1870 Canadian 5 Cents (Fishscale)

[ripvanb]

Found this little thing pretty deep, almost didn't dig it. Happy I did.

 

[Argentium]

Nice ! I'd be overjoyed if I dug one those .

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice find, congrats!

 

[RVRoamer74]

Glad you sniffed that one out to show. Congrats on that oldie.

 

[smallfoot]

That's cool....congrats!

 

[Bodkin]

Nice find! They are small, for sure. Can you tell me what size coil you had, depth and number it rang in at? Of course, the only one I found I was too excited to remember any of that. Congrats!

 

[washingtonian]

That is cool. I’d love to find one of those some day!

 

[Mackaydon]

Hard to beat .925 silver.
Great save!
Don....

 

[Digger RJ]

Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[pa-dirt_nc-sand]

Nice coin and thanks for showing size comparison. Don’t find many Canadian coins in my town. Congrats

 

[ripvanb]

Nice find! They are small, for sure. Can you tell me what size coil you had, depth and number it rang in at? Of course, the only one I found I was too excited to remember any of that. Congrats!

I use the standard coil. It was a solid but faint sounding 20 at about 8in. I think I was in park 1.

 

[Inspector]

Really nice coin, congrats on the save & HH

 

[Relicific]

Very nice silver coin

 

[A2coins]

Thats a cool find glad you did dig it. I cringe thinking about all the stuff Ive probobly passed up theres lots of trash around where I live good job. Keep rippin Tommy

 

[BC1969]

Awesome find!
I've found approximately four fishscales since I started detecting the spring of 78'!
In the metro Detoilet area.
Thanks for sharing.

BC

 

[xcopperstax]

Excellent find there! I can imagine if you hit that one with a shovel it might cut the darn coin in half. Great job in not hitting it!!! I hope to find one someday!

 

[Pick_axe]

Good work! That's not a lot of mass to reflect a signal. Very impressive.

 

[ripvanb]

Thanks for the replies!

 

[DigToChina]

Those are hard to find on this side of the border! Good call on digging it.

 

[Clad2Silver]

Nice find. I dug one of those a few years back in Hamden Ct. Makes me wonder how they found their way to Connecticut.