nickels & ol yeller

[husker du]

nickels & ol' yeller

curious as to how many nickels vs. other coins are found with the ace 250. i dig the solid nickel signals & find a lot of tabs & slaw. i've been out about a dozen times and as many hours and have yet to find a single nickel. any thoughts? HH

 

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[BuckleBoy]

Re: nickels & ol' yeller

Does it consistently peg on Nickel, or does it bounce a lot? Try air testing a nickel with the machine so that you know what to expect out here.

Because of where nickels read on MD's, they're a little tougher--unless you're gold ring hunting on the beach or in the park, or relic hunting.


-Buckleboy

 

[MichiganRob]

Re: nickels & ol' yeller

I hunt everyday with the ACE250...I harvested 4 nickles just today. My lowest coin counts are for nickles, I don't know why... but if you get a solid signal on the 5 cent icon it's a good chance it is a nickle if it bounces off the nickle to other icons then it is probably trash.

Another thing about nickles...both of my gold rings were found on a solid nickle signal. Dig the nickles if you want gold, you're going to dig a lot of pulltabs and foil too but if you want the gold you have to dig the trash.

Good luck and
HH
MichiganRob

 

[urnotalone1970]

Re: nickels & ol' yeller

wow...love this site, learnin more and more about my 250 on here...i find nickels rarely myself...tlc

 

[husker du]

Re: nickels & ol' yeller

thanks for the insight. all of my solid nickel hits have turned out to be junk...so far. hoping for the glimmer of gold in the sunlight...will keep digging and hope the gods look favorably upon my efforts. HH

 

[davest]

Re: nickels & ol' yeller

the thing about finding nickels is, they are the lowest piece of change you'll receive from something you buy. usually you'll get 3 pennies back and a dime, or one penny and some quarters. That is why your lowest coin count will be in nickels, no matter what machine you use.

 

[husker du]

Re: nickels & ol' yeller

yes, that is true. however, it doesn't mean fewer nickels are out there, or that they are lost less frequently than other coins. HH

 

[husker du]

Re: nickels & ol' yeller

so i go out this weekend and find three nickels. hmmmm....go figure.

 

[Fishstank]

Re: nickels & ol' yeller

Yah I have any ace250 as well and I rarely find nickels. I hunt a lot of playgrounds too. You would think that those little ankle biters would have lots of them. When I get a signal for nickel most of the time its the aluminum from a pencil eraser or foil from gum. But occasionally I score.

Keep those Ace finds coming.

Fishstank

 

[txpathfinder]

Re: nickels & ol' yeller

My ace 250 is my first ever machine and I have been having fun with it for about 4 months. When you pass over a nickel (and we all do) it makes a different sound than other US coins. While pennies, dimes and quarters will give off the distinctive casino "belltone" response like so, "ding-ding-ding," the nickel's sound is more akin to trash "iiiiiip" When hunting in your average environment (soccer field, park, sidewalk lawn) we are likely to associate the nickel sound with a pull tab or bottle cap and so in these trash- producing fields we inevitably tune-out the nickel sound after a while. In fact some of us notch out the nickel altogether in the coin mode to avoid bending over to dig pull-tabs.
I must add that, yes, you do so at your own risk of possibly passing right over a gold ring, pendant or charm.
A couple of days ago, I went to a university campus that is being torn down. It closed this past April and it had it's start in the mid-twenties. Now, I have yet to find the old coins (I hate when that happens) but I did find an area that produces pockets full of clad. I mean it's everywhere. Now in this circumstance, I found three or four nickels (no gold) and because I was rewarded with a coin on nearly every repeatable signal I found that I could actually discern a nickel sound from a trash "nickel" sound. I hope I'm making myself clear.
What has me excited (and that's why I think that for every m.d. site that we lose another is gained) is a house from 1910 that is being restored. It looks like they scraped about 3 inches of dirt off the driveway and piled it up on the front lawn. I want to hit that area hard and early as I have a feeling it will produce. Well thanks for reading and message me if you want to hash.