Nickels

[lawman0210]

Why are nickels so hard to find? I would say I have a 25-1 recovery ratio. Pennies, dimes, quarters then nickels.

 

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[G.I.B.]

Because nickels ring up with pull tabs and tiny gold.

Most people ignore pull tabs, which makes you miss nickels- and gold.

If you are not digging pull tabs, you are not digging nickels, which means you are missing the gold.

 

[lawman0210]

I dig the s!#$ out of pulltabs. Lol no nickels and no gold... just pulltabs.

 

[Loco-Digger]

Your might be blowing them off as pull tabs. On the F75 I dig nickles when I get a VDI 30-32 constant. I also run 3H or 4H tones so the nickle beeps in as a high tone. My last good permission gave up 169 coins. Only 4 of them were nickles. so I had a 42 to 1 ratio. (3 of the 4 nickles were war nickles). With this in mind the hut came in at 169 to 1 nickle ratio. I recon they just didn't lose as many nickles as other coins.

 

[airscapes]

They are there but they are not as prevalent. Every couple of weeks when this subject is posted I say the same thing. Empty your pocket or if married, ask your wife to dump the change in her bag. Make piles of each coin type..
Next time you go to the store and pay cash, look at the change you get back..

Results should answer your question.

 

[lawman0210]

That's true now a days with quarters. In the u 70's growing up I would say pennies as many stores had to cent candy. So 1 piece u get 3 pennies to lose 2 pieces 1 penny.

 

[Pointman]

Once I trained my mind to stop discriminating out nickels and I started to look for the steadier readings (indicates nickels) versus the jumpy nickel-like readings (I use a CTX and Deus) I started to dig a lot more nickels and doubled my Buffalo nickel count. I rarely get out without finding at least 1-2 nickels. I still dig a lot of pull tabs, but I definitely know when I have a nickel by the readings and sounds, and I oftentimes will call nickels correctly before I dig. I actually went back to some heavy hit spots and found nickels that I had discriminated out in my head. Silver is rare, but easy to find. Nickels and gold isn't as common and not easy to get a handle on to make the dig.

If you having problems throw a few nickels on the ground and practice. I actually bought some Buffalo nickels, older Jeffersons and V nickels and started to check the readings and it really helped me find them when I actually went out to detect. V nickels actually read a little lower sometimes on the CTX than Buffalo or Jeffersons, so it matters to practice on all 3.

 

[luvsdux]

I usually run very little discrimination and I find lots of nickels (and tabs of course).
luvsdux

 

[RobRieman]

I got 17 nickels last time out. About half as much as each other coin.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I do very well with them because I think the other detectorists in the area blow past them when they notch out pull-tabs.

10 here in a typical lunch break hunt. (8 quarters, 14 dimes)

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

It depends on the site, "They have to be there before you can find them !" said one of my pals I think some places instead of giving out quarters on some days make change with more nickels. I have one site that has yielded up 500 nickels at least, and often they are 6 inches deep although some are more shallow.

P.S. Another annoyance is mowed in half square tabs for me they read very close to a nickel

 

[Bumpstick]

It has to do with the tax man also with there 1/4 of a percent sales tax; They always round up. So at 5 cents the tax is rounded up so there in less nickels handed out in change. I tune to dig nickels' my wedding ring rings up like a nickel 14K white Gold my 18K yellow rings like a penny.

That is a wide range so I hunt the nickels' and dig everything else. Take home and recycle my trash.

 

[kickit]

Apparently the frequency but I found more nickels when I was using an F2 than with any other of the 7 or 8 detectors I've had.

 

[George (MN)]

I had an F2 & never got a coin below 4" with correct ID. The coin at 4"that IDed correctly was a nickel! Most detectors I've had IDed nickels correctly from 1.5" to 3" in my moderately mineralized soil. Some detectors ID nickels as tabs when 2"-4" deep & deeper nickels IDed as zinc cent. Other detectors like Fisher CZs ID nickels as foil or iron & the nickel IDs are rusty steel bottlecaps. But when I used the CZ7 in unmineralized dirt in FL, whenever it said nickel, it was a nickel. People should plant nickels at various depths & try all their detectors over them to see amount of error & if high or low. HH, George (MN)

Apparently the frequency but I found more nickels when I was using an F2 than with any other of the 7 or 8 detectors I've had.