasn`t wearing in jewelry.

Keep diggin those dimes everyone and thanks for everyone's 2 cents.

Yours truly,
NEVER FOUND A GOLD COIN / YET

Bill

 

[JohnnieWalker]

I hope you swing over one soon so you can cash it in and get a real detector like me and Bob have Bill!!

 

[gallileo60]

I hope you swing over one soon so you can cash it in and get a real detector like me and Bob have Bill!!

Ah dont letem tell ya that..I have a 1350 that gathers dust..I use my little ace a whole lot more....Have quite a collection of trinkets I have collected with the little yeller feller...

 

[allen]

never tried a gold coin, but all the gold
i found came in under foil/nickel.

 

[savant365]

The first gold (14K tennis bracelet) I found just a few days after I got my 250, I was digging everything but it was really bouncy because of the trashy area I was in. The second piece (and last) was a very small 14K basketball charm from a necklace or bracelet it rang in as a solid nickle but it was maybe 20% the size of a nickle so I don't think the size of the object makes as much difference as other things like depth, gold content, nearby trash, etc... I dig a lot of pull tabs though because you just don't know for sure 'til you see it with your own eyes.

The thing that bugs me the most about the 250 is how the reading changes after you dig the plug. I get a lot of solid tones then dig the plug and rescan it and it is a weak trashy tone. I remember reading somewhere on here that if you stomp on the spot you pinpoint before you dig you can rescan it and get a more accurate signal

HH Charlie

 

[dogpound]

gold falls under pulltab/nickle atleast for rings, silver rings normally fall under dime/quarter. atleast thats what i learned

 

[Benjamin52]

Found an 18k red Gold (25%copper, 75% Gold) ring last week at about 4 inches deep and it made about every sound the poor little loudspeaker could produce and it also jumped all over the traget ID