Found Some Old Sidewalk Coins Today

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Hunted a section of an old sidewalk for an hour and a half today. I was using the 6" Coil - focusing only on the deeper hits - trying to get past the clad coins!
Got approx. 25 good hits total - dug just six of the deeper targets - all six turned out to be older coins .
Also - something you don't see that often - the date on the 1936 Buffalo Nickel is actually easy to read !

HH --- Mark

 

[CBAILEY IN GA]

great hunt Mark, those are some nice coins. Craig

 

[detectorfreak74]

great job on the coins

P.S. If you could PM me and tell me how you cleaned up your nickle if it not proprietary

 

[iskirkra]

Mark you are still on a roll, nice going. That is a nice buffalo. -- Randy

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

First thing I do is try to make sure I'm not cleaning a key date coin !
I clean Nickels in white vinegar and table salt - just add a teaspoon of salt to several ounces of white vinegar - shake the mixture up and drop the coin in.
Most Nickel's and other coins must soak in this solution from 5 to 15 min.for all the crud to come off - depends on how dirty they are.
Once the coin is free of most of the dirt - run it under fresh water and buff it up with very fine steel wool.

I clean all of my other coins in an Electrolysis bath - it's the best way to clean coins I've ever seen - except from what I've seen so far - you can't clean Clad coins or Nickels with Electrolysis because of their copper cores. The copper leaches out and turns these types of coins orange - ( all Nickels are 75% copper - except for war Nickels).

HH --- Mark

 

[Scortch]

Great finds! Do the buffalo nickles read the same as jeffersons?

 

[B-Ruce]

Another method to clean nickels and pennies is to pour a half-inch to an inch of Hydrogen Peroxide in a plastic or glass cup and heat it to boiling in a microwave oven. Drop the coin(s) in the cup and watch them fizz! Once they cool and stop fizzing, rinse them in clean water. Repeat as necessary - just make sure not to put the coins in the microwave!

HH,

Bruce

 

[wvrick]

Nice Finds! Congratulations!