Okay all this nickel talk made me go out and experiment...warning lottsa pictures

[Mark in NC]

I haven't posted photos since the forum change... so here's hoping they turn out. Admin, if they're too big let me know and I'll delete this post and resize them. It's a nice Sunday afternoon so I thought I'd head out in the yard and see what some items id'd at in both modes on the 3D. This is certainly NOT a complete sampling, but it will give you some ideas...

first the square tab...

 

[Mark in NC]

I still haven't got the hang of posting photos broken up with text so let me explain what I did. The first pics are of a square tab which id'd correctly in both salt and enhanced. 3rd photo down is an ugly dug buff nickel, no date. As you can see on the meter(pic 4) it id'd as foil in salt mode. However in pic 5 enhanced mode moved it to high tone and nickel. The bottom pic is a undug worn V nickel. The reason I think it's important to differentiate between dug and undug is that the purpose of enhanced mode, as I understand it, is to move those "fringe" area coins that normally fall into foil or sq tab up into the high coin area. Therefore, undug coins (especially nickels) really fit the bill for strange conductivity changes when living in the dirt for a long time. I ran out of photo posting slots on this message, so I'll continue this in a reply...

 

[Mark in NC]

The first pic below is the undug V nickel when ID'd by salt mode..notice how even though it's old and worn, salt says nickel whereas back on the buff it said foil. Why? don't know for sure but I think the 3D assumes since it's not cruddy, it must be a new nickel. Enhanced mode bounced from nickel to sq tab. Unfortunately that pic didn't turn out. Photo 2 is a cruddy new (1964) nickel. As you can see the soil around here is not nice to nickels and copper. Pic 3 shows that it id'd as foil in salt mode. Pic 4 shows it as nickel and high tone in enhanced. The cruddy hypothesis seems to be holding....pic 5 is a 1810 super thin dime (or half dime, don't know for sure) it was dug at an old school when I had a Coinstrike. Pic 6 shows the 3D id'ing it as a zinc cent in salt mode. I'm out of photo slots for this post, and I'm getting too long anyway, but the next pic would show that enhanced mode pushed it up to high coins. Anyway I apologize it this bored the pants off of you, but I thought someone might find it interesting. Unless my 3D is broken, I gather from this that it's main design point is to push those often skipped lower conductivity signals that, from Fisher's gathered info., fall into certain ID realms up into high coin. In Short, I think enhanced mode was designed to for old stuff, not new stuff. I may be wrong, but that's my guess.....

HH'n

Mark in NC

 

[WVAdirtdigger]

Your machine acts like mine. So, if yours is bad, so's mine.

 

[Mark in NC]

I sit around shinin' em up!

 

[mtdoramike]

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