Mxt pro brass metal 11inches

[daleehob]

I cleaned out some old junk from under an addition to the house. The wife said you should check it with the metal detector. Ok soft dirt looks clean not like the backyard. in a few min. i get a very high tone In relic 2 tone on .it says 6inches but nothing still ringing and i remember reading if it says 5 inches and you dont fine it its prob.a good target. so i dig about 11 inches and pull out whats looks a half dollar .Im having fun now clean it off to see an inbossed face of Napoleon with the number 1 and that's all nothing on the back but very good shape and clean.I was relay hoping for an old coin of some kind but this will do .dint know what it is so if anyone has any ideas i would love to here.And thanks Aarong81

 

[Aarong81]

Cool find in an unlikely place, congrats! Post pics!

.....Your welcome.....but whats the props to me for? I take it your detector is working good now?

 

[Whitetail]

"I was relay hoping for an old coin of some kind but this will do?" ??

You say it has Napoleon on it.....that sounds pretty old to me? Heck...I get excited about wheat pennies!

 

[daleehob]

Yes i guess i wasnt GB right and it seems to be working good now .Sorry about the other post just wanted to let you know how it was going. hey im new at this forum stuff.

 

[daleehob]

These are pics of the Napoleon medal from under the house and also a nickel i found today. ill get better pic's but this is all i can do with the camera i have .the date on the coin is 1888 US 5 cents and i have no idea what the medal is .

 

[daleehob]

Ok sorry cant fig out how to get the pics on can someone help

 

[Aarong81]

Yep, scroll down to the 3rd post or so and I have several pics to walk you through the pic posting. Also, if you run into the problem of "image is too large to upload", bigger than 420 Kb, check back to that post and near the bottom I posted a tutorial on resizing the pics to be smaller.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?25,1777638

BTW, You found an 1888 V-Nickel? SWEET! Can't wait to see your pics!

 

[daleehob]

[attachment 245607 DSC00575.JPG][attachment 245605 DSC00583.JPG][attachment 245606 DSC00582.JPG] Ok i think i got this now .The nickel is not a V and i got the date wrong its 1868. The metal or what ever it is has nothing on the other side.anyway hope the pics came out right .ok its not to bad in the preview. sorry

 

[Whitetail]

Nice shield nickel! Congrats! Still looking for my first.

 

[Aarong81]

Man, I'd love to find a shield nickel! That has a value starting at $13 and up, but the value is not as exciting as the rarity of finding one! I could spend $13 and have one but theres no fun in that. You may be the first person to touch that coin on over 100 years and saved it from being eternally lost. lol

I hope you figure out what that brass token is, It may be even more exciting than the shield nickel.

 

[Aarong81]

BTW, how did you clean those? I never find old nickels that clean up that good. But if you found it under your house it could be that it never got wet over the years and helped preserve it.

 

[daleehob]

Found the nickel in a park about 250 yards from rye playland so i thought it was a token for a ride of somekind . I didnt know what it was til i got home and cleaned it. The brass medal i found under and extention of the house after cleaning out all the wood that was stored there for years.I remember reading that you can use soft brass wire brush to clean some coins and it wont hurt the coin so thats what i uesd on the nickel and it took all the black off .The Napoleon medal i knew was brass so i just use some brass polish.i dont know how the nickel got the dent but i dont think i did it .also i found a large cent in my backyard 1839 but i cleaned it with a mix of vinegar and baking soda and i let it stand to long and i lost the date.wont do that agan.anyway the house i live in is about 140 years old and its been in the family for 5 generations and I'm sure there are some good things in the ground i just have to learn to use the MXT to pick out those weak sig.If i get a better camera ill try to clear up those pics.Thanks .

 

[Aarong81]

I can really see why you thought it was a token, its not often you see a shield nickel! Or a big 5 on the back of a coin OTHER THAN a 5 cent trade token. I wouldn't have guessed you used a wire brush, it still looks good so regardless of the effect it may have had on the value it won't matter as long as you plan on keeping your finds in the family. Unless you want to sell something its personal preference how you clean it. I may have to look into the wire brush method for nickels because my 100+ year old ones always look horrible and I have just left them that way for the most part. And aside from these you found a LC too?! I bet you have alot of goodies in your yard yet.

