First Buff

[Gimmie The Loot]

Got out for a little bit yesterday and after a slow day in the fast wind got my first buffalo nickel. I usually have a picture of my trash along side the goodies but I dumped it out at the park garbage bin... it was ALOT of trash.

 

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[Lowbatts]

Super! Well, what's the stats?

Deep? Good ID?

Ya gotta know that stuff for the next one! I gotta know that stuff because I'm nosy!

Got a '42 P yesterday that rang up exactly like a regular nickel. It was only two inches deep and that kinda surprised me. They usually bounce up from the 32 TID value for normal nickels to around 36-37 on my rig.

 

[Gimmie The Loot]

Super! Well, what's the stats?

Deep? Good ID?

Ya gotta know that stuff for the next one! I gotta know that stuff because I'm nosy!

Got a '42 P yesterday that rang up exactly like a regular nickel. It was only two inches deep and that kinda surprised me. They usually bounce up from the 32 TID value for normal nickels to around 36-37 on my rig.

Hey Batts - nice work on the 42. This buff was a 12-13 on the ole track and sounded nice. Was less than an inch deep. I'm not surprised at the depth since this area I have been working this summer has no grass and plenty of erosion going on after hard rains. I've pretty much cleaned out the silver in the 1-6" range so I think I will set it to only pick up nickel and foil and see if I can get a run of buffs/V's and of course, gold stuff going.

 

[Dirt fishing Wolf]

Thats right GTL, you will start finding more goodies when your clearing the trash
and digging all the quick scan good tones. A dated buff. is a great find WTG.

 

[Lookn4Seated]

Congrats on getting another one off the list.

 

[DPBOB]

clean it by soaking it in Lea & Perrins Worchestershire sauce for a day or two.

I learned that from Watercolor ( Mark )

Since it's not valuable I take a fine brass brush to it slightly and the shine it up with furniture polish, Mark uses bees wax.

 

[p2c]

clean it by soaking it in Lea & Perrins Worchestershire sauce for a day or two.

I learned that from Watercolor ( Mark )

Since it's not valuable I take a fine brass brush to it slightly and the shine it up with furniture polish, Mark uses bees wax.

This method is a lot of work... It will turn the coin back to a grey-pinkish grey color. It will be pitted, and you can soak it too long. If you do it this way, keeping the sauce warm will speed the process, especially if you use a tooth brush on it every so often. Can get it down to 2 hours, not 2 days.

I prefer not doing this and leaving the coin red. A sonicator cleans it well but leaves it red instead of pinkish grey, only takes 5 minutes, zero work...

 

[Gimmie The Loot]

thanks for the cleaning tips but I'll just leave it be. It will help remind me that I found it in dirt.

 

[scrounger d detector collector]

since its ur first one frame it.

 

[rob.s]

Congrats Jason on your first