V3 in dry sand..........A 'ripper'.

[TheMarshall]

My mate and I have been delving into the handbook and tuning up the Whites V3, so yesterday evening it was time to take it for a serious walk-about.

The manual has a need for improvement..................

Apart from the obvious appetite for particular crown-caps, it devoured any of the lost UK coinage, across the spectrum.

What was glaringly apparent is its veracious appetite for cu-pro-nickel small 5's and 20p's, for it ripped them out.

The VDI system is very accurate and repeatable under these relatively easy conditions.

After a few hours on a short section of the beach, (whilst two other detecting interlopers also searched along side), over

 

[mickfin]

WTG with the V3!!!! What do you mean Hammered coins????? glad you all had fun, I Like my Vision,
Ben Detecting 4R 21 years N iv ben waiting 4R the Vision to come out , Mickfin

 

[TheMarshall]

WTG with the V3!!!! What do you mean Hammered coins????? glad you all had fun, I Like my Vision,
Ben Detecting 4R 21 years N iv ben waiting 4R the Vision to come out , Mickfin

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Hi Mick..........Hammered coins.....early coins created in silver and gold, by the method of embossing a disc of the metal, placed between two engraved dies, by hammering one die against the other via the disc.