ToySoldier
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Part I from earlier this week is here: https://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=272061
I returned to the same permission with the same plan and settings to find a buffalo nickel. I still didn't find one, but what happened instead is just nuts.
My first hole had a jumpy nickel signal. I found an old pull tab, pinpointed another target deeper in the hole, and then popped out a nickel with a silver rim. I've yet to find a shiny newer nickel at this site, so I was pretty sure it was a war nickel. I had already dug three other war nickel years ('42,'43,'45) from this site. I usually wait until I get home to clean coins, but I just had to verify and then check to see if it was a '44. As is sometimes the case with war nickels, this one came out of the ground with a thick black tarnish. I was really rubbing to get a date! The first photo below is after I rubbed it enough to get a date. Sure enough, a '44.
Then, I remembered I gave the 1943 war nickel I found on the property to the owner in appreciation for the permission. At the time I wasn't thinking I'd find all four.
So, I move 10 feet to my second nickel signal and out pops another black nickel with a silver rim. Rub, rub, rub. A 1943 to replace the one I gave away. Maybe karma is a thing. A war nickel in each of my first two holes, and the dates I needed.
The first two photos are the two war nickels I dug today. The third photo shows the results of today's hunt. That makes 38 nickels from the site so far, with 8 from the 1940s. I still think there's a decent chance of a buffalo.
The fourth shows the complete set of war nickels from the site.
I returned to the same permission with the same plan and settings to find a buffalo nickel. I still didn't find one, but what happened instead is just nuts.
My first hole had a jumpy nickel signal. I found an old pull tab, pinpointed another target deeper in the hole, and then popped out a nickel with a silver rim. I've yet to find a shiny newer nickel at this site, so I was pretty sure it was a war nickel. I had already dug three other war nickel years ('42,'43,'45) from this site. I usually wait until I get home to clean coins, but I just had to verify and then check to see if it was a '44. As is sometimes the case with war nickels, this one came out of the ground with a thick black tarnish. I was really rubbing to get a date! The first photo below is after I rubbed it enough to get a date. Sure enough, a '44.
Then, I remembered I gave the 1943 war nickel I found on the property to the owner in appreciation for the permission. At the time I wasn't thinking I'd find all four.
So, I move 10 feet to my second nickel signal and out pops another black nickel with a silver rim. Rub, rub, rub. A 1943 to replace the one I gave away. Maybe karma is a thing. A war nickel in each of my first two holes, and the dates I needed.
The first two photos are the two war nickels I dug today. The third photo shows the results of today's hunt. That makes 38 nickels from the site so far, with 8 from the 1940s. I still think there's a decent chance of a buffalo.
The fourth shows the complete set of war nickels from the site.
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