Hey folks....As promised, are the pics of the 1853 Seated Liberty half-dime, 58 cal minie ball, and the 1878 Indian Head Penny found in an old field yesterday...The pic of the IH didn't come out as well as I had hoped but you get the idea...This field was a great place to get a good education on how the T2SE works because there is the right amount of trash, and enough good stuff to keep you digging without becoming overwhelmed...The half-dime came at 73/76 on the VDI scale...I wasn't expecting a silver coin with those numbers so I was pleasantly surprised.....I was hunting with Sensitivity @ 85, Disc 17, BP tone.....I think I will leave the Disc as low as possible when I go back to this field on Sunday, and crank the sensitivity as high as I can stand it and see what happens...I almost wet myself when I realized that I had a seated coin!!!
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), silver quarters and silver halves...(haven't found a silver dollar...yet!), and a silver 3-cent piece, and air-tested them against the VDI scale, and none came in below the 50s...This is not to say none will, but even the minie balls (76-79) and the Civil War buttons (60s and 70s) came in above the 40s on the VDI scale...I have and will continue to dig the lower numbers to see what I am likely to get, and of course this also depends on the trash level and how many signals one is prepared to dig...I know that I am more likely to dig more of the trashy signals in an area where there is not as much trash in comparison to an area that is practically littered with them---Motivation and site interpretation has a lot to do in the decision "to dig or not to dig"-- that is the question. Just something to think about.