1918 buffalo nickel

[mindcrime1988]

I detected a park downtown which goes back to the 1880s and found mostly modern coins and a compass pendant(?) but I did manage to find a sweet 1918 buffalo nickel. I'm thinking nobody has detected there in quite some time or never because there were lots of coins to be found and I only did ~1/3 of the park. Needless to say, I'll be going back and eventually with a larger coil after picking all of the trash out of there.

 

[nuggetshooter323]

Two years ago, I found a 1900 indian head penny and a 1700's Chinese coin in the park you're probably talking about. I've been detecting there since 2004 and those are the oldest coins that I've found there. The soil there has definitely been replaced. A lot of the really deep targets are pipes from an old sprinkler system that the city abandoned.