Late afternoon hunt nets me a few keepers.

[Ed (Upstate NY)]

With crappy weather on the way, I headed out late this afternoon to see if I could dig a few coins. First find in an area where I dug a nickel 3 center last year was a Canadian large cent (Vicky). That one is soaking in peroxide to try to get a date off the reverse. A few minutes later I get a hit which I expected to be a shallow Jefferson nickel. Dug down about three inches and pulled out a nickel. Right away I could see a hint of silver and realized it was a war nickel. Cool, when I scanned the dirt removed from the hole, my X-1 probe sounded off again. Pulled a second war nickel out of the dirt, In 29 years of metal detecting, I think this was the first time I pulled two OD nickels from the same hole. Looks like they were 44-S and a 43-P. As I headed back to my car, I get a real deep iffy signal. From about 8 inches down I pulled out what I thought was an indian head cent. Was pleasantly surprised to see it was in fact a nice 1863 John Thomas Premium Mills civil war token from Albany NY.

 

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[Eastcoasthunter21]

I love to see the store tokens. Those are more scarce than regular coins
Great job hh gl

 

[cjon455]

Good job on the war nickel and gotta love old tokens!

 

[trapperart]

Congrats on some nice finds

 

[Jyverb64]

That Token is a beauty

 

[Dave2000]

Nice finds-- the only thing I look for when I dig a Jefferson nickel is that big mint mark on top.