Every so often I sit down with my Etrac detectors and do some Air tests to check if every thing is working correctly. I was good until I hit some War nickles with a S mint Mark. You expect War Nickles to hit just a little higher maybe 12-14 or 12-15 but these all hit at 12-29 to 12-32. This means I have been missing one of my favorite coins, War Nickles. I usually start Discrimination at 12-33 up to cut Pull Tabs. I checked the P Mint marks and these all hit at 12-14. Pays to check but now I need to re-hunt a bunch of places.
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Jason in Enid
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Thats weird. I wonder why just those registered so much higher? I don't think I have any of those laying around to test.
Big Treble
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Ok I'm the last 2 weeks I dug two Jefferson that were in the upper right quadrant. I use a slightly modded version of bills trashy park program. I have the 12 line opened up all the way across and they hit the first accepted area in the upper right. Both were shallow.
I scratched my head as well.
I scratched my head as well.
khouse
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I have 2 war nickels that hit 12/37!! Maybe they are worth millions!!!!!
If you would please look on the back over the Dome and get the Mint Mark. Curious if maybe those are an S as well. Maybe the S which I believe stands for San Fransisco California put more Silver in them.
JackalopeZL1
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I have had 2 war nickels ring up like quarters(12/46) out in my dirt on my ctx. They get a super heavy Tar like crud built up on them and it is hard to get off..
JackalopeZL1
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Yes, but generally they ring up slightly higher, not way higher.
Correct but as someone else so eloquently put it, not way higher. I noticed that for some reason only my S mint marks rang up 12-29 to 12-30. The P did not hitting at usually 12-14
I have had 2 war nickels ring up like quarters(12/46) out in my dirt on my ctx. They get a super heavy Tar like crud built up on them and it is hard to get off..
I found one that looked just like the one shown. After cleaning it off it still rang in at 12-30
JackalopeZL1
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I got out all my dug war nickels last night after this post, all were s mint marks accept one. I will have to go do a comparison on my ctx tonight for the fun of it. I had a total of 10..
JackalopeZL1
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Well I got out my cleaned up war nickels, 3 rang up 12/43, 1 rang up 12/45
3 rang up 12/17, one rang up 12/25 and one rang up 12/15.. So it doesn't have anything to do with the crud, I figured that is why their readings were so far off.. And just to confirm the machine working perfectly I tested on other coins
Did a few buffalos all where 12/12
2 silver quarters rang up 12/47
2 clad quarters rang up 12/46
I should make a video for the nay sayers
3 rang up 12/17, one rang up 12/25 and one rang up 12/15.. So it doesn't have anything to do with the crud, I figured that is why their readings were so far off.. And just to confirm the machine working perfectly I tested on other coins Did a few buffalos all where 12/12
2 silver quarters rang up 12/47
2 clad quarters rang up 12/46
I should make a video for the nay sayers
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Numbers are cool, but tones are where it's at 
JackalopeZL1
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Huh? I am not sure where that goes in the conversation but yes you are right, You can dig awesome finds with all sorts of tones I would like to get a tone that gives me your avatar Picture
I would like to get a tone that gives me your avatar PictureNumbers are cool, but tones are where it's at
All good except I was Discriminating some of them out.
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I have had a few come in higher ,,closer to like a wheathead.
I suspect the silver in the war nickels is not mixed consistently,,,,making some read higher than others.
Btw,,,I could be wrong in saying this,,,,but this really only happens while using fbs, fbs2 detectors,,,,why???
The processing is that that good vs many others.
Cheers.
I suspect the silver in the war nickels is not mixed consistently,,,,making some read higher than others.
Btw,,,I could be wrong in saying this,,,,but this really only happens while using fbs, fbs2 detectors,,,,why???
The processing is that that good vs many others.
Cheers.
You are lucky because both my Etracs read the same and I got wide variations. Maybe it is just an Etrac thing?
JackalopeZL1
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Well I got out my cleaned up war nickels, 3 rang up 12/43, 1 rang up 12/45
Did a few buffalos all where 12/12
2 silver quarters rang up 12/47
2 clad quarters rang up 12/46
I should make a video for the nay sayers
No it is not just a etrac thing
