Handful of keepers

washingtonian · Mar 13, 2010

Hey guys. My brother and I took a trip to Tacoma today and found 2 wheats(1942-s, and 1944-s) and 3 WA state tax tokens. Still no silver coins this year, but I can tell we'll find one soon. A ratio of 43 wheats to 0 silver is quite uncommon, even in these parts. Hope you all have a good weekend of hunting!

-Washingtonian

washingtonian · Mar 13, 2010

plehbah said:
That ratio is very tough. I have had single days like that.

The dimes have to be there, maybe try taking a silver Roosie with you when you detect and try burying it at 7 inches or so and calibrating your detector against it.

I have had people run their coils over deep coins I can hear, and they do not like the signals. I think the deep silver dime is hiding from you and that there must be some trick you are supposed to learn.

Do you sweep quickly?

Do you use a variety of coils?

I mainly run with the stock coil, though I do have an eclipse coil which is smaller and better for trashier areas. I have certainly found silver dimes in the past, so maybe it does have to do with their depth. I don't think I've ever found a silver dime that wasn't part of a pocket spill deeper than maybe 5-6". How would you calibrate your detector to accommodate the deeper silver dimes?

Detectingfreak · Mar 14, 2010

nice goodies! I believe that there is also silver, but mainly silver rings in parks.

49r Relics · Mar 14, 2010

Yeah 43:0 os crazy! I am sure you are trying hard to hear silver but you really need to dig those iffys, swith to all metal on an iffy and if it still looks good, dig it till you figure out what that machine is telling you. That ratio of 43:0 is just too unreal. Hope you can sniff them out.

HH, Mark :icon_pirat:

RiverRat3 · Mar 14, 2010

I am sure you will find some silver soon.

Deepdiger60 · Mar 14, 2010

I dont know if you live around a very old neighborhood like i do but if you do look for those very old homes Victorians or Colonials and see if there is a real estate sign call them or go to the real estate and ask for permission to hunt that place sometimes they will, i know the lady who sells homes out here so its not to hard to ask ,there is always silver coins and jewelry in the lawns of those old homes or Churches like the photo shows built in 1640 most Pastors will let you .Good Hunt :thumbsup:

fistfulladirt · Mar 14, 2010

washingtonian said:
plehbah said:

That ratio is very tough. I have had single days like that.

The dimes have to be there, maybe try taking a silver Roosie with you when you detect and try burying it at 7 inches or so and calibrating your detector against it.

I have had people run their coils over deep coins I can hear, and they do not like the signals. I think the deep silver dime is hiding from you and that there must be some trick you are supposed to learn.

Do you sweep quickly?

Do you use a variety of coils?

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I mainly run with the stock coil, though I do have an eclipse coil which is smaller and better for trashier areas. I have certainly found silver dimes in the past, so maybe it does have to do with their depth. I don't think I've ever found a silver dime that wasn't part of a pocket spill deeper than maybe 5-6". How would you calibrate your detector to accommodate the deeper silver dimes?

The dfx is good on dime-sized coins up to about 6". You may have to run it without any discrimination to gain an extra inch in depth.

Deepdiger60 · Mar 14, 2010

washingtonian said:
plehbah said:

That ratio is very tough. I have had single days like that.

The dimes have to be there, maybe try taking a silver Roosie with you when you detect and try burying it at 7 inches or so and calibrating your detector against it.

I have had people run their coils over deep coins I can hear, and they do not like the signals. I think the deep silver dime is hiding from you and that there must be some trick you are supposed to learn.

Do you sweep quickly?

Do you use a variety of coils?

Click to expand...

I mainly run with the stock coil, though I do have an eclipse coil which is smaller and better for trashier areas. I have certainly found silver dimes in the past, so maybe it does have to do with their depth. I don't think I've ever found a silver dime that wasn't part of a pocket spill deeper than maybe 5-6". How would you calibrate your detector to accommodate the deeper silver dimes?

I use the SEF 10x12 coil and a slow sweep with mixed mode on i can hear a nail 2 inches away from a silver dime ,a few times i have found a coin spill penny's dimes nickles and quarters all in the same hole i can see on the screen the VDI numbers jumping all over the place and hear each different coin, did you ever try that program i showed you ?? for your DFX ,i turn Tone ID on you just gotta get used to all the sounds ,do you have a test garden ? make one bury different coins at different depths and distances from each other use iron to in the garden , mark them on a sheet of paper so you know that way each time you change a program you can test it and see how far down you can detect a coin .Good luck Jim

scroll down this link .
http://www.dfxonly.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6852&sid=42e906c4787399a63b002c7fc9eba000

pennyfarmer · Mar 14, 2010

Like plehbah said. I would really start to dig iffy signals at the places you are finding lots of wheats. I have had sites that the coins hit at odd places on my meter. There was a old site in particular where everyone had wheats and no silver so I started to dig signals that were very close to pull tabs and screw caps. That was where the silver was hiding and it was fairly deep too. I ended up with a hand full of silver before anyone asked me why I had all the silver.

Another site the indian heads hit at a strange place on the meter. I passed the first signal but dug the second signal when I found out the second one was an indian I dug the first one and bagged another one.