Dug a couple nickels reading 70-80

[WIHawker]

Ive dug 2 deep nickels in the past 2 days. both were 50's jeffersons. One was 6 inches and was reading a rough sounding 77 to 82. I thought it was going to be a wheat penny or junk. When i had it out of the hole i ran it by the coil and got a solid 52. The other was about 7 inches and was reading a smooth faint sounding 78-80. out of the hole it read a solid 52.
one was with a 6x9 concentric and the other was with a 5x8 DD.

 

[togamac]

Hawker, thanks for those numbers. I'm trying to notch out Zincolns but may be missing some nickels. I guess I'll have to put up with those ugly corroded Zincolns to keep from missing those Jeffs.
Mac

 

[WIHawker]

Notching out zincs you may miss tokens also. I also have dug a small, thin, and badly bent up .925 ring it rang 73-77 but sounded great.

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[teleman2525]

most nickles id at 54/55 area some higher some lower you 70 /80 reading are odd for nickles unless something else was in hole i dug a quater and a dime wraped in tin foil today the read as a nickle 54 but rough sounding not at all a clean sound

 

[flyin-lowe]

That was going to be my first question. Did you re scan the hole after you dug the nickels? Maybe there was something else down there that you were initially hitting. Especially since you got a normal reading once it was out of the hole.

 

[firstring]

I don't know where you all live, but here in northern California the ground can get awfully ugly. Those Zincolns seem to melt real quick in the ground and the clad coins are rusted badly. I wonder if the "halo effect" skews those numbers somewhat, especially on any pocket spills. We all know that not all pulltab signals are pulltabs, why chance it?