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I am looking for a good custom setting for coins.</span>
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Notch out everything except coins
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I've set mine up in custom, notching out everyting to the left of a zinc lincoln, which of course will kill any hopes of finding a nickel, but it's just a stupid nickel. Same setting also works well for finding shallow civil war bullets in good ground.
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What if that stupid nickel was a buffalo, Indian head, or 1913 Liberty worth $1.5 million. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="
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Good point, but I've given up on finding any old money around here. I think I'll stick to civil war lead. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">
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Yeah, buttons read right about a nickel don't they? I'm currently in a button drought, haven't dug a good button in a year, last one was a gilted Union Infantry cuff button. If I'm on a civil war site I usually run all metal and dig in the nickel range with all those ##### shotgun shells and a few pulltabs. In parks though, I'm lazy, rather not dig pulltabs all darn day so I rarely get any nickels.
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In my experience they read at or just beyond a nickel or a pulltab on a 2500 if they're facing straight up. But the common shield eagles around here usually have no gilt at all so they don't ID as good as they might elsewhere. Just my experience. If I'm relic hunting then I'm usually in all metal mode anyway digging anything and everything at or north of a pull tab and even iron if I'm on a battle site.
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but you are missing buttons. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt=""> If it's only one kind of button you are looking for and it is always in clean ground at 4-6 inches than I think you are safe. If not, there are likely a few passing you buy. I only speak of the early sites I hunt and everyone knows each place is very different, so if what yar doin works! Keep at it!
"> If it's only one kind of button you are looking for and it is always in clean ground at 4-6 inches than I think you are safe. If not, there are likely a few passing you buy. I only speak of the early sites I hunt and everyone knows each place is very different, so if what yar doin works! Keep at it!
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Probably right. Up until recently all of my sites had been nice rich, tilled soil, no rocks. When rocky ground came into the picture I had to learn how to dig all over again. Minie balls started reading differently, and my partner was cleaning my clock with his old 1266 before I adjusted. Probably the same for buttons. Haven't dug a good one in quite sometime, but I have bag of shotgun shell heads to show for the effort. <img src="/metal/html/smile.gif" border=0 width=15 height=15 alt="">
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