Odd ratio, a first for me in 30 or so years

[DANGLANGLEY]

I went out for a little while yesterday evening at a local elementary school. I didn't realize it till I cleaned the coins but I found 14 nickels and only one penny. I did find a nickel that someone tried to drill a hole through. Looks like they tried several times and it was bent pretty good too. I ended up with 32 coins for a total of $3.76... The big foot looks like it tried to crush the wrong thing. I found it inside a rotten bale of hay where I have found a bunch of quarters this year. Have a good one you all.

DANGLANGLEY

 

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[RUDY2003]

Dang it dang, lots of nickles...

Keep safe...

 

[Dman]

Nice finds.
Dman

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I'm always happy to find nickels as they show you're payin attention. Right between pull tabs and steel bottle caps . . . and also large and small gold rings.

 

[ModernMiner]

Nice job on the nickle hoard Dang. Someome was pretty upset at that one though.
-MM-

 

[Elvis]

That nickel looks like someone shot it with a BB gun. Congrats!

 

[piggman1]

Nickels are a good thing. Now to find the gold.

 

[Ima Swinger]

I think GaElvis nailed it, BB gun.
I used to deface the occasional coin myself as a kid in the very same manner, and it always bent the coin too.

Cool finds there buddy,

Ima

 

[history hunter]

Nice bunch of finds. WTG

 

[Prober]

You find stuff in a hay bale? How does that happen? I feel sorry for the cows that are eating quarters and cars...that's gotta hurt!

 

[Merf]

Nice finds DL---It is rare finding that many nickels.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

You find stuff in a hay bale? How does that happen? I feel sorry for the cows that are eating quarters and cars...that's gotta hurt!

Worse than that. There is a condition known as "Harware Disease" that can be fatal to cows. They eat a piece of sharp metal (i.e. chunk of barbed wire, nail or staple), get pregnant, and the expanding uterus compresses the innards and pushes the wire through the wall of the stomach. It can pierce the heart or a large blood vessel. Even small tears can get infected with fatal results.

http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/pests/g07700.htm

From 55 to 75 percent of the cattle slaughtered in the eastern United States have been found to have hardware in the reticulum.

(The reticulum is the first stomach in a ruminating animal).

So next time you want permission to MD on a farm you might mention "It can help prevent Hardware Disease in your livestock.

 

[Harry_Morant]

A nic haul Dang

 

[Jack(IN)]

Looks like someone weth thru there...

who doesn't dig nickels...which means he doesn't dig gold either...follow this guy, might lead to a piece of gold!!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Neta finds and shows you are not missing the gold and silver rings! Must have been a dull drill bit, LOL. HH, Mike

 

[Natman]

Nice nickel count Lang..when you bring back more than pennies that's always good.

I wouldn't say "Try it and see", but I don't know if a BB can make a divot that deep in a coin like that (not to mention how close you would have to be)! It looks drilled to me.

Nat

 

[DANGLANGLEY]

You find stuff in a hay bale? How does that happen? I feel sorry for the cows that are eating quarters and cars...that's gotta hurt!

Worse than that. There is a condition known as "Harware Disease" that can be fatal to cows. They eat a piece of sharp metal (i.e. chunk of barbed wire, nail or staple), get pregnant, and the expanding uterus compresses the innards and pushes the wire through the wall of the stomach. It can pierce the heart or a large blood vessel. Even small tears can get infected with fatal results.

http://extension.missouri.edu/explore/agguides/pests/g07700.htm

From 55 to 75 percent of the cattle slaughtered in the eastern United States have been found to have hardware in the reticulum.

(The reticulum is the first stomach in a ruminating animal).

So next time you want permission to MD on a farm you might mention "It can help prevent Hardware Disease in your livestock.

Great point there. A very good lesson to share with us. Thank you very much!