found some mystery item, and what i THOUGHT was silver

[cjon455]

hit the same spot as yesterday for about 45 minutes today and found this wierd thingamajig doodad (looks like some sort of part of a level) its heavy and about the same size of a nickel and this 1980 canadian nickel, the nickel was at about 5-6 inches and when it popped out it was all bright and shiney, whats up w that?, i see the composition is mostly nickel but i thought that itd be all brown and nasty like american clad?? boy lately im getting stumped with newb like questions, oh well, thought it was silver

 

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[srcdco]

The reason that U.S. nickels (and clad) turn dark in the soil is because of the copper content. Pure nickel doesn't do that. If that Canadian nickel had been 1982 - 2000, it would have turned dark since they changed their composition to match the U.S., just on the nickel.

Scott