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Strange reading today.....

Digger

Constitutional Patriot
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Spent a few hours stumbling around a site that was home to a small fair back in the 1870's -1880's. I've found quite a few nice old coins here during the past 25 years. The best part about hunting this site is that none of the coins have been newer than 1887. But after hitting it pretty good the past few years, finds are getting few and far between. Anyway, I only found one coin today. X-70, 9-inch concentric at 7.5 kHz, sensitivity 28, GB of 42, 4-tones in all metal, it read a solid 18 from half a dozen directions. Buried at about 6 inches in pasture was an Indian Head cent. It is in very corroded condition, which may attribute to the lower conductive reading. I'd like to tell you it is an 1877. But unless I can make a number appear where one is not readable, I'll just have to say it is an 187?. I've hit IH cents ranging from 24 to 32. But I've never hit an IH cent that read this low. Any thoughts? HH Randy
 
I'd have to say a combination of corrosion and maybe the coin angle. I don't think you can always count on a certain coin always falling into the same range all the time. The important thing is that you got a good repeatable signal and dug it. Good find.

Good hunting, John K
 
Hi Randy,

Yes, Amen Brother to all of that...

Yes, I come across [ cases ] such as you described I won't say [ a lot ] but, it does happen and usually, as you described on "a known item".

Nope, can't say for sure why? The other guy might be right - corrosion could be a factor?

The Explorers "measure / sample" the targets on a case by case basis (Ferrous Inductance & Conductivity) and rates the measure of decay in the target so if something is even slightly different, it will report that difference possibly as a different set of numbers from what you're used to seeing?

It happened a few times with X-Terra's prototyping - again during early stages of a product's development anything is possible - that's why I dig everything during testing - just to see what / why / where / how etc.

Hope the snow's melting and you will get out more...

Good Hunting

Des Dunne
Minelab
 
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