7th Time At Private Yard

[Natman]

Hi all,

We never got the rain we were supposed to get..the last decent rain we got was September 6. I didn't have permission to check any new yards, so I went to the sports field where I found a silver Kennedy half 2 weeks ago, but only found clad..very little clad

I decided to go back to a yard I got permission to search a while back that produced a silver Washington quarter, 2 Mercs, 3 silver Rosies and over 40 wheat pennies. I searched this yard like crazy over the last few weeks, making about 7 trips there. The pickins were few and far between, but I did manage my second war nickel in 2 weeks time - a 1943-S. I had no idea what my target was because I dug all "iffy" signals again, and the ground was so hard and dry, which are the only 2 excuses for scraping the crap out of the tales side.

Luckily they made more than 104 million of the things or I'd be losing sleep tonight.

I also found 2 more wheats (1936-P and 1953-S), a dart, a dog tag (belonging to a dog one street up according to the address printed on it), and a few odds and ends, including the remains of a very old watch.

I also found this old pull tab, the only one I have ever found that looks like this..it has 23R stamped on the other side and 3 small circular indents.

If anyone here knows their pulltabs, please tell me how old this one is.

Nat

 

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[djabend]

Re: Check Out My Gouged War Nickel

If anyone here knows their pulltabs, please tell me how old this one is.

Nat

Its a zip tab mid 1960s
http://www.bcca.com/history/overview4.php Scroll down to the bottom
They are a good sign that there may be silver there
HH,
Donny

 

[RUDY2003]

Re: Check Out My Gouged War Nickel

Hard diggs Nat. Still you found the nickle.....

Keep safe...

 

[Mona Lisa]

Re: Check Out My Gouged War Nickel

Natty....please read the following thread....and send your apologies to BuckleBoy...in triplicate.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,100581.0.html


Just kidding......really......nice nickel. It looks like you worked hard for it.

 

[Natman]

Thanks Donny for the link, I have beer cans from that era so now I know what the tab looked like.

Lisa! I guess I missed that one, so without changing the subject of my post, I'll just say it happened, I'd rather it didn't but it did.

I might start testing the ground with my digger and wait until after the rain if the ground is too hard..today you almost needed a hammer and chisel.

Nat

 

[doozis]

Re: Check Out My Gouged War Nickel

Nice finds inspite of the terrible digging conditions , its the same here.
I'm thinking about putting up my diggin tools and get me some rock mason tools to dig this dry/concrete dirt :P
hope ya get rain soon

Doozis

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

I love those nickels...

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[Nana40]

I know how it is to dig concrete too. Maybe we'll get some rain soon!

Congrats on your finds. Nana

 

[titan]

very cool pulltab , i would also like to know the nature and date of it . i still havn't found a war nickle but it is on the list.

 

[Boobydoo]

Cool digs for an off kind of day, congrats.
Tose war nickels are hard to find, cool!

Smiles!
BDoo

 

[ModernMiner]

Great job Nat.
I'm sure we've all scraped a few coins, so don't feel bad. It could have been worse, it could have been GOLD.
Congrats,
MM

 

[renegade_7]

Haven't seen any tabs like that. But the yard is still producing....

 

[Ant]

Great going Natman. You are surely with the best of detectorist when you can do that. I mean like at the top.

HH and good luck

 

[Mirage]

Good deal Nat. For me one keeper out a heavily hunted place is a better feeling than multiple silvers out of an "easy" place.

Donny - thanks for the info on those tabs. I always thought that those kind of tabs were much older than the ring style.

Bob

 

[piggman1]

Looks like a good day to me. I'm begining to think a jackhammer will be in order if this ground gets much harder. The ground is like rock here too.

 

[Slabman]

Hey Nat,
Nice war nickel!! Your ground is very forgiving on those nickels. I've found
hundreds of em, but the majority either have green or black crap, permanently
embedded into the coin. Electrolysis takes it off, but leaves those lovely huge
gouges. Keep pluggin away, and soon you'll have a full set of pristine war nickels!!

HH Slabman

 

[panzermeyer]

Nice job...your perseverence is paying off.Just goes to show theres always another recovery hiding there someplace.God Bless and HH..Panz

 

[Natman]

Thanks for all the replies..here's another site about cans/pull tabs..mine is an early one from 1963.http://www.rustycans.com/HISTORY/zips.html

I never thought I'd find a "keeper" pull tab!

Nat

 

[poppa19]

I have found about a half dozen of these weird pull taps at a park i hunt in and yes i also found 3 mercs there so far after only 2 hunts

 

[stefen]

I suppose that you'd want to know if its from a Coors or a Brew 102 beer can?