Independence day = nickel trifecta and a pocket spill!:video:

[Eric in RI]

Man oh man, what a great hunt today! I was sitting around the house all day watching detecting vids on Youtube. I was having a lazy day and usually check out some vids to get the blood pumping and motivation going. Well it worked! I arrived at pounded park at 3:30 and today's goal was to find a Centennial coin, or close to it. I started off the hunt slow with several trash signals and deep clad. I came across a signal that was ringing up as a wheat penny. I dug the plug and pulled out a bent iron nail. The original signal was a repeater from both directions so I figured something else was in the hole. Ended up pulling a sweet shield nickel! I've only dug 4 of these in the 12 years that I've been hunting and this one is the best condition. Unfortunately the other side is still caked with dirt so I haven't been able to get a date yet. I did however get it on live dig!

About 45 minutes later I get a bouncy coin signal ranging anywhere from 65 all the way up to the mid 80's. I dug a plug amongst the swamp maple tree roots and was rewarded with the crusty Buffalo nickel. I figured this was going to be a nickel kinda day as I already dug a couple of Jefferson nickels. Usually I have a few weeks where all I find is nickels and pennies and then one good week of silver digs. I found 7 silvers at pounded park last week and figured I was getting back in the groove of nickels and pennies. Well I sure was wrong.

I was working the edge of a path around the pond and got a really bouncy high tone. It was very faint and even with the sensitivity cranked all the way up, it still was iffy at best. The numbers bounced all over the place and I saw 99 come up a few times. I had my doubts that it was a coin, but lately those 99 signals have yielded extremely deep coins for me. I dug a plug thru a bunch of swamp maple roots, stuck my shovel in and scooped out some dirt. I ran the pro pointer in the hole and on the plug and couldn't find the signal. I was getting ready to just fill the plug in and call it a ghost signal. Before I did that I looked at my shovel and saw 2 silver reeded edges and a penny stacked on top of each other in the dirt left on the shovel. I turned on the GoPro and started filming. I was so excited on camera because this has never happened before. It turns out the 3 coins were a V-nickel, 1945 Merc and a 1946 Roosie. What a freaking day! If you get a chance, check out the video of todays hunt. HH!

https://youtu.be/1z5F8RED1Xc

 

[jim tn]

That's some mighty fine hunting and you were nicely rewarded for your efforts. Good job! HH jim tn

 

[upnorth]

Jeez sweet finds. I would be more than happy to find a U.S. buff nickel, and consider a V to be much, much, further out of reach.

 

[mudpuppy]

Outstanding! I have to believe theres a lot of tight multidenom pocket spills out there that have been passed over as 'trash'...one of these days, I'll get one like that one you found there Eric! That was so cool those coins stuck to the dirt on your shovel! Nice work!
Mud

 

[EtracTom-AdirondacksNY]

Nice finds. I carry a small prescription pill vial bottle with me filled with diet mountain dew or coke or pepsi and as soon as I find coins like the nickel with dirt or a wheatie since they are in moist ground soil I place them in the pill bottle asap. The dirt once it starts to dry out when the coin comes out of the moist soil solidifies onto those coins and you never seem to get it off even the green crust on Wheaties and indians. Once I get home I unscrew the top and run warm water into the pill bottle and you will be surprised at all the dirt that came off just by soaking in there.

Silver I carry a soft cotton balls or paper towel in another vial bottle and put them in separately both these are in my pouch while I hunt. I keep a few more handy and ready filled in the truck as sometimes I fill them up on a good hunt even put the clad in there to soak to help clean them up for when I get home to finish them. If I don't get to them right away I leave them soaking till I can clean them with a soft toothbrush with dish soap and warm water and such.

Silver I use baking soda and warm water makes the black come right off and look like shiny new. Wet the baking soda first in your hand and wet the silver coin then lightly use my thumb and forefinger to put the paste onto the coin with a ever so light circular motion then rinse off for a nice silver coin. May not do this for key date coins though.

 

[dgruff]

That's awesome! Congrats on a sweet find!

 

[scott.f]

Nice! Got to love it when a deep iffy signal turns out to be old silver.

 

[John-Edmonton]

Your ground looks hard and dry. You did well!