Another V nickel...

[REVIER]

Some of you guys find a lot of these but my sites usually aren't so giving.
Only the 4th one I ever found, 2 were about as smooth as a baby's bottom, 13 days ago I found one that was in ok shapescared up but I could read the date, this one is in the best shape so far.
Pitted and dirty, I scrubbed the heck out of it to get it this good and I will continue to do that until it's clean.
I want at least one in my collection of dug nickels that looks decent.

In an old park in some pretty compacted dirt, rocky and clay filled and I swear to god if this thing was more than a half inch deep I would be lying.
Just under the grass, an extremely short beep so I think it was standing on edge but my F70 and new Sharpshooter coil zeroed in on it.
Hard to believe this coin had probably been sitting there for about 100 years or more so shallow in a park that has been scoured to death for decades but it was.

Love finding buffs but love these more.
Still looking for a shield nickel but this will hold me over.

 

[pplinker]

That's a very nice find. Congratulations!

 

[DELETED USER (Emmitt)]

Nice one Rev. Better looking than the crusty toasted pieces of junk I find. Shields, Vs and Buffs are always in horrible condition when I dig them. I would be doing a happy dance if I found one in the condition you dug! Congrats! HH

Emmett

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Ive used -never dull- on v nickles with good results ..gets nice and shiny. .. ive only ever found 2 shield nickles and pretty much ruined both as their metal composition just doesn't seem very forgiving. .. cool find...

 

[sddavid]

Very nice find

 

[Blind Squirrel]

REVIER, ANY Barber coin is a delight to dig! Congratulations on your 1903! Best of luck and ...

Happy Hunting!
Blind Squirrel

 

[Tony N (Michigan)]

Very nice find! Did you think it was a ring at first before you dug it?

 

[REVIER]

Very nice find! Did you think it was a ring at first before you dug it?

Thought, or hoped, it was going to be a shallow, modern, Jefferson nickel.
Shocked when it wasn't.

 

[Sataro]

Congrats on a very nice find!

 

[TheDirtKing]

Revier, what F70 settings were you using on this hunt?

 

[REVIER]

Revier, what F70 settings were you using on this hunt?

I am a gold hunter at heart so most of the time I use very little disc.
I hunt in all metal a lot and when in disc I am usually down to 1 or 0 on the disc setting.
I like to see all and hear all and with practice learned to use my brain as my best discriminator.

This hunt was different.
In this older park old silver coins are few and far between but there are still some around so I thought I would change it up and look for those.

Disc went all the way up to 65, not only did this get rid of most junk that could distract me but I discovered it has a great effect on my detector... It really quiets it down, almost like another gain control but in reverse.
I was able to punch the sense and thresh up to max with my disc this high and it was still eerily quiet.
Because I am a gold hunter and the what ifs can kill me if I let them I notched nickels back in.
Using these settings I found notching in just one area still keeps this thing on the quiet side, more than one notch it starts getting noisier.
I could have chosen foil to notch in instead, I find a lot of gold in that area, but on this hunt I opted for nickel and thank goodness I did.

These settings worked well, I found several copper cents walking around this park, a dime or two and I think one quarter, wasn't bothered by or saw a need to dig a lot of trash because most was very jumpy even using these settings, I usually use 1 monotone most of the time I hunt in disc for a fast response and it seems better around iron which I have way to much of around here.
Just before I hit this nickel I did switch to multi tones just for a change...3H I believe.
This was a very short tone, really short but enough for me to notice and go back to check it out better.
Using very tiny movements of the coil I got a repeating 32 so I bent down to dig a hopefully modern shallow nickel at the least, a nice gold ring if luck was with me but I was thinking modern nickel all the way.

No ring, a nickel sized disc came up instead but it wasn't just dark like most of my clad but also had a little green in it and was extra crusty.
Took a minute to rub enough off to ID it but instead of Washington's bust or that if an Indian I noticed it was Lady Liberty on there instead and a couple of stars around the edge.
That's when the big grin on my face popped up.

Actually shocked me being so shallow and yet so old.
I love those kinds of surprises.

 

[TheDirtKing]

Weird that is was so shallow but I just got goose bumps reading your description of the find. How exciting! Very cool!

 

[REVIER]

Those experiences are why I do this, a nice part of it, anyway.
You never know when they will happen, either, and they can happen more than you think.
Last year I was hunting in my local park that has been scoured forever.
In one area I came across a shallow trash signal, can slaw all the way in the mid 50's but even though it was a bit jumpy it sounded good and well within my rules for digging the more solid signals around here.
I opened a tiny hole and not deep at all was not a piece of can slaw but two coins instead...a late 40's nickel and a mid 40's merc...sitting pretty together down-averaged into that can slaw signal.
Again I got a big grin on my face.

Anyone could have found this small spill with any detector, many should have found it in the past but nobody did.
I assumed it was trash too like so many others probably did but without any X Ray vision you really never know... do you?
So I bent down and dug it and was pleasantly surprised.
Hope I have a lot more of these surprises as my career moves on in this hobby.