pennies and dimes

[Downdeep]

I've only hunted coins twice now with my V3, mostly hunt relics. My dimes I found the other night came up solid each and every time with a penny icon. Is that normal?

 

[greenmeanie]

Rosie or mercs?

 

[Downdeep]

sorry. modern clad dime...

I did some air testing a few minutes ago in the common program with a zinc penny, a copper penny and a clad dime. The zinc penny came up with screw cap/zinc penny icons, not sure of the vdi, didn't look. The copper penny came up with dime/penny icons at a vdi of +73. The clad dime came up as a copper penny icon only at a vdi of +72.

 

[Larry (IL)]

I would say that is normal and that is how I mostly tell the difference between the two. Cents tend to bounce around the VDI a little in my ground, while dimes are usually pretty solid unless they are very deep.

 

[Downdeep]

I dig pennies anyway..so I guess it doesn't really matter. I just thought that the dime should have come up higher than the copper penny. I'll redo my test later with a silver dime and see what happens.

 

[Monte]

Most detector models today will reflect two distinct "Penny" TID groupings. The 1

 

[Downdeep]

Thanks for the info Monte.... I know air and ground read different most of the time too...