Hammered Silver Coins
Taken from UK MLO

1 - good programme for hammered silver i.houghton1 01/22/02 1:11 AM

I was detecting with my friend on my site and he found a hammered silver and I found a Roman coin just before it started raining. He uses a XLT and I use the xs but not fully in control yet. I used Tony's programme and modified it as he recommended for coins and I added Jewellery. It worked well, but I am wondering if there is a programme for hammered silver? I am at present collecting programmes and placing them in a folder so I can experiment. Thanks in anticipation Andrew

7 - RE: RE: RE: RE: good programme for hammered silver postman-pat 02/1/02 9:58 PM

these are the settings me and jkxs use,found a hoard of hammered gold and silver with these so they must work!! volume 10, gain 7, threshold 7, tone threshold 10, variability 6, limits 8, limits 8, sounds ferrous, response audio 1, recovery deep, sensivity manual 20+, set up same as tony, accept all and reject nails i also edited a thin black band to the left equivalent to maybe iron mask -11. this is noisy on busy sites, but it works


5 - RE: RE: RE: good programme for hammered silver groatgrabber 01/22/02 10:53 PM

For what it's worth I reckon the Explorer is one of the most forgiving machines around and you'd have to go out of your way to put in a bad program. If you are using the Explorer on a field with night soil in, Big Tony's program would drive you round the bend, however if you are on nice and quiet pasture or a fairly clean site then it takes a bit of beating. I have made some modifications and generally use the detector in iron mask -10 with the gain at about 8 (DEEP). I have found wafer thin Liz 1st 'three farthing' hammered with my settings and a tiny, tiny unidentified hammered that is still with a coin expert for ID. Remember that gain is just a pre amp stage and the higher it gets turned up the less differentiation there is between large and small targets. I like the gain high as it gives me confidence, I also like AUDIO 3 cos it detects stuff on the very edge of the coil and you get a 'looooooonger' signal. It's useful when you are beginning to get bored and are maybe swinging...



4 - RE: RE: good programme for hammered silver TonyHunt 01/22/02 7:08 PM

Andrew, what Russ is telling you is right mate. Keep it simple. The more buttons you press and programmes you try and devise to shut out certain things the less you will find. Audio 1,2,3 and normal are purely personal really to suit your hearing. Like he says im a dildo when it comes to using 3. Its horrible and takes some getting used to. Dont tell him, but I do use it on the quiet sometimes, lol. I nearly always go back to Normal Audio, It just suits me. Our paul has found masses more hammered than I have, hes got a very good ear for those tiny signals. He swears by those settings of ours and wont use anything else but normal Audio, its down to you. At the end of the day if you aint over the hammered you aint in with a chance of finding them.

2 - RE: good programme for hammered silver Fergs 01/22/02 4:01 PM

Andrew mate, there are no 'special' programmes for the XS... There are settings that are available for all to alter as and when the ground conditions dictate. If you use smart screen with iron mask at say -15 you'll find as much, if not more than you would if you use an added program. The more of the smart screen is open the more targets will be picked out, so, if you use a program that has been edited to except only silver hammered, you'll discriminate out any gold ones and most bronze coins too.. I would suggest learning how and what each setting does, things like GAIN and SENSITIVITY are important.....things like AUDIO 1 and AUDIO 3 are less important and more personal choice..Some, including Tony cant handle AUDIO 3 because the extra noises confuse, in reality the extra noise should be looked upon as extra information....It aint a magic wand, it's a piece of hardware that'll find the gear. It's up to the user to understand and learn how to use it.