Success with the equinox 800 has been nothing but an excellent experience. I picked up my nox a couple weeks ago on the way to the dig stock event in New York, first impression of the machine was great, I ended up setting my other one I’ve had for a couple years and very fluent with to the side the whole trip. I found many colonial coins already with it and some silvers including a seated quarter. However my best find I believe I’ve found with it was yesterday, October 19th. It was a cool morning and we were up to par on our work projects so we decided to hit some previous permissions, the nox squeaked out coins that our other machines never even made a blip over. Towards lunch time we were headed back towards the truck and I struck across a faint 19 signal, repeatable, soft, and tight. I dug my plug and barely got a sound from the pin pointer. It was deeper! I dug another few inches and reviled what I thought was a nickel at the time so I threw it in the pouch and filled my plug and proceeded back to the vehicle. We headed out and while my friend was driving I was taking a look at my finds, I came to my “nickel” and tooth picked it clean. It wasn’t a nickel I was looking at, it was a 1860 “wealth of the south” civil war token! There were very few minted and the story behind them is pretty neat, they were struck for the southern audience, were they believed that the land and crops held wealth vs north being made by “man made” facilities. I found out they were very desirable, however this one will not leave my collection because it holds more value in the memory and sharing time with a friend than you could put any dollar sign on.
