I want to find silver coins with my DFX

[greenleafbay]

I want to find silver coins with my DFX is there a good program to use.

 

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[Gobpile]

Research more research and persistence! Good luck!

 

[Sandman]

Silver coins will read high numbers on the screen. It is not the special program but where you are hunting. You can't find them where they aren't as this is where research comes in. Go hunt the land that was used years ago and your chances are better than searching some school yard that was hunted many times already.

 

[mark v]

I'm not very lucky at finding silver coins with my DFX. I find only a couple every season. But when I do swing over one it is loud and clear.

 

[Ralphw]

Have not found one all season....yet!!!!

 

[Dwight S]

Patience, persistance and slow, methodical searching is the right attitude to have. Be sure you are hunting older areas too. I've been hunting a friend's yard, the house was built in the early 40s. I pulled 22 wheat pennies (with that many wheat, there has to be silver somewhere...), 4 clad quarters, 3 clad dimes, 1 nickel, 5 memorial pennies and pockets full of trash before I got my first silver dime, a 1959. I know there has to be more there, I just have to remain patient and persistant in my search.

 

[Sandman]

It is more a problem of where you are looking rather than what detector or program. Also proper coil control helps a lot. Keep the coil close to the groung the whole sweep with out lifting it up on the ends. Advance slowly making sure to over lap each sweep by at least 50% as the coils field at depth is only like 2" round. See pic.
Silver has a high conductivity so it will read higher than clad coins and it could or not be deep. Also the use of a smaller coil to get close to metal fences and sidewalks in older neighborhoods is a great help.

 

[treasurehound]

I have found a lot of silver when I had my DFX (I have the MXT PRO now) and some things that will help you out is to hunt slow. One thing I found on deep mercury dimes is that it will just be a chirp but the vdi will be in the 80's. When you find that chirp go over it very slowly and if you keep getting the high vdi dig it. I had to modify my settings to where it worked best for me. The DFX is a great machine and as with any machine you have to learn what the machine is telling you. Good luck. The coins are there, you just have to research and get your coil over them.