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Walked around the neighborhood hitting curb strips today and found clad a 59 memorial and one wheatie but no silver today.
I was using the F70 and the sniper coil plus moving pretty fast so I missed a lot of real estate but this was just another scouting mission.
I will throw on a bigger coil and go slower next time and see what happens.
The funny thing was as I walked home I kept swinging over my tiny front lawn as I walked up to the front porch and got a decent high signal in the high 70's to low 80's.
I had been over this lawn lots of times in the past with several detectors and coils and thought I was done...but methinks I need to change that attitude now.
I was in all metal this time and I don't know why I got that high signal but it only jumped a little more than my usual digging rules allow and it never dropped down low like big rusty iron buried here usually does so I got curious and got down to dig it.
When this coin popped out from about 4" I was stunned.
A 1943P war nickel.
Silver baby!
Out of the ground a normal nickel number 31-32.
Gotta be some bigger iron buried deep near this thing, and I have no idea why I didn't find it before but today I must have come at it from the right direction this time or maybe something else..
Whatever, I found it today, now I need to mess around close to home in the near future and see what else I might have missed.
Someone on another forum just told me in California he has found lots of war nickels and most of them came in high like dimes.
My mineralized soil here could have something to do with this...maybe.
I found silver and learned something new today.
Life is good.
I was using the F70 and the sniper coil plus moving pretty fast so I missed a lot of real estate but this was just another scouting mission.
I will throw on a bigger coil and go slower next time and see what happens.
The funny thing was as I walked home I kept swinging over my tiny front lawn as I walked up to the front porch and got a decent high signal in the high 70's to low 80's.
I had been over this lawn lots of times in the past with several detectors and coils and thought I was done...but methinks I need to change that attitude now.
I was in all metal this time and I don't know why I got that high signal but it only jumped a little more than my usual digging rules allow and it never dropped down low like big rusty iron buried here usually does so I got curious and got down to dig it.
When this coin popped out from about 4" I was stunned.
A 1943P war nickel.
Silver baby!
Out of the ground a normal nickel number 31-32.
Gotta be some bigger iron buried deep near this thing, and I have no idea why I didn't find it before but today I must have come at it from the right direction this time or maybe something else..
Whatever, I found it today, now I need to mess around close to home in the near future and see what else I might have missed.
Someone on another forum just told me in California he has found lots of war nickels and most of them came in high like dimes.
My mineralized soil here could have something to do with this...maybe.
I found silver and learned something new today.
Life is good.
