The old park

[GA1dad]

The old heavily hunted park finally gave up an oldie for me. A 1901 V-Nickel. Prior to this, I have only dug a 1930's wheat cent there.

On a side note, this is my new oldest coin,,,( prior oldest was a 1905 v-nic ),, the 1800's are just mocking and poking a stick at me now.

T2 SE,,,,, experimenting with 85-50-BP,, stock coil

 

[BarryL]

nice what was the ID number on it just curious

 

[GA1dad]

It was a 52-54 in the ground,,,, 55-56 (occasional 57) out of the ground.

 

[Jackpine Savage]

Nice job. I love to find the old nickels. How deep does the older stuff run in your ground?

Tom

 

[GA1dad]

All the coins I've found have been 6 inches or less. Of course, that could be my shortcomings and I'm missing deeper stuff maybe. I have dug other items ( gold ring, brass rivots and such ) up to 9 inches,,, but no coins that deep for me. For me it depends on the amount of trash in an area, as to whether I will dig many iffy signals. The area I found the nickel in was just recently clear cut for an expansion in the park, There was not much trash, so I pretty much dug everything above 50,,, and it paid off for me. And the nickel had a textbook coin sound about it. Any where else in this park and those 52-54 signals would have been a pocket full of can slaw or similar.