crazy spot

[tomhighland]

Spent the afternoon hunting the practice field at the old school some more. Couple of bucks in clad. Again From 65 forward. Thirty plus hours here, only silver a cheap ring. Close to $ 30.00 total. Did find a 51 wheat. A dime in someone elses bad plug. Then pro zero gave me a deep nickel signal. Right at 10 inches I see the red disc, pull it out and WHAT, A 1924 buffalo. Can barely read it. Sorry the pictures are not better. It is just weird that that was there, and after well over 300 targets still no silver coins.

 

[digger dad]

You never know what's gonna pop up that's what makes this hobbey so addictive . The surprises are always better than what you expect !! Congratulations on the buffalo!!

 

[toasted]

I got an old courthouse site that has had constant activity on it since 1700s. Ive found lots of clad, a few wheats, a silver washington and three colonial coppers. Thats it. I have no idea why there is no coinage from the 19th and early 20th century. Thats what makes this hobby so interesting

 

[tomhighland]

It was a fun day and quite a surprise. I did a permission at a house this morning That yielded one clad quarter. Went to the sports field only because I was halfway there already! Strange place though.

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on your coin finds

 

[Texas Ed]

Congrats on your 1924 Buffalo nickel and beaucoups of clad (clad adds up) - dimes can be hard to find if you don't have a pin pointer anyway thanks for sharing your pictures and story with us and I wish you many more great finds while out dirt fishing.

Texas ED

 

[against the wind]

Hard to get Buffaloes with full clear dates.
Congrats on your hunt

 

[46Wheat]

Nice buff . Congrats

 

[Loco-Digger]

Congrats on pulling that Buffalo, I average $1.50 an hour at most places, but have found a few sites where I averaged between $5 & $8 an hour. I pounded the $8 an hour site and gridded it in 3 directions back in 2014. It certainly help my F4 pay for itself. It was a crazy site, a 3 acre park in a small community.

 

[Garrett424]

Those buffalo's don't seem to hold up very well in the dirt; at least, not in my area. I found one recently that was so bad I didn't even realize it was a coin until I got it home and scraped the crud off of it. I thought it was another old button.

I haven't found many of them but only two have readable dates; one just barely. A good scrub with an SOS will clean them up pretty well without hurting them too bad. Nickel is really hard. Just make sure it's not a key date before breaking out the SOS though.


Here's a before/after the SOS treatment of an old 1899 V nickel I found a while back:






So if you want that Buff' to shine a little, start scrubbing. It took me about ten minutes per side on the V nick and although it's still pitted and in overall horrible shape, I did get some improvement. I'm really careful about cleaning coins but in this case, it was worthless to begin with so there was nothing to lose by cleaning it.