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Are you positive those are 1982 and newer zinc cents and not copper cents, (1982 and before), which will not disc out?
Just saying because I have never read of this exact problem happening on any other Tesoro, ever, but I have ready many posts from many new hunters that did not realize there is a discrimination difference between zinc cents, copper cents...and Indian head cents for that matter.
If you truly used to be able to disc out zinc cents and now you can't, that, to me, would be a major problem.
You were right! I did not realize the difference. Went back and checked the 35 pennies and every one with a legible date was late 1960's and 70's. I can't check the pennies I had found before that since I had already threw all the Lincoln memorials in one bag. I did get my detector out and air tested a copper penny and a zinc penny now that I know the difference. Needless too say, the Compadre was working fine, my ignorance was the problem!
Thanks for pointing that out! I feel better about it now but that was still a lot of dang pennies. Lol