after dinner hunt....

[ojm bc]

found a few keepers at the nearby dog park,,I have to do some research on this land..anyway found my very first j nickle 1922..a 1940 silver dime,,and a lot of 1940"s cents.. hh oj

btw the 1922 nickle is one year off from our valuable 1921 nickle,which only a handfull have showed up,,since they were all melted that year.The mint melted over 3,022,665 nickels,the reason was plans to switch to the "nickel" material 5 cent,the same size as your us 5 cents.Only 400 of the 1921's are beleived to have survived,,a few were dug up in Alberta and a few other spots in Canada.The are worth up 60,000 dollars last time seen.Since I found a 1922 useless nickel,I'm at least in the right time frame and will definitly be checking this little spot more then once.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

It appears that you have a good site to metal detect...good luck! Kelley (Texas)

 

[ojm bc]

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[TexasCharley]

That 1921 Canadian nickel must be something like US 1943 copper penny. They're rumored to exist but I don't know of anyone who's ever seen one. Most, if not all, of the US cents minted in '43 were a zinc alloy--we called 'em 'white pennies.' All the copper in the country was going to make brass, most of which got scattered all across North Africa, Western Europe, & the Pacific in the form of expended shell casings. Pennies were so scarce by '43 & '44 that businesses began making fiber 'red cents.' They were usually colored red, had a crude portrait of Lincoln on the obverse, & had a large 1

 

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