Learned something new about the F2....

[DiGGER27]

I learned something yesterday.

A member on another forum asked about how you can tell if something is silver.
Not sure if he meant by dates or if it is in the ground, but I assumed he meant in the ground.

I have read about E-Trak owners hearing a "fluty" sound, and other high end units might have more indicators, also.
I assumed a silver quarter would hit on the F2 as regular clad 78-80-or 82.

I have never dug a silver quarter yet, with any machine, so I experimented.
This is all air testing, and when you do that the numbers jump a tiny bit vs. more stable in the ground, I have found.

I threw one clad quarter and one silver 1957 and 4 1964 quarters on my living room rug and scanned them.
The clad quarter came up a little jumpy, as expected, but settled between 78 and 82.
All even numbers..78-80-82.
When I scanned all the silver quarters, they all jumped a tiny bit too, but between 80 and 83!

That's right...they all did that and settled on that 83...an odd number.
Never seen a clad quarter with anything but an even number, all the silver ones triggered an odd one.

I do not ever remember seeing this number come up on my screen before, in the field.
Interesting!
Another member that was at the beach and had just dug a pretty deep 1957 silver quarter in the rocks said his numbers were also 80-83.

I don't have anywhere to put in a test garden or I would test this out.

Just thought you guys might want to know.

I know I will be looking a little closer for those 83's from now on.

A side note...this other member also dug a large platinum ring at about 3-4 inches in depth.
That one rang up at a 73.

HH

 

[BobbyBridge]

I'm gona have to test that on my F 5.

 

[Alimo88]

Only about 64 of the 99 numbers on the F2 are ever displayed
as an Australian example out two dollar coin would love to be 60 but 60 does not exist
it often is 59 OR 61 but most often jumps from 59 to 61
funnily enough I call these "jumpers"
I do have a chart of all the numbers displayed and I'm sure 1 or 2 around 80 will also be missing

Must be the way the chip is programed

the F5 has all 99 numbers

 

[DiGGER27]

Only about 64 of the 99 numbers on the F2 are ever displayed
as an Australian example out two dollar coin would love to be 60 but 60 does not exist
it often is 59 OR 61 but most often jumps from 59 to 61
funnily enough I call these "jumpers"
I do have a chart of all the numbers displayed and I'm sure 1 or 2 around 80 will also be missing

Must be the way the chip is programed

the F5 has all 99 numbers

So I paid for 99 numbers but I only got 64?
Now I feel...slighted.
At least I have that 83...never saw this one before...maybe there are more rare numbers hiding in my machine.

Gotta dig a lot more stuff, I guess.

 

[Ivan]

Yep.... I learned i didn't get all the numbers i paid for.....................any other detector company doing this???

 

[osgood]

i have the F4, the f70 and the ltd75. for me they all vid slightly higher on the silver and or definitely lock on cleaner. Once you recover a couple silver finds, you will note the sound is usually a higher, more succinct , very excited sound. After you get used to it, and after your body reacts, you can almost say wow , I think this might be silver. cool! CO