Oh okay...one more silver!

[Ray in CA]

We don't have to leave for out of town until tomorrow, and having finished up all the stuff we had to do today I decided it was such a nice sunny day in SW Washington why waste the rest of it?

So off I went detecting for about an hour at the old school and found a 1942 S war nickel with a drill hole, which makes my sixth silver this week. I haven't a clue whether some kid was just goofing off and thought it would look cool around his neck, or worse, did he drill it as a memorial to the year his father died in the war? I guess we'll never know.

As you can see by the pictures this coin was completely on edge at around 3". My Safari couldn't decide if it wanted to give me a silver or nickel tone, so it gave me both! Talk about having the hardest time pinpointing...hence the big plug.

See ya'll next week and HH,

Ray

 

[vanoldschool]

Great Job, was that at the school or the masonry??

 

[Ray in CA]

van, it was found at the old school. It's the first holed coin I've ever found too. I've still got lots more area yet to cover, so we'll see if I can coax a few more coins out of there.

Ray

 

[John (Ma)]

Well that is an interesting nickle with a big ole hole in the head. Nice find

 

[allen]

nice coin, but I take it someone
doesnt like old man Jefferson .

 

[terpfan]

That nickel is in great shape. All of the silver war nickels that I have found have a distinctive corrosion on them that seems to start beneath the surface of the coin.

 

[STH69]

NIce one

 

[Detectingfreak]

man you are sure pounding the silver out of the ground! Nice work!

 

[crazyjarhead]

Poor Thomas Jefferson

 

[Slabman]

My People do that when a nickel is suffering from madness.

LOL... (said drunkenly)... I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.

Slab

 

[jsandin]

A bittersweet find. Congratulations. I have a very nice 1825 large cent with a hole neatly drilled right through the center. My coin-collector brother gave it to me long ago.

 

[Ray in CA]

Thanks everyone!

Matt, yep, I had a pretty good week last week. 6 silver in one week. I guess that's a lot for up here, huh? I'd like to manage one of them Canadian silvers. I've found plenty of their pennies, now I want the old dimes and nickels.

Let me know when you get all done with school. I'll try to make a trip up there sometime to do some detecting with you guys.

Ray