New to hobby

[mashajett]

Hey everyone. Do you need to have an expensive MD in order to find old coins?

 

[tparker805]

nope you can find a horde of coins with a bounty hunter md just depends on where you look and how deep your target is you should look in to getting a detector to make sure you even like the hobby first but old coins really are where you look and how you use your metal ie swing speed, level swing etc. what is it your looking for excatlly just old coins

 

[Gimmie The Loot]

Hey there - welcome... I am in my third year of detecting. My first year was with a $200 Ace 250. I found 3 nice gold rings, about 5 indian head pennies and a handful of wheat pennies but no silver. Then I upgraded to an etrac for $1300 and since then I am up to 86 silver coins. I'm sure the machine has a lot to do with it but also experience and research to find good sites with good coins.

I think my oldest indian penny (1872) was found with the Ace 250 during sidewalk construction. It was only 1 inch deep after the rototiller went through.

I agree with the last post, get something cheap in case you decide you don't like the hobby. It is rarely easy to find good stuff. You dig many junk targets per good target... just look at my latest junk pile compared to the old coins! Lots of careful digging required.

 

[Steveo]

It's not so much as the machine that you have as how well you know it and where you hunt with it.One could go out an drop a ton of cash on the best detector in the world,what ever that may be and still be just finding zincs because they did not invest the time to learn the machine or from the lack of researching where good sites would be that had a good chance of having older coins.
Good luck and happy hunting....................................................

 

[submarine]

I agree 100% it's not so much the machine but the one operating it!
HH and welcome to the hobby!!

 

[mashajett]

Thank you everyone. I do have metal detector it's bounty hunter 1100. I have it for over a year now. Love the hubby. Not find much yet but it's just nice to know that there is old stuff that most people don't care anymore just lay beneath our feet to be discovered.

 

[tennessee digger]

Like the others have said, you don't have to have an expensive machine to find stuff. The key to it is to have a good place to look on and then just go look. True that a more costly machine will probably get you better depth and finds, but try to find a place that no one has searched before and that it has the potential to find the old stuff. Tennessee digger

 

[domino147]

Hi I'm new at this too. someone gave me a metal detector, he estimates it to be 30 years old, and was brand new in the box. Cannot find a manufacturers name anywhere, We took it to the beach today and I found an earing, a few old bottle caps, a quarter and some hair clips. It was fun to see the needle go to ferrous, or non ferrous and digging in the sand. I again have no clue who made this detector, all I know is I had fun and plan on going again !

 

[HISPAN]

Welcome to the Treasurenet forum !