Chasing Mid and Low Tones Paid Off Today

[washingtonian]

Hey everybody!

Got out for a couple hours this afternoon. The sunshine was glorious and too much to pass up.

Didn’t have a lot of high tones today so I focused on the mid and low tones. Lots of deep wheats and a surprise war nickel on a nasty low tone signal.



War nickel is 1943. The mint mark looks non-existent (though I know that’s impossible). One of the wheats is a semi-key 1912-S. Pretty happy with that, never found that date before!

Good luck out there and happy hunting.
-W

 

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[DigginNorthernVa]

Nice digs! You've got your work ahead of you cleaning those wheats!

 

[washingtonian]

Nice digs! You've got your work ahead of you cleaning those wheats!

Those are “clean”. [emoji23] wheats get killed in our soil. I ran them through soap and water and tooth-picked them already. Occasionally I’ll give acid baths but not today.

 

[DigginNorthernVa]

I hear you. I would have done the same...too much work involved!

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice old coin shooting!

 

[Hawks88]

Nice handful of coin saves. Congrats

 

[A2coins]

Good haul your gonna kill it this year you all ready are on a good streak, Keep it up

 

[The Dirt Pirate]

Nice finds.

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

If there's no apparent mintmark, you may have yourself a scarce Henning counterfeit. I would like to see a closeup of the coin to see.

Henning Counterfeit Nickel

 

[Inspector]

Nice hunt, congrats on the saves

 

[washingtonian]

Good haul your gonna kill it this year you all ready are on a good streak, Keep it up

Thanks Tommy! I’ve been fortunate that a couple permissions have turned out nicely. I have a couple more coming down the pipe so hopefully those pan out in the next couple months too!

 

[washingtonian]

If there's no apparent mintmark, you may have yourself a scarce Henning counterfeit. I would like to see a closeup of the coin to see.

Henning Counterfeit Nickel

Interesting. Doesn’t seem like a fit since mine is 1943 but here are the pics.



If I had to hazard a guess I’d say its most likely an S being on the West Coast but it’s just impossible to make anything out.