After all these years, finally silver!

[cougar14]

I've been detecting coming up on 5 years, successful enough to purchase an Equinox 800 mostly from finds from my ole Garrett Ace 400. As best I can remember, I've found around 2100 quarters, 1500 dimes, maybe 200 nickels, uncounted pennies, 4 Kennedy halves and 6 dollar coins, until yesterday. Got a solid 27, dug around 4 inches, looked like a little light was shining on it. A 1956 Rosie.
I understand finding silver in California is not expected to be productive, but Jeez, all these dudes who post they find silver every time they go out makes me go hmmm. Not saying I don't believe you, but..... It's still fun every time I get out.

 

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[Digger RJ]

I figured with the Gold Rush Starting in the Sacramento Valley in 1848, there’d be a lot more gold coins posted from California. That’d be a treat to find one there! Congrats on the Silver & the Nox!!!!

 

[HeatherM]

I hear you...been hitting an 1815 house for a year now hard and not a silver in site. Yet others go to the site they've pounded for twenty years and still find five silvers in a day?? What the heck! Congrats on yours!

 

[CoinFetcher]

Took me about 4 years or so to find my first silver coin.

You have to be in a spot that actually had a silver coin In the ground.

 

[Truth]

Congratulations my friend you have paid your dues so I know that Rosie is very special. Again congratulations. My two number sis are the barber quarter and a large cent. I know poor me LOL

 

[ToddsPoint]

I hunt long gone rural farms. Definite shortage of silver on those sites. At this point, one thin dime would thrill me. Gary

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Congrats on your first Silver coin !

 

[JeffInMass]

Congrats on your first silver Cougar- a major milestone!! Mine was a 61-D Rosie back in 1991. They're still out there and that Nox will help you find the next one and more- Continued success to you!

 

[ticndig]

I hunt mostly civil war relics and old house sites. I bet I've found no more than a dozen silver coins in 30 years of detecting.

 

[Steve in PA]

Congrats on your first silver coin
You didn't mention how many wheat ear pennies you've. A general rule of thumb is 1 silver for every 10 wheats. If you're not digging wheats, you're unlikely to dig silver.

 

[sjvalleyhunter]

Hello from a few hours south of you in Fresno. I can definitely tell you that the silvers are still out there here in California. Over the last few years I have pulled over 30, including a Morgan, from just one local park. It’s all about location, location, location. Do your research and target those old areas where folks frequented in 1964 or earlier and you will find silver, especially with your NOX. Good luck!

 

[1637]

i grew up on a acre ,my family lived here for 50 plus years,i only found a 46 merc .my mom said you dont think that we just threw money in the yard do you.but i did find some of my lost toys.
brad

 

[lenmac65]

....I understand finding silver in California is not expected to be productive, but Jeez, all these dudes who post they find silver every time they go out makes me go hmmm. Not saying I don't believe you, but..... It's still fun every time I get out.

Congrats on your first silver. As others have said, research and location are key. Maybe getting private permissions will help. As for scoring silver every time, maybe that happens for some, but certainly not for me. While most of my posted hunts feature silver, my 20-50 nonposted searches in between had none. You have great detectors, so keep swinging. Look forward to seeing more of your finds.

 

[xr7ator]

I've been out twice now without finding silver. Dang it...

Grats on the first. Put it in a coin holder and mark it first as you are going to find sooo many that it will get mixed up. I know this becasue I dug my first silver, a 54d rosie, I believe, back in 1984.

They really do come easier once you get the monkey off your back. I don't doubt that as long as you're going to older spots where it's possible to find, that you'll have #2 before you get another 3 or 4 hunts in.

HH ALL

 

[GoDeep]

Another thing fighting us all, a lot of those silver coins have been sucked up by previous detectorists. I'm finding more and more, no matter how remote or "unknown" i think the site is, most have been hit by detectorists already. I'm finding the tell tale signs, little piles of iron bits piled up by trees, lack of any high and even mid tones, even dug plugs and holes.

 

[thrifty76now]

You got that last statement of your post correct.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice job on the clad, congrats!

 

[Tommybuckets]

I am disheartened if I don't get an 1800s copper coin ( Indians are acceptable) or a silver coin every time I go out but you won't find me in the tot lot or the park lol. i stick to old sites unless I just need to dig because the weather is perfect. With the bugs and the heat and the farm fields planted I can't do much now but I did get a 64 quarter Saturday and a few more I need to look at closely. That said all that clad could probably buy you more silver than i find. Going back to the places I've found silver before is the best way to find more silver. I am blessed that theres so much history in Maryland but there are also a lot of detectorists here.

 

[Truth]

Show that sucker off let’s get a picture

 

[pepperj]

Congrats on your first silver and the upgrade in machines.

Machine/location/experience will determine a lot of times what comes out of the ground.

Parks get redone- look at the tree trucks-if they all look like power poles sticking in the ground, well the landscaping has done that.
If the ground slopes away from the trunk, that shows there's been less/no fill.

The biggest factor is everyone that has owned a machine that lives around that same piece of turf has been looking at it/detecting it for the past 50yrs.

Just have to think out of the box-it really ups the #'s of silver.