Has anyone here found an American gold coin? What was the target ID?

[WVCOINHUNTER]

I have found clad, silver coins, silver jewelry, gold jewelry, and relics but never a gold coin! (YET) What I was wondering is since American gold coins are 90% gold and 10% copper, what would the target ID read? On my AT Pro copper hits at 75-76 or Indian pennies, 77-79 for zinc pennies, and 80-82 for pennies 1982 and older. The gold rings I have found came in at the nickel range 51-56. And the nickel range is a midtone, where the pennies read a high tone? Any thoughts?

 

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[bigfoot1]

gold coins,I have found 2,came up just right of nickle...mid tone.these were small 2.50 coins.

 

[McKinney_5900]

Someone on another site reported finding a $5 gold coin at 9 inches and it rang up like a penny signal. That gives me hope. martin

 

[Frankn]

2 Box detectors don't give you that info. Frank...

 

[Tom_in_CA]

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I have found clad, silver coins, silver jewelry, gold jewelry, and relics but never a gold coin! (YET) What I was wondering is since American gold coins are 90% gold and 10% copper, what would the target ID read? On my AT Pro copper hits at 75-76 or Indian pennies, 77-79 for zinc pennies, and 80-82 for pennies 1982 and older. The gold rings I have found came in at the nickel range 51-56. And the nickel range is a midtone, where the pennies read a high tone? Any thoughts?

I've got 14 gold coins so far (13 american and 1 British sovergeign). Here's where they read:

$1 gold: about where beaver tails of the old tabs read. Or put another way: near or about nickel.

$2.50: About where round tabs read.

$5.00: At about 48-ish on the old whites eagle/spectrum/xlt scale reads. That's about where the beefiest of square tabs reads (those thicker kind of square tabs). Or about where corroded zinc reads.

$10.00: about IH area-ish

$20.00: About copper penny-ish

Will depend on wear on coin, depth, minerals, tilt, etc....

 

[Keppy]

Tom is right they all will not read the same.....