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I'm not finding that big a difference in IDs, I think you'll find that pennies were differentiated a bit, but otherwise silver is where it was. If you're a relic hunter this is great for home sites.

Yeah it's probably not the best for the beach, not having any beach parameters. 😀 I probably would have dug less junk if I wasn't specifically looking for gold jewelry. If you know your good IDs, it would be good at any old site, it's specifically good for finding small coins.

The middle rightmost item one the top photo. 🤔 If you haven't already, and are using the D2, you should try Tekkna at this site. 🙂

Got out today despite the threat of rain to see if I could tease any more jewelry out of the site where I found the big silver ring. The day started out nice and warm, about 55, so not bad. Ended up with rain late in the day, Today I used Tekkna and Relic, Tekkna where it was really trashy. I want to mention that while Tekkna is a great program, you only dig when you get a consistent signal, it's probably not the best when the place is loaded with aluminum and brass, and molten bits of metal. Since I was using it to find any more jewelry items, I ended up digging a horrific amount of junk: However, no iron at all. 🙂 Finds were still pretty cool, and I kept my silver streak going. Ended up with an assortment of the really old and new, especially the 1906 IHP and the 1946 Roosevelt dime. Got some wheats, some interesting tags, and a couple of thimbles. I did get one piece of jewelry, this Sterling collar stud, this is the front: And this is the back.

Nice hunt Ghound! NC is right about the valve stem cover, I found about 20 of them on the landing near my house, then found a Model T in the woods 🤣 my avatar is a hubcap. Hard to be sure, but at first glance your bullet shell looks like a .45/70. The Tootsie truck is cool! Bet there's a lot more stuff there for you to find. 👍 I'd say the cone is probably a hubcap of some sort.

Thank you! 🙂 It really does sniff stuff out. I still prefer Relic in big fields with little junk, but get that program with the 9" in lots of iron, and it really shines. It's not that great where there is a lot of brass and aluminum junk, but I can see why the European detectorists would love it. 👍 It's a great tool nonetheless for me. What level of reactivity was in use when you detected that coin at 11"?

Thanks RVP, I'm going to try to find out who owned it, hope I can find the missing pieces, but if the chains holding them are iron it might be difficult. The farmer that owns the field should know something about it.

This is the sort of hunt that most can only dream of. 🏆 Congratulations! Some nice landowners you have there. 🙂

I didn't comment on the last hunt but this is for both of them. Incredible! 🏆 Obviously the best example of how useful a PI, and a lot of digging is at the beach. 👍 Great to see those 100 year old coins coming out! Never would have imagined that other than I got one a while back, but I guess a lot of sand has been removed by the surf. 🤔 Too bad the silver ring is so crusty, can it be cleaned up?

Yes, on huge iron targets like that 12 pound solid shot cannonball I dug almost 2 feet deep 🤯 It was a solid 85, every way possible, a common number that comes up when you're over a really big chunk of iron, like plow parts, kettles, axe heads, hammers. Usually I'll skip those but I was really curious, especially when I got down to a foot. 85 is in the penny range, and some older silver. I'm glad I dug that one, but I retrieved it a few weeks later 😏

Wellllll, went to Culpeper, actually Kelly's Ford in Fauquier County, but close enough. Cool Civil war site but not in the thick of things. Sadly but not sadly, the ground had little to no mineral content, it was nasty sticky gray clay instead of red. It was really easy to find anything that was in the ground, which wasn't much. 🙄 The horseshoe meter was accurate all the time, as were the tones. Got fooled by one square nail, it was 50/50 iron and NF, I'll dig those. As written before, when a target disappears upon lifting, it's usually good. A lot of stuff was close to the top, that gray clay doesn't allow much to sink. On the D2 you can analyze aluminum two ways, it will either give a distorted "brassy" tone in full tones, or it will still be there you lift the coil a foot over it or more and give you a pure tone. Even Relic has this feature.

The only way to know a Deus 2 coil shaft is carbon fiber is a "CF" in a circle on the back side. 🙂 They don't "look" like carbon fiber.

Going to find out some things today, going to Culpeper. 🙂 I'll switch to the meter from XY to the horseshoe, maybe get some screen shots. There should be some cannonballs there 🤔 Also it's the worst ground Virginia has.

Translated: I sent the search file to maintenance and it turned out that the reception file needed to be replaced and maintenance was not completed and I am still waiting

Thanks Colonel, I'm mostly partial to buttons myself, if for nothing other than their uniqueness and researching them later 🙂 surgically pulling silver coins out of all that junk showed me that I'm really getting to know my detector.

