AT Gold is a bit the same, with say a florin in early 90s? cant remember id been a real long time since i dug one. But with the florin or thick silver the vdi is fixed/steady on the number, with rusty tin it can be steady on 99 but can also be jumpy from lows 80s to mid 90s, jumps like crazy, what i do then is scrap leaf litter, weeds, soil with my foot and wave again.
Usually rusty stuff is on the surface or first inch, needs the O2 to help rust.
Washers are coming up as a penny, but with AT Gold today (11 inch dd) i dug a washer from a watch? was tiny and down 10 inches came up as 82, i was expecting penny but still impressed by size/depth of the find.
With AT Gold its in All Metal mode, to the audio is way different to ACE or Pro, also when you have a doubt in all metal mode you can switch on iron audio, that does tell you right away if its rust or silver coin.
Did find once a florin with a penny and half penny, so that was reason the vdi was jumpy, since then i have done that iron audio trick to be double sure