My nickel count is passing my dime count :confused:

[Mike Hillis]

Yesterday, out of the coins I found, I had 10 dimes and 11 nickels. One of them has to qualify as the deepest nickel I've ever retrieved. It was deep enough that it chirped as a high tone, gave a bouncing 80's id number, no Confidence bar ever, and mostly-repeatable. It even pinpointed small. I only dug it because I thought it was another tiny silver bead like one I had just found. But the more dirt I removed the better the signal got so I kept going. My uniprobe stayed quite until I passed the 8" mark. It was 10 -11 inches before the probe squealed and I could put my digger under it.

DE mode, sens at 70, 3 tone, FastGrab at 90, 5 bars on the FE meter.

HH

 

[tink]

Nice dig Mike, that deep. I know the half dollar was atleast 9-10" down and was loud and clear and solid. I have dug so many coins now at 8"+ it has really just become routine for me. Problem is, were we hunt we cannot use anything but a screwdriver. With it being so dry you can make a bigger mess of the turf then just taking a plug.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I've never hit a nickle above 31 on the TID, but I've dug 'em to 8" (the park I hunt gets silted in when the river floods). Mine seem to fall between 28 and 31, the lower the deeper.

 

[Mark in NC]

I've noticed a lot more of 'em in my nail apron than before too. I just got a F4, and it does good on them too. That's interesting about the ID being higher at depth....did it seem to drop off as you removed dirt from the hole?

 

[MattR]

DE mode, sens at 70, 3 tone, [size=medium]FastGrab at 90, 5 bars on the FE meter.[/size]

"Mike, where was this place?"...5 bars and a nickel at 10 inches.
It must have been 'Ferrite County'

You're not trying to wind up the Minelab boys, are you?

The deepest coin I've had so far, is an old English copper penny, at 12 inches, in GP 70 and sense 70, 2 tones, Je mode.....MattR.UK.

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

I've pinned my Fe meter but once. That was while detecting on a river's edge. I found an old cast iron fork(??) just above the low water mark that was bent 90

 

[Mike Hillis]

My norm runs between 83 to 91 and 2 to 5 bars. Depends on fill dirt and ground moisture. When its really dry and the humidity is down into the single digits the ground numbers run a number or two higher. In this case, thunderstorms from the evening before had the top 4 inches rather damp.

I can move closer to the mountain and get into 92/93 fastgrab numbers and the FE meter never drops below 4 bars unless I get into fill dirt. For us, no fill dirt = no grass. So turf means fill was brought in for the grass to be planted on and read the lower numbers and the natural bare granite based soil reads the higher numbers.

The F-75 couldn't tell me at the beginning if this was coin at all. All the tiny targets where giving a high tone chirp and I was trying to recover the repeatable ones just to see what they were. I had just recovered a tiny, lentil size silver bead that gave a 24 Id number in the air but in the ground it was chirping in the 80s. This target was doing the same thing and I was thinking it was another of those beads. It wasn't until I started digging and rechecking the hole that the number and tones started to drop.

If I hadn't of thought it might be another silver bead, I wouldn't have even messed with it. It would have been interesting to know if my Explorer could have id'ed it as a coin

HH

Mike