High tone on a nickel

[squirrel1]

Anyone ever get a high tone on a nickel? I was out this past week at a site and got a 13-41 signal at around 6 inches with a repeatative high tone in all directions. I dug down and ran my pinpointer in the hole and discovered a nickel. I was a bit puzzled and layed the nickel on the ground and scanned and got 12-14 signal. So I then proceeded to look for another coin and found this rusty bolt. I didn't look at the nickel very well at the site. Later that evening I kept thinking about what I saw and heard and got the nickel out and examined it and noticed it was a 1944P moderately worn. So It got me to thinking and "ala" the ole war nickel which is 35 pwercent silver. Maybe that's the reason for the high tone and conductive numbers.

 

[moonshine]

hard to say. sometimes you can get an old peice of metal such as that bolt and it might sound like a coin. the combination of the two. i have only found one war nickel but it read like your nickel in the ground.

 

[doc1964]

I've found that the war nickels that I've found read higher than a regular nickel, but not as high as yours did in the hole (usually around 12-17, 12-20). I think the iron was more to blame for the odd reading.

 

[LandOLincoln]

I dig a lot of rusty bolts with nut attached that read 12-37 thru 12-41 and sound like a wheat penny from all directions. At least yours came with a nickel in the hole. I'm usually never that lucky. I haven't dug any bolts without the nut. I think the nut is the key to the decent sound.

 

[utahshovelhead]

War nickels always get a high or higher tone...yes its the silver content. they are easyer to find because of that.

 

[Goes4ever]

I dug 24 war nickels last season and most were around the 12-17 to 12-19 range but I did have a couple come in at 12-30 area, no idea why but that is how they came in.

 

[doc1964]

I have an interesting update on this one - I was out the other day (before the cold locked us out) and dug a '43S war nickel that hits at 12-42/43 solid out of the hole on my probe. I dug it thinking it to be a wheat cent. Very, very strange indeed!

 

[squirrel1]

I could be wrong but I think what's causing some of the high readings on the war nickels is the alloy mixture was not ideally mixed on some nickels and the etrac is so good its seeing this.