I have only ever found 4 I.H. pennies with 2 of them being this year. One of my desires is to find a buff nickel, that would be so sweet ! I am admittedly lame in regard to nickels with the ATP so any tips on what a buff sounds and numbers at, more or less, is appreciated. I don't want to bypass a chance. I may well have already as I don't usually dig 51-55 because of the tabs here.
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Buff nickel sound and numbers ?
- Thread starter upnorth
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Well, Mr upnorth, if you don't dig a tab or two, you are gonna miss those buff nickels.
In Pro zero they will hit as a mid tone and read 51-52. Now, if it has some depth and or is slanted or on edge, then the 51-52 range can expand a little. Tabs, of course, fall into this range, but frequently have a more bouncy reading. Not as tight, like nickels usually do. Good luck! HH jim tn
In Pro zero they will hit as a mid tone and read 51-52. Now, if it has some depth and or is slanted or on edge, then the 51-52 range can expand a little. Tabs, of course, fall into this range, but frequently have a more bouncy reading. Not as tight, like nickels usually do. Good luck! HH jim tn
Thanks Jim. It may sound silly but I ignore mid tones. I am kind of a one trick pony in regard to listening for high tones. I guess that some of us wake up to things when they are ready. Nickels were never much of a priority to me before, but I enjoy any older coin. So I guess that I have to stop whining about my back and go for it now and then. I did a bit of searching the other night and came to realize that other detectorists often find less nickels also. Or so it appears. This is also at the core of why I find so few gold rings, not that this has ever been a real concern for me. I always saw rings as a secondary bonus. I'll try some mid tones in the future and see how it pans out. I can see going for mid tones more often in yards than in parks for me though.
Sometimes, after a feller high grades an area, it can be fun to hunt mid-tones, specifically nickels, its surprising how many nickels you can get out of a schoolyard once you've highgraded...and the gold that may be there, along with silver chains, that hit midtone are a cool bonus for the effort...its just something to do if you have a limited territory that you've swept clean of silver coins/rings in the past..
Racking up 1000 nickels in a year would indeed be something to brag about...all the buffs I've found sound just like a normal nickel..as do all the war nickels..one really nice gold ring was exactly a nickel signal and took me a while to stab it down in the grass roots...nearly walked away, kept stabbing, standing back up, re-sweeping, stopping and stabbing again... it was such a sweet tight solid nickel signal, and I was just as surprised as it was when I finally got it! Sometimes its even fun to hunt the trash tones...a guy just never knows...multidenom stacks/slants/spills are the benefit...
Mud
Racking up 1000 nickels in a year would indeed be something to brag about...all the buffs I've found sound just like a normal nickel..as do all the war nickels..one really nice gold ring was exactly a nickel signal and took me a while to stab it down in the grass roots...nearly walked away, kept stabbing, standing back up, re-sweeping, stopping and stabbing again... it was such a sweet tight solid nickel signal, and I was just as surprised as it was when I finally got it! Sometimes its even fun to hunt the trash tones...a guy just never knows...multidenom stacks/slants/spills are the benefit...Mud
Hmmmm. Once in a while I will go into custom mode which has everything below 80 notched out. I do this when whipped and I just want to dig the one, two dollar coins, or possibly a silver ring etc. I get the occasional strong mid tone that I ignore. I'll check those mids out more often.
Man....they are hard to find here in 
I have found about 25 
silvers for each buffalo nickel.
I have found about 25 silvers for each buffalo nickel.William-NM
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We should talk - I have the opposite problem. 
I dig a buff now and then, but have never found an Indian Head. 
I dig a buff now and then, but have never found an Indian Head. John-Edmonton said:Man....they are hard to find here in
They will probably elude me for quite a while considering my detecting style and their rarity up here. I really tried to dig those low 50's yesterday and after about 15 partial tabs or pop tops, I already had enough. I have no one to blame but myself I suppose.
William-NM said:We should talk - I have the opposite problem.
I need to do a Vulcan mind meld with you for sure.
I am lucky in that I am only about three hours from the U.S. border, which helps with a higher percentage of older U.S. coins popping up now and then. Although my first I.H. was in the Boreal Forest which is really friggin north in this province. Two years ago I got my first S.L. quarter and I scratched it of course. Man I almost want to knock my head on a tree when I do that.
Well, go down to the local coin shop and buy one for a quarter, have somebody bury it out in your yard, and you will find it eventually...matter of fact, buy 4 of them just to be on the safe side! They are a rare find even for us down here in the states...I have only found 3 in 4yrs, and can take you to the exact location of each find...thats how rare they are...for a guy to remember that out of all the nickels?
Mud,
They are a rare find even for us down here in the states...I have only found 3 in 4yrs, and can take you to the exact location of each find...thats how rare they are...for a guy to remember that out of all the nickels?Mud,