Yesterday morning, November 15, 2015, a friend texted saying she had permission to detect around an old stone house nearby. We met and started pounding the area, both using CTX 3030s with 11” coils. It’s a beautiful farm house from the early 1800s in northern Vermont, right on a main road with over 12 acres to detect. After a couple hours, we hadn’t found much, some square nails, a few modern coins, some toy cars, and trash. I suspect with the house being right on a busy road, it’s been detected many times before. Most of the targets I was digging were only down a few inches and mixed with trash. I switched the sensitivity from Auto+3 to manual mode set at 29. I was hoping to find something a little deeper below the trash. I covered the front of the house again, swinging real slow, listening for something mixed in with all the low foil and high iron targets. Got a 12-14 signal at 8”, deeper than all the other targets I had been digging in front of the house, but it was difficult to pinpoint, inches from several other garbage targets. I dug a small plug and pulled out the coin, saw it was nickel size, but too dirty to see any detail. Poured some water on it, enough to see the face and date. I took out my iPhone to find a picture of an 1885 nickel to check if the face matched, and was shocked when I saw coins listed for big prices. I went to an online price guide and saw that 1885 was the rare date of the series. Stomachs growling, we decided to skip lunch and keep detecting. Didn’t find any more rare coins, but pulled a few toy cars out of the area. Hoping to go back and try the trashy area again with a 6” coil and wander the fields with my 17” coil. Bob – Vermont, USA