Finding old coins

[LBrandt]

The dirty buff looks pretty nice. I don't think I have one that wasn't wore down.

Think how many draft beers those worn down ones bought back in the day.

 

[USMCDI]

What's a good metal detector cost?

400.00 at a minimum used and that's bare bones, you'll learn to triangulate very quicky or dig a shitload of nails. My life depended on a metal detector for many years, you don't need GPR or anything like that or the gimmicky ones that claim you can determine a coin from a nail, sensitivity, depth and headphones are your friends.

 

[7mmMag]

Can anyone tell me what these are worth? Besides a dollar and 15 cents. ;:;rofl





The darker nickle is in the best shape of the three but it has like spray paint or a stain on it. How should I clean it up?

If dates are worn off the buffalo nickels they are basically worth nothing. Its extremely rare to find a buffalo nickel with the date on them. The date was higher than the rest of the coin which caused them to wear off easily.

 

[tikkalover]

The right one you can make out a 20, the middle one no date and the left one 1937.

 

[Davey Crockett]

The buffs had more of an extrusion and back in those days the 50 cent pieces and silver dollars had big ridges . I'll never forget an old timer telling me to never carry farmers matches in the same pocket as your coins and the reason why.

 

[LBrandt]

The buffs had more of an extrusion and back in those days the 50 cent pieces and silver dollars had big ridges . I'll never forget an old timer telling me to never carry farmers matches in the same pocket as your coins and the reason why.

" Poof ". hot pants.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

" Poof ". hot pants.

:;:exactly :;:smokin

 

[NDSportsman]

Got a metal detector about 20 years ago. Dug up a lot of junk and scrap iron but never found much worth anything. My advice stay away from old farmsteads, there's a ton of crap under ground in them and very little worth digging up.

 

[bilbo]

I've found silver dimes before in change, but never a merc! Nice!

I used to work at a gas station and one of the annoying habits people have is throwing change on the counter to pay. One upside though, is that silver sounds different. I picked up a few silver dimes and a silver quarter because I 'heard them coming.' I got a lot of neat coins through that job. No Mercury dimes for me either, though.

 

[Davey Crockett]

I used to work at a gas station and one of the annoying habits people have is throwing change on the counter to pay. One upside though, is that silver sounds different. I picked up a few silver dimes and a silver quarter because I 'heard them coming.' I got a lot of neat coins through that job. No Mercury dimes for me either, though.

That's interesting, I'm going to learn that trick. As soon as I finish going through the rocks I'm going to dig the old coins out. Not sure what we all have Just collected them since I was a kid and never paid a lot of attention to value.