The Elusive Nickel

[m bryan]

What is your ratio for nickels compared to other coins? I find lots of clad pennies and dimes but very seldom nickels. I dont disc. them out........I understand that pennies and dimes are smaller and are easier lost but nickels are a rarity. I have found far more quarters than nickels. ..........on a side note, I found my oldest wheatie today, 1919.....

 

[jeff of pa]

It's rare I Find alot of Nickels,
But certain sites seem to produce them Regularly.

I Think mostly sites that the rest has been Cherry Picked out

 

[Roland58]

I find nickels much less than other coins. On my F75, a solid reading of 29-30 VDI will usually result in a nickel find, but, it has been wrong, . The best I have ever done on nickels was 17 in one hunt of about 5 1/2 hours. I like finding nickels....has to be something to do with it being a thicker coin or something (I haven't found a half or dollar yet, ).

 

[Coin Digger]

Nickels for the most part I think are used less than of all other coins. I use a coin sorter for my everyday change that I take out of my pockets and nickels will be the last to fill up. Pennies fill up 2x faster than any of the coins.

Most of the nickels I dig up are 20-30 years old and older. I'll find a newer nickel after every 4 or 5 that I dig.

 

[jeff of pa]

Nickels for the most part I think are used less than of all other coins.

I Don't get alot of nickels in change Either.

For some reason Most items don't come out
to a price where a Nickle is needed in return.

Pennies & Dimes seem to be most popular change

 

[m bryan]

Pennies also seem to blend with the ground making it easier to lose.....

 

[Frankn]

Last trip to the beach at OC Md. produced mostly nickels, When I thought about it I believe other THs on the beach have descriminated them out. They sit in that very small area between pulltabs and brass cartridges.
I descriminate only the screen.

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[rginn]

With my first detector I usually had them discriminated out. With the DFX, I find them, but I have to go by the sound. I don't think there was that many nickels lost from what I find, but I probably pass over a lot of them.

 

[Monty]

For some reason I have found more nickels with my ACE250 than any other detector I have used. And that includes a couple of the "higher end" detectors I have owned. I guess it may be because I don't discriminate as much when using the ACE? Monty

 

[Coin Digger]

For some reason I have found more nickels with my ACE250 than any other detector I have used. And that includes a couple of the "higher end" detectors I have owned. I guess it may be because I don't discriminate as much when using the ACE? Monty

I know why you find more with the Ace 250. You've learned your machines language.

 

[Yard Digger]

I often wonder about nickels myself. I find far less than any other coins with my BH Pioneer 101. It's very limited I guess as far as discrimination goes, but for now thats all I have. I probably pass over a lot of them because they sound too much like pull tabs and small bits of aluminum.
Yard Digger

 

[Monty]

I don't think it's as much as about knowing my ACE 250 as it is the location where I find most of the nickels. I check around public events sites that have outside or detached ticket booths such as athletic fields. But I have always found a lot more nickels in those areas with the ACE 250 than any of my other detectors. I remember when I first got the ACE and started learning it, I made a post here that it was a nickel magnet. Monty

 

[liftloop]

the ace 2fiddy discrimination is set up to knock out iron up to the nickel...and above a nickel to a penny is knocked out.... that setting drives you nuts up here ....lots of nickel in the ground......or at least my is uncle is driven their any ways...I don't know a bout that detector....

 

[calbear]

When I got my Tejon, my nickle finds double maybe even tripled . I can tell when I go to a park that who ever was there before me. Discriminated out pull tabs and nickles. I know then my chances of finding a ring is real good. I also have talked to others who discriminate out the zinc's. I have found silver rings in the zinc range also.
I found that I relied on the VDI reading, rather than letting my mind & ears do the deciding. Still love to use my XL Pro, but I just don't look at the Vdi I have to say the XL Pro is a quarter magnet

 

[appleton hunter]

6-7 % of my finds have been nickels. I record my finds on a spreedsheet and this has been my average over the last five years.