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First finds for 2006, First silver for the year

Dan(NM)

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I noticed that some dirt had besen moved around at a local school and decided to check it out. Here's what 2.5 hours worth of hunting turned up before I ran out of light. These are some butt ugly coins, but, I had fun and started the year off with some silver.
I was using a Minelab 8" coil, gain set to 7, fast recovery on, manual sens set to 20 and iron mask at -12, digital mode on audio set to 1.Up until now, I've always run in normal mode. I think audio 1 will be my mode of preference. There was a ground mounted transformer approx. 30 feet from where I was hunting. I would have to use noise cancel when I was right next to it. After about 45 minutes I dropped the gain to 5 and turned fast recovery off just to see how the Explorer II would act. The signals were sharper and crisper with this set up. At this point in time, I really don't believe there is another machine that comes close to the performance of the Explorer.
 
These are great finds. Use some hot soapy water to soak the silver coins and rinse the dirt off. Then I microwave some hydrogen peroxide till its hot and soak the silver a few minutes. Really cleans them up nicely. Never had the peroxide blow up in the microwave but be careful.
 
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