Ran into some deep nickels this weekend

[floodplaindetector]

Finds are from a short weekend at a few city parks.
Nickels are 1901,1913,1914,1929,1935,1936,1936,1937,1940,1941,1948,1958.
Indian head pennies are 1879,1902.
Also got a pretty neat old staff pin and an old megaphone pin that had some depth.

 

[ironsight]

Holy smokes look at all those old nickels!
Nice job.

 

[Mark in S.E. IA]

WOW, you really kicked but on those old nickels. I'm amazed at how good you are at finding those old Buff's and V's.

The past few months I have been working hard at checking out every low tone to see if it's a nickel but I'm not getting much better at it.
I'm nowhere close to being in your league when it comes to finding nickels.

 

[utmike]

Very nice finds. Sure looks like a railroad padlock key. Any initials on the other side?

 

[utmike]

Very nice finds. Sure looks like a railroad padlock key. Any initials on the other side?

 

[floodplaindetector]

Thanks. No initials on it. was about 6 inches deep.

Very nice finds. Sure looks like a railroad padlock key. Any initials on the other side?

 

[oneguy]

as usual....good stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Congrats on the great finds !

 

[Sooper Dave]

You sure did dig a bunch of old nickels! I think the Etrac is excellent on deep old nickels. I love digging them I just wished they held up better in the soil.

 

[Bayard]

I presume you are running a fairly open screen to find that many old nickels. What range of numbers do you dig? I have found that old deep nickels often give unstable numbers.

 

[floodplaindetector]

Yes, I do run a fairly open screen (mask right at the point before nails false so I'm not chasing too many of them).
Most of the nickels I dig are ferrous (8-12) Conductivity (12-15). You are right a lot of the super deep ones (8-10+ inches) have a wide number range.
I do not look at my screen that often and hunt just by sound. That is the Etrac's strength of having so much information in the sound. Anything over 6 inches that sounds somewhat
like a nickel I'm chasing. Many times those targets will be a cool piece of jewelry also landing close to that nickel range.
A guy I hunt with once in a while (2 1/2 year Etrac user) sometime gets hung up on the exact numbers not matching what he thinks they should be for a nickel and I urge him to concentrate on the sound first.

I still dig a lot of beaver tails as you have to dig those deep ones to be absolutely sure of what it is but I'm pretty confident on a lot of deep nickel tone targets I hit that it will be a nickel before I dig it.
It all comes with a lot of repetition and getting that sound engrained in your head. The same with the real deep faint Indian head penny signals as it takes a little more practice to get that down also.
Hope that helps.

Dave

I presume you are running a fairly open screen to find that many old nickels. What range of numbers do you dig? I have found that old deep nickels often give unstable numbers.