Went out to the park last Thursday and am trying to figure something out.
I took the F2 and started swinging. During the hunt, I got a hit on a cent. The F2 said it was 5-6" down and I PP the spot, centered over the concentric 8". I usually PP right on. I took the Lesche out and dug my plug (I usually dig about a 4X4 plug). After going down about 5-6", I used the XPointer and it told me the target was just below. I dug another inch or two and saw an insulated copper wire. Now as I garbbed this wire, it was laying flat, and it went into the side of the plug a few inches. After retrieving the wwire I double checked the hole. The XPointer told me that something was in the area where the wire just was in the side of the plug. I dug at an angle another inch or so into the side of the plug. There popped out a 1956 Wheatie.
I thought about it and wondered, did the detector pick up the coin through the wire? My PP on the F2 placed me right over the middle of the wire, and if the wire was touching the penny, can it fool the detector with the added penny since they are both copper? The wire was at 7" (used the Lesche to measure). The wire angled slightly down another inch where the penny was, placing the penny at 8". Because of the PP being off and the shallower depth reading on the F2, it appears the wire acted like an antenna for the penny.
Is this possible?
I took the F2 and started swinging. During the hunt, I got a hit on a cent. The F2 said it was 5-6" down and I PP the spot, centered over the concentric 8". I usually PP right on. I took the Lesche out and dug my plug (I usually dig about a 4X4 plug). After going down about 5-6", I used the XPointer and it told me the target was just below. I dug another inch or two and saw an insulated copper wire. Now as I garbbed this wire, it was laying flat, and it went into the side of the plug a few inches. After retrieving the wwire I double checked the hole. The XPointer told me that something was in the area where the wire just was in the side of the plug. I dug at an angle another inch or so into the side of the plug. There popped out a 1956 Wheatie.
I thought about it and wondered, did the detector pick up the coin through the wire? My PP on the F2 placed me right over the middle of the wire, and if the wire was touching the penny, can it fool the detector with the added penny since they are both copper? The wire was at 7" (used the Lesche to measure). The wire angled slightly down another inch where the penny was, placing the penny at 8". Because of the PP being off and the shallower depth reading on the F2, it appears the wire acted like an antenna for the penny.
Is this possible?
I gotta believe theres a lot of multidenom silver stacks and slants out there that had a coil over them at one time, but were passed over as junk..! I wonder what a Peace Dollar with a 5 dollar gold piece on top of or right next to it sounds like?
