Gold coins with AT Pro

Kenkoehn1950

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Jan 18, 2013
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Denver, Colorado
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Spectrum XLT, ATPro
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Metal Detecting
For those of you AT Pro users lucky enough to find gold coins, can you shed some light on what the VDI readings were when you found them? I would think a gold coin would read higher than say a gold ring. Does The VDI change much regarding size of coin....I.e. a $20 gold piece vs. a small gold coin? A little side bar....thanks to everyone for your posts!
 

CincinnatiKid

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Nov 5, 2013
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Cincinnati Ohio
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XP Deus, Garrett ProPointer
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No luck here either.
I have air-tested small gold bullion though.
A 1/10th oz Kruger reads 48-50. A 1/10 oz Eagle reads 55-58. More silver in Eagles.
GL
Peace ✌
 

bigfoot1

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Nov 1, 2011
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the higher the karot AND the larger the gold target the higher the reading.Also white gold reads a bit lower than yellow gold(nickle vs copper)alloy.
small ladies gold band 14k yellow will hit about 48-52.large mens signet(heavy)yellow gold 14k 55-62/18k 60-70
the bummer for us is that if you want to get gold coins or jewelry you really have to dig every midtone.
 

Larwar

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Jul 23, 2014
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New Richmond WI
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A T Pro. Equinox 600
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All Treasure Hunting
I tested one of my wife's heavy gold rings and it hit at 48-52 just like Bigfoot says you have to dig every mid tone if you want to find gold. Yeah bummer
 

cruiserkev

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Jan 18, 2015
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I have not found any gold coins yet but the 2 pieces of gold jewelry I have dug (a ring and a earring) each came up a solid 53 on my AT Gold. Both times I thought I had just another soda can pop top. Glad I dug them! Also have tested a small gold nugget I have by air and in a test garden, comes up as a 58. Good luck! :thumbsup:
 

Uncle Jeff

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May 28, 2013
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Tampa, Florida
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Garrett AT Pro -
Garrett Pro Pinpointer AT -
TEKNETICS EUROTEK PRO -
Garrett Pro Pinpointer
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gold coins on an ATP read in at pull tabs .. dig the pull tabs :)
 

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