Where’s all the silver coins

[49er12]

Me and my friend find many Indian head pennies, Buffalo and V nickels, wheat pennies early as 1890 etc, large cents etc. silver is easier to detect vdi and sound, but being said the old timers from the 70s didn’t get everything with there old whites machines. Heck I find silver crotal bell, we find rings to. But silver honestly what happened , barber, liberty, Rosie give me your opinions, thanks

 

Amazon Forum Fav 👍

A Handbook of Civil War Bullets and Cartridges - Grab it through Amazon!

[eyemustdigtreasure]

My thoughts are that silver coins meant real money back when you could buy a lot with a Dime, Quarter, Half, or Dollar coins -
so, they saved them up, and then went into the ground, as Hoards...!
We've been doing it all wrong, 49er12, we've been hunting for single coins, while all the silver is in a BUNCH, just waiting for us...!

 

[49er12]

Yeah never found a jar or bag full or coins. Find other stuff but as stated silver and especially gold I’m not finding in western Pennsylvania, thanks

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Cherry picking, people cherry pick the high tones and leave the copper tone in the ground.That is my thoughts on why you need to find places that wouldn't be a common place to hunt or talk to some old timers and find out where the snow sledding hills were at or the old swimming holes.

 

[xr7ator]

Absolutely the silver, or most of it, was cherry picked in the early 80's. It's still hiding amungst trash and nickels and in private property...

 

[smokeythecat]

I had the pleasure of detecting two of my neighbor's properties. No one had ever detected them. Property #1 produced about 6 buffalo nickels, 10 or more wheaties (its been a long time ago) and 1 Barber quarter. No other silvers.

The other property which had been a school produced about 50 wheaties, 3 modern coins and 1 1945 Merc. I assume the stuff wasn't there to begin with.

 

[malenkai]

I still find a good number of silver coins. Not like 500+ in 2011, but they are still out there; 75% of mine are on public property. I would say what has worked for me a) have a high end machine b) become an expert with it c) do tons of research.

Maybe it varies by area. Maybe certain machines work better in certain areas. Maybe my area hasn't been hunted hard. I do know that I hunt it hard, tho.

Sorry I can't offer specific advice; good luck.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

I've probably detected at least 200 public places over the years and only ONE of them was untouched and full of silver coins. That was a ratty baseball field that hadn't been used in decades. I spotted the outline of it on Google Earth and was rewarded for my time and effort. There are still other places out there, but they're very rare. You might grab one or two silvers in a spot, but finding one that produces five or more silver coins just doesn't happen in my neck of the woods.

 

[3cylbill]

Where are all he silver coins. ? Silver hasn't been circulated for over fifty years . Millions of detectors sold...do you really have to ask . Maybe our should take up fishing where the fish spawn by the millions and replenish yearly . I don't know to many people dropping silver coins. If you don't do your research and learn your detector your not going to find the silver...this is not an easy hobby you have to work at it......good luck....

 

[ToddsPoint]

I found silver when I lived in town and hunted. Now I'm in the country hunting long gone house sites. I've been hunting 2 yrs and haven't found a silver coin yet. Indians, wheat, and the occasional clad. They either didn't have much silver or held on to it tight. Or maybe it's still hiding in all the nails and other iron. Gary

 

[49er12]

It’s a combination of all your thoughts, let’s see myself and friend search by land and by water, in woods study county maps, our machines r equipped enough to find any coins. Traditional open field parks, fields, schools have been searched repeatedly because it’s easy so the next thing is more daring in the woods early settlers house. So thanks we pick each other’s minds, map work, it’s a process of time , weather, and darn jobs take up to much free time

 

[smokeythecat]

Toddspoint, You have it right on the old places. Since I rarely bother with newer properties and dig pre CW sites, in my case silver coins and all coinage was hard to get back then. It wasn't till right about the time of the CW that the mint started catching up with the coin demand.

 

[Trezurehunter]

My silver finds are probably split 50/50 between public parks and private property (yards and fields). Some years, I just hit a drought, and the next year I may make up for it. I have searched some very old homes, that did not produce anything (and as far as the owners new, no one ever detected it).