MXT PRO finds some buffalo's

[arcticcatt]

Our MXT’s finds all the nickels that other detectors leave behind but I’ve got to tell you, I got very confused when my son and I went detecting the morning after an overnight light rain. The soil moisture was perfect, not wet but just slightly moist. We plucked a total of 12 buffalo nickels none of which were deeper then 4”. Now, we have been over this school yard numinous times in the exact same area searching for newly lost items. I must mention our ground was really dry before it rained. We got so excited we returned to the school but went to the back of the school yard and recovered additional 13 buffalo nickels. Please don't misunderstand me, we have found buffalo's with our MXT PRO's but not like the aforementioned.
I know moisture can help retrieve deeper targets, but 3” to 4”, ?????, wow!, talking about confusion. We have not found any silver coins at this school but have found lots of clad. When my son, daughter and I first hit the back of this school we plucked over $60 in clad between the 3 of us. I love reading this forum. I’ve been a member for awhile but just got back with a new computer. Happy hunting to all.

The only thing a hate worst then digging pull tabs for them rings is my old acing back!

MXT, V3i, Prism V, 6000 Pro XL

 

[Nancy-IL]

Big congratulations Mike! I bet that's an all time high for the most Buffalo Nickels anyone has ever found! Sounds like someone came and cleaned the silver out and had their machines set for only the silver/copper coins. If there's that many buffalos, I'm sure they've missed some silver too. Congrats on the clad also. Get that out of the way and you might be finding some deeper silver. I would definitely keep going back there.

It's not uncommon to find old coins only 4" deep. Many of the older coins are around that depth, give or take an inch or two.

The best thing about your post is that you and your son and daughter were out detecting together with you. Now that's priceless!

Keep up the good detecting and HH, Nancy

 

[arcticcatt]

Hi Nancy, This was our biggest buffalo nickel find. We have found lots of clad and war nickels in this school yard, some of which were close to these buffalos. I wanted MXT users to see what just the right amount moisture can uncover. Our ground here in central Oklahoma was masking these nickels and it took the correct amount of moisture to reveal them. It's strange our MXT's never found them when we had been over this ground numerous times.
No silver coin finds confuses me too because we have found a lot of silver and gold rings in this school yard. I'm thinking back in the older days at this school when silver coins were the currency no one could afford to carry a dime, quarter etc in their pocket, only those beautiful buffalos, lol, and last but not least most of the buffalos we found we dated 1935/36. Yes I'm sure you hit it on the nail, somebody done Found those silvers using a silver program and they got the wheaties too because we haven't found then either.
I've owned many detectors and I have never used a detector that can nickels like the MXT or V3i and I'm glad some detector manufactures can't get the aluminum and nickel separation like White's has accomplished because that leaves more nickels for us, lol.
Thanks for a great forum and happy hunting to all.
Mike (arcticcatt).

 

[Nancy-IL]

You couldn't have said it better. That MXT is a nickel finder and it's usually right on the money when there's one under your coil. Keep up the great detecting and keep us posted on the finds. I'm curious to see what all is in the old school yard too. HH, Nancy

 

[PSS1963]

I'm looking forward to finding more nickels (though they aren't usually in very good shape?). I think I've only ever gotten a couple - ever!

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[Nancy-IL]

I hope you find many and a good brass brush will clean them up pretty good if they're for your own display. The nickels will be damaged from environmental damage to begin with and that's why I clean them.. Unlike silver, NEVER clean them with a brush, good old soap and water does the trick for the silvers. HH, Nancy

 

[arcticcatt]

My MXT was manufactured 2010 and My son's 2012 however we bought them at the same time, mine just turned out to be a little older MFG date.
Nickels on mine hit solid on VDI 18 and when 18 displays on my MXT I'd wager a $100 bet it is a nickel. My son's MXT hits nickels on VDI 20 or sometimes a 21. My MXT always an 18. I had a solid hit on a 16 one time and I thought is was a nickel but it turned out to be a 10k gold ring. So hang in there for those nickels because other detectors are missing them. Nancy gave an excellent point on cleaning.
Mike

 

[PSS1963]

Good advice on the brass brush, Nancy! I have one to brush the toasted wheats (I told Monte it sounds like a breakfast cereal) and if I actually do get some nickels, that will be the first thing I try on them. What you can do with the wheats depends largely on whether the surface is pitted or just lightly encrusted. I've had pretty good luck with a dry tumble using an organic medium back in the 80's. Grape Nuts worked the best for me - it takes off any raised corrosion deposits but leaves it in the pits so the result looks better. I recently tried (black) walnut shells on some of the wheats from the farm but I think it is just a liitle too aggressive and tends to reveal shiny metal on some of the high points like the rim. Don't know if you've ever seen "Curse of Oak Island" on the History Channel but they brought an old Spanish copper to an expert and he used a citric acid solution to clean it up - it didn't take long either - maybe an hour. I've played around with this with some of the pennies (using lemon juice) and its tricky. You have to watch it close, turn it over regularly or it won't work evenly and don't leave it over night or anything like that. Biggest problem I see using it on small coppers with fine details is that it will clean right down to bare metal and it removes deposits from the pits in the surface that actually help to make the surface more even and appealing. Their coin looked pretty nice but its not a good strategy for pitted Lincolns and Indians. Another time they used an ultrasonic cleaner on a coin they found but I haven't tried this yet. A plastic brush like a toothbrush or a hairbrush can be really good in some circumstances. Its less aggressive than even the brass brush. I used a stiff plastic hairbrush on the old British copper from the farm and I liked the result.