2nd hunt with etrac

[jimzz977]

I hunted my favorite park before work and getting use to my new machine and found this a big black chunk of metal it read as silver , got home and to my surprise ut was a 1943 d war nickel my first ever so far I found gold and two silver coins with my etrac in 3 hunts. I thinking damn when I learn this more wow!!!

 

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[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on digging the OD nickel. I believe you should use the aluminum foil, boiling water and backing soda method to clean that coin.

 

[jimzz977]

Thanks Loco I'll try that method, I all most put it in my junk pile but I check it again it giving me was silver readings

 

[CoilToTheSoil]

Congrats!

 

[Jason in Enid]

If you got a silver reading, I hope you rechecked the spot thoroughly because war nickles won't read that high. There was very likely something else in the hole with it. If you disturb a silver dime and it falls on-edge in the bottom, it may become unreadable from the detector. This is where pinpointers become very handy.

Either way, congrats on the find!

 

[Dan(NM)]

Not always Jason, I've dug 2 close to where he's hunting and they read 11-39 10-40 with high tones. Now where I'm at, they read as a mid to high tone. He's testing the nickle out of the hole and doing an air test, it reads like silver. I don't know why but I have 2 war nickles I just dug, one reads where nickles should, the other is way up the scale?

 

[Jason in Enid]

Not always Jason, I've dug 2 close to where he's hunting and they read 11-39 10-40 with high tones. Now where I'm at, they read as a mid to high tone. He's testing the nickle out of the hole and doing an air test, it reads like silver. I don't know why but I have 2 war nickles I just dug, one reads where nickles should, the other is way up the scale?

Weird! Never saw one read that high, but if multiple people are seeing it, I guess it must be happening!

 

[CityDigger]

Really didn't think war nickels varied in composition. Very strange.

 

[jimzz977]

I was going by the tones , because I'm not familiar with the etrac vdi yet, went I got home I checked it with my T2 and also reading high like 85/89

 

[jimzz977]

Air test my war nickel

 

[enamel7]

Really didn't think war nickels varied in composition. Very strange.

War nickels are 35% silver.

 

[Fletch88]

Swap that screen around and forget the numbers. Look at location location location on smart find screen! Congrats.

 

[Captain Caveman]

I can't speak for the ETRAC (yet), but on the F75, nickels hit at 30 and the 3 war nickels I've found over the last 2 weeks have all hit 37-39. Dimes hit 70-72 and silver dimes hit 74-77 from my experience. So, they are way closer to nickel range than dime range.

 

[GA_Boy]

Really didn't think war nickels varied in composition. Very strange.

Here is some info on the War nickles.
Marvin

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Arial, Helvetica][FONT=Arial, Helvetica]$.8162011194[/FONT] is the total melt value for the 1942-1945 silver nickel on January 28, 2016.[/FONT][/FONT]

 

[A2coins]

Gotta try the etrac

 

[jimzz977]

Yea I'm telling you , hunting a so called hunted out park and pulling gold and silver coins

 

[Fletch88]

Yea I'm telling you , hunting a so called hunted out park and pulling gold and silver coins

They just work! If you want smooth and quiet hunting the Etrac/CTX is hard to beat