1890 V nickle masked by 2002 aluminum can:surprised:

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

got to my spot at 8:00 a.m nice breez cool no bugs at all was digging aluminum cans at 6" and 9" kinda gave a soft signal one can was dated 2002 then to my great amazment up comes a dark green thing the size of a nickle i brushed it off and i could see what looked like a barber type head suronded by stars and a V on the back the date was 1890 i was looking for cladd and rings none of which i found but the lazy boys knew that it was an aluminum can down thear little did they know it was masking a V nickle one good reason to dig the trash out of the ground a flatened aluminum can will cover a considirible earea and can hide many a good target i hop to go back thear again and dig more cans and nails because it is true many good targets still lay beneath the mask the V was at about 5" down im liking this compadre still no gripes whith it

 

[tabdog]

Way to go Gunnar,

Just makes you wonder what is under all those
pop cans that nobody wants to dig.

Happy Hunting,

 

[Beale]

Very big congrats on the V nickle Gunnar! That is a great find, Beale.

 

[nudels]

Some neat articles on masking, and one of a few reasons why I dig every target.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Coin-Masking---A-Metal-Detector-Dilemma&id=1224560

http://www.dankowskidetectors.com/behindthemask.htm

 

[Uncle Willy]

Many years ago I dug up a flattened out beer can just full of probe holes but no one had bothered to dig it up and find the roll of silver quarters buried under it. Now that is masking.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Coins can mask each other by being grouped together and causing the detector to show one, wide signal instead of separate signals. Many dismiss this type of signal as junk or a buried can and move on. Here is a remarkable find I made the other day in front of the swings in a park bark chip playground. These coins lay grouped together all within the signal field and the detector saw them as one target and just gave a wide signal. I've been field testing Garrett's new pinpointer so I checked the area with it and at first got no signal. I then scraped away some chips and waved the pinpointer over the area again and got three separate signals. And the pic shows what those signals were.

I was hunting another playground the other day and got four different wide signals at different spots. The first three were crushed pop cans buried in the chips. I traced them with the PP and determined they were such On the fourth wide signal the PP read three separate signals which were three quarters grouped together. Had the same thing happen before that and I centered the target as best I could, probed and found one of the targets - a bottlecap. After I removed it I passed the coil over the area again and got a solid quarter reading and that's what it was. Each object had masked the other. Multiple coins laying at the same level can mask each other or one or more coins and a bottlecap or a piece of junk or two can mask each other. Many targets are left behind because folks accept a wide signal as junk or a rust pocket..

Bill

 

[pulltab]

good info and finds

 

[Gunnar of bradford MN]

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