When does a coin mask a target?

[BarberBill]

Had an interesting thing happen yesterday evening. I was hunting a park/playground that I haven't hunted before. Using the DeLeon, I hit a solid 95, copper penny, silver, quarter etc. signal. When I retrieved the target, it was a nickel. As I started to go, it dawned on me that it wasn't a nickel signal that I'd dug so I passed the coil over the spot again. Bingo, the silver signal was still there and I retrieved a quarter. First time I've had a coin masked by another coin. I would have found it anyway as I always rescan an area before moving on, but I though this was an interesting case of masking.
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[chuck ky]

i wouldn't consider that to be masked since you did get a signal. i have found on some detectors that with nickles disc. out the higher coins won't respond.

 

[Hombre]

Hey Bill

I dug out 5 or 6 copper memorials that were only a few inches deep in an old yard onetime. I stood up for 5th or sixth time and rechecked the area and got a sweet deep quarter signal on my Toltecll.

The 1905 Barber quarter was at least seven inches underneath the memorial pennies that Were maskin the deep Quarter. So ya.......shallow coins can mask more valuable and deeper coins. But if

you dig all targets out there won't be any masking going on. Recheck those holes!

Randy

 

[Jay Evans]

I agree with Hombre, recheck your holes before filling them. I was wondering if you had the detector set to detect nickels ... if so I bet if you slowed down your sweep before you dug the target you would have had the silver & the nickle reading on your ID ..... I had that happen before with a whites detector years ago. it showed a silver signal on the ID but slowing down the sweep it also showed the other coins ID on the readout as well.

 

[BarberBill]

The detector was set to accept anything above small iron and the ID was a very solid silver signal. I figure the quarter was too close to the nickel for the nickel to respond as often I've had a bouncy ID that turned out to be a mixed coin spill. Anyway, a good type of masking, lol.
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[fwcrawford]

Bill,
I've had those mixed signals too that give bouncy IDs and are usually multiple coins with nickels mixed in.
I'm noticing as I dig more of those signals ( after I realized what was happening) that they were probably ignored as trash an left in the ground by other detectorists.
I have been using Sovereign lately and that thing locks on to and separates these multi targets very well.
I have discovered that if I get a "180" reading on the meter, and some lower signals mixed in, then it is most likely a coins spill with nickels mixed in the bunch.
Felix