Does the Sovereign like nickels?

[crazyman]

I don't hunt parks very often but I wanted to see what the guys from the local detecting clubs were leaving for my Sovereign to find. These are from my last few hunts at some of the local pounded parks. I didn't use a meter so I'm not sure where the silver war nickels would read but evidently they have been using to much discrimination. One of the Indian Heads was in the same hole as the V Nickel. The other Indian was in the same hole as the Buff.

 

[VBDave]

Lots of guys hunting parks are there for the silver, so they do disc out most everything else. If there are old nickels there, then there's a great chance of finding an old gold ring there also. I'd definitely be digging the iffy signals in that park.

 

[UtahRich]

My Sovereign loves Nickels. I think you are exactly right about many detectorists cherry picking silver. The down side to sniping silver is that they leave a lot behind including gold coins.

Rich (Utah)

 

[gear box]

Look's like you answered your own question. Nice pile of nickles you got there. Also the other detector's may have been relying more on the meter rather than there own ear's, considering the low number on a nickle which is close to a lot of trash.
Good hunting Gary

 

[crazyman]

I use to cherry pick for silver and left my fair share of nickels in the ground. In a way I was cherry picking on my recent park hunts with the Sovereign. I used zero discrimination but was only digging the deeper sounding targets regardless of the tone. I did pick up some wheats and a couple of silver also.

 

[Rick(ND)]

My first year with the Sovereign I found more nickles than new dimes, some old and quite a few new ones. The reason is most reject pull tabs as there is so many of them, but with the Sovereign and the 180 meter it seem to be able to tell the difference in the beaver tails most detectors read as nickles and many of the other pull tabs that read in the same area. You will get a few that read like nickles, but I bet most can tell the difference in 90% from experience with the Sovereigns.Most nickles will read 144-145 with some war nickles reading as high as 151 and seen some V Nickles read as low as 139, but have the same tone as the reg nickles. The Beaver tail read at 140-141 and don't have the nice round tone a nickle has, so once you have heard a nickle enough time you will be able to tell inmost case the nickle from, the pull tab.

My all time record for nickle for a day was 167 at a old park I think had coin thrown for a kids hunt and after words someone use a detector and rejected the pull tabs and didn't get any nickles. The kids following me around got the nickles and were very excited.

 

[Critterhunter]

I'm finding my nickle count is way up with my new GT, and I've only been out with it maybe 6 or 7 times thus far. In fact, yesterday I dug my first two old coins with the machine (besides wheaties)...A 1903 Indian and a 1911 V nickle. Details in the newbie thread.