Black Nickel?

What do you guys think this could be?

 

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Simple. Environmental Damage. Exposure to sand, soil, dirt and the weather can and will change the color of Clad coins and Nickels.

 

I metal detect and have found thousands of examples over the years...
Here are Nickels.. Bottom row are normal -

 

Only war nickels and surface finds will look shiny when found with a metal detector.

 

Can you crop the photo so all we see is the coin. Cant even see the date.

 

@steve.e
Why? If you click on his image the picture enlarges. I cropped it a bit.

 

Thanks for the reply, Could it be possible that it is painted because it still has detail and it doesn't have a brown color like the picture you showed or is it still damage from being under ground?

 

dug coins react to ground chemicals and I've found red, green, brown, orange and black. I assume that blue could happen too since I have not dug in all types of soil.
Most of those I dug in Germany were blackish with brown highlights. Most of what I dug in Illinois were deep black. Most I've dug or seen from Indiana are a chocolate brown. I wasn't in California very long forty years ago and I don't recall what the nickels looked like.

 

This is a dug Quarter I found.. One of many

Loose soil -

 

ok thanks!