Michigan Badger
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It's Labor Day weekend and we're down near Grayling, Michigan (my daughter lives there) checking out the coin situation. One can't cover a lot of ground in two hours especially with a bad knee.
I found someone hauling black dirt with a small pickup truck and dumping it in their yard. Permission granted I hunted the sidewalk and found the stuff you see in one of the pictures.
Then I looked at the meager pile of black dirt and decided to swing my coil by it. All of a sudden I get this solid coin signal deep into the pile. With permission I dug way down into the heap and near the bottom layer I got a blasting signal. I spread out the dirt and there it was...another War nickel.
You can easily tell these by the large mint mark positioned over Monticello.
"War nickel Synonym for Wartime nickel.
Wartime nickel Five-cent coins struck during World War II with the composition 56% copper, 35% silver, and 9% manganese."
Well now my knee tells me I've had enough for this vacation.
From now on I'm following the dirt truck
Badger P.S. I asked where they got the dirt and they told me. Guess where I'm hunting next?
I found someone hauling black dirt with a small pickup truck and dumping it in their yard. Permission granted I hunted the sidewalk and found the stuff you see in one of the pictures.
Then I looked at the meager pile of black dirt and decided to swing my coil by it. All of a sudden I get this solid coin signal deep into the pile. With permission I dug way down into the heap and near the bottom layer I got a blasting signal. I spread out the dirt and there it was...another War nickel.
You can easily tell these by the large mint mark positioned over Monticello.
"War nickel Synonym for Wartime nickel.
Wartime nickel Five-cent coins struck during World War II with the composition 56% copper, 35% silver, and 9% manganese."
Well now my knee tells me I've had enough for this vacation.
From now on I'm following the dirt truck
Badger P.S. I asked where they got the dirt and they told me. Guess where I'm hunting next?
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