Is this thing silver.......??

MUD(S.W.A.T) · Oct 22, 2009

Hello everyone !! :hello:

Went back to the 1800's farm house. :headbang:

I walked around the outside edge and moved my way in as I walked around. :dontknow:

Covering the whole yard the best I could I could not find much of anything. Lots of clad, toy cars and trash. >:(

I got a pocket spill and was digging dirty clad. :icon_scratch:

Then in the same spill this coin came out looking silver.

I thought it was a Reale, then a gold coin. This thing looked new and shinny and... I could not figure out why?

I could only guess, and I guessed it must have silver. :icon_scratch:

. Well, I knew that that's not really possible but maybe. :dontknow:

Later I find out its 100% pure nickle and that must be why its shinny. :headbang:

The rest of the clad in the spill was well... Dirty. I also found what I think is a musket ball and what I think is a 1800's picture frame. :icon_scratch:

Here are some pictures, I hope you enjoy !! :notworthy:

Keep @ it and HH!!

cedarratt · Oct 22, 2009

Yep Canada had the best nickle mine at one point (May Still) so most of their coins are nickle, tho some were still silver to a point. Wiki had a decent list of them.

extractor · Oct 22, 2009

good score! :icon_thumleft:

montepollock · Oct 23, 2009

Nickel is magnetic in coin form

Hardy · Oct 23, 2009

1969 and under is Silver bud :icon_thumleft:

MUD(S.W.A.T) · Oct 24, 2009

montepollock said:
Nickel is magnetic in coin form

I put a Magnet up to it and it stuck.

Hardy said:
1969 and under is Silver bud

I guess not nickles, :icon_scratch:

in 1922 they took the silver out of their nickel. Before then it was much like our half dime. :headbang:

They changed the metal a bunch of times. In 1965 it was 100% nickel. Read more about it here bellow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_nickel

Thanks everyone, :notworthy:

Keep @ It and HH!!

coinmaster2db · Oct 24, 2009

That's a mat for a daguerreotype. It went between the image and the glass to keep the glass from scratching it. I dug one a few years ago with the daguerreotype. Don in SJ dug one with the glass still intact. Mine is 2 3/4" W x 3 1/4" H. Here's the link to my post. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,278262.0.html
You might want to look around a little more. Maybe the picture is there too. It'll be a good signal if it is. It's a copper plate with silver plating on one side.

mile-ender · Oct 24, 2009

MUD(S.W.A.T) said:
montepollock said:

Nickel is magnetic in coin form

Click to expand...

I put a Magnet up to it and it stuck.

Hardy said:

1969 and under is Silver bud

Click to expand...

I guess not nickles, in 1922 they took the silver out of their nickel. Before then it was much like our half dime. They changed the metal a bunch of times. In 1965 it was 100% nickel. Read more about it here bellow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_nickel

Thanks everyone,

Keep @ It and HH!!

From "Coins of Canada" - In order to provide a 5 -cent piece of more manageable size, and "because nickel is essentially a Canadian metal" the Canadian government introduced a coin of pure nickel in 1922, similar in size to the 5-cent coins of the United States....1942-1943 tombac, 1944-1945 chromium plated steel, 1946-1950 nickel (and 1951 isolation of nickel bicentennial), 1951-1954 chromium plated steel, 1955-1981 nickel, 1982-1999 cupro-nickel alloy same alloy use in United States coinage (75% copper and 25% nickel), 2000 > Nickel plated steel.