Have you ever given any thought to using your GPX-4500 for the pursuit of valuable gold and silver coins and other treasures?
One doesn’t have to reserve the GPX-4500 just for gold prospecting! It is a fine general purpose coin machine as well!
There are plenty of valuable single and caches of coins out there to find and the GPX-4500 is perfectly suited to the job e.g. ghost town detecting, cache hunting in rocky mountainous regions of the deserts searching for “Wild West” stage coach and bank robbery caches, treasures deposited in Europe during the two world wars and in the former ‘Iron Curtain’ regions of the former USSR.
In European countries the machine is a perfect tool for searching relatively iron free areas, for locating and searching old sites that had given up ‘coin hoards’ in the past and for one of my favorite pursuits, for the 365 day year round beach hunting for valuable rings and jewelry items that are within easy reach of the GPX-4500.
Never before has Minelab offered a more versatile, technologically advanced, yet easy to use gold prospecting detector. A new, advanced digital control system: Provides more operator control and functionality allowing the GPX-4500 to be fine-tuned for all types of searching.
New Timings add to the performance of this great detector allowing a person to fine-tune their GPX-4500 to precise requirements.
Case in point: the use of the Sensitive Smooth and Sharp Timings to enhance sensitivity to small and tiny items, namely coins in the pursuit of small deep single coins. In addition, the GPX-4500 also has improved iron reject capability (over the older GP models) so can therefore reduce the amount of ‘false chases’ that one would not therefore have to spend time in recovering worthless iron bits and pieces. Be advised that the iron rejection is limited to proper interpretation at a relatively shallow depth and deep iron may sound like a good item so this detector is really not for the feint-hearted who don’t like to dig deep!
The “Sharp Timing” is best used in quiet conditions and can work well in combination with Deep Search Mode. Add a larger coil e.g. the 15” x 12” Double-D and watch for a fantastic increase in single coin depths!
The “Sensitive Smooth Timing” is better for an improved response on smaller, shallow targets in very bad soils. Find those valuable targets others have missed because their ‘old technology’ detectors couldn’t penetrate!
The Special “Salt-Coarse Timing” is perfectly primed for use on large flat wet salt expanses, exactly when the tide is out revealing acres and acres of searchable gold ring territory at your fingertips! Even without the Salt-Coarse timing the GPX-4500 will ignore the conductive salt effects and will punch deep…indeed I’ve often left targets behind in the hard pack a few feet deep because the digging tool used was too short and inadequate!
So another very important tip is to bring a spade with a very long handle!
To give an example of how I personally used the GPX-4500 to great advantage: I had visited one of my ‘best old coin sites’ and noticed that someone else had been there a few days before…evident from the careless digging and unfilled holes left behind by I guessed a beginner or an experienced hunter with too much discrimination dialed in to their detector? Spending a great deal of time filling in this person’s holes I couldn’t help note that none of the holes were particularly deep: the majority no deeper than seven inches. Turning on the GPX-4500 the ground “my friend” had covered was scanned and resulted in the finding of two small silver coins from the medieval period and one came up from a depth of eleven inches!
So, get out there and dust off the GPX-4500 from wherever you store it, in the garage or your “RV” and charge the battery and get out there and enjoy your GPX-4500’s second personality…a very talented “Coin and Treasure” detector!
Let me know how you go won’t ya!
Des Dunne
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