never found a nickel till today

[Stormin Norman]

ok, something is wrong with my detector, ive metal detcted 6 years and never found a nickel unless i saw it on the ground. So today i set out to a campground that has been good luck for me the past few days. I have a Whites Classic I so it has no target I.D.... just beeps. So i messed around with the frequency setting a bit while there. I ended up pulling 45 nickels out of the ground. nothing else (except one thing). 45 nickels...no pennies...no quarters...just nickels.

The one other thing i did find was a 1943 steel wheat penny. The thing is in pitiful shape, working on cleaning it, when its clean i may put up a pic...its not rare or anything is it? i know the copper 1943 wheat pennies are.

 

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[captain Jack]

don't know about the year, but run a magnet over it. a small # of those pennies were actually aluminum. If the magnet doesn't attract it, you may have something. someone else on here may know some more about it.

 

[seas1to2]

worth about 10 cent in good shape but a neat find.I found 1 a few months ago in a dirt parking lot, just reach down to pick up a coin an later that day I notice it was silver color, hard find with a metal detector because I never dig steel.

 

[Stormin Norman]

i already did the magnet test, it does attract. oh well, its cool none the less

 

[Natman]

Hey Norm, does you Classic I have a "coin range" and a "ring range"? If it does, set it on "ring range". My Classic II never picked up a nickel (or a gold ring for that matter) for years because I had it set for coins and it would eliminate most trash..lowering the discrimination allowed me to dig up more trash, but I also was beginning to find those gold rings as well as nickels.

HH,
Nat

 

[Stormin Norman]

Hey Norm, does you Classic I have a "coin range" and a "ring range"? If it does, set it on "ring range". My Classic II never picked up a nickel (or a gold ring for that matter) for years because I had it set for coins and it would eliminate most trash..lowering the discrimination allowed me to dig up more trash, but I also was beginning to find those gold rings as well as nickels.

HH,
Nat

precisely

 

[Natman]

Forgot to mention, mine has a SENS button on the right, and it's always on "P" (turned to the right).

When mine was on coin range and SENS was on P, I'd find everything except nickels and gold. Moving the knob back to ring range while leaving the SENS knob on P should allow you to find every kind of coin.

Nat

 

[Ron B]

Wow, save those settings! I've never found 45 nickels at one time in my life. You know what that means also, don't you? If there was any gold around you would have found it. I find it very odd you found nothing but nickels; totally weird! I'd super glue the controls in place and use this detector only for nickels-gold.

 

[weasel606]

sounds like your learning more about your md and getting set up pretty good ! nice finds

 

[Prober]

Those silver colored pennies were quite plentiful. 43 plain 684,628,670; 43D 217,660,000; 43S 191,550,000.
Back when I lived in NY state I worked with a guy that showed me a little glass piggy bank he had and it was crammed full with those silver pennies. He wouldn't give them up. I don't think I'd want my detector to only find nickels...I like those quarters, halves, and dollars too much to give them up.

 

[Dman]

Did you dig only nickels? Did you get any trash or pulltabs?
Dman