ToySoldier
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Yes, I'm still trying to dig a buffalo nickel from this pull tab infested private permission.
I'm up to 67 nickels, including 6 war nickels. I find a few nickels each time I visit the site, but on my buffalo hunt days I favor the nickels and spend more time trying to tease out repeatable nickel signals between all of the old pull tabs.
The coins and junk in the photo below were from yesterday evening's nickel hunt. All of the coins were at least 4 inches deep, and most were around 6". I was digging higher conductor signals if they were showing up as deep, which explains the 1942 Merc and the pennies. The pennies included a 1917 (not double die), 1919, 1929, and a 1930. That's solidly in the buffalo nickel era. Four of the nickels were from the 1940s, including two from 1940, and a 1942 war nickel.
Also below is a chart showing the dates of all 67 nickels dug from the site so far, including 11 total from the 1940s. Except for the recently dropped coin from 2017, the nickels range from 1940 to 1994. It's interesting to see evidence of the prevalence of 1964 nickels that were in circulation. Other than that, the nickels are evenly spread out from 1940 to 1994. No nickels in the past 25 years except for a lonely 2017. None from 1913-1938 either.
This is one of the cleanest hunts I've had. I've spent so much time on this site that I've nailed down a custom program on the Nox and a technique that suits the property. Half of the junk in the photo wasn't the main target and just happened to be in a hole with a coin.
There's got to be a Buffalo grazing in there somewhere!
Parts I and II here:
https://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=272061
https://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=272126
I'm up to 67 nickels, including 6 war nickels. I find a few nickels each time I visit the site, but on my buffalo hunt days I favor the nickels and spend more time trying to tease out repeatable nickel signals between all of the old pull tabs.
The coins and junk in the photo below were from yesterday evening's nickel hunt. All of the coins were at least 4 inches deep, and most were around 6". I was digging higher conductor signals if they were showing up as deep, which explains the 1942 Merc and the pennies. The pennies included a 1917 (not double die), 1919, 1929, and a 1930. That's solidly in the buffalo nickel era. Four of the nickels were from the 1940s, including two from 1940, and a 1942 war nickel.
Also below is a chart showing the dates of all 67 nickels dug from the site so far, including 11 total from the 1940s. Except for the recently dropped coin from 2017, the nickels range from 1940 to 1994. It's interesting to see evidence of the prevalence of 1964 nickels that were in circulation. Other than that, the nickels are evenly spread out from 1940 to 1994. No nickels in the past 25 years except for a lonely 2017. None from 1913-1938 either.
This is one of the cleanest hunts I've had. I've spent so much time on this site that I've nailed down a custom program on the Nox and a technique that suits the property. Half of the junk in the photo wasn't the main target and just happened to be in a hole with a coin.
There's got to be a Buffalo grazing in there somewhere!
Parts I and II here:
https://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=272061
https://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=272126
