Mayo South Elgin
Sr. Member
What's the fastest you ever found a coin with your detector?
It was like this...
I turned on my machine, hit the ground balance, started to swing the coil
and before I could complete one swing, I hear the sound of a nickel.
So I says to Tim - hmmm, sounds like a nickel.
Tim says, "or a pull tab".
We were working a recently excavated and filled parkway in a marginal neighborhood
so the pull tab idea was more likely than a nickel.
I used the probe and moved some dirt around and less than an inch deep was the 1903 V Nickel.
It was mostly crusted over with dark brown corrosion but part of the nickel color was visible.
Because it was already hit by a lawnmower or something, I figured it didn't matter how I cleaned it, so I soaked it in room temp hydrogen peroxide for a day and a half while periodically cleaning it with toothpicks, a plastic coffee stir stick, and a metal push pin. The metal pin worked the best to flake off the corrosion but it did scratch the surface almost every place I used it.
After getting the nickel we went to a park and I got two pieces of old jewelry.
The smashed ring is stamped sterling (the stone was missing). When I tried to re-shape it, it snapped apart. The other piece with the stones looks like it was gold plated at one time and maybe was a coat or hat pin or hair barrette.
Not shown was the usual mix of clad coinage which included another 6 or 7 nickels, although they were all Jeffersons.
It was like this...
I turned on my machine, hit the ground balance, started to swing the coil
and before I could complete one swing, I hear the sound of a nickel.
So I says to Tim - hmmm, sounds like a nickel.
Tim says, "or a pull tab".
We were working a recently excavated and filled parkway in a marginal neighborhood
so the pull tab idea was more likely than a nickel.
I used the probe and moved some dirt around and less than an inch deep was the 1903 V Nickel.
It was mostly crusted over with dark brown corrosion but part of the nickel color was visible.
Because it was already hit by a lawnmower or something, I figured it didn't matter how I cleaned it, so I soaked it in room temp hydrogen peroxide for a day and a half while periodically cleaning it with toothpicks, a plastic coffee stir stick, and a metal push pin. The metal pin worked the best to flake off the corrosion but it did scratch the surface almost every place I used it.
After getting the nickel we went to a park and I got two pieces of old jewelry.
The smashed ring is stamped sterling (the stone was missing). When I tried to re-shape it, it snapped apart. The other piece with the stones looks like it was gold plated at one time and maybe was a coat or hat pin or hair barrette.
Not shown was the usual mix of clad coinage which included another 6 or 7 nickels, although they were all Jeffersons.
God Bless Chris
