Very long, and maybe boring reply
Thanks for the comments and encouragement. This post was mainly tongue in cheek really. I am more than happy with everything I've found. The shield nickel is so over the top I don't know how to act. I realize how lucky I am and that I'm on a really great site. Did a lot of research to find this place. This area had no coins before the mid 1850's, maybe the 1860's so the shield is an amazing find for me and so early in my detecting addiction.
Tonight a friend of mine and I went back to the site. I found no coins, but he hit two wheaties. A 1914 and a 1911. We had split up and when I met him at the car I asked him what he had. He said "just a couple pennies." I checked the dates and the conditions of the wheats. They looked like they had just been dropped with a bit of embedded dirt, no real corrosion that I could see. I said the him "Do you know that you are probably the first person to touch these in 90-100 years. These are great finds!" Then it hit him. I saw the look in his eyes. He looked at the coins again with a whole new appreciation. I think the 1914 was a 1914 D which means it may have some value. I need to call him in the morning. I told him not to touch them and just put them away. Hope he did just that.
Tonight when I came out of the woods I met my friend on the road and he was talking to a bow hunter who I met in the woods about a week ago. Very nice guy. I met him the same day that I found the shield nickel and I showed it to him at the time. Turns out he makes videos for Deer and Deer Hunting Magazine. He thought what we were doing was really cool. I had found a shed antler in the woods and when I told him what it looked like he said that he knew the of buck and had been looking for this shed for a couple years. He collects sheds and had the sheds from this buck for a couple years, but couldn't find this one side. I gave it to him (had it in my truck) since I have a huge collection of sheds already and it was a buck he had been following for a while. He in turn gave me permission to hunt his yard (big yard, very old house) all I wanted and told me of a couple other choice sites in the woods there that I should check out.
All in all it was a amazing after work hunt. Although I didn't find a thing I got to hunt with my best friend, he found a couple old coins, I met a new friend, he gave me permission to hunt a new very choice place and I saw an amazing sunset with coyotes howl for background music. Doesn't get much better than that.
Oh, BTW..The ground isn't close to being froze. I'll hunt until it's too hard to dig.