Nickelville- Playing in the dirt!

[postmanpete14]

200+ Nickels have been recovered from a 10' x 10' area in a local park most at the 2-3' range and it's still giving up nickels today. Tom Dick and Harry were detecting and Tom who doesn't have much experience with the nickel signal, decided today was the day to test the AT gold. Next thing I heard was, Hey, I have found 5 nickels right in this area. Dick came over with his AT pro and started digging up nickels too. I came over to investigate why these retired men where on their hands and knees giggling and playing in the dirt. By then they had each found a handful of current date nickels. So I brought in my Etrac and the race was on, the finish that day was about 100 nickels between Tom, Dick and me, Harry. For just a brief, fleeting moment we thought, " What are people thinking as they drive by and see these grown men "playing in the dirt" When ever we want to find and practice our Nickel recovery we just go back to Nickelville, 1213 Jefferson Way.

 

[surfchunker]

2 to 3 foot deep nickels ?

 

[postmanpete14]

I'm sorry it was 2 to 3 inch range so you had to put forth some effort for each nickel, you couldn't just use your pinpointer. Us old guys were getting tired. It was lots of fun.
Thanks for the correction, should have proofed it first.
Postman Pete.

 

[moonshine]

I found a spot like that with wheats once. fun, but all common 40's-50s wheats. it was at a small amusement park that is now nothing more than a highway on-ramp. at the same park (at my Dads company picnics) when I was a child they would dump out a bunch of sawdust and throw a few rolls (separated of course) of coins in the dust and the kids would scramble to find the coins.

 

[postmanpete14]

Maybe that's what happened here, nickels in a bale of hay. Fun for the kids and fun for us a few years later.
Great story thanks!
Good luck this season with your Etrac, hope you find the silver hoard we all dream about.

 

[ironsight]

That nickelville is better than my pennyville!

A few years ago searched a modern day carnival site and had the same thing only clad pennies in roughly a 2 X 2 sqr. yard area. So many i got tired of digging them up!
Every year since then i returned and the same dam thing. Seems like there's no end to that gigantic penny dump.
Only thing i can figure someone dropped a bunch of penny rolls during the carnivals then they got hidden maybe in tall grass and forgotten.