Where Nickels Go to Die

[Relic]

We've all heard of the mythical "elephant's graveyard"; I believe I found the very real nickels graveyard.

I took my Eldorado with the CleanSweep coil to a park I recently started hunting to check out the volleyball courts. I started in discriminate at foil and found a nickel immediately; a few feet farther and I found another one. Out of curiosity, I switched to all-metal, went back over the area I just covered and got another hit - a nickel. I continued hunting in all-metal and dug everything that gave a signal. At one spot, I stood in the same place and found 5 nickels, searching in a circle around me. In two hours, I had covered one half of one court and found 53 nickels, 9 pennies, 3 dimes, 3 quarters and not a single pulltab, bottle cap, scrap of foil, nothing. No trash!

It's raining pitchforks and hammer handles today, but I can't wait to get back there tomorrow.

HH,
Relic

 

[Willee - Texas]

Wow ... a real honey hole.
I wonder if you get them all cleaned out if there is some older coins down deeper.
Got to be some rings in there somewhere.

 

[Gunnar MN]

wow thats a good dig , i did that at a park once found 12 nickles and many whear in the ground a long time , Only thing i could figure is others whear hunting in disq nice find s

 

[pulltab]

good days hunt

 

[Dang]

Most detectorist can't handle digging the nickle range. Too many pulltabs fall in it. Which is okay with me cause that's where a lot of gold lies! Whenever I dig up a nickle I think "Just as easy could have been gold." And sooner or later it turns out to be gold.

 

[Relic]

That's exactly what I was thinking every time I dug. I have a lot of sand left to sift there; maybe next time...

Relic

 

[tvr]

Very good coin count. My last couple of hunts have been just about all nickles, tabs, can slaw and pencil eraser ends. Keep at it and eventually you will turn up some gold.
tvr

 

[tab-nabit]

That's a good nickle haul. Not discriminating the nickle range is a good thing because other goods fall into that range. So your not leaving them behind.

 

[SEMPERFI61]

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[chuck ky]

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[marcomo]

Also silver nickels in 1942.

In 1942 they switched composition mid-year so you have both types out there for 1942

 

[Relic]

I went back to the volleyball court yesterday and hunted it again in a pattern 90 degrees to the original. I found 12 more nickels, making a total of 65 from that half-court area and proving again that you never do get it all. Some of the signals in all metal were only a barely distinguishable change in the threshold tone. When I scanned them with discrimination, set to minimum, there was no signal at all. Because I could easily dig in the sand, it was a great opportunity to experiment.

There is a picnic shelter right next to the court and I'm guessing that at some gathering, nickels were thrown onto the sand and kids went scrambling after them. I wonder who found more - the kids or me.

I did find a ring, too, and when I first saw it, I was sure it was the Hope diamond. But as it turned out, it was only because I was hoping it was a diamond. In reality, it was just a cheap plated costume ring.

HH,
Relic

 

[SEMPERFI61]

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