need some help

[metalman709]

okay guys, i need some help.... i have hunted for a year now and i have only found 2 coins that were before 64'..... and both of them were on top of the ground!!! i've been in spots where i know older coins have to be and not located any.... my question is, am i not getting depth running a tesoro cibola and now running the at pro.... i know these are not deep machines but how deep does one need am i just out of range with these machines?

 

[Woodland Detectors]

You should be finding plenty of silver with both of those machines. Keep searching my friend, the finds will come.

 

[liftloop]

frank, you should of started out with a White's you would have a shoe books full of old silver coins by now.
just kidding. your frank from the American pickers aren't you.you sure do look a like him,how's mike been,where's Daniel...
No just kidding with Yaa... research will help you locate that old silver..




liftloop

 

[Jersey Hunter]

Both are very highly rated machines, so I doubt if its the machine. Try keeping your search grid small and make sure you overlap each sweep. Could also be like me,a lot of times the coins are just not there even though we think they should be. Good luck.

 

[Swartzie]

The oldest coins I have found (18th century) have all been less than 5 inches. Old ain't always deep. I hunt native american artifacts from the 1700's. Most are in the 4 to 8 inch range. Maybe somebody else has already hunted the place. Don't know if you grid search or not, but griding has always be beneficial to me.

-Swartzie

 

[Silver Searcher]

The only reason you haven't found anything older, is your coil hasn't gone over it YET

SS

 

[fistfulladirt]

I agree, the silver has to be there in order to find it. Have you tried an older private yard?
Old city yards are great too, lots of 100-year old coins at 3-5" deep. In the county parks, the outskirt lawn areas have given up keepers too. Good luck

 

[rginn]

Right there with ya, bud. My best find here in Colorado, in the heart of the Rockies, has been a 1876 dime. In a place I just looked at on a whim. That's the best in 8 years. Lots of clad, but little silver. Like it was said, I just haven't yet swung my coil over the right spot. I am convinced that goldminers pretty much didn't have a penny to their name to lose, but they had no problem tossin square nails over the entire countryside. Keep after it, as I will. Just out detecting is a lot of fun no matter what I turn up.

 

[Smudge]

It took me and year and a half before I dug anything pre-1964.

The most commonyl hunted sites are getting cleaned out of old coins, but there are still some there.

 

[kayden]

It will come ....Do this .....think outside the box ...with your research look for spots that most others would have passed by.....At the moment Im looking at some foundations about 3-4 miles back in the woods in hopes that most are to lazy to walk back in!

 

[Frankn]

This question pops up all the time and I wonder why the asker just hasn't just air tested his detector to see how deep it will pick up. If it will go down there then you just haven't walked over it yet. It's that simple !
Frank

 

[Jeffro]

Research, research, research..... and no, I'm not talking about hitting the city parks over and over again LOL!


Put yourself in spots that have SILVER written all over them. Try looking at old Sanborn maps for your city, find out where the brothels and cigar shops were.... check in to the city's website and find out when they are doing "sidewalk repairs" in the older sections. Most every city had a farmers market at one time, a place where farmers would bring their goods to sell. Old fairgrounds, old racetracks, old horsetracks, old saloons... in short ANYWHERE that coins traded hands pre 1964.

Chautauquas and tent revival meeting places, if you can find them can be quite productive too.

When searching swimming holes and hot springs, make sure you head out in the brush AWAY from the hole as well. Lots of people snuck off in the brush to change into swimwear.

Put your self in the mindset of the people back then. Know that boys in old wooden gradeschools used to crawl under the school to hide out from the teachers when they were in trouble.

Grandstands of any sort.

Once you start thinking outside of what exists today by doing a little research, you'll find there are more places to check than not for old silver.

 

[Monty]

I'm with Jeffro. Do your research and work likely spots. There's only so much silver to be found in the sand at the kiddie park and if there are other detectorists in your neighborhood, they probably have been hit pretty hard already. Monty

 

[George (MN)]

Have you found any deep clad coins? There are some areas where coins get deep real fast. I didn't find any deep coins with my Garrett AT Pro until I used manual ground balance. Used coins program, iron completely rejected, sensitivity 7 in STD mode. This set-up gets a loud beep on a dime in air test out to 10"

Using it in a nearby '70s park that's been detected 100s of times I got a high tone every sweep with #s 80-85 (dime). Got a clad dime 7" deep in hard, dry & somewhat mineralized ground & it was loud. Probably had sat there 20-30 years.

If you're AT Pro was made before July & hasn't been updated, it probably should be sent in. If you have the AT Pro with the camlocks, it should be good.

Some places have been worked over thousands of times, other places are renovated with fill dirt. If fill dirt has been used, trees that should have roots extending outward will be buried. If they're showing on the ground, likely no fill dirt (at least not around the trees).

Some possibly helpful sites are county historical societies, maybe the map sites like www.maphistory.info Also interesting, Wikipedia for ghost towns, existing towns, much info. Also www.hometownlocator.com has current maps, sites of former schools, post offices, churches, etc. There is a seller on eBay that has CDs of state & county history books, many thousands of pages for each state. Best wishes, George (MN)