Question about my Cibola

[jbr13]

Ok, with the Cibola being a single tone machine, is there a method to figuring out items are coins. I tested a little last night, and found silver coins seem to discriminate just like a alum. bottle cap or pull table. Any hints or tips to having a better idea.

 

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[JohnnieWalker]

nope, beep and dig. Many claim they have better luck this way.

 

[jasonbo]

nope, beep and dig. Many claim they have better luck this way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoh1VRQUBfo

I love my cibola as a relic machine but i just purchased a 250 for my casual machine

 

[Monty]

not familiar with a Cibola but I have a single tone Silver umax. I have learned to jocky the discrimination button and figure out what most targets are. Not necessarily coins, but silver , copper or just junque. Monty

 

[LuckyDragon]

they do have the one that tells whot you just detected, but I think the price is a little steep tho.
The DeLeón is a Target Identification Detector
$599.00 not too bad tho

 

[Keppy]

they do have the one that tells whot you just detected, but I think the price is a little steep tho.
The DeLeón is a Target Identification Detector
$599.00 not too bad tho

Why would that be steep when you pay $800.00 and up for the XLT .. DFX .. Explorer ... Gti 2500 .. ect. ect.. ect..?

 

[luvsdux]

Swing your coil over a nickel, then turn up the disc. knob a bit at a time until the signal cracks and the nickel drops out. Mark that spot. Do the same for tabs and zinc pennies. Then, when detecting, if you have a signal above the nickel mark, it's probably a tab, copper or clad/silver coin. If the signal is lost at the tab mark, then the odds are good it's a zinc penny, copper penny, or silver/or clad coin. If it's above the zinc penny mark then - well you see how this works. With practice, this gets to be pretty accurate although you'll still be fooled by some junk targets occasionally. Remember that gold jewelry is discriminated out by or before the nickel setting and sometimes will even read as a zinc penny.

With practice you'll get to where you will often have a pretty good idea whether it's junk or likely a good target by the tone, even though you're using a single tone machine. I can often make a guess that a coin is probably a quarter and often be right, but I doubt that I could TELL anyone else how - after hours of detecting, I just started recognizing very subtle differences in the tone.
Hope this is helpful,
luvsdux

 

[vayank54]

I have a Cibola and mainly relic hunt but I believe nickles and pull tabs cut out about the same place on the discriminator. I think that it will pick up copper pennies, clad and silver with the discriminator all the way up. Like someone mentioned though gold will be one of the first things to get cut out when you turn up the discriminator. luvsdux had a good suggestion about marking where things cut out.