Short hunt unusual signal

[squirrel1]

Took a short hunt in an old churchyard that was established in 1854. In about 3 minutes got a signal fluxing between 16-38 and 18-38. Pulled an 1898 IH at 9 inches. Dug two additional coins clad dime and 68 penny. It was starting to warm up and I was about to call it quits. I just happened to go back where I dug the IH and swept my coil and got a good tone. Um, I thought what did I do leave a coin in the hole. After scanning the target around 25 times from different directions solid 22-42 kept coming up consistently. I found this odd figuring no fluctuating ferrous number either up or down is a bit strange for a coin. By the way the e-trac said the target was around 8 inches. After pinpointing, the etrac said it was about 6 inches away from my previous IH find so it wasn't in the same hole. Dug a 1910 wheat at 8.5 inches. I have read on this forum I believe that some have never seen a coin come in at over 17 on the ferrous number. I generally run my discrimination blocking all ferrous readings at 25 and higher. I was running multi tone conductive, man sens 25 deep off fast on high trash diificult ground.

 

[Jason in Enid]

Yes, coins can come in with higher FE numbers, but its rather rare and site specific. It has to do with the ground minerals, depth, nearby targets, and target angle.

Congrats on digging "outside the norm" and getting another keeper!