Silver coins

[DARRIN39]

I have been detecting with the MXT for around eight months now. I have found a bunch of clad coins, two gold rings, and plenty of trash! Went hunting at an old school with a friend who uses a Minelab E-trac. He dug at least 17 silver coins from that location. I asked him to drop one of his silver quarters back into his hole, to let me run the MXT over it to see how it would sound, it's VDI, and how many confidence blocks would come up. When i passed over his open hole with the quarter in it "NOTHING." Is this common? or does the MXT have trouble detecting silver coins? I have three coils to use the 950, 4 by 6 shooter, and a 10 by 12 SEF. If anyone has any comments or can help with this i would truely appreciate it!

Thanks,
DARRIN39

 

[Nancy-IL]

Boy, that's very strange. Are you sure your settings were right? I've found plenty of silver with the MXT. Something isn't right. I'm thinking.............. Welcome to the forum. HH, Nancy

 

[Larry (IL)]

Something is terribly wrong there. How deep was the hole, what coil was you using, what program was you using, what was your gain set on, have you done an air or ground testing with a silver quarter??????

 

[floridason]

DARRIN39, Man, as Larry and Nancy says, that's weird. About 6 months ago I found 46 Quarters in 4 hours with my MXT and the 950 coil. Most of them no deeper than 6" down but you see what I mean. And the ground wasn't all that clean, lots of pull tabs and beer tops. Check that machine out man, It ain't right. JMHO KC
Hope you have better luck next time. HH
floridason retired

MXT, MXT PRO, lotsa coils
3 years with the MXT

 

[hank1]

My vote is with the group, something isn't right!!?? No problems with silver or any other coins with the MXT and any coil I use. Have found Merc's at a "true"
7 + inches.

 

[srf2112]

Unless ALL of the coins, including the dropped "test" quarter were very deep and out of detection range for your MXT then something is not set or working properly. A quarter, let alone a silver one, will still give you a good signal at a detectable depth even with some of your settings not set at optimum levels. i.e. something is WAY out ! Given your experience with the machine and the sheer number of silvers your friend recovered I'd say that probably rules out simple good/bad luck and different machine characteristics. You have a sick machine and/or coil. You're in luck though...it's a Whites and getting it fixed is a snap. If your friends machine breaks down though those may be the last silver coins, or any coins, he finds with it for a long, long time. Good luck and let us know how it turns out. JMHO

 

[CladJunkie]

Yea that sure don't sound right my Tesoro Silver uMax with it's 8.5 DD coil would pick that up with no problems. BTW I'm here reading up on the MXT, I had two White's detectors in the past and thinking about the MXT now.