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G'Day happy propectors from Australia.
I am a French guy that arrived two months ago in Australia for work.
History is one of my passion, and I collected ancien coins, specially roman one. ONe day, I told myself, "why don't you find them yourself?".
Thats is how I came to metal detecting nearly 9 years ago, with an ACE250.
After a few finds not very uncredible, I quickly switched to a Tesoro Deleon. Tesoro are great Relic and coin hunting machines, it is just so nice and easy to use them, but they lack of power.
I found my first roman coins and artefacts with the Deleon.
Experience was growing, new fields were discovered, but the competition was intense and I was missing a lot of very small coins and objects, so I bought a Fisher F75. Awesome machine, I made my best finds ever with this, I brought it with everywhere in France.
It has two major defaults in my opinion:
-low quality of built (I broke the arm retainer after 3 years)
-very sensible to electrical interference (ex: power line)
My avatar was found with this detector, it is a silver coin that weights 0.6g... [not my best find, but I like it, it is very emblematic of the south of France and it is more than 2000years old].
Two years ago, I wanted to upgrade, and I bought a Minelab XTerra705. Great and multiuse detector, but for small objects in polluted ground, it doesn't match the F75. For all the rest, it is better, and that is the detector I brought to Australia (at least if customs releases my wares, that shouldn't be long).
I live now in Ryde, near Sydney, I am looking for Australian mates to detect or fossack with, because I guess I have to convert to native gold and gems, since there nothing really old here.
Believe it or not, but the coins that were not more thant 300 years old (and not silver or gold), I just put them in a big bucket, they were not interesting for me!
If you like I'll post some of my finds in Europe in the Relic section.
I am a French guy that arrived two months ago in Australia for work.
History is one of my passion, and I collected ancien coins, specially roman one. ONe day, I told myself, "why don't you find them yourself?".
Thats is how I came to metal detecting nearly 9 years ago, with an ACE250.
After a few finds not very uncredible, I quickly switched to a Tesoro Deleon. Tesoro are great Relic and coin hunting machines, it is just so nice and easy to use them, but they lack of power.
I found my first roman coins and artefacts with the Deleon.
Experience was growing, new fields were discovered, but the competition was intense and I was missing a lot of very small coins and objects, so I bought a Fisher F75. Awesome machine, I made my best finds ever with this, I brought it with everywhere in France.
It has two major defaults in my opinion:
-low quality of built (I broke the arm retainer after 3 years)
-very sensible to electrical interference (ex: power line)
My avatar was found with this detector, it is a silver coin that weights 0.6g... [not my best find, but I like it, it is very emblematic of the south of France and it is more than 2000years old].
Two years ago, I wanted to upgrade, and I bought a Minelab XTerra705. Great and multiuse detector, but for small objects in polluted ground, it doesn't match the F75. For all the rest, it is better, and that is the detector I brought to Australia (at least if customs releases my wares, that shouldn't be long).
I live now in Ryde, near Sydney, I am looking for Australian mates to detect or fossack with, because I guess I have to convert to native gold and gems, since there nothing really old here.
Believe it or not, but the coins that were not more thant 300 years old (and not silver or gold), I just put them in a big bucket, they were not interesting for me!
If you like I'll post some of my finds in Europe in the Relic section.