Thanks VL, I was just going to look around there for a little while, but the coins kept me going. There is another permission just down the road that is very similar with trash.

Heh, we're going there tomorrow 🤔

I never used it on other detectors, just the depth gauge. I figure if you're getting a high tone it's probably saying non ferrous anyway, so I use the XY.

Yeah sorry, I usually use the XY screen, so no meter. 🙂 Been using Tekkna lately tho. Where I hunt there is no mineralization at all.

Or just disappear, which is beneficial for me. If I get a good tone, lift, and it disappears i'm digging it! 😀 I've just never heard one go to iron... 🤔

I can't thank you enough, NC. 🙂 I stopped looking for a decent "shoe" after I got my SteveG rig, but now I'm working on 3 Deus 2's, (2 with the RC and a WS6), I needed a good shoe for the stock shaft 😅 Beach season is coming, it'll be nice to not have to chase the detector down the slope. 😬

One of the things that might cause this phenomenon with the Deus 2 is low Audio Response. Another could be soil mineralization, and raising the coil could pick up nearby iron. Honestly I've owned the D2 for two years now, and I have not seen nor do I remember a single instance where this phenomenon has occurred. It would have stood out plainly. I rarely encounter mineralization, but every single target that I got the solid indication was iron, was iron. I've often seen the reverse where I will get a solid and loud 85, and dig a cannonball or an axe head. 😏 It could be my settings, some of which are extreme. I too keep my coil very low, but try that in high grass, bean or corn stalks. I'll use Relic for that because it is specifically designed for hunting with the coil higher. I'd like to see some video proof, especially with Audio response turned all the way up to 7 in V2. "Lifting" for me will identify aluminum or large iron targets. It may also cause me not to dig a big brass padlock 🙄 Small non ferrous items simply disappear, a great indication to dig them. There is another phenomenon I've noticed however, the "magic disappearing target". You get a great signal, dig the plug out, and the item disappears. Stomping the plug flat and sweeping over it and sweeping over the hole produces nothing. I immediately get out my trusty MI-6, check the hole with it, and find the target. It's either small or on edge after digging, more rarely in the plug.

Nice one! Looks like it was also shaved a bit, they did that to make counterfeits or use the silver for other purposes. The notches are a giveaway, this was why later silvers were reeded. I have yet to find a whole Reale, either 1, 2, 4, or the much coveted 8. Are you on V2 now?

Thanks Chase, It was rewarding to go back to this place with a program on V2, the Deus is massively better now. I couldn't believe how precisely it identified objects, how deep some of them were, or how it picked them out despite their proximity to iron. I tried relic a bit but Tekkna was better at it. The button book puts the USMC button as post Civil War, 1880-1893. I dug a couple of late 1800s IHPs here so that's about right. There's a GS button as well, I'll have to look more into that but it's pretty shot. The keys weren't too far apart, either. 🤔

Got this small permission last year, I've hunted it a few times and while I've found quite a few 1900s relics in it, I have only found one silver coin, I think it was a mangled and melted Mercury dime. There should be more, it's never been hunted. I've found lots of wheats and one or two IHPs, maybe a few nickels. It's an incredibly trashy spot where a house was a long time ago. Historic Aerials has recently put up some new sharp aerial photos of the area dating back to 1961, today I had a pretty good idea of exactly where the house stood and faced, and where the driveway was. It was a cold start, but ended up being a great detecting day. I randomly walked around, found a few wheats, and dug some other interesting stuff. I used the D2 with 9" coil and Tekkna, I wanted to try it yet again in a tough place. The afternoon picked up, all of a sudden I got a 91 and dug my first great coin. I stayed in that spot for a long time, it reminded me of my last hunt where I found a lot of stuff in a 5 foot circle. Tekkna has really opened up my difficult hunting places, I have many. The only downside is that I end up digging a lot of non ferrous junk too, but very little aluminum and nearly no iron. Here's the trash, really bad today. Lots of bits and weird brass stuff, wire and shredded things. Here are my finds, I think I found the clothesline, because I kept finding wheats and nickels, ended up with quite a few, and a lot of other cool stuff like bits of jewelry: And I didn't expect to, but came home with 3 silver coins: Using Tekkna really paid off today! 🥳 Nickel, dime, and quarter, all silver. I "juiced" the USMC 6-point coat button, and got another surprise: There's still quite a bit of gold on it, it's a nice two piece.