Nickle Day at the Lakeshore

[SusanMN]

Back to the lakeshore today to the same stretch where I've found several old coins this past week. Thought today I'd be skunked though, an hour into it all I had was a couple of memorial cents and a half gallon back of junk. But I was hoping for just one more old coin so I kept walking, and digging. I was alternating between the muck shoreline and the higher up sand where I'd found my last Barber dime and I got a iffy signal on the Tiger Shark. Dug a deep hole to get the target and picked up a nickle sized coin. Usually just put them away but was so desperate for anything good, I took this one to the water, washed it off and darned if I didn't see a buffalo. No pic of that yet. Its badly discolored and green, so its soaking in Worchesire sauce which is supposed to clean them up.

Another hour, a jefferson nickle, clad dime, a few memorial cents and a whole lot more junk and I was ready to call it quits. But you know the "one more good hit" that keeps you going. So finally got a strong signal mid beach and up came another nickle sized coin, which came out the sand pretty clean, although dark. Turned out to be a 1905 V nickle in pretty decent shape.

This brings my shoreline finds for the last couple of weeks to: 1896 indian head penny, 1910 Canadian silver 5 cent piece, 1892 Barber Dime, 1913 Barber dime, no date Buffalo head nickle and 1905 V Nickle, a silver ring and a copper ring.

This is all from about a 150 foot shoreline section of a heavily hunted lake/park. Apparently, though, no one has hunted where I've been for a while or maybe they're only looking for big silver and walking right over this stuff. Fine with me.

 

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[treasurefiend]

Sweet!!!

 

[kdismuke1]

I like the old nickles. Good Luck.

 

[SoreKneesDayton]

Very nice "V" nickle susan. See if you can hunt around the lake down at Carlton college in Northfield. Lots use it for many years--right on campus.

SKD

 

[SusanMN]

Thanks SKD!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Congrats on the V! HH, Mike

 

[MichiganRob]

What a beautiful coin...great find.

I edited your photos so we could all see what a great coin you've got. That'll be 5 cents please...LOL

HH
MichiganRob

 

[ELVISFAN]

1905 is the year Virgil Earp died it may have been in his pocket before he passed away ya never know Virgil was 62.