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Wow! Congrats on the half dime! Such a neat little coin. I’ve never even found a seated coin, but a seated half dime would be more preferable than a seated dime or even a seated quarter to me. BTW, my buddy dug three half dimes in one hunt this past weekend.

I did a very quick air test last night on how the reactivity function affects depth. I was in deep high conductor, program 6. Reactivity of 0 compared to reactivity of 5. Reactivity of 0 gave almost TWICE the depth of reactivity 5! That was 5-6 inches difference. I was going to check the intermediate settings, but it was getting late and the battery icon for the coil was empty and flashing. I may try it again tonight.

You may know this already, but if I have emi issues with my nox and know where it’s emanating from, I’ll point my coil directly at that source when noise canceling it. It makes a difference rather than just holding the coil at knee or waist height like it says in the manual. Have you tried this with the deus?

*EDIT: I forgot to mention that my deus2 has the 9” coil.* Well my deus2 arrived last monday, but I didn’t get a chance to actually use it on the ground until Saturday. I’ve never used or even held an XP machine before so the deus2 is completely new to me. I’ve been using my nox almost exclusively for the past nearly four years so I’m very familiar with it. For my first outings with the deus2 I decided I would hit places that I’ve been over with my nox. The first sight was the old ballpark that I’ve been to three times with the nox. I mostly concentrated on a smaller area that gave up the majority of silvers hoping maybe the deus would unmask another…or find one that I had possibly missed with the nox. I was running #1 General program. I did change the tones around a little, but kept everything else stock. I’m mostly a silver coin hunter, but I do dig nickel signals. Out of this small section (10x60’) of turf I managed to get a clad dime and a copper memorial. Also probably because I was subconsciously wanting to pull a silver with my new deus, I dug some iffy high signals knowing that it would probably have to be an iffy signal if I had missed it with the nox. Those iffy signals turned out to be nails. I also dug a lot of aluminum screwcaps, but I knew they would be either a screwcap or a zinc penny which I got a few of those too. This place probably isn’t old enough for indian cents so I wasn’t concerned about that I just wanted to see what those mid to high 80s tid numbers were. After giving up at the ballfield I went to another site close by that had some long gone mill houses on it. There’s a smallish area that I have hit hard with my nox with both the 11” and 6” coils. Where as the ballpark has moderate trash and lots of clad, this site has basically no clad and lots of iron, coal pieces, and other metallic plumbing and electrical pieces. On this site I decided to run program 3 Sensitive FT. I have to say I like full tones. When you hit a non-ferrous it really stands out. I did manage to hit a ‘50s wheatie and a 61 memorial. The wheatie came in at 90/91 and before I dug it I tried program 6 Deep High Conductor. It definitely gave a stronger signal and hit higher above the ground as I raised my coil compared to the Sensitive FT program. These didn’t seem to be masked and were in the 6” range and gave a good signal. I probably just missed these in previous hunts with the nox. Saturday afternoon I hit a small area in the woods by an old spring that’s very near my house. This is my go to place when I don’t feel like driving anywhere. I’ve hit this place many, many times with the nox with both coils, and all of my tesoros. Although I’ve found five or six silvers and maybe 13 or 14 wheaties here I’m lucky now to even pull a non-ferrous. This place is LOADED with nails, old steel can remnants, rusty old crown bottlecaps and any other kind of metal you can think of. I’m pretty sure from the trash here it was a dump at one point. I even unearthed an old rototiller blade before. So there’s big pieces of ferrous too. I again used the deus in program 3. I even bumped the reactivity up to 4 because of the density of the iron. About all I got was an old .22 shell that looked unfired, but was very corroded. Again this is a pretty small area. I also dug some iffy signals that were bent, rusty nails. *Edit #2* While detecting at this old spring site I dug two very old and very rusty bottle caps that rang in in the high 50s. When I encountered another high 50s signal I put the bottle cap rejection at 5 and sure enough it knocked out that 50s signal and when I dug it, it was a bottle cap! On Sunday I decided to hit a site that had an old 1890s house on it that’s in the process of being torn down. This is a much larger place of three acres, but some of it is undetectable because the guy that bought it is clearing trees and there’s lots of brush piles, etc. Again I concentrated on the areas that I had previously hit with the nox (both coils). Didn’t get anything worth mentioning running program 3 and program 1. Very, very trashy around the house and outbuildings. On the way back to the car I hit the field areas that I hadn’t hit before with the nox. This area was relatively clean with little trash. Running program 3 and dropped the reactivity down to 2.5 and even 2, I hit a couple of shotshell headstamps. Then I got nice 58 signal and thinking another headstamp I pull an old very corroded nickel from about six inches. Then checking the immediate area I got a solid 76 a couple of feet away. Four or five inches down is another coin! This time an indian head penny. By this time it was time to go, but I’ll definitely hit the field areas again. Initial thoughts: I really like the lightweight and ergonomics of the deus2. My nox feels like a tank in comparison (11” coil). As far as performance goes, and me being a silver coin hunter, I feel the silver range on the deus is more compressed than the nox. Silver range on deus2 is about 90-96. The silver range on the nox is 26/27-35/36. Both of these ranges are for dime to half dollar. As Steve said in another post the deus seems to be made more for beach hunting with an expanded low to mid conductor range that would work well on gold rings. I’m not selling my nox, but I realize I have a lot to learn on the deus2 and just need to get more time on it.

