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Was stomping around the old cellar hole area and came across old pony horseshoe about 5" wide, nice bronze oar lock towards the lake, a domed shaped low silver content plate that I guess is from some pottery and has a nice pattern on it and lastly a military button that I thought was brass but is gold plated? Button is just under 5/8" dia, pretty small. Back is missing the loop but there is writing but that is filled in. I am a bit scared to clean it more. Has hand with sword on front on grooved background. Stars going completely around and some writing that I don't want to damage trying to clean. Not sure if anyone has come across a button like this before.

Tom, does the MK have more power than the Amphibio if they had the same coil? About my past experiences on big coils is they have more downsides than you may realize and often limited on where you can really benefit from them. Larger coils I have found tend to mask out easier in trashier areas, harder to ground balance, harder to navigate around obstructions, can be sensitive to EMI and in general just heavy to swing. There are cases where they work well such as matted down fields where you lose a few inches from dead grass on top before you even get to the soil, meadows that have substantial top soil depth and old fields. I have a Nel Big, 17" wide x 15" long and it is like swinging a chihuaha on the end of a broom stick. The depth on that based off a stock coil is only about 50% and often less depending on ground conditions. I have found deep dimes with at 14" which is impressive for the AT Pro but the work swinging it is brutal.

Couple more passes this time with the Tejon so I could skim over all the can slag and got the usual clad, 59 nickel which is the age of the school and a nice old sterling kids ring. Has a makers mark inside I'll try to look it up.

Close up on the 925 ring I had found. Stumped on the makers mark as the search engine seem to be getting worse. Looks like a very high end ring as the craftsmanship is really good. All the top is made of links that are hand pinned! Maybe someone has seen that mark before.

Unfortunately it seems all the search engines are using popularity over content and meta tags now. Gone are the days when you typed in a query and ended up with what you wanted instead of some stinking irrelevant ad or topic. Really annoying. When we are allowed outdoors again I'll ask my neighbor, he's an antique dealer and probably knows.

Ya, I have been just skimming over and picking out the clad that is shallow. There are a lot of targets so once thinned out I can go back over and listen better for those deeper ones. I may be chasing nothing there as there had been flooding problems on north side of the field and the town has redone it several times over the years. Very good possibility it had been scraped and back filled leaving only new stuff.

It looks very old based on how crude the die is on it. Good chance it was from a Chinese laborer maybe 1800's? I tried looking up old buttons but anything with the word antique doesn't show anything. Could be word of the year "Vintage" instead.

Did you try to put the headphones on first then the detector? My buddy does that and it finds it automatically.

Small acid test kit is the easiest way to take the guess work out. I recently found a 925 ring made in Italy and it rang in lower than a quarter or dime. Rings and jewelry in general vary based on how much metal, size and orientation so the numbers will be different.

Other metal to check is palladium which looks like platinum. The acid test kits check for that too. I never found any so can't tell you what they ring in at.

Your best bet is an acid test kit. I thought I had a white gold or junk ring and turned out to be platinum. Kits are pretty cheap, think I paid $24 for mine and came with a handy jewelers loupe that gives me a headache. Guessing it was a leftover give away for Cracker Jacks prizes when they switched over to stickers and temporary tattoos.

Is that 925 silver or white gold? Usually don't see heavy castings done in silver like that. Any marks inside? Either way pretty nice ring. Congrats!

Woods hunting for me is more interesting than a field or park so even before the virus breakout it's been relatively quiet. Think they closed the parks here and saw on the news how empty Boston Commons where. Was so tempted to go there but if anyone say ya and word got out it would be packed with people like seagulls at a garbage dump digging it up.

Chase you're probably right on the minie ball, I have other styles I found in those parts. GB you got a great eye on that coin, back does look the same. Good news is that is much older than most the coins I find in that area by at least 50 years.

So cleaned them up a bit. Large cent is mid 1800's based off the edge and head facing left. I used a piece of bamboo I had left over from my fly rod building days because it holds up better when wet than a tooth pick. Other coin looks to be a very early King George, front is blown away but back you can make out some lettering along the edge and some character in the middle. Wild guess mid 1700's but not sure.

I can try to wash up the large cents a bit more, one that has more detail looks like head is facing right so maybe a flowing hair 1790's??? Other is in tougher shape. I think if they patina falls off there won't be anything left below, usually what happens to those old coppers. What really makes this detector is the combination of power in such a small coil. I have hit that area with my ATP and many times with the Tejon. Tejon does really good in that area with the smaller coil but I get some EMI there. The ATP did fairly well with stock DD and found the trime with that but the ring and 2 large cents would be out of range on both those machines. The larger 10x12 dd on Tejon tends to get smothered from the old iron around. Make matters worse there was a boyscout camp there and a fire pit that people love to burn cans and toss the slag all over. The half dime was in the mix of that and I got just a hint of a good target. Wasn't deep but enough trash around to cast doubt. I am finding that 2 tone very effective in those conditions. If your digging shotgun shells that is a good sign, keep looking and should be some pocket change around as people lose change when reloading, especially those old side by sides. Found many of my old silvers on hunting trails.

