Beginner to the sparetime activity of coin-shooting?
Beginner or experienced, you will love this book! The New Successful Coin Hunting is a progressed version of Garrett's former book "Successful Coin Hunting". The New version gives you ideas where to hunt, how to hunt, dig, clean, and even how to choose the right metal detector! It even has data on the newer computerized detectors. This is the book you want to take out on the 'field' with you when you hunt. Happy hunting!
Highly sensationalized book
While much of what this Mr. Garrett writes may be helpful to someone new to the sideline of metal detecting (such as learning how to pinpoint targets, and how to dig for coins), this book must be read with these things in mind:
1) It is to a considerable degree biased since it is written by Charles Garrett of Garrett metal detectors. He neglects to mention or picture other metal detecor brands.
2) Mr. Garrett's discussion on detector technology is for the most part obsolete.
3) Many of the claims staged in the book are highly sensationalized and idealistic. Sure, the stories regarding persons finding gold coins and hoards of buried coins are agreeably diverting to read, but even my local coin merchandiser who sells coin detectors says he has never heard of any individual finding such items.
4) This book does not give a well-rounded view of the metal detecting hobby. Mr. Garrett only emphasizes the good and the sensational, making it sound like any individual may make a lot of cash metal detecting coins. This is just not the case unless you make metal detecting your part-time job. To find the good coins, you will have to spend a great deal of time researching (which Mr. Garrett mentions) and even then, you will have to dig a lot of trash. You may spend three hours in a field and all you find is a button and a few current coins. Garret's book gives you the impression that gold coins are buried right in your backyard. This is merely not true. Avoid this book, as it is not one thing more than an elaborated Garrett sales brochure.
Great book, but promotes the Garrett brand...
This is a great book which got me started in metal detecting. It is exceedingly helpful, and will motivate treasure hunters by giving ideas on new places to hunt, it is also written very well and is easy to understand. The only drawback is that like most Garrett texts it promotes Charles Garrett's personal brand of metal detector
