Response From Deep Coins Or Ones On Edge

[Critterhunter]

I have read in the past from those with older Sovereigns that say a really deep coin will act a certain way when you sweep over it. The VDI number will climb as you do the Sovereign wiggle over it until it finally reaches 180. I've not seen this happen yet on my GT with deep coins so I don't know if the fact that the GT is a little more sensitive has changed that. But I can say that I've seen this climbing number thing happen with coins on edge in the past that weren't all that deep. The last one I remember was a merc that was probably 5 or 6" deep. As I did the Sovereign wiggle over it the ID would steadily climb until it finally hit 180. Once it hit 180 the ID would fall again and then do the steady climb to 180 again. It did this over and over as I did the wiggle over it.

Just thought I'd throw this out there for the kind of response to expect from deep coins or ones on edge. The climb is pretty steady and not as random as a piece of junk will do. Now I have noticed that really deep coins on the very fringe of detection depth might only be able to reach into the 150's or 160's in ID. These were coins I had buried so I knew what they were. These were coins at the very edge of the coil's magnetic field.

If anybody has any info on what kind of deep coin responses or ones on edge that you get please post it for others to share.

 

[Rick(ND)]

On the older Sovereigns some deep coins i could get to reach 179-180, but many I knew something was there and by doing the Sovereign wiggle I could get the tone and the numbers on my 180 to try to climb, but just cant make it as they are so deep and the signals are so small. When they are this way you know it is trying to read them, but being so deep there is not enough signal to correctly ID. If the tone and meter numbers locked on then it has ID that target, but small signal and sounds deep and you can tell it is trying to climb is the ones I find the deep coins at. The lowest reading was 130 was the best I could get on a merc dime, but you could tell it sure wanted to climb. Now on the GT I have always been able to get the correct numbers on these deep signals, but maybe I haven't been to a site that they were so deep.

 

[Critterhunter]

That's a good point...that if the ID locks onto a number then that's the number of the target, but if it continues to try to climb then it's something real deep that is trying to climb to it's true ID. I haven't seen this response on deep coins on my GT either, but I have seen it happen with coins on edge. Another thing I have seen on coins on edge is that they will get perfect ID and audio from one direction but might have a warble to the sound and act like a screw cap from the other direction. I dug a silver ring on edge once that did this too. You'll know by how perfect the ID and audio is from one direction that it just has to be a coin, even though it may sound warbly and have trouble with the ID going from like 176 to 180 from the other direction. I've also dug coins mixed with trash that did this so I always dig one way signals in the hopes of it being a coin on edge or in trash. I'd say though that most of the time a coin on edge for me gives a perfect ID and audio from all directions. The Sovereign is that good at finding them, and I believe the SEF coils enhance this ability to find coins on edge. I can see people passing up these warbly signals in areas with tons of screw caps but if there aren't many better dig them just in case. Though I find the ID of a coin on edge is more perfect from one direction than a screw cap is.