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Just Dug A Silver War Nickel --- FE 12 - CO 38 --- ???

E-Trac-Ohio

E-Trac-Ohio

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Ok guy's - this is weird !
I just got back from hunting an old park were I dug a solid - no bounce - FE 12 - CO 38 signal at approx. 6 inches.
It turned out to be a 1943 P silver war Nickel - this coin is in real nice condition and has nothing foreign stuck except for a little dirt.

Yes ... I checked the hole for other targets - nothing there - did an air test and it still came in at CO 38 !

Then I put a 1962 Nickel that I found on the ground and swung over it - then I air tested the coin - this one came in as the usual FE 12 - CO 11 to 13.

Next I noise canceled the machine two times - I still got the same numbers on both Nickels.

Finally I took the 10 x 12 SEF coil off and put my 6" Excellerator coil on - guess what ... I still got FE 12's on both nickels and a CO 11 on one and a CO 38 on the war nickel !

I've dug hundreds of Nickel's with the E-Trac - ( over 20 of these were silver war nickels) and I've never seen one come in with a target ID like this !

Have any of you ???

HH --- Mark
 
I would not have expected a war nickel with those numbers. I have dug 4 war nickels with the e-trac and they are always 12-13 or in that area. I am sure you were surprised to see that in the hole.
 
Maybe it's a War Nickel planchet with an extra high silver content.............Hawkeye Jim.
 
Funny you should mention this. I have a 1945-S war nick that I dug two weeks ago and it was a SOLID 12-31 all directions at 6" or so and reads the same out of the ground. I am assuming the alloy(Like Hawkeye mentioned) may not be quite right. All my other war nick are 11-14 to 12-13 for the most part.

Anyone else find the war nicks are still way off outside of the ground???
 
Odd how those things happen my hunting partner Doug found a Buffalo the other day that was coming in 12-41 12-42, he too checked it like you did nothing else in the hole, perhaps something about the ground caused some kind of corrosion on the coin that made the change, but I do not think that would happen on a war nick!
 
Funny you should mention this. I have a 1945-S war nick that I dug two weeks ago and it was a SOLID 12-31 all directions at 6" or so and reads the same out of the ground. I am assuming the alloy(Like Hawkeye mentioned) may not be quite right. All my other war nick are 11-14 to 12-13 for the most part.

Anyone else find the war nicks are still way off outside of the ground???
 
I remember reading similar comments several years ago about the same coin only this was coming from guys using the Explorers, they would comment how weird a war nickel would hit.
 
I dug a war nickel back in the winter that did exactly as yours. I even posted this experience on this site. http://www.findmall.com/read.php?63,1615176
 
I have dug 40 or 50 war nickels and I too have had a few come in with CO numbers of 30 and above, odd but it happens
 
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