OKAY what's the secret to finding nickels?
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lucky_c
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I find nickels just about every time out. Many MDers skip nickel/pull tab signals (like the posters above). I thank them, because they miss some gold, too.
I watch my coin ratios to determine if a site has been hunted before. If I find a lot of nickels compared to other coins I can be sure someone else has already hunted there, skipping over nickel range signals.
If I find a lot of quarters then I know the site is unhunted, because no one skips quarter signals.
I watch my coin ratios to determine if a site has been hunted before. If I find a lot of nickels compared to other coins I can be sure someone else has already hunted there, skipping over nickel range signals.
If I find a lot of quarters then I know the site is unhunted, because no one skips quarter signals.
DIGGER27
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I find lots of nickels.
The first pic below is the amount of clad I have found in the last 5-8 weeks or so.
The second pic is the nickels culled from this pile.
There are definitely less nickels than quarters or dimes, way less then the pennies that are not shown, but they are out there.
Why do I find so many nickels?
Theory..
Lots of these were found with a Vaquero and a Compadre and both of these units run at a little higher frequency than several others, from the 12-14.7 kHz range.
I believe detectors in this range are a little more sensitive to not only gold but nickels, too.
My Compadre goes further on a nickel than it will on a quarter or dime.
However, a good portion were found with my lower frequency F2, also.
I am a dig it all kind of hunter, usually.
I am always looking for gold so I tend to dig most every solid signal from the just above the iron nails range right on up through foil, nickel, tabs, zinc and beyond.
I can tell you from experience that nickels can be very funny and even though they are supposed to come in at a certain range, (for instance on my F2 a 33 VDI # is usually a nickel), many many times they don't.
I have dug a lot of nickels that ranged from down in the mid foil section all the way up to almost zinc, and this was with all my detectors.
Don't know why, maybe it has something to do with soil conditions or their position in the ground, but I have been surprised many times when a nickel popped up when I was expecting something else.
Because gold comes in so many shapes and sizes and can come in literally anywhere in the range of most detectors, when you look for gold as hard as I do by digging all solid signals and even some that aren't so solid, a by-product of hunting in this manner is going to be recovering plenty of nickels, too.
This is just one of those coins that tends to disguise themselves and can hide in garbage areas like foil and tabs.
This happens more than you realize, in my experience.
So if you want to find more nickels...and probably some gold if you are lucky, you just have to take the advice from me and several of the other posts above...
DIG IT ALL!!!
The first pic below is the amount of clad I have found in the last 5-8 weeks or so.
The second pic is the nickels culled from this pile.
There are definitely less nickels than quarters or dimes, way less then the pennies that are not shown, but they are out there.
Why do I find so many nickels?
Theory..
Lots of these were found with a Vaquero and a Compadre and both of these units run at a little higher frequency than several others, from the 12-14.7 kHz range.
I believe detectors in this range are a little more sensitive to not only gold but nickels, too.
My Compadre goes further on a nickel than it will on a quarter or dime.
However, a good portion were found with my lower frequency F2, also.
I am a dig it all kind of hunter, usually.
I am always looking for gold so I tend to dig most every solid signal from the just above the iron nails range right on up through foil, nickel, tabs, zinc and beyond.
I can tell you from experience that nickels can be very funny and even though they are supposed to come in at a certain range, (for instance on my F2 a 33 VDI # is usually a nickel), many many times they don't.
I have dug a lot of nickels that ranged from down in the mid foil section all the way up to almost zinc, and this was with all my detectors.
Don't know why, maybe it has something to do with soil conditions or their position in the ground, but I have been surprised many times when a nickel popped up when I was expecting something else.
Because gold comes in so many shapes and sizes and can come in literally anywhere in the range of most detectors, when you look for gold as hard as I do by digging all solid signals and even some that aren't so solid, a by-product of hunting in this manner is going to be recovering plenty of nickels, too.
This is just one of those coins that tends to disguise themselves and can hide in garbage areas like foil and tabs.
This happens more than you realize, in my experience.
So if you want to find more nickels...and probably some gold if you are lucky, you just have to take the advice from me and several of the other posts above...
DIG IT ALL!!!
