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Hold off on that golden anniversary remembrance of 90% silver's last gasp.
50 years by the date on the coin, but in reality only 48 years.
"1964" silver dimes continued to be minted until early 1966 when they rolled out the "1965" clad dime. 1964 silver quarters were produced until late 1965.
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Thomas Dankowski Metal Detecting Forum
Agreed, Tom. More depth would be the #1 improvement they could make. You would know a lot more about this than me, but I would think they could do that fairly easily considering how solid the stability is running wide open.
I have no insight at all into sales numbers, and I'm not sure which GTI/GTA units Garrett still sells, but I would imagine the sales to be close to non-existent.
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I've been using the AT Pro since 2011 and I'm quite fond of it.
Certainly there's room for improvement and I would think the folks at Garrett could do so without any major revisions to the AT platform. The things Keith stated above would all be solid improvements. Iron volume, larger screen, available backlight, etc. Simply increasing the sensitivity would be a good start,
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The high bidder could have been a shill or just somebody with buyer's remorse, I don't know.
Either way, he or she wasn't the guaranteed winner.
All a sniping service or software does is put your highest bid in a few seconds or less before the close of the auction.
There are sound psychological reasons/financial benefits for a bidder to only bid once within the last few
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McCrory don't feel bad, that's an easy error to make. But that Treasure Mountain place has sold a lot on ebay in the last year alone and you can darn well bet he (she?,they?) knew what he was doing.
Illegal or fraudulent? No, but definitely shady. And against ebay rules. And assuming the high bid that backed out wasn't a shill, the guy has probably applied to ebay to ge
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Aaron, you make a good point. The majority of shill bidders have low feedback...recently opened accounts.
Now look at the cz-3d example above you posted. Mccrory in his above post basically told us he was the second high bidder and got the unit when the high bidder reneged. So that means the high bidder's bid was not valid and should not have been used to drive up mccrory's bid.
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If you bid but don't win something on ebay and get an offer to buy anyway from the seller, be wary. If they say the high bidder backed out, that's possible. It happens. But it's also very possible that the high bid was a shill.
A shill bidder driving up the price was my original thought when I saw that 10.3" unit go for $736 even before I knew that the unit was offere
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$736 for a 10.3" Tom calibrated cz-3d?????????????
Aaron, I don't understand why you think the seller is a jerk. If I had Tom calibrate a cz-3d for me and it tested at 10.3" I'd unload the unit quickly for sure and I'd guess you would too.. And I'd be tickled to death to sell it to the highest bidder for a price like that.
A price that high seems silly. Qui
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I agree with Aaron. The newer cz-3ds have are apparently a crapshoot as far as depth, and the Tom validated ones I've seen don't seem to be as deep as most of the 1021s. I've seen newer validated ones test in Tom's soil as little as 8.something inches.
Fisher is obviously not interested in promoting the older cz platform, it is said to be labor intensive with less of a
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We're both on the same page, Albert. But as I said to someone on another forum, I don't think there's any right or wrong when it comes to PP depth.
If you are someone who digs only textbook solid, two-way signals, the Pro Pointer won't let you down. That is as long as you remember to check the battery or bring along a spare. Glad to see the Vulcan has a low battery ind
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I know a lot of my fellow dirt fishers say its a pinpointer not a detector so a more depth is not needed or desirable.
That's not the way I feel. Assuming you can get depth with stability (stability is supremely important in a pinpointer), extra depth is a big plus.
If your pp is in the hole and you can't find a signal, you have to dig more dirt out. It's easier to not have
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It's a First Texas unit made in El Paso. The first two digits of the s/n are the month and the third and fourth digits are the year of manufacture.
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A fascinating thread that always deserves to be bumped.
And I'll add a textbook example of what Tom has enlightened us about: which gold coins circulated...and which did not.
The April 2014 issue of W&E is the annual best finds issue and they have 11 detected gold coins listed over 3 pages.
Not counting the 2 foreign gold coins or the Eagle which looks to be part of a necklace a
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It's obvious there are folks waaaay ahead of me technologically speaking who believe in bitcoins. Including a lot of smart people here on this forum. So I'm willing to concede that my first instinct, "tulip bulbs", may be totally off the mark.
But Warren Buffett's credo is always good advice. If you can't understand it, don't buy it. You'll occasiona
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Just got the NEL Tornado coil, I won't be able to get out with it until the weekend but I did a little simple air testing in the house using a well worn 1923 Mercury dime.
There's no standard for airtests but my numbers are for what I would judge to be a potentially diggable signal, measured to the closest half inch with GB at 75. Tests were strictly audio, no VDI numbers recorded.
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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> As much 'public eye' as this story is
> receiving......... When/If the government were to
> 'tax' this hoard, , , this too...would become
> 'spotlight news'..... and the subsequent
> self-defeating repercussion would ensue; That
> being: no one (from this point forward)
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I used to enjoy reading H. Glenn Carson's columns in W&E about searching for buried treasure.
If you had any thoughts of talking about, sharing the excitement, showing off, or whatever you want to call it after making a huge find, he could really talk you out of it.
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A couple folks here have said showing the property owner the coin was the honorable or honest thing. That implies not showing the owner the coin would not have been.
Assuming there were no preconditions attached to the permission, there is nothing dishonest, dishonorable or in any way unethical about not showing a permission granter finds that have been made.
If the detectorist agreed to s
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Congrats on those great, exciting finds. That bust dime is sweet!
Also a valuable reminder for others to make sure any found items shown to the permission granter are not so great. Common date wheaties make wonderful show off to the owner coins.
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OK, I know this subject has been pounded into the ground and multiple times I've posted my thoughts about the negative effect on the hobby from these two guys and their moronic antics on "Diggers"
The show is set to record on my DVR and at the end of the last couple seasons I've erased a double digit amount of programs that I had no interest in watching.
But when I noti
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Thanks bullshead, I always appreciate hearing new techniques and tips...but I can't imagine any advantage to this one
The Standard mode on the AT Pro is basically the old, sluggish binary audio like previous Garrett machines used. That loud and clear on an 8" wheatie could very easily be all gone a fraction of an inch later because in the standard mode the audio is not modulated.
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War nickels I've been dug have been all over the place with the TID too.
Ground degeneration condition has been all over the place as well. I've had a few come out of the ground real nice, but most have at least some degree of degeneration.
War nickels are only 35% silver and most of the rest is copper with a little manganese. They changed the alloy in 1942 because nickel was n
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It's a psychological fact of human nature that we tend to blame the victim because it makes us feel like it wouldn't happen to us.
So here goes...
Common sense would probably keep most of us from hunting a public place late at night, especially unarmed and solo.
Under no circumstances would most of us let a ghetto looking dude use our detector. Or detect around ghetto looki
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Very altruistic of you to sell your package for significantly less than what it's worth, Kevin. A nice act of kindness for the person you decided to sell to.
This type of kindness doesn't happen very often for multiple reasons. The biggest one of course is that most people selling don't want to give up potential $$$.
Another reason is that selling for what the market will b
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Certainly, the F75 stock 11" is deeper than the 5" when conditions allow.
The problem I've found in urban areas is that, more often than not because of EMI, conditions do not allow.
That 5" is an amazingly deep little coil and superb at unmasking as well. And I can run it hot in urban settings, 80 or higher in most locations.
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