Is this thing silver.......??

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Hello everyone !!

Went back to the 1800's farm house. I walked around the outside edge and moved my way in as I walked around. Covering the whole yard the best I could I could not find much of anything. Lots of clad, toy cars and trash. I got a pocket spill and was digging dirty clad. Then in the same spill this coin came out looking silver. I thought it was a Reale, then a gold coin. This thing looked new and shinny and... I could not figure out why? I could only guess, and I guessed it must have silver. . Well, I knew that that's not really possible but maybe. Later I find out its 100% pure nickle and that must be why its shinny. The rest of the clad in the spill was well... Dirty. I also found what I think is a musket ball and what I think is a 1800's picture frame. Here are some pictures, I hope you enjoy !!

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

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[cedarratt]

Yep Canada had the best nickle mine at one point (May Still) so most of their coins are nickle, tho some were still silver to a point. Wiki had a decent list of them.

 

[extractor]

good score!

 

[montepollock]

Nickel is magnetic in coin form

 

[Hardy]

1969 and under is Silver bud

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Nickel is magnetic in coin form

I put a Magnet up to it and it stuck.

1969 and under is Silver bud

I guess not nickles, in 1922 they took the silver out of their nickel. Before then it was much like our half dime. They changed the metal a bunch of times. In 1965 it was 100% nickel. Read more about it here bellow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_nickel

Thanks everyone,

Keep @ It and HH!!

 

[coinmaster2db]

That's a mat for a daguerreotype. It went between the image and the glass to keep the glass from scratching it. I dug one a few years ago with the daguerreotype. Don in SJ dug one with the glass still intact. Mine is 2 3/4" W x 3 1/4" H. Here's the link to my post. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,278262.0.html
You might want to look around a little more. Maybe the picture is there too. It'll be a good signal if it is. It's a copper plate with silver plating on one side.

 

[mile-ender]

Nickel is magnetic in coin form

I put a Magnet up to it and it stuck.

1969 and under is Silver bud

I guess not nickles, in 1922 they took the silver out of their nickel. Before then it was much like our half dime. They changed the metal a bunch of times. In 1965 it was 100% nickel. Read more about it here bellow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_nickel

Thanks everyone,

Keep @ It and HH!!

From "Coins of Canada" - In order to provide a 5 -cent piece of more manageable size, and "because nickel is essentially a Canadian metal" the Canadian government introduced a coin of pure nickel in 1922, similar in size to the 5-cent coins of the United States....1942-1943 tombac, 1944-1945 chromium plated steel, 1946-1950 nickel (and 1951 isolation of nickel bicentennial), 1951-1954 chromium plated steel, 1955-1981 nickel, 1982-1999 cupro-nickel alloy same alloy use in United States coinage (75% copper and 25% nickel), 2000 > Nickel plated steel.

 

[allen]

wtg on the nickel nickel !!