At a local park they scraped a small area that sloops off the road for what I think is going to be a small parking area. Guessing I would say 3 inches was removed from a 4 foot by 25 foot area, the scrape looks bigger but with the sloping ground some of the area got build up not scraped down. I hunted very very slow and dug ALL signals and it netted me an extra “V” nickel that did not sound anything like a nickel. 3 shoot gun shells, 3 bullets, 2 .22 cal shells and the screw cap I though was going to be silver and tons of pull tabs.
I don’t hunt this park much any more, after all these years I have recovered most everything to my ability. I am just amazed on what can be found with a small scrap in a small area!! This park is large and where this spot is was not a producing spot. If they would scrap the whole park section by section allowing me to hunt it I bet the old coins would be in the 100’s if not over a thousand!!
These green green nickels turned out to be 4 "V" nickels and a 52 wheat. 1903, 1906, 1880 and a toasted (so far) Liberty nickels. The 1880 has super detail on it, when it was dropped it had to be at least VF-20 (the only coin I knicked with the knife, it was the deep non-nickel sounding find).
I have them soaking in plain water right now, I never seen nickels so green before.
I don’t hunt this park much any more, after all these years I have recovered most everything to my ability. I am just amazed on what can be found with a small scrap in a small area!! This park is large and where this spot is was not a producing spot. If they would scrap the whole park section by section allowing me to hunt it I bet the old coins would be in the 100’s if not over a thousand!!
These green green nickels turned out to be 4 "V" nickels and a 52 wheat. 1903, 1906, 1880 and a toasted (so far) Liberty nickels. The 1880 has super detail on it, when it was dropped it had to be at least VF-20 (the only coin I knicked with the knife, it was the deep non-nickel sounding find).
I have them soaking in plain water right now, I never seen nickels so green before.
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