 

[daleehob]

just a few things to add,the nickel was 4 inches and read 5 cents i dint remember what the vdi was,and the wire brush i used was very soft not like a reg. wire brush its the color of brass. I wouldn't have used it if it wasn't so soft ,almost toothbrush like .also the nickel looks like its all silver but I'm not sure of that .it had a black tarnish on it and the brush took it all of ,when i look at the coin with a loop i dint see any scratches on it.i would post a pic of the LC but there is nothing to see you cant make out the date anymore and I'm sick about that.Also i have a question, at the end of all the post's i see names of metal detectors and coils .that's the tools of the trade for that person i guess?

 

[Aarong81]

If you want to add your detector, where you live, ect, to your signature, these pics should be easy to follow. Click control center and then edit signature.

PS: Its nice to know that some really old coins are still within 4 inches! It may have rested on top of a rock or something that slowed its descent.

 

[daleehob]

Thanks ill check that out this weekend.I remember that the ground was very hard when i found that nickel i had to relay work hard to dig that four inches.And now i have more good news ,to night i got home from work gr abed some food and told the wife I'm going out in the back yard to look around awhile.I was out there not 5 min and i got a very faint Sig.i was in relic with the gain way down very close to off and the dis.half way .and i was going just by sound i did not have the screen light on it was going back and forth from button to bullet. so i dug about 8 inches found the target and it felt like fishing weights and string,so i put it in my side bag and went on digging a bunch of junk.when i got back in the house and went through the stuff i found it was an old charm bracelet with 1 charm on it.I think its silver it said (enco) on it so far that's all i know .ill post pics when i find out what it is .But i have learned that keeping the gain way down relay helps at least in my yard .also three more pennies 1918,1924,1951.my backyard is turning out to be the most fun Ive had hunting any were.

 

[Aarong81]

When your in a lot of junk or the targets are near the surface, lowering the gain does help. But when you finally get the surface stuff dug up, you can increase the gain and get deeper. I'm shocked you found a charm bracelet at 8 inches, thats pretty awesome! I think its a common mistake to use too much gain and the detector becomes really unstable, chattering, false VDI's, ect. Your getting some really valuble experience right in your back yard, keep it up and you'll start to recognize similar sounds from past digs and you can sometimes guess what a target is before digging. Thats fun and all but don't rely on your guess whether to dig or not. The only time I put much stock in my guess of a target is when it sounds like a pop can. After digging a lot of them you will almost guarantee thats its a pop can before digging. Some things like a large pocket watch or big piece of copper can sound like a pop can though. The fun is not knowing what your next dig will reveal.

 

[Nancy-IL]

Congrats on your finds. I love that Sheild nickel. Those things are rare to find and yours looks great! HH, Nancy

 

[daleehob]

Ive been digging my self into a dither in my yard at night when i come from work but nothing good to tell mostly junk .The good thing is that i put the 12 inch coil on and with the gain low i am finding lots of deep junk so at least i know when i do come across something good ill find it .I do have a question about the threshold . What am i listening for with the threshold on.is it a break in the hum .I know how to set it I'm just not sure to interpret it. Thanks

 

[Aarong81]

When you have it set to a faint hum and you hear a break, or silence, it is normally a negative VDI target or bits of hotrock or iron. It could also be a higher concentration of ground minerals that the ground balance normally phases out, but since the GB does not adjust quickly enough(or if you have ground locked) you hear the threshold go silent for a split second. If there were absolutely no metals or minerals in the ground you would not hear a fluctuation in the threshold but thats not the case. The imporant thing to listen for are increases in threshold WITHOUT a sudden LOSS of threshold at the beginning. An example of an iron or bit of hotrock/mineral target would be if the threshold dissapeared completely for a tiny moment and instantly you hear a faint HIGH pitch. Again, thats a LOSS of threshold(NEGATIVE VDI) and a (FALSE) high tone. Its an example you probably would convince yourself it is a deep silver goodie but when you break the soil you probably don't find any target whatsoever unless you switch to all metal mode and locate the rusted piece of iron or hotrock.

There are basic rules to follow to avoid learning all there is to know(turn on and go) but the more you play with it the more you know the langauge the detector is speaking. But to learn you have to dig a lot of junk. I dig junk that I am convinced is junk just to figure out what different junk signals normally sound like. Every so often I get a junk signal I don't recognize and I dig a small pendant for example. From then on, I get similar junk signals and I can confidently tell myself that not all junk signals are junk. We just call them junk signals when we don't know what the target is, thats a perfect time to break the soil and find out.