Hit an area where I had picked up a trime before. This time out I snagged an 1853 half dime, old 3 ringer, bronze wedding band that was fairly deep and 2 large cents that are in rough shape. Probably won't bother cleaning the large cents as they may just disintegrate. Used the Multi Kruzer at 14 khz in 2 tone mode. Had isat off, was manually ground balancing as the ground is pretty tame, gain at 95 and disc at 0. I'm finding it is better to let it do it's chatter and low iron hum once in a while rather than using discrim at all as it disc seems to make the audio bit choppy and hard to follow. Finding 2 tone very easy to pick out good targets even when there is a lot of trash and iron around, just work slow. That stock coil is working really well in the woods.

Ring is 925 but showed up fairly low at 65-67. Doing more research and seems there was 4 baseball diamonds that are buried below and has been a flooding problem so the entire north side of the field has been re-landscaped a few times. My hunch on really old coins there is looking grim. Still nailing a ton of clad though, at the halfway mark and fist full of quarters etc. Might buzz through with my Tejon, targets are pretty consistent being modern change and can slag.

In regular 14khz and 5khz normal vdi is probably fine and easier to get used to. Normal mode has the same numbers in all frequencies and is on by default. I suggest when learning the machine and jumping between frequencies it is easier to get used to one set of numbers. If I am hunting in high trash areas like parks and fields in 19khz I found effective to swap to sp mode that shows the natural bias of the vdi on low conductors giving more of a number spread between trash and treasure. It is just an option and I thought it would be handy to have a reference of the difference. Relic hunting I usually use 2 tone which is iron audio and vco for non ferous metals. I find that very effective for the areas I hit. I have been using tacking on some of the areas and put my isat to 5 in 3 tone mode. This seems to give me consistent target numbers. As an example, one area in particular has buried baseball fields on one end and wet land on the other so the ground varies quite a bit. I do like having that option on the detector in the case of selectable frequency machines. I think that option is very well thought out.

The ML pointer won't hit a 14k chain clasp much more than 1/8". Not worried because I have found plenty or tiny earings a use the pointers to push the dirt around to see what I got so 1/8" is plenty for me. That is impressive for the carrot though.

So far all the coins are about 6" mark, old ones and new ones mixed on depth. Using 19kzh, 3 tone mode, gain at 90, disc at 3, isat off and sp mode for vdi so i have a good range on number within the trash. I have a feeling a good amount of the original soil had been scraped away and replaced with sod. The Kruzer really does hit silver very hard, much stronger signal than my Tejon. Numbers, nickels hitting in the mid-low 30's, zinc pennies vary depending how beat up they are from low mid 60's to about 70, copper pennies high 70's, dimes low mid 80's softer signal, quarters in mid to high 80's. That is a pretty big spread on numbers so when you come into trash it is easy to tell what is what. I still will dig anything that has a nice signal, consistent number even if it's in the trash number, did have quite a few pencil eraser tops hehe. I plan on covering the whole field then once the clad is out of the way will go back over it in deep mode and cherry pick. Right now just too much beeping to keep track of it all. Do wish it was 64 silvers and 41 wheaties, if that was the case I would be posting from my phone and still out there LOL.

Got an old soccer field that is next to a couple schools built in 1959, bad part is it had new loam put in back in the 70's. I was hoping for some very old coins but thinking that may not be the case. Anyways hit 1/4 of it so far and finding quite a bit of clad, 925 silver ring made in Italy, 64 silver dime and a 41 wheatie. Someone else was hitting the other end where there is tons of trash. Looked like they gave up. Been using the Multi Kruzer to get used to it and starting to learn the audio much better in 3 tone mode. Make a really nice coin shooter machine.

Isn't that 1943 copper penny worth more than all the studs people showing? Both my pin pointers hit small gold at about an 1/8" away, the ML Pro Find 35 does go hair more but hardly worth counting the lines on my ruler. Still need to find a stud I can test.

What detectors are you making them for?

I would like to see someone using that coil down in that red dirt in VA. That may make for a convincing test. I can't speak on the Amphibio and can't compare it to the Kruzer as they have 2 very different coils. I know the narrow coil works very well here against iron contamination where my wider coils on my other machines struggle. The Kruzer seems to have quite a bit of punch and believe Makro really boosts the tx on it in their 2 tone, 4 tone and especially deep mode and is on the cusp of being unstable much like the AT Max but easier to tame as you have more options to work with other than sensitivity. I still can't see having just one coil for any of my machines, for me it really depends where I want to hunt. Wider coils in the woods I often hit would be very awkward to navigate around the undergrowth and blow downs.