Argentium
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- Santa Fe, New Mexico
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- Whites, MXT.
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Greetings t-net amigos (and amigas !) Went to a small but intensively frequented park in downtown
Santa Fe this afternoon. I found 190 modern coins (aprox. $15.00) but the really important info i want
to share is this; I realised that pocket spills ,which are rather common in these kind of parks, very often
display two characteristics, 1 - they sound like popcorn popping with regard to the detector sounds,
and 2- they often read like "zincoln" cents on the vdi meter. One of the new realisations i came to today
was that quarters, dimes, and copper cents, that normally would read as such on my vdi meter, were
being masked by the "zincoln cents" . In other words ,even though these good targets were present ,
I could only hear that they were there, the multiple solid audibles , were the evidence that targets of
higher integrity were present. In the case of a single isolated "zincoln cent" the audible is sketchy,and
iffy or non existant with the word zinc on the vdi meter. Why i am so excited about this, is that last
year i pretty much only dug signals that read 80+ on my vdi meter, this year i've resolved to dig all
penny dime signals as well ( although not single "zincoln cents") and already i've found many more
silver rings that came in as dime signals, several silver dimes , and quarters that may have been on
edge, and this year i will dig all these popcorn sounding pocket spills that read "zincoln" but sound
penny/ dime/quarter. I know this post is long but hopefully you MXT users can benefit. In closing
let me say that i'm using the 6x10 DD coil disc. maxed, gain set @ 10 for newer city parks.
Blessings to all ! Gregory, Santa Fe.
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Santa Fe this afternoon. I found 190 modern coins (aprox. $15.00) but the really important info i want
to share is this; I realised that pocket spills ,which are rather common in these kind of parks, very often
display two characteristics, 1 - they sound like popcorn popping with regard to the detector sounds,
and 2- they often read like "zincoln" cents on the vdi meter. One of the new realisations i came to today
was that quarters, dimes, and copper cents, that normally would read as such on my vdi meter, were
being masked by the "zincoln cents" . In other words ,even though these good targets were present ,
I could only hear that they were there, the multiple solid audibles , were the evidence that targets of
higher integrity were present. In the case of a single isolated "zincoln cent" the audible is sketchy,and
iffy or non existant with the word zinc on the vdi meter. Why i am so excited about this, is that last
year i pretty much only dug signals that read 80+ on my vdi meter, this year i've resolved to dig all
penny dime signals as well ( although not single "zincoln cents") and already i've found many more
silver rings that came in as dime signals, several silver dimes , and quarters that may have been on
edge, and this year i will dig all these popcorn sounding pocket spills that read "zincoln" but sound
penny/ dime/quarter. I know this post is long but hopefully you MXT users can benefit. In closing
let me say that i'm using the 6x10 DD coil disc. maxed, gain set @ 10 for newer city parks.
Blessings to all ! Gregory, Santa Fe.
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Maybe I'll go back and check them when I get the chance.