Nice review, thanks!

Was this with 11” or 9” coil?

Interesting that a silver half dollar comes in higher than a silver dollar. Btw, thanks for posting this as my deus2 will take its maiden voyage this weekend! I just noticed that a silver dime comes in higher than the dollar also!

I’m confused. Which version is correct, the English or French?

Ha ha, you understand exactly what I mean! Those really nice, clear, tight, high tone signals are addicting!

I ordered the 9” coil and mine arrived monday. I’ve only had time to learn all the buttons and what they do. I haven’t had a chance to try it outside yet. I do love the ergos though!

I was wondering the same thing. Also does doing this affect the warranty?

Congrats! I’m still looking for my first seated. I’d be super happy with those two!

Way to go Fabio! Keep those gold coins coming! Congrats to you and your brother! That is a monster gold coin!!!

I went back to the mid 40s ballpark after getting 7 silvers last weekend. And really, who wouldn’t go back? Lol! I only got to go on Sunday this time, but it paid off. Started off pretty slow, but after about an hour I got a real nice savory high tone. Savory because you just want to hover your coil over it and savor the tone. This one was a 33/34 on the nox and I knew it had to be a silver quarter. Sure enough a ‘62 GW! I’m still going over the small field where I hunted last weekend. I did some gridding last weekend but just meandered yesterday. Maybe 20 minutes after digging the quarter I get a bouncy high tone going from 30 to 37. I’m thinking possibly another silver quarter or maybe two clad quarters. I dig down about 6 inches and it’s a walking liberty half! Only my second one ever and my third silver half of all time. The other being a big ben. Boy did that make my day! Ended up with $3.51 in clad and three wheaties. These two silvers put me at 10 for the year.

I should be getting my new deus II by next weekend. I’ve been using a Whites TRX for the past four years and I really like it. The thing I don’t like is that it’s not very loud and I have to pull one side of my headphones off to hear it. The MI6 connects wirelessly to the deus II so I’ll be able to hear it through the headphones which would be really nice (at least I think so). How does the MI6 stack up to the TRX in performance though? The only other pinpointer I have is a deteknix (Quest) Xpointer which works well, but isn’t quite as deep as the TRX and not nearly as sensitive to small items as the TRX. So with my limited experience with pinpointers should I spend the money on the MI6?

Ghostlands, those videos are priceless! You had me laughing and whooping it up right along with you! Thanks for posting those!

Congrats on the buffs and ihp’s! In your first photo near the top is something that looks like a screwdriver handle. Is that an old valve stem cover from an old model T? I found one exactly like that one time and wasn’t exactly sure if it was a valve stem cover or not.

My dealer notified me my 9” coil version will arrive at his dealrship tomorrow which just happens to be my birthday! I should have within a few days as he’s in the next state over to me.

I’m in Western North Carolina.

I did do some gridding, but I’m going to go back and do a good cross hatch grid. Yes I was using my equinox 800. Mostly park 1 in custom 5 tones, recovery from 4-6, F2 at 0, sensitivity mostly at 23. I did toggle to park 2 at times.

WOW! Tell us more about them. How old are they? Were they all in the same hole? How deep, etc? CONGRATULATIONS!!!

No disc. I dug 27 nickels altogether. I was hoping for a war nick too because the place was built in 1946. As far as wheaties, I dug 10. They’re usually so toasted that I don’t check the dates on all of them.

Thanks! Yeah, one of those junker mood rings. Rang up a solid 24 on the nox.

It was cold, but all the snow is finally gone so I went to an old ballpark. This ballfield dates back to the mid 40s so I knew there had to be silver there. I had been there last summer but it was so hot I guess I couldn’t concentrate well enough on the signals because all I got was clad. Today I hit the same area and got three mercs. A 1940, 1942, and 1945. I also got a very worn, no date slq. I also got $7.96 in clad which included a 1971 half. Halves are hard to come by for me so that was a nice surprise. This was on Saturday. This puts me at five silvers for the year. I checked last year’s log and I had 7 by this time. I’m going back tomorrow so maybe I’ll get a couple more. So I went back Sunday and hit a hillside near the stands. Not 20 minutes in and I hit a well worn merc. Upon closer inspection it’s a 1916! My first 1916. The backside was caked in a thin layer of mud and not having any water I just put it in my pocket and figured I’d wash it at home and hope for a D mintmark. Before ending the day I got a ‘46 rosie and a ‘43 merc along with $5 something in clad. This 7 silver weekend puts me at 8 for the year. Oh yeah, almost forgot. When I got back home I washed off the backside of that 1916 merc. Low and behold I see remnants of a mint mark! I run to get my lighted 16x magnifier and as hard as I tried I couldn’t make it into a D….it was an S. Bummer!

Very nicely done! Did you make that with a 3D printer?