First 100+ coin 1900 Liberty V nickel

[dirtyJohn]

Finally I got an old one. This was about 9" down in an old park in the woods. It used to be used as a bachelors' camp way back when. Unfortunately I have a good scanner and it picked up all the corrosion. It still looks better than I would if I spent the last 100+ years underground. My detector has a mixed mode option that combines discriminate and all-metal mode simultaneously. I got this on the all-metal side. It did not give a visual ID but made a good whisper. I figure I've got to dig the whispers if I'm going to get the old stuff. Glad I did. I hopefully will post more good finds in the future. Thanks for reading.

 

[geodawn]

Congrats on the milestone and the nickel!

 

[smokedaddy]

Nice Nickel, If you are at an old site, dig every deep signal. I normally run all metal at the old places. Nickels are elusive, but you did it right and pulled out a fine one.

 

[creekhunter]

What a cool find!

 

[93vector]

Nice V...still on my wishlist

 

[JerV3]

Nice V,

I love old park woods. I've found countless old coins in them. They are still some of my favirite places to hunt.

HH Jer

 

[Samuelben]

nice job

 

[John (Ma)]

Nice coin!

 

[dirtyJohn]

Thanks for all your replies. Since I don't post much I feel I owe the rest of you and embarrassing story. I found this coin on Saturday and was so excited about it that I decided to go back on Sunday even though it rained hard and I knew it would be a mud bog out in the woods.
I figured I should wear my boots to help with the mud. When I got out there and started detecting I was getting a beep everytime I swung the coil to the left. Dammit if I didn't wear a pair of steel toed boots. I had to hunch foward to keep the coil away from my feet and after about 2 hours of that, my back was killing me so I had to cut the hunt short. It just goes to show that with every silver lining, there's a cloud. Hope you enjoyed that.

 

[sonny60]

hunted for years still no V WTG

 

[treasurefiend]

Great job!!!! I have yet to break the 1900 mark or find a V-Nickel.

 

[msleeper]

Nice job!!! I's never found a V! Love the steel toe story

We will have to get together with the rest of the boys one of these days!


Mark

 

[dirtyJohn]

Sounds good.

 

[Getty]

NICE! Keep at it

 

[bomber]

congrats,sweet find

 

[makton]

Good Job on the Find!!! That's funny about the boots as I have had that happen to.