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SILVER DIME ID

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bigelmo

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FOUND 2 MERC DIMES TODAY! GREAT FIND FOR ME, BUT THEY BOTH
ID ON THE CZ5 AS RECT. TAB... IS THIS NORMAL? ALSO SOMETIMES
FINDING WBs BETWEEN RECT. TAB AND NICKEL ID. IT DOES SEEM ON
MY MD THAT NAILS ON THEIR SIDE,IF RUSTED UP, ID AS COIN.

DIG ALL, KEEP SOME, ALL FUN!!!
 
Congrats on the silver!!

Might be slightly off tune. My CZ6a and CZ20 sound high tone on silver dimes, the 6a ID's them correctly as dime / quarter range. Unless it is deeper and iffy sounding I'd think the ID should be correct; but depth and soil conditions may affect the ID some.

Rusty nails can come in high tone / coin. Slow the sweep way down just over the target and if it shows low tone but goes high tone when you speed up the sweep, chances are good you are looking at a nail or other iron piece.
tvr
 
Methinks your unit has to go i for a recalibration as its not reading correctly..
Tvr gives a good tip to avoid those darn rusty deep nails...
 
Thanks, I figured out my mistake, as I found another silver today, and it ID properly. This MD is taking some getting used to, but I see improvement.
I'm still working on the tone ID of rusted nails, I guess I'll get tired of digging them soon..Any advise on using the CZ5 at the beach? Thanks again.
 
Forgot to mention, but think you have figured it out, I run the discriminator set to the 0 setting and listen to all three tones; that's where the very slow sweep over nails will drop to the lowest frequency tone.

I love the CZ on the salt water beaches. I think it was Dan-PA who posted previously about running in the normal mode unless you get falsing and have to go to salt mode ... I usually just set it to salt mode, ground balance over the wet sand and go. With the CZ6a I'll work from the shallow, ankle deep, suds to the dry sand and not play much with the settings. I generally use the biggest coil I have for the CZ6a at the beach.

Bottle caps are mostly like nails, if you sweep real slow they start to go low tone and when you speed up a little they are high tone. The newer coated ones sometimes don't go low tone at all, so I frequently scoop a fair number of bottle caps at the beach.

Sounds like you are doing well and have some good sites to hunt with the silver you are finding.
Enjoy!
tvr
 
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