The "old trading post" gives up another oldie...

[Gatorfan]

Back at the site that was once a trading post in mid to late 1800's where i found my first V nickel. Now another first. Can't get a date, too bad the Georgia clay around here doesn't play nice with anything with copper in it. Found at 4" GB between 53 and 56, sens 65, disc @ 15 and 2 tones. 11" DD coil, didn't show up solid as a nickel bounced between it and pull tab(can't remember those numbers, but i think i did good to remember all the settings...) . But i think I'm going to start working that site exclusivly with the 10" stock coil, the big DD is great but the site contains a multitude of close surface nails, and trash. And seems i was getting better quality and deeper signals with the 10". Maybe need to try the 5" dd soon, so i guess I'll put that on my birthday list and submit for approval from the loan officer at the first national bank of my wife.

 

[Cal_Cobra]

Nice find, those are pretty rare to find out here

 

[earthmansurfer]

Congrats on the coin. Give it a good soaking and I wonder if it's a good candidate for some electrolysis cleaning or a tumbler perhaps?

 

[Gatorfan]

Actually funny you say that surfer, I went against my better judgement and did a little electrolysis, and those are the "after" pictures you see. not much change in the coin just got the crud off. Most of the older coins i have found have some sort of corrosion damage at this particular site. Even found some silvers that were really nasty out of the ground. But it is still quite exciting to be kneeling down on the ground and find a 100+ year old coin, thinking i hope the person that lost this didn't end up late on their horse and buggy payment because they had a hole in a pocket.

 

[earthmansurfer]

Actually funny you say that surfer, I went against my better judgement and did a little electrolysis, and those are the "after" pictures you see. not much change in the coin just got the crud off. Most of the older coins i have found have some sort of corrosion damage at this particular site. Even found some silvers that were really nasty out of the ground. But it is still quite exciting to be kneeling down on the ground and find a 100+ year old coin, thinking i hope the person that lost this didn't end up late on their horse and buggy payment because they had a hole in a pocket.

Yeah, my thoughts, if it's metalic corrosion the electrolysis doesn't seem to work well. And a hundred year old coin sure does bring you back, enjoy.
You are really lucky in America, I often find coins from the 1890's (made of bronze) and in pretty good shape, but there is next to no silver coins here in N

 

[Keith Southern]

n/t

 

[Jackpine Savage]

and about the nickel / tab bounce reading it gave, that IS my old site Target ID on Buffalo, V and Shield nickels. While many old nickels will read upscale a lot of the time on quite a few different machines, when detecting old sites where iron/nails is the predominate trash target I have found and this applies to several deectors I have successfully used on older nickels that more often than not the TID reading is exactly as you stated. The T2 is perhaps a bit better due to its higher frequency as I have experienced a little more settled TID reading when sweeping with the coil properly centered over the sweet spot of the signal however, the reading will still be higher (in many cases much higher) than a "classic" nickel reading.

Tom Z