Today I took the Anfibio Multi to one of my trashiest spots where I have found loads of wheats and mercury dimes. I have gridded it from many directions and thought I had most of the coins. Good, high tone signals are long gone, so I thought. There is rusty iron, can slaw, pull tabs of all kinds, bread wrapper wire, you name it, it's here. I started out in three tone, 91 sens, 5khz. About 15 feet into my first pass, I got a mid 80's loud high tone. Clear as a bell. 1940 wheat from 7 inches. When I rescanned the hole, I got an iron burp inches from the plug. One more fact, the ground here is bad as my ground number was 85.
In this area, I found two more clad coins before moving to an old pavilion which is the trashiest place I detect. In one 25 foot by 25 foot adjoining area, I have found over 100 wheat pennies. I purposely worked this area. I did not expect anything, but the Anfibio produced another WOW moment. I got a slight high tone mixed with many other mid tones. I could only hear this tone by barely and I mean barely inching the coil. I could not use pinpoint because of multiple targets. I dug a bigger plug and the first thing I found was a folded over round pull tab. Other detectors report this kind of target as a coin because it is almost round. I rechecked the hole with my pinpointer and heard another target slightly deeper I found a 1920 wheat. Now I was blown away, but it gets better. I covered the hole and re-checked it with my detector. Two inches from the first plug I got a scratchy weak 28 signal. First target out was a small foil gum wrapper. That explains the 28 signal I thought. When rechecking with the pinpointer, bingo another target two inches deeper and two inches off to the side. 1931 Buffalo nickel! Four distinct targets in a 1 foot by 1 foot area. Outstanding for using an 11 inch coil.
My final area was a long hill just down from this pavilion. Digger from this forum suggested checking targets in different modes if I thought I might have something decent. I have not found much of anything on this hill, but I quickly got a faint somewhat scratchy signal in three tone. Since it was scratchy I figured junk. I tried four and five tone modes and the signal got somewhat clearer. It would only flash an occasional high 80's number and I was betting junk. From over 8 inches I got a coin on my drop cloth. This is unreal I thought. It was an old green wheat. I checked the hole with the pinpointer and nothing. I rescanned as I always do and got another identical weak signal. This can't be another coin I though. My second plug was about three inches from the first and again, I find another wheat from at least 8 inches. Why were the signals scratchy I thought. That question was answered when I checked the area with the detector. Iron burps five or six inches from the two plugs.
When I used the 4 and 5 tone modes, I noticed that my depth indications while in pinpoint were only showing 4 inches, but the actual coins were found at around 8 inches. I had a teknetics omega 8500 which did the exact same thing while using the deep filters. I initially thought the Multi might be defective, but when I checked targets in 3 tone, the inches were more in line. I can only imagine what a small coil will do for this detector. I am more than impressed by the 11 inch coil when using it in super trashy spots. Unfortunately, winter is knocking on my door. It will be a long winter waiting to use this fine detector at all of my spots.
In this area, I found two more clad coins before moving to an old pavilion which is the trashiest place I detect. In one 25 foot by 25 foot adjoining area, I have found over 100 wheat pennies. I purposely worked this area. I did not expect anything, but the Anfibio produced another WOW moment. I got a slight high tone mixed with many other mid tones. I could only hear this tone by barely and I mean barely inching the coil. I could not use pinpoint because of multiple targets. I dug a bigger plug and the first thing I found was a folded over round pull tab. Other detectors report this kind of target as a coin because it is almost round. I rechecked the hole with my pinpointer and heard another target slightly deeper I found a 1920 wheat. Now I was blown away, but it gets better. I covered the hole and re-checked it with my detector. Two inches from the first plug I got a scratchy weak 28 signal. First target out was a small foil gum wrapper. That explains the 28 signal I thought. When rechecking with the pinpointer, bingo another target two inches deeper and two inches off to the side. 1931 Buffalo nickel! Four distinct targets in a 1 foot by 1 foot area. Outstanding for using an 11 inch coil.
My final area was a long hill just down from this pavilion. Digger from this forum suggested checking targets in different modes if I thought I might have something decent. I have not found much of anything on this hill, but I quickly got a faint somewhat scratchy signal in three tone. Since it was scratchy I figured junk. I tried four and five tone modes and the signal got somewhat clearer. It would only flash an occasional high 80's number and I was betting junk. From over 8 inches I got a coin on my drop cloth. This is unreal I thought. It was an old green wheat. I checked the hole with the pinpointer and nothing. I rescanned as I always do and got another identical weak signal. This can't be another coin I though. My second plug was about three inches from the first and again, I find another wheat from at least 8 inches. Why were the signals scratchy I thought. That question was answered when I checked the area with the detector. Iron burps five or six inches from the two plugs.
When I used the 4 and 5 tone modes, I noticed that my depth indications while in pinpoint were only showing 4 inches, but the actual coins were found at around 8 inches. I had a teknetics omega 8500 which did the exact same thing while using the deep filters. I initially thought the Multi might be defective, but when I checked targets in 3 tone, the inches were more in line. I can only imagine what a small coil will do for this detector. I am more than impressed by the 11 inch coil when using it in super trashy spots. Unfortunately, winter is knocking on my door. It will be a long winter waiting to use this fine detector at all of my spots.