Minelab Manticore Coin Settings
The Minelab Manticore coin settings below are what we use when metal detecting for all non-ferrous UK coins. They have proved time and time again to be the best settings possible, but if you are able to improve on them, then please let us know by leaving a comment below. Many thanks.
General Settings
Language: Personal choice
Vibration: off to save battery use.
Lighting
- Display: Personal choice
- Keypad: Personal choice
- Flashlight: off
Soft Keys
- Right Side Button: Speaker Mute
- Left Button under the screen: All Metal
- Right Button under the screen: Noise Cancel
Ferrous Indication
- Setting: On
Frequency
- Setting: Multi IQ
Audio Theme
- Setting Normal
- Threshold Level: 6
- Threshold Pitch: 1
- Profile: Simple
Target Tones
Setting: 5-Region All Tones
- T1 Start: 0
- Pitch: 2
- T1 Volume: 0
- T1 End: 1
- Pitch: 2
- T2 Start: 2
- Pitch: 3
- T2 Volume: 25
- T2 End: 25
- Pitch: 12
- T3 Start: 26
- Pitch: 12
- T3 Volume: 25
- T3 End: 50
- Pitch: 22
- T4 Start: 51
- Pitch: 22
- T4 Volume: 25
- T4 End: 75
- Pitch: 34
- T5 Start; 76
- Pitch: 34
- T5 Volume: 25
- T5 End: 99
- Pitch: 50
Ferrous Volume
- Setting: 3
Ferrous Pitch
- Setting: 1
Stabiliser
- Setting: 0
- Stabiliser Filter: Off
Ferrous Limits
Custom 1
Screen (Top)
- Target ID: 19
- Ferrous Limit: 3
- Target ID: 39
- Ferrous Limit: 3
- Target ID: 59
- Ferrous Limit: 3
- Target ID: 79
- Ferrous Limit: 3
- Target ID: 99
- Ferrous Limit: 3
Screen (Bottom)
- Target ID: 6
- Ferrous Limit: -3
- Target ID: 38
- Ferrous Limit: -3
- Target ID: 55
- Ferrous Limit: -20
- Target ID: 86
- Ferrous Limit: -22
- Target ID: 99
- Ferrous Limit: -25
Discrimination Pattern
Custom
(Remove existing grey lines)
- ID Range: 0
- Selection Width: 1 (10 wide)
Recovery Speed
- Setting: 3
Ground Balance
- Setting: All-Terrain General
Noise Cancel
- Setting: All-Terrain General
Search Mode
- Setting: All-Terrain General
Volume
- Setting: Personal choice
Sensitivity
- Setting: As high as conditions permit
These settings can be used in any mode.
P.S. Please leave a comment below, if you have any other tips, which may help other detectorists, thanks