99 on vdi

[tymber79]

Got a question. Last night I got a strong 99 on vdi. Depth reading was 6-8 inches. I kept digging and digging but found nothing even with pin pointer. It got too dark to keep going, and my young son was with me and past his bedtime so I back filled the hole and left. I have heard dollars ring in about 99. Anything else?

 

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[badpenny]

Without knowing where you where hunting and hearing the sound you may have been over a big pipe which was much deeper than those six inches.

 

[BryanM362]

What kind of machine?

 

[tymber79]

At pro.

 

[Irishgoldhound]

I've had those readings b4. Lots of times turned out to be a beer or pop can. It'll pick those cans up quite deep.

 

[BryanM362]

When I used my AT Pro, a 99 was always a large piece of iron. However, I have never found a Silver Dollar, so don't know about that.

Were you in an area that has buried pipes, sheet metal, etc.?

 

[missedshed]

I got a 97-99 yesterday, I was thinking can however it wasn't super loud at about 2-4 inches and the signal dropped off when I swung the coil higher in the air unlike a large piece of aluminum. Well I dug it and pulled 2 Kennedy half dollars. The machine is fairly accurate for the depth for coins but can be off a few inches depending on the coin size. If it says 2-4 and I'm down to at least 8 it's usually large aluminum

 

[danloop]

Did same thing until I looked up and saw the garbage can.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Probably what you got was a totally rusted out iron piece of junk. It was rusted to the point where it was mixed with the soil matrix around it and not a solid piece. My half dollar coin ring I made for myself read 91, but is really easy to pinpoint and the Pro-Pointer can easily isolate it.

 

[signal_line]

99 can be big silver. A large target is going to read much more shallow than it really is. I would check to see what size it is and how the signal edges sound. Iron is going to be wide and bleed at the edges from the rust halo.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

Im pretty certain it isnt a coin, or even coins at that matter....Sounds like a large iron disc of some sorts.

I used to think the MORE Objects in one spot would make it read higher in numbers. But Last year i was finding 20 lb boxes full of ammuntion that were buried about 24" down....and even with all those copper/brass bullets.....the VDI still showed them in the mid-high 60s

If you got the pateince...i would dig it just to see what the hell it is!

good luck!

 

[signal_line]

Make a slow sweep over it and see if it breaks up (iron).

 

[Kodiak43351]

Silver dollar I found rang in at a 96-97. 99 usually means junk and if you dug and can't find it prob an old pipe or iron culvert of some type.

 

[seabud]

on the AT Pro I've got one silver Peace Dollar it rang up at 95 94 and sounded clean 99 is almost junk

 

[tymber79]

Thank you all for the tips.

 

[Kodiak43351]

What can I say? I don't believe it. There comes a time you have to call B.S. This guy probably doesn't even own one. Those fisher guys don't like the AT series because it's eating into their sales big time. It's a big propaganda thing being pushed. I couldn't care less about fisher detectors. I couldn't even imagine going on the fisher page and raising a stink. Don't need to. It's just laughable these guys are so sucked into the propaganda. This ain't nothing new. It's been going on for decades.

did I miss something signal_line?

 

[Fourman110]

When I get a big number like that it's almost always a big chunk of copper or brass. A chunk of copper pipe tends to bounce a bit though.

 

[Diggin-N-Dumps]

did I miss something signal_line?

Its like there is a comment missing or something?....Me No gets this