Well, yesterday's IH bonanza was seemingly hard to top, but my buddy and I headed back out today... Very rough start, and by lunchtime we hadn't found much of anything, and were already hot, tired, and a little frustrated. However, things picked up, and in the last two hours of daylight, the coins finally started coming. The first I got was the buff, the second read as a nickel signal but looked so toasted I didn't really think much of it. Third coin was in better shape - all I saw was the 5 surrounded by stars and thought it must have been a token of some kind. Last target was yet another IH, too toasted to get a date. We stopped at another spot on the way home, got pretty much nothing, but I dug a '76 Jefferson nickel, again thinking nothing of it. Well when we got home we started brushing and cleaning - I wanted to figure out what my token was... then I saw 1868 appear, went to the web, and realized it was a Shield nickel! A big first for me! After more brushing on the next coin, stars appeared and I realized I was looking at my first ever V Nickel, this one a 1910! That's when it dawned on me that I had dug all four of the major nickels in one day. It is a feat I will probably never repeat, and a day of digging I will never forget. Having two days in a row of awesome hunting with a great friend - doesn't get much better... Cheers! BB Oh, and BTW, this is all with the Delta 4000 and the 11" DD coil, deepest target 9 inches, sens 11, only iron nulled out.
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Nickel Grand Slam...
- Thread starter bb_maine
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You know, just think about how few nickles there are out there to begin with in relation to the other denominations...this is the first Grand Slam on nickels I remember seeing on here...sure if a fellow found and ID'd the sheild, and V early in the hunt, a guy would be more predisposed to TRY to find the buff, and then a jeff...but you did it unaware! Nice trophy! Are you gonna make a little display case for them?
Mud
Mud
Big Boys Hobbies
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Props on the delta 4000!!
Dude! Get it right! Either spend more or find less! This is not right. LOL What an awesome run. These things go in streaks and you've had a super one. You may never have a better one or you may have many. Only time will tell... the Good Lord knows but He just smiles and winks.
Tom the envious
Tom the envious
Thanks Tom and Jim... yep, definitely got *winked* at yesterday - the best part was finding out what I had hours after actually digging them out of the ground... I have been double, triple crossing my fingers for a good coin day - well ask and ye shall receive - I've had two of those days in a row. I will also say: research, research, research. I did my homework on this one and it paid off big time... and this spot is far from being exhausted - just scratched the surface. So let's hope there's more to come! If there is, you'll hear it here! Best to all, and HH! And if you are considering a new coil, you won't be dissapointed with this 11" DD!
I've enjoyed many days of "multiples" by denomination, and have had times when I had several Shield and 'V' nickels on the same day, but never in 47 years of detecting have I enjoyed a Buffalo nickels with the modern and two older designs. Heck, even finding a Buffalo nickels these days is tough for me. Back in the latter '60s and through the '70s and into the early/mid '80s I found plenty of the Indian Head cents, mainly hunting older urban parks and such, but I think a lot of other hobbyists helped thin them out.
Today I wonder where they might be?
I have days when I get multiple 'V' nickels or even multiple mixed 'V' and Shield nickels, but that's due to the sites I hunt, but I might get a mix of maybe 20-25 of the 'V's and Shield nickels between Indian Head (aka Buffalo) nickels. So, I applaud your success on finding those, especially a mix that included the IH.
Congrats on the good luck!
Monte
Today I wonder where they might be?
I have days when I get multiple 'V' nickels or even multiple mixed 'V' and Shield nickels, but that's due to the sites I hunt, but I might get a mix of maybe 20-25 of the 'V's and Shield nickels between Indian Head (aka Buffalo) nickels. So, I applaud your success on finding those, especially a mix that included the IH.Congrats on the good luck!
Monte
Thanks Monte... this is a site that got a lot of foot traffic from the 1870's through till the teens... then nothing for 40 years, and then it picked back up until the 80's, now it's wasteland again. It explains the spread... It is a ghostly thing to see a place that would entertain thousands of people now deep underbrush and braided vines wrapped around trees... Some of the hardest digging I've ever done - just matrixes of tree roots. After finding the above nickels, and 8 Indian Head cents in two days, my only question is where the silver has gone... Either it has been cherrypicked over the years, or perhaps more likely, it has sunk below my detector range over the years... I'm going to keep at it and see what I come up with. Anyway, thanks for your thoughts - I realize that it's a bit of an arbitrary feat but I'm glad to know that others find it as cool as I do! It is a great feeling when your research pays off, you can anticipate the movements of people in the past, think as they would, go where you think they went, and *beep!* - there you are...