Minelab Iron Mask Picture

[Buried Crap NJ]

Just wanted to share the coins as found from the beach.( I buffed then so they stand outy)We have been able to hunt where they have moved some older sand from about 8ft down. While the trash is very much trouble some, so are the coins. These little guys will burp like a botle cap and if you work them you can hear the coin. Once out of the hole they null and you have to look for the boulder! I had a 1924 dime last week incrusted in what looked like a barbeque brickett (coal) it was black sand about the size of a dinner roll. I broke it open on the beach I wish I would have wait till I got home to share! BCNJ

 

[Critterhunter]

VERY cool! Sounds like a great spot!

 

[bootyhoundpa]

strange that they react like that -detectable in the sand and null when exposed-but i believe you....coil must be able to see thru the iron cotent while buried but not on the surface.. very interesting ,,,

 

[Critterhunter]

More than likely it's the hallow around the silver that the machine is seeing in the soil, but when it's removed the halo no longer exists of course so the iron laced sand is blocking the actual silver coin from being seen. On the other hand, it could just be that without a ground load the machine is getting confused and can no longer separate the coin from the "air". I've had this happen to me with my Explorers, and I'm sure it can happen with the Sovereign as well. I'd lay a coin on the ground in a clean spot and sweep over it and I couldn't get more than 2 or 3" of air testing depth. I think these Minelabs get confused without a ground load and they mistake the coin as the ground signal in some situations, or with the coin laying on top of the ground the machine thinks the coin and the actual ground is the ground signal and whatever is floating in the air above them is where they think they should see the target.

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Should have been more specific. The dime reacted out of the ground as most was exsposed but others that are incrusted don't!

 

[Critterhunter]

Then that's probably the lack of a halo. The halo was bigger than the encrusted junk on the dime so the machine could see the silver signal from the halo that "glowed" around it in the ground bigger than the crust surrounding the coin, but out of the ground there's no halo and so it is only seeing the iron or black sand junky sand encrusting it.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

BCNJ,very nice finds and interesting observation.Thanks Ron

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

This little 14k 1. 7g gold ring came out of the freshly raked sand, I mean I was walked right behind the tractor as it went by. Read 118 on the meter. It was not a clean gold tone. I either suspect it was on edge or there was iron or trash near by. I almost did not dig it. Once out on the beach it was a clear low gold tone that was unmistakable!

 

[deepdiger60]

Interesting find, was both coins in the same clump of incrustation or 2 separate finds ? and what machine were you using Sov GT or Excal ? Jim

 

[Critterhunter]

Great ring find! Yep, in my testing of over 100 gold rings a friend found with his Xcal water hunting digging everything above iron, the vast majority of the rings locked onto one or maybe two VDI numbers and had pretty distinct audio traits. There were a halful of maybe 3 to 5 rings that sounded sick and bounced around in VDI, but those had fine webbing like structures with holes in them that didn't present a very good target.

 

[GunnarMN]

Thats really cool ,

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

The penny clump was the GT The dime was the Excalibur. I have had about six off this beach that were clumped up. You'll never hear one if your walking any faster than move sweep move sweep. We were just pulling deep coins from the bulldozers and the beach was loaded with trash.