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DigginTexas
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I only dig nickles if the signal is steady and doesnt bounce. If it bounces off nickel 9 times out of ten its a beaver tail or some other small trash.
demyansk1942
Elite Member
Good point lucky, even if you find a lot of dimes you know the place is not hunted
ga5150
Elite Member
The past few weekends I've been hunting where an old sports field used to be. I have found around 5 pennies, 2-3 dimes, not a single quarter, but I have found over 40 nickels.
If I was a bettin' man, I'd think this area has been hunted before and someone had set their discrimination to pass over nickels/pull tabs/gold.
Rodney
If I was a bettin' man, I'd think this area has been hunted before and someone had set their discrimination to pass over nickels/pull tabs/gold.
Rodney
fred sanford
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Etrac
Etrac
Etrac
I also find several nickels, because I don't notch them out. That being said, stop right now and pull all the change out of your pocket. I did and I had 7Q, 6D, 4P, and 1nickel. If you don't have as many in your pocket you can't lose as many. I don't get many in change because I try to use pennies to even amounts to dimes and quarters in change that is coming back to me. Just my thoughts on it!!!
jimhank
Full Member
I found a nickle at the beach the other day...I was surprised!
Really don't find too many.
Really don't find too many.
Michaeltime
Elite Member
I find 1 to 4 nickels every now and then. Seems like seldom deep
I get out and detect and have my disc down to look for gold rings, pretty low. I am running a M6. I check the VID numbers and only dig 16 to 20 I don't see 21 come up but do see 22 up to 32 but those are usually just pull tabs poptops and pieces of pulltabs. I keep hoping for a gold ring but so far a lot of aluminum junk. I like a good day of $1.50 to $4.00 . I have better and worse days. Like this morning it started to rain so I quit before I got out of my neighborhood and only got 20 cents , 10 pennies two were wheats and one dime in the curb strip.
M6 Mike
I get out and detect and have my disc down to look for gold rings, pretty low. I am running a M6. I check the VID numbers and only dig 16 to 20 I don't see 21 come up but do see 22 up to 32 but those are usually just pull tabs poptops and pieces of pulltabs. I keep hoping for a gold ring but so far a lot of aluminum junk. I like a good day of $1.50 to $4.00 . I have better and worse days. Like this morning it started to rain so I quit before I got out of my neighborhood and only got 20 cents , 10 pennies two were wheats and one dime in the curb strip.
M6 Mike
Michaeltime
Elite Member
I got a overload reading that was 2 nickels stacked
I was doing the one elementary school here in Greenville and down near the basketball court I got a overload reading and was about to move on and figured I got to know what it is. Turned out to be two nickels stacked and a dime near them. A lot of the time a overload turns out to be some hunk of aluminum.
M6 Mike
I was doing the one elementary school here in Greenville and down near the basketball court I got a overload reading and was about to move on and figured I got to know what it is. Turned out to be two nickels stacked and a dime near them. A lot of the time a overload turns out to be some hunk of aluminum.
M6 Mike
demyansk1942
Elite Member
Gas, yes, I would say that place was hunted but that doesn't mean its empty, keep trying and you might find some gold since you have the nickel discrim off.
^ What he said. AT Pro's are high frequency machines also and I find a lot of nickels.
I dig everything that might possibly be Gold, I ain't in this for the clad.
I find a ton pf nickels with my etrac, there are a lot out there because a lot of people dont dig those signals in fear of digging some trash!! If I am a school or park, I average 10-12 nickels per outing. One thing that helps me is to not concentrate on solid nickel signals....sure if they are modern and shallow, but older nickels over 4-5 inches bounce around a lot, even on the etrac. The more I opened my screen the MORE nickels I dug
54shooter
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I find nickels all the time, but I have yet to find a silver coin
Dark Chameleon
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Take a nickel out of your pocket and air test it with your detector..now every time you find that number and at 90 degrees from your first swing then dig it...sorted
Mama2Twins
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Know the tones
Having the At Pro for awhile now, Ive learned the sounds really good. Especially when using it more frequently. I can hear the solid tone that rings up in the 50s. No squelch in the tone that you would hear with pulltabs or bottle caps. I've found a lot of nickels as of late including a nice 1942 steel war nickel.
Having the At Pro for awhile now, Ive learned the sounds really good. Especially when using it more frequently. I can hear the solid tone that rings up in the 50s. No squelch in the tone that you would hear with pulltabs or bottle caps. I've found a lot of nickels as of late including a nice 1942 steel war nickel.
Extractor
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dig the low tones
