digger27
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- May 18, 2011
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I get a signal that is pretty jumpy and I should walk by but the tone is extremely good so I dug it.
I come up with an old rusty bottle cap of some kind but on one side most of it is rusted away and I see sticking to the inside of the top some sort of thick piece of something but I have never seen this before.
I dig it out and my Propointer says it is metal.
Can't see anything on either side, too much dirt so I figure a slug of some kind but just in case I grab a twig and start scraping the dirt off of one side.
Nothing at first but eventually I start to see something coming through around the edge...the words United States and then more in the middle a part of a wreath!
I start scraping the other side and soon enough I start to see an image in the middle coming through I thought was a bird at first but eventually I see it is a bust and some stars.
I scrape off the part on the bottom and see a date...1901.
Now I am looking at this thing and recognize it as a V nickel but it is way too thick.
I look closer an realize it is two V nickels stuck together!
Well I'll be!
A little later I took a break and took a few pics of both sides...
...then I tried to split them open hoping the insides were protected and were clean and in good shape.
A little tap and they opened up and for the most part my wish came true...most of the surface on both coins were clean and shiny with a little crud on the edges and a bit of rust from that bottle cap.
At home I cleaned them up a bit more, I scrubbed the dirty sides just to bring out a few details....
On the cleaner sides I scrubbed as much of the dirt off as I could but then I stopped....they look good enough to me now and maybe I will soak them in some olive oil or something and pick at them a bit but these will probably be the best condition V nickels I will ever dig.
These two sides, anyway.
Weird signals, sometimes ya just gotta dig them because you never know.
I come up with an old rusty bottle cap of some kind but on one side most of it is rusted away and I see sticking to the inside of the top some sort of thick piece of something but I have never seen this before.
I dig it out and my Propointer says it is metal.
Can't see anything on either side, too much dirt so I figure a slug of some kind but just in case I grab a twig and start scraping the dirt off of one side.
Nothing at first but eventually I start to see something coming through around the edge...the words United States and then more in the middle a part of a wreath!
I start scraping the other side and soon enough I start to see an image in the middle coming through I thought was a bird at first but eventually I see it is a bust and some stars.
I scrape off the part on the bottom and see a date...1901.
Now I am looking at this thing and recognize it as a V nickel but it is way too thick.
I look closer an realize it is two V nickels stuck together!
Well I'll be!
A little later I took a break and took a few pics of both sides...
...then I tried to split them open hoping the insides were protected and were clean and in good shape.
A little tap and they opened up and for the most part my wish came true...most of the surface on both coins were clean and shiny with a little crud on the edges and a bit of rust from that bottle cap.
At home I cleaned them up a bit more, I scrubbed the dirty sides just to bring out a few details....
On the cleaner sides I scrubbed as much of the dirt off as I could but then I stopped....they look good enough to me now and maybe I will soak them in some olive oil or something and pick at them a bit but these will probably be the best condition V nickels I will ever dig.
These two sides, anyway.
Weird signals, sometimes ya just gotta dig them because you never know.
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